yep Breen is dead .
As far as the 'Brenn being in an Advisor's body" - The advisors simply do not need him anymore , he was the connection between them and the people .(convincing humans to do stuff for Advsiors and so on) Breen had certain privileges as the 'top' human so to say but that was...
Well , I don't think Shephard is needed at all in Ep3 . Basically we've been given a hint towards Borealis and the arcitc base as destinations in Ep3 (or HL3 , or whatevar .. ) so Adrian doesn't seem to fit anywhere .
Well MMO game based in HL universe , that will be a surprise ... otherwise I can't see how will Valve surprise us after all the waiting ... we will see .
well I think that Breen is dead . I can't seem to overcome the feeling that he is not the main bad dude in the game .... in HL2 he was introduced , in HL2 he died , the war against the main enemy - THE COMBINE continues . He was just a pawn .
damn I had enough .. come on is it so hard to tell "YEAH WE ARE WORKING ON IT" . That will be enough , but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO . F**k hl franchise , the game that brought them fame and everything and ignore gamers ... way to go !
damn when I first saw the fast zombie b****s I was like "daaaaamn wtf is that" , it was creapy when they climbed on the pipes and I wasn't sure what to expect , but they were the only ones who can actually hurt u cus poison and regular zombies were easy to kill , they were just sooo SLOW ...