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Just some cool facts:
# In Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, during the 'Battery' mission, the protagonist Sam Fisher says that he forgot to bring a crowbar to open the missile control casing, to which Anna Grimsdottir comments that "crowbars are for geeky video-game characters", poking fun at the fact that Gordon Freeman is a bespectacled scientist with no military training.
# In Call of Duty: United Offensive, near the start of the second mission, two American soldiers are shown running side-by-side. On the left, Pvt. Gordon, and on the right, Pvt. Freeman.
# In the Stark Tower level of the computer game The Punisher, a scientist refers to another scientist as "Doctor Freeman" and asks what a noise he heard was, to which Doctor Freeman replies (paraphrased) "maybe the quantum physics department finally opened that extradimensional portal!", with the other scientist replying "Extradimensional aliens! Wonder what they look like?", a reference to the opening scene of Half-Life.
# In The Ship, a game developed using the same game engine as Half-Life 2, the weapon description for the crowbar states it is suitable for any "free man".
# In TimeSplitters Future Perfect, during the level "Breaking and Entering", Cortez, the protagonist of the story, changes into a lab coat along with a name tag that reads "Dr. Freeman".
# In the novel A Big Boy did it and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre, the author makes frequent references to various video games including Half-Life; the main action takes place in a largely underground hydroelectric power station with the Gaelic name "Dubh Ardrain" which can be translated as "Black Mesa" (dubh - black, ardrain - high part[3][4]). At one point the male protagonist is equipped with a crowbar, one of the antagonists takes the alias of "Gordon Freeman" and an SAS soldier called "Shepard" is a minor character.
# In S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, the player may find inside a tunnel located in the Wild Territory the body of a rookie stalker named "Freeman" whose PDA makes mentions of Black Mesa and a crowbar.
# In Destroy All Humans!, one of the scientists says "I must hurry, I'm needed down at the test chamber", but then quickly corrects himself "Whoops, wrong game."
# In Destroy All Humans! 2, if you read the mind of a Russian man in Tunguska, he will make a comment about how the city of Tunguska is being renamed as City 17.
# In Bioshock, the player, when asked to pick up a blunt object to destroy some rubble, is told "Would you kindly pick up a crowbar or something", by one of the game's major characters, Atlas.
# In Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, during the 'Battery' mission, the protagonist Sam Fisher says that he forgot to bring a crowbar to open the missile control casing, to which Anna Grimsdottir comments that "crowbars are for geeky video-game characters", poking fun at the fact that Gordon Freeman is a bespectacled scientist with no military training.
# In Call of Duty: United Offensive, near the start of the second mission, two American soldiers are shown running side-by-side. On the left, Pvt. Gordon, and on the right, Pvt. Freeman.
# In the Stark Tower level of the computer game The Punisher, a scientist refers to another scientist as "Doctor Freeman" and asks what a noise he heard was, to which Doctor Freeman replies (paraphrased) "maybe the quantum physics department finally opened that extradimensional portal!", with the other scientist replying "Extradimensional aliens! Wonder what they look like?", a reference to the opening scene of Half-Life.
# In The Ship, a game developed using the same game engine as Half-Life 2, the weapon description for the crowbar states it is suitable for any "free man".
# In TimeSplitters Future Perfect, during the level "Breaking and Entering", Cortez, the protagonist of the story, changes into a lab coat along with a name tag that reads "Dr. Freeman".
# In the novel A Big Boy did it and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre, the author makes frequent references to various video games including Half-Life; the main action takes place in a largely underground hydroelectric power station with the Gaelic name "Dubh Ardrain" which can be translated as "Black Mesa" (dubh - black, ardrain - high part[3][4]). At one point the male protagonist is equipped with a crowbar, one of the antagonists takes the alias of "Gordon Freeman" and an SAS soldier called "Shepard" is a minor character.
# In S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, the player may find inside a tunnel located in the Wild Territory the body of a rookie stalker named "Freeman" whose PDA makes mentions of Black Mesa and a crowbar.
# In Destroy All Humans!, one of the scientists says "I must hurry, I'm needed down at the test chamber", but then quickly corrects himself "Whoops, wrong game."
# In Destroy All Humans! 2, if you read the mind of a Russian man in Tunguska, he will make a comment about how the city of Tunguska is being renamed as City 17.
# In Bioshock, the player, when asked to pick up a blunt object to destroy some rubble, is told "Would you kindly pick up a crowbar or something", by one of the game's major characters, Atlas.
