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The Terminal
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The Terminal is a newspaper apparently issued by the Combine for the inhabitants of City 17, as another propaganda tool. Whether it is still issued at the time of the Half-Life 2 events is unknown.
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[edit] Overview
The Terminal appears in Half-Life 2 as a worn out newspaper model among the many other junk models, as a model named "garbage_newspaper001a.mdl". It is folded with another newspaper, with a title starting with the word "Money". The front page shows a headshot of Wallace Breen and another, indescribable picture. The back of the model shows the bottom of the front page, featuring the picture of a car (seemingly the car model "car004a.mdl") on a road.
[edit] Behind the scenes
- The name of the newspaper is likely a reference to the City 17 Trainstation, originally know as the "terminal" in many WC mappack maps, notably the E3 map "
e3_terminal". The name of the Terminal Hotel found on the Trainstation Plaza is also a leftover from that era.
- The first and only other newspaper to appear in the series, The Mesa Times, appears in Blue Shift.
- The Terminal can be seen as an Easter egg in the Left 4 Dead campaign No Mercy.
[edit] Gallery
Newspaper model, front.
Newspaper model, back.
[edit] List of appearances
- Half-Life 2 (First appearance)
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