Hunt Down The Freeman

Hunt Down The Freeman is a fan-made spin-off game based on Half-Life 2 and both a "narrative" sequel and a spin-off of Half-Life: Opposing Force released in 2018 by Royal Rudius Entertainment.

Original

 * Mitchell Shephard
 * Adam
 * Nick
 * Colonel Cue
 * Larry
 * Captain Roosevelt
 * Boris
 * Sasha

Derivative

 * The G-Man (Easter egg)
 * Gordon Freeman (Easter egg)
 * Adrian Shephard (Easter egg)

Plot
Mitchell Shephard, the supposed brother of Adrian Shephard, was one of the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit soldiers who was in charge of killing all the scientists at Black Mesa Research Facility after the Black Mesa Incident. While exploring the facility, he comes in contact with an HEV suit-wearing man, whom he believes to be Gordon Freeman. The man beats him with a crowbar and leaves him to die. Mitchell swears that however long it takes, he will kill Gordon, where he meets the G-Man in a hospital at Albuquerque, New Mexico. G-Man offers him a "deal", where when the time comes, he will keep his "promise." Mitchell is then placed into the Seven Hour War.

Controversy
Even prior to its release, Hunt Down The Freeman received backlash due to allegations of using bots to get it through the Steam Greenlight system and (unsubstantiated) reports of stolen or store-bought assets in the game.

On release, Hunt Down The Freeman received almost unanimously negative reviews for its poor conception and execution. Points of criticism included its gameplay having very little to do with the Half-Life series, its overuse of cutscenes, poor level design, and the Day 1 build containing numerous bugs that made it impossible to complete the entire game. Perhaps the biggest point of contention was its status as a commercial release of a Half-Life game on Valve's official storefront, despite not being an official Half-Life game itself: this was taken as a sign that the company did not care about one of their most famous properties (even though they were working on developing the next installment at the time).

Trivia

 * Although Wallace Breen is heard in the trailer, he is absent from the game.
 * In the game's trailer, Gordon Freeman himself (without a helmet) is seen beating Mitchell with a crowbar, however in the game "Gordon" is wearing a helmet covering his face, and is later revealed to actually be Adam.