I totally forgot about him when I wrote that. Yeah, he’s definitely been there a while. I just don’t know why there aren’t more native rebels. Maybe most of them were killed when the Combine settled there?
City 17 was filmed in Riga, Latvia. The whole scene has almost 100% same like how it looks in Riga…Well except burning parts and that black tower from Half-Life 2 
^that isn’t valve’s work.
In Raising the Bar, the devs say a number of times that it was indeed based on cities around the Ukraine and various former soviet countries.the city was designed specifically designed to show the different architectural eras; 18th-19th and then early 20th century buildings and designs, then they added more soviet area landmarks and architecture, and finally Combine architecture.
shit, Budapest looks more like City 17 than that.
Maybe they just took all the world’s major cities as Combine Fortresses
Washington D.C = City 8
New York = City 12
London = City 3
Paris = City 1
that’s the idea. after the portal storms the surviving human population were herded into large fortified cities, prior to the combine invasion. the combine presumably utilized those remaining cities as their main hubs
If you looked closer, you would see, that in Escape from City 17 Part 1, even houses are same, bridges too, just abit remaked…
Escape from city 17 isn’t by Valve…it’s fan made :hmph:
Or maybe the Combine deliberately moved people as far away from their home towns as possible to eliminate local knowledge and make them easier to control.
well it sounds like they were constantly relocating people, aside from killing them outright
Helps to keep them on edge and disoriented. I believe they used to do it in the USSR and North Korea does it today. Hell, Saddam Hussein used to turn of sections of the Baghdad power grid just to show that he could.
They kinda look like it though the Half Life 2 Cars are destroyed as seen in the game by the Combine though very similar… Good job finding them 
In the order they surrendered? :retard:
NYC surrendered after the Capital?
Did you know that father Gregori is modelled after a Romanian guy? And it says in Rising the Bar and on multiple websites that one possible location is Romania, or more precisely, Constanta (yay for my city!)…
That all depends. How many priests there often carry shotguns?
Although his name & character are obvious references to Grigori Rasputin, who is Russian.
I don’t see much Prague-ness in City 17
Eh, wut? The crazy orgy-loving priest who manipulated the Russian monarchy and didn’t cut his nails?