That describes everything except a motive.
It’s all up to the artist. A company doesn’t have a drawing style, or a method of generating consistent pieces of referential artwork. Previous release pieces have nothing to do what’s being seen now. People get hired and people leave.
Considering the Combine jump from dimension to dimension to conquer, the art may possibly represent an alternate world, like Xen; especially if that’s some kind of Overlord.
I think that’s more or less a source of sustenance. Surely you don’t think the Combine took control of the world so the Advisors could fill their stomachs…
So the ultimate goal of the combine for suppressing the human race is to suck our brains out?
Seems like a pretty astoundingly asinine motive for a race that conquers all types of lifeforms to use them to form their armies and as a source of slave labor. 
Also, I would love to see Xen put back in the playable HL universe once again, just to see what valve would do with it. I like the weirdness xen added to HL1, and a fresh take on the borderworld would be an awesome experience no doubt.
Sucked the brains out of the corpse in the barn: Eating.
Sucked the brains out of eli: killing the resistance leader, eating & possibly gaining his knowledge of the resistance.
Making Gordon Freeman trip balls: no fucking reason / just to be a dick.
Honestly, try to justify why they’d make you hallucinate.
Your brains are being sucked out.
I’m no expert, but I’m 99% sure death by being impaled in the back of the head wouldn’t cause that.
I agree with Dias on that - I can’t see the Advisors making you hallucinate beyond messing with your vision as we’ve seen before. The Combine is ruthlessly efficient - they’ve been pretty clear they intend to destroy Freeman completely, not mess with his head for the lulz. Also, I think their motives are have been fairly clear:
A. Main Objective - Invade planet Earth, destroy all sentient life and take its resources.
B. Secondary Objective - After Breen convinced them that we would be useful, experiment with humans as a new combat force, utilise human technology, and test them on the rest of the human populace, while continuing to drain Earth’s resources. Since the humans aren’t much of a threat at this point, return most of the invasion force off-world leaving a small, mostly transhuman garrison.
C. Freeman wreaking havoc and citzens revolting showed the transhuman forces aren’t really worth the effort and resources, despite Breen’s protests, so they revert to the Main Objective.
D. Need to bring back reinforcements, but Citadel and other interdimensional transports are out without any easy way to repair them. Make Citadel self-destruct allowing the opening of a super-portal.
E. Gordon and Alyx infiltrate the Citadel and acquire codes that can close the super-portal before reinforcements can be transported through. This potentially jeopardises the whole operation. Reclaim the codes and destroy them both Also destroy White Forest as it has the rocket that can be used to transmit the codes.
F. Acquire the Aperture Science technology in the Arctic. This is the most unclear motive as we don’t know what it is yet, but it’s presumably some kind of interdimensional teleport that could be a backup for the super-portal plan. Now that the super-portal is closed, this is their only way of getting reinforcements and returning to the Main Objective.
The only thing that doesn’t seem to immediately follow from these motives is breaking in and attacking Eli. Perhaps their main targets were Gordon and Alyx and they just picked up Eli first, perhaps Eli had knowledge they could use and they drained it out of him, or perhaps they were manipulated by the G-Man somehow. In any case, they have little reason to make Gordon hallucinate - they want him dead and out of the picture as soon as possible, and will do so whenever they have the opportunity. Messing with his head seems a lot more like the G-Man’s style. God, I wrote way too much, I hope it was somewhat interesting to read.
We’ll fucking see. There’s your god damn answer.
3 or 4 of the pictures look like HL fan art and the rest just look like art completely irrelevant to HL.
Why you mad bro? :3
Eli was the leader of the Resistance. Breen says it himself in the Citadel. The Combine waited until the Resistance’s guard was down after they had stopped their attack, busted in & killed their leader.
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This is so annoying. Just about every time I think I finaly have something worth saying on this fourm someone says it for me but better and with much more information.
EDIT: Plus there is always someone heavily correcting the person I quoted…
EDIT2: Wouldn’t someone tripping balls be less able to kill hundreds of combine forces? If you can’t get to him without fighting hell why not make him unable to fight back? Imagine if you couldn’t tell the diffrence between food or a creeper or water or lava in minecraft?
But the Advisors already possess the power to immobilize humans and kill them. There’s no reason for them to alter Gordon’s perception when they could simply freeze and then kill him (which is what they were going to do at the end of Episode 2). There’s also no reason to believe that the Advisors can affect anyone in any way outside a certain range. Gordon and Alyx only feel the strange disturbances in their minds when they get near to an Advisor. So it’s unlikely the Advisors would use such an ability on Gordon, if they even possess it, since they have a better one in their arsenal. Unless Gordon can somehow become immune to their telekinesis, which may in fact be suggested by that concept art. It seems that that person is fleeing the Advisor - how else could that be possible?
Of course, assuming it is even real, it may also simply be a cool concept art, and not really indicative of anything that happens in the game. The painting seems to be a stylized cavern with a bunch of waterfalls pouring and roiling down into a deep, multi-level chasm. It may be just an idea of the feeling the game could evoke at that location, and the Advisor and the human are kind of just placeholders for better visualization of a possible scene.
Alyx looks a bit older in those pics. Maybe this indicates that HL3 takes place some time after HL2:EP2.
Neat idea I thought of:
Eli Vance is not dead. Oh, sure, the Advisor stick its tentacle into his neck and left his lifeless body on the floor for Alyx to cry over, but Eli Vance is not dead. His “vortessence” has been taken to the Combine Overworld and, in the latter half of Episode 3, you are tasked with “getting it back” while his body is kept in cryostorage. :retard:
You may just be onto something.
lately ive speculated that the G-man is actaully an advisor, the man with the briefcase is just a hallucination and that’s why he dissapears without a trace. i also believe the advisor breen was talking to at the end of HL2 was in fact gman. advisors seem to be able to control you to an extent, so maybe that’s how the gman is able to put you into stasis or control your outcome, at least until the vorts stopped him so obviously they know about him some how.
i am probably wrong, as valve always has some tricks up their sleeve.
George RR Martin should be the writer of the game
The G-man (man in suit with briefcase) was on Earth prior to even the Resonance Cascade. According to the current story line, the Combine did not take an interest in (or maybe even KNOW about) Earth until after at least the Resonance Cascade tore the fabric between dimensions (or whatever Xen is)…and maybe not until Gordon destroyed Nihilanth setting off portal storms across the Earth.
I don’t think that the G-man is an advisor.
George RR Martin is the G-Man. Apparently he wanted to be referred to as the GRR-Man, but that just made him sound like a grizzly.
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