It’s a very ’90s action-game look that I think fits early Half-Life before it was essentially scrapped and developed anew. The basics are sort of there, although what eventually became a goatee is here a full-fledged beard, earning this version the apt “biker” moniker, and there are also no glasses, much like the final model. To put it simply, this early version of Gordon Freeman- affectionately nicknamed Ivan, the Space Biker by fans-has just grown too familiar and, dare I say, memetic not to earn a high-ranking spot on the list.Īs early versions go, this couldn’t look less like the Gordon Freeman we’ve come to love in the games. Okay, yes, I know, how dare I put this beta version who looks nothing like the final Gordon Freeman above the actual box art and Steam artwork. Still, as Freemans (Freemen?) go, this still has to be pretty low on the list. There’s just something about this model, whether it be the simple, stylized shape or just the hilarious way the defining facial traits stand out against the green, that makes it stand out. I’m putting this above player.mdl because not only has it become somewhat iconic- you can even buy a 3D-printed model on Etsy, which is awesome-, but it also looks way cooler. So it doesn’t just represent Gordon Freeman but rather any playable character in Source engine games, though it certainly resembles him anyway in a low-poly, green way. This model is never actually seen in the games themselves, but it is used in Source mapping to represent where the player’s going to spawn in the map, hence info_player_start. I mean, it has a goatee and glasses! That’s definitely Freeman. Yes, this is, again, a technicality, but I’m hoping you let it slide. “info_player_start”, also from Half-Life 2 Source: TopHATTwaffle’s Etsy shop, where you can buy your own model. That said, both models and art are being ranked here, mostly because there are a variety of differences even between representations of Gordon Freeman for the same game across mediums, but also due to the fact that some games didn’t even get their official model, while Gordon was still ever-present in artwork.Ĭredit and thanks in advance to the Combine OverWiki, both as a source of images as well as actually featuring some of the more obscure Gordons out there. Just trust me on that.īear in mind that we are only ranking official appearances here, so fan-made models and art are very much excluded from this list, although we might do a separate list somewhere down the line. Beware of spoilers though, as we do cover, well, everything, so if you’re not fully up to date with the series, you may want to skip this. Freeman through the years and rank each and every of his looks throughout the official Half-Life games, from the early days of development of the original Half-Life up to modern times.
A prodigy who made his way into the Black Mesa Research Facility as a research associate at the young age of 27, Doctor Freeman has been the protagonist of most, though not all, of the games in the Half-Life series, and while his appearance has remained relatively consistent throughout-auburn-haired, bespectacled, usually wearing an Hazardous EnVironment (HEV) Suit and often seen with a crowbar in hand-, there are still enough differences in each installment to warrant a style review.
Gordon Freeman, in the flesh-or rather, in the Hazard Suit.
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