15 Essential Half-Life 2 Mods You MUST Play
8. The Citizen
The Citizen puts you in the shoes of a browbeaten inhabitant of Half-Life 2's City 17 and tells a deeply affecting story of grief and revenge. As the player, you must use stealth and brute force to combat a technologically superior enemy.
It's refreshing to play through a separate story that runs parallel to the main game and, as an experience, it helps flesh out the stark brutality of the Combine occupation.
If you ever wanted to ditch Gordon Freeman and play as an ordinary citizen of City 17, this is the perfect mod for you and, now that the concluding chapters are available as The Citizen Returns, there's never been a better time to play this excellent add-on.
For those who prefer to help persecute the masses, rather than be part of an everyman uprising, then Entropy: Zero, in which you play as a Combine soldier, is worth a look too.