Half-Life Alyx: 13 Biggest Questions Answered For New Fans
4. What Happened To Gordon Freeman?
As of the chronological story, nothing has happened to Gordon Freeman. Episode 2 leaves him beside Alyx and her father’s dead body.
In the premise of Half-Life: Alyx, however, Gordon is nowhere to be found. This is because at the end of the original Half-Life, after meeting the G-Man, Gordon takes him up on his offer of employment.
From here, Gordon is put in stasis until G-Man needs his assistance again, which is, of course, at the beginning of Half-Life 2, after Half-Life: Alyx.
We won’t be seeing Gordon. We probably won’t hear a single mention of him.
Maybe Eli Vance, Dr Kleiner or Barney might talk about him, but you have to remember that this is ten years past the Black Mesa Incident. I don’t personally see a realistic motivation behind anyone mentioning Gordon Freeman’s name.
To the world, he’s as good as dead until the beginning of Half-Life 2, when they lay eyes on him again.