Metro Area
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| Metro Area | |
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| Constructed |
Before the Seven Hour War |
| Destroyed |
After the Uprising |
| Location | |
| Builder |
Unknown, later refurbished by the Combine |
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- Russell: "Yeah. That's… that's the way we gotta go."
- Alyx Vance: "No shortcut?"
- Russell: "Yeah, that IS the shortcut."
- ―Russell and Alyx Vance[src]
Metro Area[1] is a City 17 Metro station located in the Quarantine Zone and featured in the second chapter of Half-Life: Alyx, The Quarantine Zone.
Overview[edit]
The station's name "Metro Area", possibly short for "Metropolitan Area", comes from the metro map of City 17, as no signs are visible on its platforms. It was connected to lines 1 and 4. Situated coterminously to the outer walls of the deserted Quarantine Zone, Metro Area is in a state of disrepair, with its tunnel ceiling partially demolished and Xen infestation taking over many of its maintenance structures. Like most other locations in the QZ, the Combine Infestation Control once managed to establish a checkpoint here and have installed various equipments to cleanse the alien fauna, but they ultimately failed the attempt, rendering many of their personnel possessed by Headcrabs and the station completely abandoned.
Metro Area is the first subway station visited by Alyx Vance, making it an important tutorial location where she familiarizes with her newly acquired pistol, and has her first encounters with Zombies. There she also uses the Health Pen and Combine Fabricator for the first time, acquainting herself with their functions.
Gallery[edit]
A maintenance room of the station located right behind the QZ hatch, where the first Health Pen is found on the table.
First Zombie encounter. The player is incited to shoot at the padlock so that the Zombie is dealt with by the Barnacle, showing that the creature can be used at one's advantage.
Collapsed tunnel ceiling.
Inside a partially sealed off metro car, with Infestation Control equipment laying around.
Barnacles and jerricans on top of the metro cars. There the player is incited to feed the jerricans to the Barnacle, showing they can be used against them.
Barnacles of different growth stages.
Ditto, closer look.
Inside the car parked at the platform, with more Infestation Control equipment.
The first Combine Fabricator, installed in old showers.
Zombified Combine Workers on platform 4.
Sitting Zombie on platform 4.
A supply crate near seats.
Zombie walking into a dark metro car.
The collapsed tunnel ceiling outside platform 4.
A Supply Crate near a dead zombie.
Xen growths in a maintenance room.
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| Preceded by City 17 Metro |
Half-Life: Alyx story arc journey | Succeeded by Vortigaunt Hideout |
