Talk:Zombine
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- It is interesting to note that the removal of a Zombine's headcrab reveals that, aside from the lower jaw and a small lower portion of skull, there doesn't appear to be a head on the soldier's corpse. It is unknown how a Zombine makes its radio transmissions due the absence of most speech organs (and, more importantly, no head); One possible explanation is the radio chatter heard is not from the Zombine but actually from other Combine soldiers and might be muffled by the loss of a radio antenna that could be placed in the skull. This is unless the Combine Soldiers had their speech vocoder replace natural speech organs, as one instance in the Half-Life 2 chapter Nova Prospekt a Combine Overwatch soldier is seen without his shirt on an operating table through a security camera with what appears to be a metallic larynx. The decapitated Zombie model found in the Half-Life 2 Beta files is quite similar. This explanation is also unlikely due to the fact of how slow the radio chatter is spoken compared to regular Combine Soldiers. For example, when a Zombine says "Sector is not secure", it first says "Sector is", gasps for air, and then says "not secure".
- Another interesting fact about the Zombine is that it can be chopped in half while the original Combine Soldier cannot. This could be due to the muscle tissue (that hasn't been replaced with combine technology) has degraded and worn due to the headcrab's presence.
Is it that necessary to put up so much exaggerated speculation trying to explain how something would work realistically, totally ignoring artistic video game design decisions?--138.231.140.26 21:40, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
