Although this encounter is scripted, when an ichthyosaur is spawned using console commands or a mod, such as Garry's Mod, it also attacks the player, suggesting that the developers planned on Gordon Freeman encountering them more than once. During a teleport malfunction ("harmonic reflux"), Gordon Freeman is momentarily transported underwater, and is almost attacked by an ichthyosaur before being transported elsewhere. The ichthyosaur also makes a single appearance in Half-Life 2. In Half-Life: Opposing Force, a wall poster depicts the creature's skeleton with the title "Xenotherus ichthycanthus." Half-Life 2 The speed and viciousness of the icthyosaur make the underwater areas of Half-Life some of the most frightening parts of the game. They are often placid at first, but quickly become hostile, especially should the player take action against them. In Half-Life, ichthyosaurs are encountered in several water bodies, including a flooded laboratory and in a reservoir behind a hydroelectric dam. When an ichthyosaur is first encountered in Half-Life, a scientist remarks that while he has been told it originated in the Challenger Deep (in the Pacific Ocean), he is of the opinion that its first taste of a terrestrial ocean was its arrival at the Black Mesa Research Facility. It is one of many alien species encountered in Half-Life that have been teleported to Earth from the borderworld Xen.Īlthough it is named after the extinct reptile group, the ichthyosaurs, it resembles them only in its carnivorous ecology and its general size. The ichthyosaur ( Xenotherus ichthycanthus, roughly meaning "foreign-beast spiny-fish" in Greek) is a fictitious aquatic animal in the first-person shooter computer game Half-Life.
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