

Rock Paper Shotgun expressed that the game's ideas "seem nice on paper but are executed poorly", citing several haphazard gameplay functions and storyline moments. Hunt Down the Freeman was released in February 2018 to a poor critical reception. The game received several post-release updates, adding features such as achievements. Īs development continued, Royal Rudius Entertainment attained an infamous reputation among the Half-Life modding scene for using YouTube personalities as voice actors and various allegations of intellectual property theft. Development commenced despite this, and a demo of the game was released in 2016 to a negative reception. The game was initially pitched for crowdfunding through Indiegogo, however the crowdfunding campaign raised only $12 out of the crowdfunding goal of $100,000. He then commands his forces to sail for the Borealis research vessel stranded in the Arctic.

Finding that Adam has assumed control of his army, Shephard kills him. The Combine then turns on Shephard and tries to kill him, but he escapes and returns to the offshore base. He confronts the G-Man about this, who then reveals that he was never on Shephard's side and that the man who attacked him in Black Mesa was not Freeman but actually Adam. Together with Adam, Shephard joins forces with the Combine and participates in several events also depicted in Half-Life 2, but then comes into discord with Adam and his other allies due to everyone's conflicting agreements with the G-Man. Seventeen years after that, Shephard, instructed by the G-Man, travels to City 17 to kill Gordon Freeman. Three years later, Shephard travels to Europe and discovers a factory full of child slaves which he rescues and brings to his outpost. Later learning that Earth has surrendered to the invaders, Shephard and other soldiers flee New Mexico and eventually sail away from the coast of California, reorganizing into a private army on a series offshore platforms. He meets fellow HECU member Adam (Vincent Cyr) and other military forces fighting the alien onslaught on the streets of Albuquerque. Waking up, Mitchell finds the hospital overrun by zombies and a worldwide alien invasion ongoing. Mitchell dies from his wounds in a hospital, but is brought back to life by the G-Man after promising to kill Freeman.

Following some heavy combat, Shephard is attacked and severely injured by a crowbar-wielding man in an orange suit, whom he believes to be Gordon Freeman. USMC Sergeant Mitchell Shephard (Mick Lauer), brother of Adrian Shephard, is sent to Black Mesa as part of HECU to cover up the recent resonance cascade and quell the resulting alien invasion.
