The Actor that played Dr. Breen is dead.
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Robert Culp, known to some as the voice of Dr. Wallace Breen of Half-Life 2, to others as FBI Agent Bill Maxwell on "The Greatest American Hero," died today in Los Angeles. He was 79.
Significant though it was to gamers, Culp's role as the director of the doomed Black Mesa Research Facility was far outshone by other portrayals in his nearly 50-year television career, beginning alongside Bill Cosby in the barrier-breaking "I Spy." But in Half Life 2, his monologues broadcast to City 17 helped sow the backstory of an overwhelmingly acclaimed video game, and give serious depth to an antagonist that most games would have treated one-dimensionally.
Culp's character was the administrator of the facility responsible for the "Black Mesa Incident" that begins the series' continuity. Culp played a character who negotiated a peace agreement with the invading Combine that saved humanity, but only by enslaving it. Breen then became a puppet governor who, while a formidable and ruthless opponent of the game's protagonist, Gordon Freeman, still believed that the choice he had made was best for mankind.
Culp died after falling on a sidewalk by park in Los Angeles. He is survived by his wife, five children and five grandchildren.
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shit.
"it's safer here, in the care of our benefactors"
poor guy
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Hopefully this guy is well remembered for work other than one videogame.
Though Dr Breen is still my favourite game bad-guy because he really believed he was good and his actions were (though callous) justified given the circumstances.
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I figured he just died from waiting so long for Ep 3
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I wonder what this means for Half-Life...maybe they have Breen killed off...
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He is killed off. He has been dead since the end of Half-Life 2.
(I hope I'm not spoiling anyone's experience in a 6 year old game).
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Guess that shows how long I've been waiting for EP3...don't even remember the storyline...
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sdavis117
He is killed off. He has been dead since the end of Half-Life 2.
(I hope I'm not spoiling anyone's experience in a 6 year old game).
Oh fabulous...thanks.
..Its my own fault for not finishing it, I just cant get around to playing it.
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He wasn't killed off
play the game learn why sdavis is partly right
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Rule of thumb for video games, movies, comics, etc.: if you don't see a character die, that is, definitive view of a clearly-dead corpse, the directors have intentionally left open the possibility for that character to return. Breen was an awesome character, with a boring boss-fight. It'd be great to see him back in Episode 3, with some reasonable closure.
