That tide of reality what Alexander Solzhenitsyn once called the pitiless crowbar of events burst the closed bubble of Romney s campaign, its walls breached as decisively as those of lower Manhattan and Far Rockaway.

Unlike in Half Life 2 , where Gordon's initial weapon is the crowbar, Gordon first acquires the Gravity Gun, which plays a crucial role in the game by allowing the player to use physics to manipulate objects at a distance in both combat and puzzle solving scenarios.