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The Orange Box: Half-Life 2: Episode Two Hints
How can I make it through this cluttered room?
1 of 15: Start by getting past the large row of shelves on the right.
2 of 15: If you crouch down, you can get underneath the shelves.
3 of 15: Crouch-walk along underneath them, ready to shoot a fast zombie torso when it appears ahead of you. (Or save ammo by bringing a saw blade with you from the previous area.)
4 of 15: Keep going straight ahead until you exit the under-the-shelf area and can stand up.
5 of 15: Watch out for a couple of barnacle tongues dangling nearby, plus a regular zombie torso in an area over to the left.
6 of 15: If you're careful, you can lure the torso into getting caught by one of the barnacles.
7 of 15: Let the barnacles grab you so you can crowbar-whack them, then look for a supply crate in the torso's area, plus a box of shotgun shells in one corner under the shelves against the back wall.
8 of 15: To figure out how to progress in this area, examine those back-wall shelves.
9 of 15: Don't they look like they were made to be a staircase of sorts?
10 of 15: Jump onto the lowest shelf, then move the box off of the next shelf so you can jump to it.
11 of 15: After you jump onto the third shelf, turn right and continue until you reach the highest "shelf step."
12 of 15: As you jump onto that last step, be ready to use the crowbar to kill a poison headcrab that drops down right in front of you.
13 of 15: Now look across the gap ahead of you to see a platform with a grate-covered vent opening on it. (Also, look to the right to find a supply crate on a high shelf that you can pull in with the gravity gun.)
14 of 15: You need to get across to the vent's platform in order to leave this room.
