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Half-Life 2 box art for Microsoft Windows, featuring Gordon Freeman and City 17 in the background. Aside from this image, there are two other versions that feature Alyx Vance and the G-Man instead.

Original box art was scanned and uploaded by Thunderbrand (16:06, 30 April 2006 (UTC)), and later resized by Linuxbeak to comply with Wikipedia's fair use policy.

[edit] Summary

Rationale for this image:

The cover is used to represent a well known and significant video game
This image has been used in several websites, and so use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible or visible than it already is
The image is being used in an informative way and should not detract from the game
The image does not limit Valve's ability to sell the game
The image is of a lower resolution than in real life.

[edit] Licensing

This image is cover art for a computer or video game, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of game cover art

to illustrate the packaging of the game in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

constitutes fair use under United States copyright law. Other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

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{{game-cover|Macintosh|Linux|Windows}}

{{game-cover|Macintosh}}

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{{game-cover}}

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(del) (cur) 13:30, 20 May 2006 . . Linuxbeak (Talk | contribs) . . 421×599 (41,079 bytes) ('''Rationale for this image:''' * The cover is used to represent a well known and significant video game * This image has been used in several websites, and so use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible or visible than it already is )