Black Mesa SUV

The Black Mesa SUV is a vehicle used by the Black Mesa Personnel as an alternate transportation method to the Black Mesa Transit System. Since the Black Mesa Research Facility features a large road network that can be used to travel around the entire facility, SUVs are most likely a very useful and quicker option for above ground transport.

Half-Life
In the Topside Motorpool visited during the chapter "Forget About Freeman!", two SUVs are store for reparation in a garage. Later, Gordon sees SUVs being thrown at HECU soldiers by a Gargantua in an underground parking lot, before being attacked himself.

Half-Life: Opposing Force
In the chapter "The Package", Shephard gets into an underground parking lot inside an Ordinance Storage Facility where the Black Ops are setting up a bomb to destroy the facility and fighting Race X creatures. There he finds several damaged SUVs.

In Opposing Force, the SUV was slightly improved from the first version seen in Half-Life and parts of its interior, though very simple, can be seen.

Half-Life: Blue Shift


In the Freight Yard area featured in the chapter Captive Freight, Barney Calhoun discovers an SUV with its occupants killed, its driver door open, and its lights blinking. Two SUVs can also be seen parked near the Freight Management Offices traversed with Rosenberg. Finally, at the very end of the game, Barney, Rosenberg, Walter and Simmons teleport out of the base and use a SUV to escape from the facility after reuniting at the Black Mesa South Access Tunnel.

In Blue Shift, the SUV was again slightly improved. Its interior can now be completely seen and it has realistic, transparent windows.

Half-Life: Decay
One SUV is seen in the Ordinance Storage Facility parking lot with a dead scientist that went through the windshield when he crashed the vehicle into a container.

In Decay, the SUV brush was finally replaced by an actual worldmodel.

Trivia

 * The SUV license plate, only present at the rear, reads "Valve".


 * The Decay SUV model resembles the 1984-1996 Jeep 'XJ' Cherokee, while the Half-Life, Opposing Force and Blue Shift SUV brushes resemble the 1986-1995 Nissan 'WD21' Pathfinder.

List of appearances

 * Half-Life
 * Half-Life: Opposing Force
 * ''Half-Life: Blue Shift
 * Half-Life: Decay