At face value, Mr. Friendly looks like an utter abomination, but with a name like that, he can't be too bad, right? WRONG. A fleshy, four-limbed alien monster removed from the original Half-Life ...

It might be more apt to say that Half-Life's Mr. Friendly wasn't merely cut from the game for posing too much of a challenge to players - though that's certainly part of the reason - but because ...