Nice idea about playing as dog that would of been interesting. Aftermath is going to center around Gordon and alot more about Alex which I'm glad about. You've blown up the citadel, so all those force fields are now down protecting city 17. The aliens that were outside are now inside, like a dawn of the dead type scenario. I'm really looking forward to it. Maybe the nest expansion will be from a different persons view but it's been done before so it would have to be something special. I also heard that Aftermath is going to have HDR like the lost coast, so the graphics shoud be even better. For all things HL2:Aftermath http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife2aftermath/index.html?q=aftermath