Ravenholm

Ravenholm is a city near City 17 in the 2004 computer game Half-Life 2. Due to bombardment with artillery containing headcrabs, Ravenholm is swarming with several varieties of headcrabs and the zombie-like creatures created when they take over humans. Gordon Freeman, the game's main character, must travel through Ravenholm when the Combine attack Black Mesa East.

Not much information is directly given about what happened in Ravenholm, other than Alyx Vance's ominous pronouncement "We don't go there anymore." Spent artillery shells are scattered throughout the city, however, and "live" rounds containing headcrabs later pelt other areas in the game. It is easy to conclude that Ravenholm underwent a huge shelling that turned most of the populace into "headcrab zombies." Considering that Black Mesa East, a primary Resistance base, is very close to the town, the Combine's brutal shelling makes logical sense.

While fighting off hordes of zombies, Gordon meets the lone human occupant of Ravenholm, Father Grigori. The priest-turned-zombie hunter provides assistance and advice, eventually showing Gordon the way out of the city. Many areas of Ravenholm are littered with large sawblades, gas cans, and booby traps that have been contrived by Father Grigori to destroy the zombies.