Our Benefactors

In the PC and X-Box game Half Life 2, "Our Benefactors" is a common phrase used by doctor Breen, the game's villain, in reference to the aliens invading earth. These aliens are un-named and unseen throughout the game but the player often hears other characters speaking of them and at one stage overhears a one-sided conversation between Dr Breen and the aliens. Also it is rather obvious that the invasion is occuring as the events in the game take place in city-17, a large Urban sprawl wrapped inside of an alien forcefield and used as a processing factory for humans to be either augmented into trans-human soldiers, put to a specific use, or killed outright.