The most obvious answer is no. But before someone brought up an interesting point about how someone wouldn't be able to survive being near radition cause he has no helmet
, which doesn't make it a bad suit. There could be other reasons like some invisible mouth piece/face guard, or he could wear a helmet.
But the HEV has no helmet you say. Well on my last play through the game I noticed something in the world Xen. Actually quite a few somethings are laying around. I just happened to have a camera handy and...well take a look at these.
Jigga, what was that? A HELMET! And that isn't the only one...
Aww, he has got a friend to die with him. And I found another.
There are of course more than these few littered around in this alternate world. Which begs the question on if he ever wore the helmet. There are no pictures of him wearing the helmet but there are also no pictures of him not wearing the helmet (besides the front cover). For all we know he could be wearing a helmet or he just takes it off when talking to friendlies.
Hey, it could happen! You just can't be too sure. Unless I am wrong and then you are sure.
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Just like that tree in the forest or those gnomes in your fridge turning off the light.
Also, Maybe its because just like in Gears of War, people with helmets always die or are disabled quickly.
Schrodinger's quantum radiation helmet?
He never appears pictured with the helmet.
So yeah... no helmet at all, which goes completely against Black Mesa Safety Protocol.
Interesting, though. I'd never seen images of the HEV helmet before.
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At least it isn't as bad as Haze. You could see those guys for miles.
It's a hazmat suit, dude. Would you expect it to be anything but a bright color? Would you prefer he wear the real, present-day version?
@Dexter
Good catch. In both Blue Shift and Opposing Force, Gordon is seen without a helmet. So there you go: No, he doesn't wear a helmet.
The exact technology of the HEV suit isn't specified, it could be any number of technologies in the suit that enable him not to wear a helmet.
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I mean, you never see a helmet, and if he had a helmet on, bullets couldn't see his face and avoid it.
Also, Dr. Collette Green and Dr. Gina Cross, the other two HEV suit wearers (only in the PS2 addon Decay - but now avail. for PC) did not wear glasses. Surviving radition without a helmet doesn't make sense, and also, not wearing a helmet would mean that headshots would be much more likely. Think about the one piece of armor that hasn't disappeared from military uniforms since medieval times - helmets - WW1, WW2, Vietnam and even NATO troops. Helmets = protection.
Clearly, the HEV suit has a helmet, but since the only time we see GF is in publicity shots, he has removed the helmet. I believe this applies to HL1 & 2.
Although when GF first puts on the suit in HL2 we don't see a helmet on it, that doesn't mean it isn't behind the suit or that the game designers thought this was a hopelessly minor detail that illustrating it wasn't worth dev time.