| rdfs:comment | - Hypersuctor sensitivas, better known as Tentacles, are major antagonists of the Half-Life series, being large, clawed tendril-like aliens that respond violently to loud sounds.
- Physically, the tentacles have a bizarre appearance. A large, green, segmented stalk supports a "head," which ends in a sharply pointed, bladelike appendage and features what looks like an eye. This "eye" appears to be a sensory organ, although the creature only reacts to sound and surface vibrations, implying that the race is blind. Tentacles usually need ome sort of liquid at their base to keep them alive. Tentacles also need to live in a pit or trench. They usually emanate from pits, into which they can retract when injured or in danger. Often they make long, low frequency vocalisations, that sound somewhat similar to the songs produced by whales.
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| abstract | - Hypersuctor sensitivas, better known as Tentacles, are major antagonists of the Half-Life series, being large, clawed tendril-like aliens that respond violently to loud sounds.
- Physically, the tentacles have a bizarre appearance. A large, green, segmented stalk supports a "head," which ends in a sharply pointed, bladelike appendage and features what looks like an eye. This "eye" appears to be a sensory organ, although the creature only reacts to sound and surface vibrations, implying that the race is blind. Tentacles usually need ome sort of liquid at their base to keep them alive. Tentacles also need to live in a pit or trench. They usually emanate from pits, into which they can retract when injured or in danger. Often they make long, low frequency vocalisations, that sound somewhat similar to the songs produced by whales. Typically several tentacles use the same pit, suggesting that they may be appendages of a larger organism. Indeed in Half-Life, after the first tentacle encounter, the player travels through the chasm the creature had occupied. The tentacle's body encountered at the bottom of the chasm is somewhat squid shaped, with three stumps that appear to have been severed. Some concept art of the tentacle shows it to be cluster of three tentacles attached to a bulbous base, which matches that encountered in the game, this also suggests that the tentacles may in fact be a kind of Alien plant. Although tentacles usually come in groups or clusters of three, single tentacles are also encountered, and the number of tentacles present may reflect the size or stage of development of the base, or else a more spread-out being, with tentacles in various locales. There is also a notable similarity between tentacles and the Gene Worm found in Opposing Force. Similar-looking smaller tentacles, with the same blade and "eye" have also been seen in the Metroid series, often in holes in walls, retracting when injured in a similar manner.
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