Taller, no; but there are buildings still standing, not quite wrecked, whose roofs are about level with the mid-line of the monstrous Synths' bodies. The Combine does not build their assault weapons small.
Striders are unspeakably dangerous creations of a massively destructive alien empire. Any one of those legs could easily impale even an armored human without much effort on the Strider's part. And as for the guns- well, the lead Strider turns and takes utterly casual aim at the building nearest a straggling group of rebels.
zzzMMMCHHAAAAAAAA! goes the air as a ripple of pure spatial distortion like the plucking of a string streaks out from the curved cannon dangling from the thing's underbelly.
THOOOM! go the top two floors of the building.
And chuddachuddachudda goes the air on every side as the other two Striders start unleashing their pulse cannon fire. Lucky thing for Annabelle that the two rearward Striders are busier shooting at rebels than at the human near the forward Strider's leg, eh?
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Striders are unspeakably dangerous creations of a massively destructive alien empire. Any one of those legs could easily impale even an armored human without much effort on the Strider's part. And as for the guns- well, the lead Strider turns and takes utterly casual aim at the building nearest a straggling group of rebels.
zzzMMMCHHAAAAAAAA! goes the air as a ripple of pure spatial distortion like the plucking of a string streaks out from the curved cannon dangling from the thing's underbelly.
THOOOM! go the top two floors of the building.
And chuddachuddachudda goes the air on every side as the other two Striders start unleashing their pulse cannon fire. Lucky thing for Annabelle that the two rearward Striders are busier shooting at rebels than at the human near the forward Strider's leg, eh?