Half-Life 1 beta gameplay and interviews

[RockmanYoshi]

00:38 and 0:49 look the same as their retail counterparts.

[zoomyhaxor]

Lol. More of half of these stuff weren't actually relased in game :D

[MateuuuuuszPolska]

Was this version ever released? Because some of those pictures are on my HL box.

[BeastOfSoda]

sometimes i wonder how they can afford to produce and, eventually, throw away all of that content and still drive a successful business: i haven't noticed a single level in this video that made it into the actual game, and a lot of the assets look completely different. as long as it works for them, i suppose.

[elreymaster04]

necesito este juego para algunos mods de half life que requieren esta version me podrían decir donde bajarlo?

[Demostator98]

07:03 omggggggggggg look at his faces !!!!!!!

[NeWx89]

CAN'T WAIT!

[6ta9]

CanMan talk shit get hit play me sometime than

[Arto572]

@Matsilagi modded ID tech2, for example, both use .bsp for their maps, and you can run quake 2 maps in HL1

[daEmoNicky]

So much fuss about a simple stuff like ricochet for example. "Every time You play You find different events happening" was probably true until they made things scripted. Hairy guy was fine, though. :)

[Esstan2010]

4:12 surface tension in the beta?

[AMD889]

Of the code from quake 2. Also the original hev suit had short sleeves, but even when they used ivans model, they left the old weapon skins.

[AMD889]

Ok, half life, even in beta stages only used part

[brainery]

HALF LIFE wus actually originally a mod for quake 2 did u know that

[brainery]

NO HEV SUIT XO

[BlackTurtle82]

7:02 I understand why they did'nt released it in 1997..

[CorporalDead]

and back in the day these were jaw dropping graphics xD

[retardedmario1]

in a way they still are. at the part with the security officers shooting the alien grunt i thought it looked quite amasing. if not astounding. it looked very similour to half life source.

[CorporalDead]

@retardedmario1 yeah I'd still say these graphics are still good even for today. I still play Cs 1.6 and Half life 1!

[retardedmario1]

so do i. i think team fortress classic and deathmatch classic are equally good games, even though if you play them theres nobody else because theirs no servers for them anymore.

[imthebause]

Awesome!

[armedforces1000]

stupid long speeches

[tonnot98]

beta looks like doom 3 a little...

and why did they cut the heavy soldier and the panther eye?

they were awesome!!

[vorteksio2]

@tonnot98 are you kidding me?? it looks more like quake 1....

[unl3ind]

Kelly Balley... Sad for you leaving out Valve.

[hl2ukraine]

Half-Life is the greates game in the world! THis is most awesome game, i love all of HL series. From HL1, to HL2EP2.

[t455o]

@hl2ukraine You're absolutely right!!!

[normandorp]

Woah dynamic shadows which the retail version didn't have... Why???!!

[HubbaBubba9849]

oh how far we've come...

[sl2mmer]

@HubbaBubba9849 only in terms of graphics; other than that, the evolution in games (specially FPS's) has basically stopped..

[SAFORecruitment01]

OMG how they fuckin aged, watched 1up's interview of them about The Orange Box, which was 2007 (Ten years later after this video.)

[MultiCamo]

Ken Birdwell - that guy did the skeletal animation, and solved the problem of moving people's lips in the GoldSrc engine. they described him as "if you wonder who goes to college at 13, Ken Birdwell is that kind of person."

[BubbleGumNipples]

@mycallmichael

Far more ways to interact with the environment and non hostile npcs, The A.I was better. There were scripted sequences which played out like in game cutscenes. In quake 2 characters just stood around until they saw you and started shooting. Most of whats described in these videos was new at the time.

The best way to compare is to play them, Both are super cheap on Steam.

[BubbleGumNipples]

@mycallmichael

My favorite games of this era weren't the plain shooter FPS's like quake 2 or half-life though but games that Deus Ex, System Shock 2 and Thief which are still really great games today despite the now crap graphics.

Other non-fps games around that time like Dungeon Keeper, Syndicate wars, Fallout 1 and 2 are still great as well.

[BubbleGumNipples]

I remember watching this back in the day and pissing myself with excitement.

Its funny that something as simple as a rotating door or a decal that wraps around the corner was so mind blowing.

[mycallmichael]

@BubbleGumNipples i wish i shared this. i still have some years before i feel this way. i watch these videos and im like..."why are these guys so excited? like its awesome? its quite the opposite...it sucks!!" lol. i understand for its time it must have been. but currently, i just cant take part in that awesome scope of growth that you doXD.

[mycallmichael]

@BubbleGumNipples to help me get an idea. what was the coolest game out just prior to hl1 release?

[BubbleGumNipples]

@mycallmichael

Sin had just come out, although only a month before.

Personally I was mostly still playing Quake 1 and 2

I remember being amazed at quake 2 because you could tint the colour of the lights and the animation was interpolated (the game smoothly blended between the frames of animation instead of jumping instantly from one frame to the next)

Quake 1 was cool because it was so easy to mod, and I could use my video card to make the graphics nicer. Not to mention the characters were 3D!

[BubbleGumNipples]

@mycallmichael

And I forgot, Unreal was really impressive at the time.

[mycallmichael]

@BubbleGumNipples how does half life exceed quake 2?

[ALC96]

in this version ladder climbing seems to be more realistic, dont you think? 5:25

[Thomasiscrazy]

this is where is all started

[destroyer129steam]

Scientists sounds like 17 yer olds O_0

[pRopaaNS]

After all we didn`t get those dynamic shadows in HL1...

[AlexBestGTA]

no HEV SUIT

why? loook the hands

[jonhhy21234]

theirs only 1 idiot that didn't t like this

[1PlayerD]

Thumbs up if you think Half-Life is Kick Ass!

[Doomspeed44]

the beta looks ALOT HARDER then the current HL1

[NFSKing]

@Doomspeed44 Which is why I want it.

[LBlueDust]

Well you guys are forgetting a company that died.It starts with S and finishes with a and it's called sierra.If it wasn't for sierra valve would be dead!?!SO FIRST CUR UR BULLSHIT ABOUT VALVE AND THINK ABOUT SIERRA FOR ONCE INSTEAD OF THE DUMB SOURCE ENGINE !?!

[Demondude89]

@LBlueDust Man, Valve SUCKS. There using a ragdoll engine and they ruined sierra bye buying them. Sierra made HALF LIFE WAY BEFORE VALVE DID. GO SIERRA.

[jovantheun1337]

@Demondude89 Pardon my French but... what the cluck are you talking about? Valve made Half-Life, Sierra was merely their publisher. They had a falling out (to put it nicely) but Valve never bought them. Sierra eventually just died on its own two years ago.

[mcgath2]

@Demondude89 wow just wow valve didn't buy anyone out plus sierra never made a half life game

[336Roach]

@Demondude89 you stupid, VALVe made Half-Life -_-

[RetardedAndRandomTV]

4:33 sounds like a badass remix of 'diabolical adrenaline guitar' i wonder why they didnt use that song in the game

[BlockFaecFilms]

07:02

ZOMBIE PEOPLE

[valenGTA4]

its a HALF LIFE 1997

[vicentiup]

i Love playng the half life series but i never heard of di beta version dose diis game evenegzist or is it fake

[mantax55]

Kelly seems like a shy guy.

[mantax55]

5:30 that ladder thing is awesome, they should of kept that and the shadows!

[metakight4]

this game was awesome and it's weird to see how it changed

[Yakworld]

if you think this looks better than the retail half-life, maybe you aren't a half-life fan. hell, maybe you aren't even a gamer. what you're saying is the glimpse of scrapped crap is BETTER than the highest rated pc game of all time named "Best PC Game Ever". stop playing games if you think that. seriously

[TheDingDongDo]

looks like a completely difrent game....

[Steampenner1994]

Where can i get?

[CanMan1231]

@F3rgul The source engine is Valve's signature. It's infinitely expandable and upgradable and Valve can change it to their will. If they started using CryEngine 2, they'd lose a ton of money for the initial purchasing of the engine and royalties after wards, as well as a large chunk of their fan base.

[lolgam200]

@CanMan1231 valve didn't make the source engine, They made cahanges to the Havok engine and called it Source

[CanMan1231]

@lolgam200 Havok simply provided the physics for the source engine.

[roro21123456]

@CanMan1231 Nope. Havoks the base of the Source's physics engine. Been helpful in that development...

[foist101]

@lolgam200 Havok is a physics engine. You can't make a game simply with a physics engine.

[ThePinkMamaLuigi]

@lolgam200 ACTUALLY they heavily modified the quake engine, Havok just outs physics in every game ever invented (well not exactly every game)

[retardedmario1]

thats 100% false.

[SuperFunnyman001]

@lolgam200 You're too dumb to exist

[WinExploder]

@CanMan1231 It would also decrease FPS like hell.

[HolowkoM]

@CanMan1231 this one is still qhen they whare using Q2 engine

[masterpiraka]

@F3rgul

Why would valve use any engine other than their own? That'd be bullshit.

They should revamp source untill it's as good as if not better than Cryengine2/3.

[NeverKnowsBests]

@F3rgul

G T F O!

[TheJunkman1986]

@F3rgul i dissagree...valve have the most accurate physics engine

[SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14]

@F3rgul Erm... no

[roro21123456]

@F3rgul AHAH CRYENGINE XD

Hmm, sorry.

[retardedmario1]

no. the cryengine 2 is garbage compared to the source engine. no offense.

[grineti5]

wow! now that i notice, half life 2 has improved a lot o_0

[punisherxxx666]

ese es de dreamcast pero fue canceled aunque yo lo tengo siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

[jakegrady95]

i get massive motion sickness from this game do not play :(

[dutchydutch]

@jakegrady95

f*cking moron!

[boom122808]

fake,the golden source engine don't can generated advance shadows 00:34

[CanMan1231]

It's definitely not fake. I'd like to see someone forge interviews from valve employee's. A better example of the shadows being real is at 00:29, they were obviously a beta feature removed in the final release, either for being too resource expensive or not working properly. They weren't advanced either, they were simply a render of the character's skeleton skewed to the left, unaffected by light or the surrounding world.

And protip: work on your grammar.

[nightfireivey]

@CanMan123 Lmfao. Yes, a lot of things from the beta seem to be...redone obviously...its not fake. >.>

[atidiaX]

First, It's GoldSrc. Secondly, it's "advanceD shadows". Thirdly, those are not advanced shadows.

[egnost]

Those shadows aren't "advanced", they're awkward. Thankfully we didn't see those shadows in the final game :)

[animakerdrag]

old gordon only had 1 hev glove

[BGLart]

the older seems to be more attractive but.. whatever.

[m4ssee]

And why was this awarded for best game of E3?

[foxhound1029]

It was revolutionary for it's time. although nowadays it seems horrible...

[AkDudesProductions]

Ever played most 1996-1998 games? Play them and compare them to this.

[TheCGIMaster]

because its awesome...get use to it....

[jesmondwee]

where to download first version of hl? anyone can give me the link?

[darkface405]

do you have steam?

[123harith]

yes

[danielsofer]

you condition looks realy bad

[StarrFOX64]

lol 7:00 wtf is up with barney , and cliner looks really weird XD

[KurakiN64]

It's not Kleiner, it's Frankestein!

[1PlayerD]

Kleiner isnt in hl1,though scientists do look like him

[StarrFOX64]

you got a good point. never thought about it like that. By the scientists do sound like him.

[NoOnesScream]

wow this looks more fun than the final version

[cAc3d]

2:37 the real gordon freeman

[cAc3d]

and omg look at the color of his shirt and jacket, HEV!

[skkater1]

I dont know wy but it remindes me on mirror's edge ...

[Foggieboy98]

Can some one pls help me. In sven coop can u play half life 1 beta ???

[Waterboy818]

i love this game and i still play it

[CryoKeen]

ya man i play svencoop and play the single player with my buddys!

[OblivionKnight457]

the beta looked horrible

[Jiucedust]

Wtf are you talking about !?

[brutaka359]

Ok sorry! Just asking! I saw some guys saying that on YouTube videos... :P

Dunno

[Jiucedust]

Oh...

[cyborgtroy]

That's wasn't an asking, that was an assertion. And it was wrong.

Why would you repeat something if you were asking about it?

[cyborgtroy]

lol no I think what you mean is that they used a modified Quake I or II engine (Forget which, but I think it was Quake I).

It's not a mod, though. They added a lot of features that weren't there at all.

[sk8rdood67]

ya know, i liked ugly graphics more than good graphics because you would have to ACTUALLY USE your brain to understand what youre looking at. mind power!

[jakez123456]

LOL THIS MADE MY DAY

[Waterboy818]

@sk8rdood67 the new half life 1 game is half life black mesa and it looks AWESOME

[RobloxLegomania]

@sk8rdood67 I love the polygonal shapes :D

[LordFin4l]

que half life tan raro lo quiero jugar asi sea XD

[boogiebot125]

the beta looks like an excellent ps1 port (which vavle should have done.)

[Ununoctium1337]

I would pay a great deal of money to play this. Seems more interesting than the final version (could be because I've completed it 20+ times)

[Firefox3339]

I wish i could play this

[trevjamsey]

@Firefox3339 there's an upcoming mod for half-life called quiver that is beta half-life

ttp://w ww.moddb.com/mods/hlquiver

[trevjamsey]

@Firefox3339 there's an upcoming mod for half-life that's beta HL

can't post links so just remove the spaces

w w w. moddb.com/mods/hlquiver

[trevjamsey]

@Firefox3339 w w w.moddb.com/mods/quiver1 just take out the spaces it's a HL mod with the beta story and everything

[StarfoxMcCloud12]

why did that Security guard push that scientist to his death?

and the voice acting is horrible.

[Firefox3339]

Oh the scientist was evil

[NFSKing]

Well, the old Barney AI was scripted to be hostile towards the player and his/her allies.

[TitanKaempfer]

I think he saw the monster and want to save his self. So he need something that give him time to flee

[awkookrenewed]

lol!

[NFSKing]

For a 1997-1998 game, it IS amazing. However, nowadays we have BETTER graphics like Crysis, just check it out...

[johnbeyer]

Finally, a good comment. thumbs up for NFSKing please

[NFSKing]

thx for supporting my comments, you ARE the first person i dont know that does. So, me thumbs up your comment.

[johnbeyer]

No problem man we need more clear minds on youtube :)

[NFSKing]

Thumb'd up... again...

[UltrarubikXD]

Half life with crysis graphics...

that would be cool

[jameswsparker]

As technology grows, so does the games that follow it; unfortunately, most modern day games can't beat the plot and feel of original Half-Life.

[lolcatize12]

@NFSKing wow dude stop being a fucking fool and only giving a fuck about graphics

[jake998877]

@NFSKing Yea but it looks like your just taking graphics over gameplay Crysis yea of course it has decent graphics but doesn't mean it'll be a good game will it.

[NFSKing]

@jake998877 Dude, I was just giving examples, i still prefer gameplay over ridiculously high system requirements.

[mongrelchild]

lol. the black dude grunt at 00:40 is just a skin on top of the standard quake 2 model, notice the stance

[awkookrenewed]

i cant believe a stupid person hacked into valve, stole and deleted the beta :(

[CanMan1231]

That was HL2.

[Virginityrocks]

All responsible developers back back-ups every so often and store them on a flash drive, or some other device and hide it in a shoe box.

[EvonOfTheYuk0n]

2:37 that guy blinks to much

[AnttiApinaPro]

Wow! The bulletholes... Will stay?

WOW!

This was back when HL 1 was released. It was a masterpiece and technical advancement at the time!

[EdwardVBarber]

How do they get the shawdows, the graphics look like they were made in 2001 that way because the shawdows look dynamic.

[AMD889]

man i wish i could try this beta...

just to see what they managed to do in the q2 engine befor moving to the q1 engine.

[LoLWTF77]

2:32 why didnt they build that blood effect in full game

[supr4]

They had to tone the game down to keep up the frame rates.

[Mikeys9607TE]

It's the beta of Half-Life 1.

[roflcopteratweebly]

beta

[mrcat60]

some people just dont read the titles and descpritons do they

[HouseInVisus]

Man, I remember watching this over and over waiting for it to come out. I would have liked to have seen the blue panther in the final cut, but I cant complain. Great Game.

[TehMiKANiSe]

No H.E.V.?

[michalt441]

I wish they kept the feature that the screen goes red when you're hit :/

[jovantheun1337]

The directional screen flashes stood in for that.

[michalt441]

Yes but I liked the whole screen flashing red more :p

[editucko]

that s best half life ever

[diopane]

lol look at 8.08 shadows are almost the same that are in Half Life 2 after ten years.

[Edward94252]

I really like Half-Life.