Most people think they cancelled the original version because of the hacker, that's FAKE
The original Half-Life 2 was cancelled because even when valve knew that it was an epic game, they noticed that it was TOOO LONG for a game of that time (remember that it has the borealis, and a lot of erased places) that's why they decide to create a shorter story... then they noticed than that SHORTER STORY was too long too... so they divided by episodes :P (sorry for the english)
@rainbowsix1998 Normally games take about two days to beat, (for me at least) Half-Life took me about two weeks to beat. I wonder what would happen if they didn't shorten it.. Still it would be awesome if they took the beta and put it up on the orangebox engine and published it. Like, a Half-Life Alternate Universe game maybe?
I know this may sound weird, but the hacker stealing the Half-Life 2 Beta was both bad AND good for Valve. The reason why it was good is because this gave Valve a chance to receive accurate feedback from an audience who has had a Hands-On experience. That's why HL2 and the HL2 Beta are so different. This ultimately led to the constant updates for Team Fortress 2, where the players could offer their feedback and reports of bugs so that Valve can fix it by the next update.
The reason this was scripted was because they truly believed they would be able to get the A.I. to do it anyways, so they might as well show a good demo of it.
@V1taLiy86 Well considering its been over 7 years since half life 2. My guess is half life 3 will be another valve masterpiece. Cause come on......valve doesn't know how to fail. And they gave us steam which in itself turn the industry upside down. And not to mention half life 1 turned the modding community upside down. Thats why valve is popular. And there games on consoles are just as amazing as PC. So in other words. Everyone is a winner.
What about Counter Strike: Source, Left 4Dead 2, Portal 2,Day of Defeat, Day of Defeat:Source, Counter Strike: Condition Zero, Team Fortress 2 And DoTA 2
Pretty much every one of those games were a failure in every aspect but financially, because of their shit eating cult fanbase
@nefets99 Ok ok ill give you condition zero as a fail. But how the fuck is portal 2 a fail? Or team fortress 2? Thats one of the most played online games ever? DOTA 2 i have no comment on cause thats not my cup of tea. And just because some of those aren't the best games ever, doesn't mean there a fail. A FAIL is when the game is so god awful that it makes you want to break your TV and or computer monitor. No valve games are god awful. How dare you.
@tandis97 And you honestly think that is a good thing?
You honestly think starting the modern warfare trend that completely watered down the FPS market was good?
Lets not forget the game itself is a terrible unbalanced pseudo-tactical slow paced arena shooter made for children that cannot succeed in a fast paced arena shooter while at the same time lack the mental capability for a milsim
CS is a terrible game and was overly regarded as a failure from anyone born before 1991
@nefets99 wait how was counter strike terrible ? just because you might not be good at it doesnt mean that counter strike is bad ... without mods like cs you wouldnt have many games today ... as a modder and gamer ... i congratulate all mods even shitty ones! mods bring games!
When you think about it, all these maps with the scripted events to show off how sexy the new engine is must have cost a lot of development time. It's not a quick job making that ten minutes of footage, I'm sure.
I have a Half life 2 box from 2004 un-opened. But on the back the pictures they show (no offense) looks better than the actual game (looks totaly different)
But don't get me wrong, I still love half-life. It's THE best game series I've ever played
@predatortheme The reason half life 2 was so different is because some guy managed to acquire the entire in dev version of half life 2 and release it to the public. This was a massive blow because the game was not finished, and a lot of people did not like it because of the lack of polish and bugs, this meant that valve (in order to keep there audience alive) had to change most of the game. Its ok though, the guy who stole the half life 2 beta was arrested and convicted.
@predatortheme I know, but get this! How the guy was caught was that he had actually told valve that he did it, he told valve how he did it and why he did it and he asked for a job! Valve agreed, so he flew over to valve head quaters and was arrested by police XD
hopefully maybe in the future after hl series is over and done with, Valve will give us some kind of "directors cut" which will be more similar too the beta (but it wouldn't replace the current hl 2 it would just be more like a "bonus"). it would be a dream come true for me.
Guys, the reason the game seems so much "better" here is because most of this is scripted. Go watch the Bioshock Infinite gameplay trailer; I guarantee that the final game will be much different.
@EasterGhost Bullshit. I have the beta, and it's not THAT scripted. The water isn't scripted, the AI isn't. Only at tho most scripted are animations, effects and sounds.
True, however, Halo 3's developers used an engine that was commonly used in Halo 1 while Valve created their own engine called Source, with better scripts. I don't know much, though.
@Zacq768 these are not random people who just wanna play a demo. its done on purpose to demonstrate something. you learn much more about the game by watching this "retard" than some "pro" who just runs in and takes out everything in 20 seconds.
is it me. or is the ai for the citizens in the prerelease better than the ai in the retail. because in this video. you have citizens leaning around corners and not just standing around like cannon fodder
Wow, and i though Half-Life 2 were awsome now! But i'm not mad at valve...in these videos they show us what they can do. Just think of Episode 3 if HL2 were meant to be like this...
I remember watching this on gamespot back in 2003 and I was soooo AMAZED! Thought it was looking just crazy good for it's time - which it did.
I bought HL2 at release... and I was a little disappointed because I thought I could remember seeing stuff in that early video which wasn't in the final game.
This is the first time I'm watching this since I saw it in 2003 and I haven't after playing the final game... and this confirms it. The E3 showcase looked better...
This was SOO much better than the retail product. This beta game just has this... athmosphere that's un-comparisable to anything you'll ever see in the video game history...
The enemy a.i. looked so much more aggresive in that video demo tha the actual game. I also liked the segment where the crawler blew open the wall in dr. Kleiners lab. that should have stayed in the game. It was cool!
lol all the nerds and others are amazed from that alyx and dr.kleiner part. Somebody said "is this game or video? :O" Btw why it didn't look so realistic in Half Life 2
Why is the lighting better? I mean, from the first scene alone, the skybox and the darker atmosphere - what happened to it all? Because imo, it looks infinitely better than anything in the current HL2 incarnations.
Great video. Great Beta. But in a way, I'm glad someone did end up stealing beta bacause I would rather have an energy ball that desintegrates people than burns them. Also all of the scenes we say had scrupted AI, so by attempting to update the beta, this would be nothing like the kind of sandbox game it's predecessor was. And the rebels looked really corny.
It's not fake. This video was shot in 2003 when Half-Life 2 was developing. Some maps in this fottage didn't come to final game. But you can play some of them in Half Life 2 Beta wich was stolen in 2003 (I think).
@CrysisLTU2 they was stolen in 2003?so how the hell did valve released it in 2004,i think they were worked on hl2 whole year with out sleeping and eating!
You know what would be cool? If valve made half-life 2, took levels and scrapped weapons and enemies and creating an entirely new game. Like a re-imiganing.
Damn, when was HL2 relased, I was pretty dissapointed for lack of many weapons, monsters and stuff. This video gives god damn different feel than vanilla version.. Yea, low quality of this video makes it feel somehow better, and of course final vanilla of HL2 is much better.. But I still miss something.. :-/
Don't give up yet, Valve has mentioned that they are delving into their Laundry List for Ep3.
The Air Exchange would most likely be back in, but would only now be activated as a Combine Contingency to ensure Humans will never be able to retaliate in the future.
lol notice how the player never looks down the street on the streetwar scene...maybe its because it just trailed into nothingness. open skybox are i mean
I personally preferred the HL2 Beta storyline much more than the final product. I have a feeling that VALVe wanted to maintain surprise and as such completely rewrote the HL2 story after the leak. Shame, it would've made for a more epic tale.
the fact of the matter is that most of what's "amazing" in this video is highly scripted and planned. Lots of that is in the actual game. Heavy, lock-you-in-a-path scripting is one of the more annoying things about that game IMO.
Oblivion had previews like this too. Same kind of BS.
AI is just way too basic yet to create truly "living" worlds in a fully dynamic way. And that's not gonna change anytime soon.
i don't find it amazing either, scripting reduces the replayability, but many people like the half-life series exactly because of the highly scripted events.. the first time i saw these vids back in 2003, i was blown away more than i ever have been by any game (footage).
No. This is beta content. Most of this content has been removed completely because it no longer complies with the storyline; or was too difficult to implement with the game play.
A lot of the ideas from alpha and betas are recycled into current content, however. Much like the idea of blowing up the Air Exchange was replaced by blowing up the citadel.
All this cool stuff makes the source engine look brilliant, and when they completed a final product 1/2 of this stuff was missing. looking at this makes hl2 look inferior.
They probably had good reason for cutting all that unseen content, but still, I WANT some kind of "Half-Life 2: How it could have been" with Combine super-soldiers, heavy alien bugs, the original storyline, old City 17 concept....
God, whoever hacked the original source engine deserves to be hung. This engine is WAY better than the current source. Ugh... it hurts to see what we could have been playing. Not to say the current source is bad, its just that this is WAY more impressive graphically AND in its physics.
I mean the initial release of Source, that came with HL2. It had the same physics and graphics features, as in that early beta. They just removed these interesting game-design things from final version. But the Source always was able to do such things, as in the video. Even on first release of HL2.
I would really really like to play the beta version of HL2 :\
Waldrouk 1 month ago
Most people think they cancelled the original version because of the hacker, that's FAKE
The original Half-Life 2 was cancelled because even when valve knew that it was an epic game, they noticed that it was TOOO LONG for a game of that time (remember that it has the borealis, and a lot of erased places) that's why they decide to create a shorter story... then they noticed than that SHORTER STORY was too long too... so they divided by episodes :P (sorry for the english)
rainbowsix1998 3 months ago
@rainbowsix1998 Normally games take about two days to beat, (for me at least) Half-Life took me about two weeks to beat. I wonder what would happen if they didn't shorten it.. Still it would be awesome if they took the beta and put it up on the orangebox engine and published it. Like, a Half-Life Alternate Universe game maybe?
66kcmiller 3 months ago
it's like a normal half-life2 with great level design.
MrUserName996 3 months ago
There's someone in the background that keeps laughing at something that isn't funny.
BingKoh 3 months ago
This build looked so much better, why did they scratch the old zombie skins?
Billywask 3 months ago
omg, soda machines break like HL1? Wow
jackoneill45 4 months ago
im replaying HL2, i really wish the AI was as good as in this video
majdijr 5 months ago
@majdijr The AI in this video are scripted. Everything about the AI was pretty much fake.
Slah606 5 months ago
I know this may sound weird, but the hacker stealing the Half-Life 2 Beta was both bad AND good for Valve. The reason why it was good is because this gave Valve a chance to receive accurate feedback from an audience who has had a Hands-On experience. That's why HL2 and the HL2 Beta are so different. This ultimately led to the constant updates for Team Fortress 2, where the players could offer their feedback and reports of bugs so that Valve can fix it by the next update.
PlayaL337 5 months ago
The reason this was scripted was because they truly believed they would be able to get the A.I. to do it anyways, so they might as well show a good demo of it.
KingKombat95 6 months ago
-enemy gets killed-
HURR HURR LOLOL FUCK THAT WAS FUNNY
T0mmyboy100 6 months ago 18
Omg that laughing guy is fucking annoying
TheArkanful 6 months ago 2
humm shot gun sounds epic why did valve change it
defplayryalpfed 6 months ago
this is not fake seach missing info mod for half life 2 it has all these levels in it from e3
ZWstudios 6 months ago
The guys who laughed there, died laughing when played the game.
KryttyOrgamaProducts 7 months ago 3
I hope Valve does it again with HL3
V1taLiy86 8 months ago 16
@V1taLiy86 but valve can't count to three :(
rtyui136 2 months ago
@V1taLiy86 Well considering its been over 7 years since half life 2. My guess is half life 3 will be another valve masterpiece. Cause come on......valve doesn't know how to fail. And they gave us steam which in itself turn the industry upside down. And not to mention half life 1 turned the modding community upside down. Thats why valve is popular. And there games on consoles are just as amazing as PC. So in other words. Everyone is a winner.
halo6534 2 months ago
@halo6534 Valve doesnt know how to fail?
What about Counter Strike: Source, Left 4Dead 2, Portal 2,Day of Defeat, Day of Defeat:Source, Counter Strike: Condition Zero, Team Fortress 2 And DoTA 2
Pretty much every one of those games were a failure in every aspect but financially, because of their shit eating cult fanbase
nefets99 1 month ago
@nefets99 Ok ok ill give you condition zero as a fail. But how the fuck is portal 2 a fail? Or team fortress 2? Thats one of the most played online games ever? DOTA 2 i have no comment on cause thats not my cup of tea. And just because some of those aren't the best games ever, doesn't mean there a fail. A FAIL is when the game is so god awful that it makes you want to break your TV and or computer monitor. No valve games are god awful. How dare you.
halo6534 1 month ago
@nefets99 lol..you're such an idiot
StevieGG08 1 month ago
@nefets99 cs fail?. the best fps of all time?. just fuck off
tandis97 1 month ago
@tandis97 You valve drones are worse than CoD fans
nefets99 1 month ago
@nefets99 but cs is the best fps of all time. no cs no cod
tandis97 1 month ago
@tandis97 And you honestly think that is a good thing?
You honestly think starting the modern warfare trend that completely watered down the FPS market was good?
Lets not forget the game itself is a terrible unbalanced pseudo-tactical slow paced arena shooter made for children that cannot succeed in a fast paced arena shooter while at the same time lack the mental capability for a milsim
CS is a terrible game and was overly regarded as a failure from anyone born before 1991
nefets99 1 month ago
@nefets99 wait how was counter strike terrible ? just because you might not be good at it doesnt mean that counter strike is bad ... without mods like cs you wouldnt have many games today ... as a modder and gamer ... i congratulate all mods even shitty ones! mods bring games!
set972 2 weeks ago
@set972 No, Its bad because its a casual unbalanced arena shooter that started the downfall of the entire fps genre
nefets99 2 weeks ago
@nefets99 you say tomatoe i say tomato ...... i found it quiet challenging and fast paced and had many sleepless nights bangin at the keyboard
set972 2 weeks ago
@nefets99 Wait... Portal 2 awful? Obvious troll is obvious.
abelcowl 2 weeks ago
@abelcowl Yes, a 3 hour long "puzzle" game dumbed down for the idiot masses like you, atleast the first one required a little creative thinking
OH NO HIS OPINION DIFFERS FROM MINE
I BETTER CALL HIM A TROLL
nefets99 2 weeks ago
@nefets99 Portal was a 2 hour long puzzle game dumbed down for the idiot masses like you, that's why you think it needs "creative thinking"
OH NO HE DISCOVERED THAT I'M A TROLL
I BETTER SAY THAT HE DOESN'T TOLERATE DIFFERENT OPINIONS
THAT WILL MAKE MY STATEMENTS TRUE
abelcowl 2 weeks ago
if you havent played this game. Your an idiot!
go download it right now
search half life 2 download...
go!!!
Aseebsyed 8 months ago
When you think about it, all these maps with the scripted events to show off how sexy the new engine is must have cost a lot of development time. It's not a quick job making that ten minutes of footage, I'm sure.
MurrayTheMac 8 months ago
lol u can hear gabe newell in the background
creeperpumpkin 8 months ago
@creeperpumpkin is he breathing heavily?
set972 2 weeks ago
Didn't that crosshair came with Orange box? Also the water looks better than in original hl2.
TheVastAire 9 months ago
Did anyone notice the dynamic shadows on the gravity gun when entering the shadow area? D: at 2:46
phoenixstorms9 9 months ago
everything about the e3 representation looks epic: the opposite of what happened when hl2 was released.
DwarfOverlord 9 months ago
this demo is more impressive then the actual game though
Aspiret620 9 months ago
Why is it that i find half life 2 much more amazing than back then when i played it??
gerhajdu 9 months ago
I have a Half life 2 box from 2004 un-opened. But on the back the pictures they show (no offense) looks better than the actual game (looks totaly different)
But don't get me wrong, I still love half-life. It's THE best game series I've ever played
bonebreakerguy 9 months ago
Looks like we've lost a lot of good action parts
macacom 10 months ago
Why is half life 2 SOOO different. like " the models are different. the weapons. the citizenz ANything :S
predatortheme 10 months ago
@predatortheme The reason half life 2 was so different is because some guy managed to acquire the entire in dev version of half life 2 and release it to the public. This was a massive blow because the game was not finished, and a lot of people did not like it because of the lack of polish and bugs, this meant that valve (in order to keep there audience alive) had to change most of the game. Its ok though, the guy who stole the half life 2 beta was arrested and convicted.
bleesev2 9 months ago
@bleesev2
what a mother fucker... the game in the e3 Was SOO different. the AI was different. the physics was. just anything...
predatortheme 9 months ago
@predatortheme I know, but get this! How the guy was caught was that he had actually told valve that he did it, he told valve how he did it and why he did it and he asked for a job! Valve agreed, so he flew over to valve head quaters and was arrested by police XD
bleesev2 9 months ago
@bleesev2
what a fucking fail xD
predatortheme 9 months ago
@bleesev2
He never flew anywhere, the German police stopped it before it got that far. He never went to jail.
MurrayTheMac 8 months ago
@MurrayTheMac point is he was arrested by police
bleesev2 8 months ago
@MurrayTheMac nope he got thrown in for 2 years
michaelmu2 7 months ago
wow the physics seemd more awesome in 2003
predatortheme 10 months ago
@predatortheme
The E3 demos is a mix of natural Source Engine physics and scripted events.
Yeah it looks awesome, but without scripts it would look basic.
mrGlitch2000 10 months ago
The Best game ever!!!
Freeman024 10 months ago
this game was rated for the best game ever made in history of video games !
SunnyboyEVOLUTION 10 months ago
I was so impressed by this back in 2003. It's too bad physics have not evolved much since HL2.
ssjdagas 10 months ago
hopefully maybe in the future after hl series is over and done with, Valve will give us some kind of "directors cut" which will be more similar too the beta (but it wouldn't replace the current hl 2 it would just be more like a "bonus"). it would be a dream come true for me.
historyman9 11 months ago
whos cryin i hear someone sniffin
steamempire 11 months ago
THIS IS REALY WAS IN 2003
RaMZes9722 11 months ago
Guys, the reason the game seems so much "better" here is because most of this is scripted. Go watch the Bioshock Infinite gameplay trailer; I guarantee that the final game will be much different.
EasterGhost 1 year ago
@EasterGhost Bullshit. I have the beta, and it's not THAT scripted. The water isn't scripted, the AI isn't. Only at tho most scripted are animations, effects and sounds.
HedgehogGamers 1 year ago
better graphics than halo 3, which was released in 07...
cuuliu 1 year ago 3
@cuuliu
True, however, Halo 3's developers used an engine that was commonly used in Halo 1 while Valve created their own engine called Source, with better scripts. I don't know much, though.
HalfAccount 1 year ago
Fucking YT video player always pauses at 30 seconds and pisses me off as I wait...
TAz69x 1 year ago
What is it about people who play the demo's for E3 places and playing like absolute retards
Zacq768 1 year ago
@Zacq768 these are not random people who just wanna play a demo. its done on purpose to demonstrate something. you learn much more about the game by watching this "retard" than some "pro" who just runs in and takes out everything in 20 seconds.
bltnxkrw 1 year ago
i want this game so much and love all the half-life series
MultiEmil97 1 year ago
this must have been absolutely unreal 7 years ago.
Onionbeats 1 year ago
@Onionbeats actually it was pretty normal for us, we were used to innovative and inteligent games.. Problem is.. it didnt last.
DecadentFilms 9 months ago
fuck the hacker that hacked the beta !
kokis55 1 year ago
COMBINE? in MY Ravenholm?
AceTheSalmon 1 year ago 2
is it me. or is the ai for the citizens in the prerelease better than the ai in the retail. because in this video. you have citizens leaning around corners and not just standing around like cannon fodder
edmund94232 1 year ago
@edmund94232 That really pisses me off in Garry's Mod
SLEEPYHEAD901 1 year ago
@edmund94232 Its scripted.
nils4545 11 months ago
is this the same as the demo on steam?
RozzzaSsarcasmo 1 year ago
@RozzzaSsarcasmo
no
tonihomi 1 year ago
@tonihomi cool thanks
RozzzaSsarcasmo 1 year ago
They left a lot of great parts out :(
tank19768 1 year ago
Do i hear Gabe ?
TheTailor25 1 year ago
@TheTailor25
Yes its Gabe Newell!
tonihomi 1 year ago
What happened to the AI cover system? They could have at least left THAT in the game.
Is the whole "block the door with a table but then they kick it open anyway" still in the game? I've never tried it...
Futil1ty 1 year ago
@Futil1ty no i tried alot of times at highway 17 barricade the doors at some parts they just push the objects
kokis55 1 year ago
wow really old blood sprites...
fainyance11 1 year ago
Wow, and i though Half-Life 2 were awsome now! But i'm not mad at valve...in these videos they show us what they can do. Just think of Episode 3 if HL2 were meant to be like this...
Tabe112 1 year ago
I remember watching this on gamespot back in 2003 and I was soooo AMAZED! Thought it was looking just crazy good for it's time - which it did.
I bought HL2 at release... and I was a little disappointed because I thought I could remember seeing stuff in that early video which wasn't in the final game.
This is the first time I'm watching this since I saw it in 2003 and I haven't after playing the final game... and this confirms it. The E3 showcase looked better...
oraichu 1 year ago
You will never be blown away like this again ;_;
hamps19 1 year ago
This was SOO much better than the retail product. This beta game just has this... athmosphere that's un-comparisable to anything you'll ever see in the video game history...
Sniffer194 1 year ago
@Sniffer194 Some people don't like it, but then there are those many who get that feeling, the feeling like it's something out of the Novel "1984".
Oh man i can't wait for the next Missing Information!
MrSilencer789 1 year ago
i want this AI!!!!!
raffa0001 1 year ago
Alyx looks more like her real world counterpart: Jamil Mullen in this version.
spiritswitchboard 1 year ago
Why is almost none of this in the game?
It would have made a fantastic game even better.
xkeethx 1 year ago
OMG! i could totally hear Gabe
Dangerouselm 1 year ago
The enemy a.i. looked so much more aggresive in that video demo tha the actual game. I also liked the segment where the crawler blew open the wall in dr. Kleiners lab. that should have stayed in the game. It was cool!
TargetRender 1 year ago
those old combine baricades are awsome !
DanielTejnicky 1 year ago
When I first saw this more than 5 years ago I was like : holy shit, this game can´t be real ...
DefenderOfAvril 1 year ago
COOL!
orultdoki 1 year ago
it makes me wanna play half life 2 +episodes again!
i hope episode 3 will come out sooon
omer16342552 1 year ago
cool
wwefanvladislav 1 year ago
The fire looked so much better.
Zelouge 1 year ago
I feel like playing Half life 2 again after watching this video! :P
pkb0yz 1 year ago
lol all the nerds and others are amazed from that alyx and dr.kleiner part. Somebody said "is this game or video? :O" Btw why it didn't look so realistic in Half Life 2
isokessu 1 year ago
did the graphics get worst for the final game?
chriscos123 1 year ago
@chriscos123 no, its just tht they polish games @ the beta and make it look good. If you download the beta, it looks like shit
Falador321 1 year ago
hey dont tell gordon not to stare he can stare if wants he survived an alien attack! O__O
heftyboy20121 1 year ago
"your staring at me again"
mhm.
lol this game pwns anything else out there.
slipperywhenwet5 1 year ago
This is a known fake, it was made using the build engine to make it look extra shitty.
Tplkkvkk 1 year ago
Why is the lighting better? I mean, from the first scene alone, the skybox and the darker atmosphere - what happened to it all? Because imo, it looks infinitely better than anything in the current HL2 incarnations.
Tellin08 1 year ago 12
@Tellin08
Well,
I'm Gabe Newell. I ate the effects and shat out the current ones. xD
4543563 5 months ago
Great video. Great Beta. But in a way, I'm glad someone did end up stealing beta bacause I would rather have an energy ball that desintegrates people than burns them. Also all of the scenes we say had scrupted AI, so by attempting to update the beta, this would be nothing like the kind of sandbox game it's predecessor was. And the rebels looked really corny.
Linx117 1 year ago
beta?????????????????????
collieyard 1 year ago
they should have kept it this way!
gunnerdude9312 1 year ago
they would have kept it this way if the matefukes didn't hacked them and they had to remake the hole game
cristi371 1 year ago 12
look at this metal plate that breaks in 4:19
it breaks to peaces instead of just falling off like in retail.
so the Beta is better then retail in the physics? lol?
keshaz12 1 year ago
any body who played mi will know it is sort of fake cuz most of it is scripted
drifter402 1 year ago
maaan i want the another episode so bad! or half life 3 completey leaving the hl2 title
pmckeown40 2 years ago
this make episode 1 look like episode 3
onexero1 2 years ago
Lol, he died when he fell in water.
m4ssee 2 years ago 4
This has been flagged as spam show
Fake
TheFaveteLinguis 2 years ago
It's not fake. This video was shot in 2003 when Half-Life 2 was developing. Some maps in this fottage didn't come to final game. But you can play some of them in Half Life 2 Beta wich was stolen in 2003 (I think).
CrysisLTU2 2 years ago 59
@CrysisLTU2 The most playable version of this content is through the mod Missing Information. It's pretty cool.
MrVoltySquirrel 1 year ago
@CrysisLTU2 they was stolen in 2003?so how the hell did valve released it in 2004,i think they were worked on hl2 whole year with out sleeping and eating!
wwefanvladislav 1 year ago
Hmm, why do I get the impression that this looks somewhat better than hl2, plus the AI is smarter 0.o
bestechbg 2 years ago 3
The AI wasn't complete, the kicking down doors and searching for cover mechanics that you saw the Combine and rebels do were only scripts.
In the end, the programmers never got it to work right.
DoctorWeeTodd 2 years ago 12
Wait, does the missing information mod include the little physics demo at the beggining for the E3 presentation?
Jawbstur 2 years ago
Yeah. It includes the whole E3 '03 presentation plus the full Borealis map.
ART1E057 2 years ago
not the full. there was no E3_hydra
Metalsonic2008 1 year ago
You know what would be cool? If valve made half-life 2, took levels and scrapped weapons and enemies and creating an entirely new game. Like a re-imiganing.
superduperluigi676 2 years ago
You can download Missing Informaation Mod it pretty much contains everything here
tomgibbons1996 2 years ago
i luv it.!! 5 stas
xXxwaterGUNxXx 2 years ago
Wow this really brings back memories. It's rare to be so excited about a game coming out nowadays.
johnChapman 2 years ago 11
amazin graphics for 2003 :D
awpboii 2 years ago 86
@awpboii
yea. i don't understand why do ppl say that the graphics suck ass? they are still awesome. gameplay and story comes first.
then graphics and physics.
jantsi123 1 year ago
where do i get the e3 version? looks more realistic and better lol
dranoel1963 2 years ago
Missing Information mod contains the E3 maps.
EmperorLjas 2 years ago
Damn, when was HL2 relased, I was pretty dissapointed for lack of many weapons, monsters and stuff. This video gives god damn different feel than vanilla version.. Yea, low quality of this video makes it feel somehow better, and of course final vanilla of HL2 is much better.. But I still miss something.. :-/
qwercz1 2 years ago
Was that the version they were going to release before they got hacked by that dude?
mattiasmoller 2 years ago
They weren't going to release anything before the hacking. The leak contained a bunch of unfinished maps, nothing else.
EmperorLjas 2 years ago 2
Okay.
mattiasmoller 2 years ago
some first looks that got wiped
harrytwood 2 years ago
LoL
EscapeTheFateKing 2 years ago
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Man, this makes Half Life 2 as of now look crappy...
ImTheCandyMan20 2 years ago
Don't give up yet, Valve has mentioned that they are delving into their Laundry List for Ep3.
The Air Exchange would most likely be back in, but would only now be activated as a Combine Contingency to ensure Humans will never be able to retaliate in the future.
Daisycutter001 2 years ago
Damn good old times
balbaldoodoo 2 years ago
Half life games were always ahead of their time. I saw this video when it was new and was very exited.
ShitMovies2000 2 years ago 7
The beta did look good. However, I'm ahppy they pushed launch time forward 1 year to make it even better.
The game's difficulty was even easier in the beta. Still, cool footage
San101I 2 years ago
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Meh i found the beta better (lack of DX 10 etc support)
glitchvid 2 years ago
LOL!!!!
Yeah and DX10 was available in 2003... Oh MY... You are an epic fail, no offense.
San101I 2 years ago 5
wow moron. "Lack of DX10 support" exactly DX10 didn't exist when this came out THUS THE LACK fucking moron.
glitchvid 2 years ago
YOU are the fucking moron. Why the fuck would you say 'lack of DX 10 support' when this footage was from 2003.
San101I 2 years ago 4
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no dx10 no dx10 support fucking idiots.
glitchvid 2 years ago
If you made Half-life 2 with everything they originally had. It would be SO FUCKING LONG, AND SO FUCKING GOOD, you wouldnt be able to handle it.
ThePivotRPG 2 years ago
lol notice how the player never looks down the street on the streetwar scene...maybe its because it just trailed into nothingness. open skybox are i mean
sk8rdood67 2 years ago
2:19 the smg is the H-L1 model when she is giving it to him
somehominid 2 years ago
yup the mp5. if you go through the beta files, youll find that they prettied everything up for E3 but everything was falling apart behind the scenes
its a shame :(
sk8rdood67 2 years ago
I personally preferred the HL2 Beta storyline much more than the final product. I have a feeling that VALVe wanted to maintain surprise and as such completely rewrote the HL2 story after the leak. Shame, it would've made for a more epic tale.
aeth0 2 years ago
i agree completley
deoradude 2 years ago
ravenholm was so much better back then i.m.o
bonebreakerguy 2 years ago
Wow, this brings me back. I'm glad they took an extra year to make it much better.
Korolev61 2 years ago
this is really making the actual game look bad
tucilamonster 2 years ago
i didnt see any of this in half life 2 :S. is there by any chance its epi 1 or 2?
hunchbak01 2 years ago
the fact of the matter is that most of what's "amazing" in this video is highly scripted and planned. Lots of that is in the actual game. Heavy, lock-you-in-a-path scripting is one of the more annoying things about that game IMO.
Oblivion had previews like this too. Same kind of BS.
AI is just way too basic yet to create truly "living" worlds in a fully dynamic way. And that's not gonna change anytime soon.
swaaye 2 years ago 5
i don't find it amazing either, scripting reduces the replayability, but many people like the half-life series exactly because of the highly scripted events.. the first time i saw these vids back in 2003, i was blown away more than i ever have been by any game (footage).
LfunkeyA 2 years ago
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swaaye 2 years ago
I remember them promoting it as if it was AI driven though. Which is not how the game is in reality.
swaaye 2 years ago
No. This is beta content. Most of this content has been removed completely because it no longer complies with the storyline; or was too difficult to implement with the game play.
A lot of the ideas from alpha and betas are recycled into current content, however. Much like the idea of blowing up the Air Exchange was replaced by blowing up the citadel.
Ayien1989 2 years ago
All this cool stuff makes the source engine look brilliant, and when they completed a final product 1/2 of this stuff was missing. looking at this makes hl2 look inferior.
TheMangoAssassin 2 years ago
They probably had good reason for cutting all that unseen content, but still, I WANT some kind of "Half-Life 2: How it could have been" with Combine super-soldiers, heavy alien bugs, the original storyline, old City 17 concept....
dodomastercz 2 years ago 2
you are not awesome. you are selfish, or whatever people say. i mean. you think you are godlike (like me).
Metalsonic2008 2 years ago 7
lol
Jerv165 2 years ago
Check out that HL OverWiki, It was a German guy called Axel Gembe
JWBails 2 years ago
I think that real early in the half life 2 development , half life 2 ran on Goldsrc(the half life 1 engine, a heavily modified quake engine)
mrcss 2 years ago
I don't see a difference in the engine...
KingKombat95 2 years ago
Why do some betas have to be thrown into a dark hole :(
ShadowZezima 2 years ago
God, whoever hacked the original source engine deserves to be hung. This engine is WAY better than the current source. Ugh... it hurts to see what we could have been playing. Not to say the current source is bad, its just that this is WAY more impressive graphically AND in its physics.
tokanite 2 years ago
some german prick did it
benzzodude 2 years ago 4
no it was a russian
ntuttles 2 years ago
no gabe newell said he was german
benzzodude 2 years ago
Bullshit. The current source is absolutelly the same.
eugenealive 2 years ago
Current version of Source is tremendously enhanced since Half Life 2! But that Beta shows features which you can see in HL2:E2 or Portal!
GordonFreeMANness 2 years ago
I mean the initial release of Source, that came with HL2. It had the same physics and graphics features, as in that early beta. They just removed these interesting game-design things from final version. But the Source always was able to do such things, as in the video. Even on first release of HL2.
eugenealive 2 years ago