A documentary celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Half-Life 2 has proven off improvement footage of the cancelled Half-Life 2: Episode 3
The brand new documentary, which could be seen beneath, was produced by Secret Tape, a manufacturing arm of the favored crowd-funded documentary studio Noclip.
The documentary follows the event of the 2004 PC recreation and options interviews with the vast majority of the sport’s most distinguished builders, together with Valve boss Gabe Newell.
The documentary concludes by discussing why a 3rd episode for Half-Life 2 was introduced however by no means launched. The Half-Life 2 workforce largely credit the necessity to work on different Valve titles on the time as a part of the rationale the episode was by no means launched.
“I believe we have been six months in on it after we moved to Left 4 Useless,” stated David Speyre, an engineer on Half-Life 2. “We put down episode 3 to go assist Left 4 Useless.”
“By the point we thought of going again to Episode 3, the argument was made that ‘effectively we missed it,”” he continued. “We may have undoubtedly gone again and spent two years to make episode 3.”
Valve president Gabe Newell stated: “My private failure was being stumped. I couldn’t work out why doing Episode 3 was pushing something ahead.”
Alongside the documentary, Valve has launched a collection of updates for Half-Life 2, which is now free to personal on Steam for a restricted time.
“Each map in Half-Life 2 has been regarded over by Valve stage designers to repair longstanding bugs, restore content material and options misplaced to time, and enhance the standard of some issues like lightmap decision and fog,” stated Valve.
Half-Life 2 now consists of the entire Episode One and Episode Two expansions together with the bottom recreation. They’re accessible from the principle menu, and you’ll robotically advance to the subsequent growth after finishing every one.
Developer commentary for Half-Life 2 has additionally been added to the sport on PC, alongside Steam Workshop assist.
