someone should make a definitive version of alpha with more chapters, more enemies like the panthereye, mr friendly, stukabat, floater, etc, better textures, more up to date engine (WON, Pre Steampipe/NGHL/Goldsrc Package, Xash3d, etc.), more weapons, etc.
In comparison to the release, this game has a very good particles and shadows, but it has an extremely cursed HUD, the way of opening doors and ladder climbing.
the shadows have a lot of z-fighting issues. i've heard it's because it's just a flattened version of the original model, which would make sense. it would be a very inefficient way of doing things, which is probably why they removed it from release. it may have always only been intended as a trailer/promo art thing to make the graphics seem more advanced than they really are
@@XENON2028 I wouldn't say it's cursed per se, but it looks a lot more inspired by sci-fi games, like System Shock and XCOM. Think about that game's UI and then try to redesign it to fit an action first person shooter. Maybe sprinkle in some other pre-1997 Sci-fi games, that's how this HUD was made. Of course the UI that came with Beta (Green one) and release are infinitely better, going for as little clutter as possible, with the HEV idea, the augmented reality-style HUD that inspired many. They scrapped this HUD completely.
*When Valve was founded they started with 20 people to the end of the game they were less than 40. Looking at this is pretty impresive how much work they've done only for 1 year.*
The final of half life alpha ....In the finished game, you will need to disable the pumps, shutting off the flow of coolant and causing the reactor to shut down. The lab will then flood the reactor with emergency coolant. Seeing this, you will switch on the pumps again, flooding the reactor to overflowing, and giving you access to the otherwise inaccessible catwalks near the upper rim. From there you can acquire a keycard allowing you to continue to the next laboratory.
Looks plain solid as far as this Alpha goes. But it does demonstrate all the great possibilities to be Game of The Year in 1998. It even tests the high poly robot model too, no frame rates were dropped at the time so this engine was a promising one as evidenced by the HD models made by Gearbox.
@@Nomadnetic3 And sad fact is, the only n64 game that could match with Half-Life's graphics and skeletal animation (final version, btw) is not even a FPS game....rather an action-adventure from Nintendo themselves, released in the same year..... and it's not even fair comparing them though. (yet, I found out it's a coincidence that Ocarina of Time and Half-Life both having DSP soundscape system and skeletal animation, plus both have iconic hand-wield weapon ...)
8:55 Gordon Freeman: [Shrugs off headcrab bites and an entire magazine's worth of ammunition.] Also Gordon Freeman: [Nearly dies from improperly installed doors.]
@@Iaintnoname69theblackcat Thank you, though Ivan the Space Biker was just a nickname for the early player model, not the character's name. I believe Gordon Freeman was decided fairly early on in development.
Where’d the HUD and good lighting come from? When I downloaded the alpha there was no HUD and the lighting was either all the way bright or not at all.
I like that the alien grunt and hgrunt have the same model *well kinda the texture is mostly old* but they do look like the Ones seen in half-life retail
i just played it through it was actually pretty cool its like experiencing a brand new game but youre deja vu all the time but still not because its different, really valve just the last year of development really just took each chapter and refined it and made everything alot nicer and better but the core game is still there. they soft rebooted half life alpha so and gave it a huge facelift with new twists n turns! very cool
We should ask valve if we can get the complete Alpha of half life and if they can sell it on steam. It would be an interesting view on what could have been.
Half-Life Absolute Zero is aiming to recreate the alpha/beta/e3-1998 experience, has the cut monsters like the archer, floater, mr friendly, kingpin, panthereye, stukabat, and human sergeant, and has the cut hev suit sounds like when you pick up a weapon it says "9 millimeter semi automatic handgun acquired" or when you get shocked by a vortigaunt, it says "warning, electrical damage detected", and it has the beta/alpha particle effects on explosions, gibs, etc. It's currently in beta and isn't finished yet. download here (requires you to own half-life) store.steampowered.com/app/812440/HalfLife_Absolute_Zero/
It used to have cool shadow effect but then in the final, it's gone. Though in the first version, it can be enabled through command prompt before it's completely disabled from game.
Honestly I think it'd be cool to have an alternate version where the Beta was reality (although mods will probably let that happen) However I don't think the Beta should have been the one true version over the retail
when I load the office warrens map on HL Absolute Zero, the hassault spawns in the area where a turret is in the later versions, unlike in the actual alpha.
It is so weird that neither the 2020 version of Absolute Zero, nor the current demo from 2023 actually follow the layout of these maps, or at least, not entirely.
I don't understand the negative comments in here. It's far better than Uplink mapwise and storywise. With primitive trxtures It has a nice System Shock - like feeling. Im sure there is a remaster
I played Quake II and noticed that in this game 90% of the walls are slanted. In the alpha version of Half Life, too, most of the walls are slanted. I conclude that Valve copied the game design of id software.
How exactly do you find our about all of these alphas and stuff. Granted I am only 17 so I wasnt around for the alphas and betas of the half life series but still. Also if you were to recommend an order to play the betas of half life 2 in, what would they be. Because Im currently downloading the one from your video titled, "Half-life 2: Beta - The full original story" but I dont know if that is the one I should play first or not
this literally looks like a arcade version of half-life that is from a 1 dollar flea market, i can definitely see why valve made really major changes the headcrabs literally look so chonky and thick that they could fit a entire head in their mouths while their only needing the brain for them to take control the hud looks like it came from a arcade slide-show full motion shooting game like (if you want a example of what im saying, theres the game called Corpse Killer) the "pistol" looks like a thicker version of james bond 007 : nightfire's pistol without a silencer the crosshair looks like it came from 19's games like doom the shadows on 1:53 look so damn blocky like if its minecraft on a budget and a seizure the sub-machine gun sounds like it has a silencer but it doesnt even have one the hound eyes look so skinny and their eyes look like their punched inside their body Edit: theres even a broken skybox at the top on 1:34
what about xen and the barnicles and the zombies were they included only in the tech test or were they not in half life also why does freeman not have that beered in the description it feels so wrong
This Alpha is just meh, here why (This is just my opinion): 1. The gameplay: The gameplay is like in the release but it feels more like Quake than Half-life. 2. The Graphics: Is bad, even if it uses gold source. Like the Automatic weapon (or MP-7) it looks soo bad. 3. The maps: The maps look similar to the release maps but more empty and boring, but i will let it pass. 4. The HUD: Is bad, no complaining. 5. The enemies and NPCs: The designs are ok, The scientists like Kleiner or coomer look alright and the other scientist with red hair is curaed, Barney have seen things (it has short arms for some reason), The HECU grunts are the same with the same voice lines, The headcrabs are soo weird, The rest of the enemies are nice. 6. The weapons: Crowbar looks cursed, The pistol (or G17) is alright and the automatic gun (or MP-7) again is bad but just in graphics, it works the same like in the release. Thats all folks and not gonna lie, This version of Half-Life in 1995-1996 is 2 times better than the original Quake and it could compete with Quake 2.
first of all, this is literally the unfinished alpha version of half life, of course its not as good as the release. idk what you expected to see here also, this alpha is from 1997 as mentioned in the description, not 1995/1996. i understand that its your opinion but many aspects of this version are just objectively bad, such as the janky doors and ladders or the weak weapons. thank god half life spent an extra year in development because the official release is just infinitely better (for obvious reasons)
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It's ready to go.
-Ubisoft.
Watch dogs docet
I miss rayman
@@bostin1472 i miss beyond good and evil
I can see why Valve made major changes
Yeah. Alpha 0.52 had the most bad graphics ever! Good that they made changes
@@nikolasciocalau9773 who cares about the graphics,it's the gameplay
@@nikolasciocalau9773 the graphics were perfectly fine for 1997 lmao shut up
@@bethanywhite247 No, They Do Change The Headcrab Textures
someone should make a definitive version of alpha with more chapters, more enemies like the panthereye, mr friendly, stukabat, floater, etc, better textures, more up to date engine (WON, Pre Steampipe/NGHL/Goldsrc Package, Xash3d, etc.), more weapons, etc.
In comparison to the release, this game has a very good particles and shadows, but it has an extremely cursed HUD, the way of opening doors and ladder climbing.
the shadows have a lot of z-fighting issues. i've heard it's because it's just a flattened version of the original model, which would make sense. it would be a very inefficient way of doing things, which is probably why they removed it from release. it may have always only been intended as a trailer/promo art thing to make the graphics seem more advanced than they really are
yep I totally agree with cursed HUD, its just insane how bad it looks lol
Looks like Windows XP Media player
this version was leakd, they didnt release it@@cxeroannuki2840
@@XENON2028 I wouldn't say it's cursed per se, but it looks a lot more inspired by sci-fi games, like System Shock and XCOM. Think about that game's UI and then try to redesign it to fit an action first person shooter. Maybe sprinkle in some other pre-1997 Sci-fi games, that's how this HUD was made. Of course the UI that came with Beta (Green one) and release are infinitely better, going for as little clutter as possible, with the HEV idea, the augmented reality-style HUD that inspired many. They scrapped this HUD completely.
The headcrabs seem like some giant crabby-patties.
What? It's just an ordinary Krabby Pa-OH MY GOODNESS...SQUIDWAAAARRRRRRDD!!!!!!!!!!
Nah seems more like raw chicken
Ye Ye.
Headcrabby-patties
Good thing they changed it because it basically used up a whole ammo to kill one
the hud is nearly bad as doom alpha's hud, covers up the screen alot, at least it's not bad as that
Ur name is a good refference m8, gtfo u nihilanth
Yeah
Alpha dooms hud is still great because it’s like your actually wearing a helmet ⛑ (no not that kind of helmet)
@@agentburningbutters3655 You aren't funny.
@@evdestroy5304 yeah that was my old humor im smarter lol
It looks kinda cute. It's always pretty interesting to see early versions of games for me. The final product is obviously infinitely better though.
Better art style
Not for half-life 2 beta
darn, that's some fat crabs.
X-TRA THICC
Roentgen Chonky bois
@@Jomster777 they also have asscheaks and a poopie hole :)))))))))
@@jair_leo6547 lmao
Turkey.
*When Valve was founded they started with 20 people to the end of the game they were less than 40. Looking at this is pretty impresive how much work they've done only for 1 year.*
1 year? bro tf? they were made in 1996
@@oliverb.8995 This alpha is from 1997.
I mean... Tomb Raider I had a team of 6 developers, and they finished the whole thing in 18 months
@@oliverb.8995 this alpha was from september 1997
The final of half life alpha ....In the finished game, you will need to disable the pumps, shutting off the flow of coolant and causing the reactor to shut down. The lab will then flood the reactor with emergency coolant. Seeing this, you will switch on the pumps again, flooding the reactor to overflowing, and giving you access to the otherwise inaccessible catwalks near the upper rim. From there you can acquire a keycard allowing you to continue to the next laboratory.
wat
Fascinating that you can see little bits of level geometry that made it into entirely different release maps
Looks plain solid as far as this Alpha goes. But it does demonstrate all the great possibilities to be Game of The Year in 1998.
It even tests the high poly robot model too, no frame rates were dropped at the time so this engine was a promising one as evidenced by the HD models made by Gearbox.
9:01 The Doors most dangerous thing in this game.
looks like some n64 game
Yo soy Nacho
Well what you except??
This is just alpha verison.
would love to see this ported
It came out after GoldenEye 64.
@@Nomadnetic3 And sad fact is, the only n64 game that could match with Half-Life's graphics and skeletal animation (final version, btw) is not even a FPS game....rather an action-adventure from Nintendo themselves, released in the same year..... and it's not even fair comparing them though.
(yet, I found out it's a coincidence that Ocarina of Time and Half-Life both having DSP soundscape system and skeletal animation, plus both have iconic hand-wield weapon ...)
Is look like n64 game you are right yo soy nacho
you are loving the test of the half life series, ain't you?
Yes, yes i am - interesting and offers more insights to the story
***** yelp try playing music witht the robo-poly [use the number keys NOT the number pad]
Shush! I'm learning history..
@@Bolloxed hey are you male or female bolloxed
@@Bolloxed i am waiting for your reply
6:20 "Hey Ron."
"Hey Billy!"
“That hurt.”
6:19
2:29 lol
t h i c c
"YOUR DEAD! YOU HEAR ME?! DEAD!"-Human Sergeant
Disliked by Headcrab...
...for showing the Butt-iful truth
13:55
*YOY*
*YOY*
*YOY*
*YOY*
*AGH*
LOL
8:55 Gordon Freeman: [Shrugs off headcrab bites and an entire magazine's worth of ammunition.]
Also Gordon Freeman: [Nearly dies from improperly installed doors.]
@@Iaintnoname69theblackcat Thank you, though Ivan the Space Biker was just a nickname for the early player model, not the character's name. I believe Gordon Freeman was decided fairly early on in development.
@@Iaintnoname69theblackcat No need to apologize.
*Ivan The Space Biker
That's not gordon that's IVAN! THE SPACE BIKER!!
Ivan the fvcking space biker.
Still better than Overwatch.
Overwatch and tf2 are both good games
this was made in 1997
Correct. Overwatch was the worst game of the decade by far.
Prof. Genki Correctiom: Overwatch was the SECOND worst.
@@Xplainn93 Hunt Down The Freeman.
The Portal Device - Unforseen Consequences
Office Warrens - Office Complex
Security Complex - We've Got Hostiles
Alien Research Lab - Questionable Ethics
Communications Center - Forget About Freeman
Reactor Lab - Lambda Core
6:02 its really weird seeing how similar this part looks compared to the retail version
Damn, they've went for a long way to the game we all finally got.
That fucking HUD lol
seeing doors with crash-bars open towards you really takes me out of the experience.
If Bethesda was around that time and had this they would release it anyway
No Morrowind was a masterpiece
Hate to break it to you, but Bethesda was around for much longer than Valve. Since 1986, from what I can see.
@@tennisthelegendThey actually tried when it came to Morrowind. That's why it was so good, but they don't try anymore.
Wdym? Skyrim is a very good game
@@EngiGODS358
Gemmy profile picture, 'jakka
Thank you for making a video with no commentary
I love how they changed the hud to just number and symbol
Well this is just symbol
Thank you for sharing this with us! I always wondered what it's like since I have the Alpha but don't know how to start it.
3:23 Architect/floor plan level: 100
Tbh I would love to see a full recreation of half life using cut content and story
Somehow this feels like a 90s game while half life one feels like a 2000 game
A lot of parts of this feels closer to Afraid Of Monsters, Than To The Full Released Half-Life
Where’d the HUD and good lighting come from? When I downloaded the alpha there was no HUD and the lighting was either all the way bright or not at all.
I like that the alien grunt and hgrunt have the same model *well kinda the texture is mostly old* but they do look like the Ones seen in half-life retail
2:29
why did bro stare at the model for little bit? 💀
cuz it has CAKE
sweet video my homie! keep it up brah
"Oh this is so raw, it's not even funny. It feels just like Quake." - Civvie11
Very excellent gameplay!thahk you much, for this rare retro material
Best thing about this: no commentary!
still waiting for half life 3
ye-l, i wish someone would polish up this alpha
Nope until hl2:ep 3
***** it half life 0.52
you fool
***** also you have misread the comment its not
"is it Half life 3"
its
"still waiting for half life 3"
i do it all the time
shut up izhan55
the headcrabs.....
Desislava Vasileva t h i c c
@@tekay2228 your ded you hear me ded
Headcrabs were like... Super tough
2:29 please lord forgive me for what im about to do
i just played it through it was actually pretty cool its like experiencing a brand new game but youre deja vu all the time but still not because its different, really valve just the last year of development really just took each chapter and refined it and made everything alot nicer and better but the core game is still there. they soft rebooted half life alpha so and gave it a huge facelift with new twists n turns! very cool
Elevator with env sound dsp tunnel large reverb robot echo effect 12:57
Why is everyone expecting this to look good? It’s an alpha, so it’s not perfect.
We should ask valve if we can get the complete Alpha of half life and if they can sell it on steam. It would be an interesting view on what could have been.
It could've been shit, nothing else. And I'm a fan of the series, not an hater.
+Liberhet ' yeah it would have been shit
Half-Life Absolute Zero is aiming to recreate the alpha/beta/e3-1998 experience, has the cut monsters like the archer, floater, mr friendly, kingpin, panthereye, stukabat, and human sergeant, and has the cut hev suit sounds like when you pick up a weapon it says "9 millimeter semi automatic handgun acquired" or when you get shocked by a vortigaunt, it says "warning, electrical damage detected", and it has the beta/alpha particle effects on explosions, gibs, etc. It's currently in beta and isn't finished yet. download here (requires you to own half-life) store.steampowered.com/app/812440/HalfLife_Absolute_Zero/
Ivan really went through the first Resonance Cascade without an HEV suit. That’s a good achievement.
I wonder why does the player had a gun at the start of the game
Because they probably hadn't even thought much about weapon placement.
@@GiselleGauthier My exact thoughts!
2:16 why are there scientists inside cages like the headcrabs?? lol
Theyre secretly Test Subjects
@RedGoldDolfin smart scientist
He is probably hiding there
Interesting! There are so many `wait, I know that´- pieces.
This is what I imagine an N64 port of Half Life would have looked like.
It used to have cool shadow effect but then in the final, it's gone. Though in the first version, it can be enabled through command prompt before it's completely disabled from game.
When it comes to HL2 Beta, i wish it was a thing. As for this... yeah, i'm glad they made big changes.
Honestly I think it'd be cool to have an alternate version where the Beta was reality (although mods will probably let that happen)
However I don't think the Beta should have been the one true version over the retail
@@kadrix732 i like hl1 retail, but idk hl2 beta sounds awesoome.
you are the big fan of half-life :)
Obsessed with half life
@@UAKClef shut up don't say that
@@skyfalluniverse171 you realize you just replied to a 4 year old comment right? Lmao
@@UAKClef yet u still answered 'IMAO' yet i cant beleive you said that bs lol
@@skyfalluniverse171 you're making no sense but okay dude
watch this in 144p for maximum realism
when I load the office warrens map on HL Absolute Zero, the hassault spawns in the area where a turret is in the later versions, unlike in the actual alpha.
I like the way you use alt fire on marines because of how bullet-spongey they are
this looks closer to quake 2 then it dose half life.
The headcrabs look like a thanks giving turkeys not gonna lie
how did you get the HUD working? I tried playing it just now on my 3dfx retro PC, and I have no HUD at all
Just worked! try the - & + keys
Bolloxed Most of it is broken, like the HUD damage indicators.
Damn the gunplay is so much better in the original. It really shows how well half life changed how fps games play and feel
How did you manage to change to a higher resolution? I'm still stuck at the default crappy resolution
Black Mesa looked like the inside of a damn ship.
2:30 Headcrab's butt
The dislike on your comment was from the headcrab
It is so weird that neither the 2020 version of Absolute Zero, nor the current demo from 2023 actually follow the layout of these maps, or at least, not entirely.
Man this looks years earlier, rather than months
If it was made by ubisoft it would've been sold today
2:23 rip houndeye 1997-2024
It still is a mystery to me what made the difference with the second iteration. Who took it over? Why was the beta extremely different than alpha?
I think they wanted to show the general style and setting of the game. They never would have released what we see here as a final version.
it was leaked. they didnt officially release this @@WTFBOOMDOOM
its not the same thing without that lazy scientists sayng: STAHP! NO! AAAAH!
I don't understand the negative comments in here. It's far better than Uplink mapwise and storywise. With primitive trxtures It has a nice System Shock - like feeling. Im sure there is a remaster
Can you play Half Life Day One?
I have day one
Try Half-Life: Day One and Half-Life: Uplink, Which are the demos of the final Half-Life :D
Doors are broken as hell in this version of Half Life.
well . everything started from here
Okay but why did they give headcrabs ass cheeks 😭😭😭
Headcrabs look like actual turkeys.
This is why it has leftover textures
Where'd you find that one? I found a different half life alpha but it didn't start there, just started in some warehouse level
type in console map c1a1
I played Quake II and noticed that in this game 90% of the walls are slanted. In the alpha version of Half Life, too, most of the walls are slanted. I conclude that Valve copied the game design of id software.
Of course they did. Half life originated from the Quake I engine and it uses a lot of assets from it
How did you get the HUD and weapons to work? I tried impulse but it did nothing.
We need the builds from October and December
The real first game made by valve
Really interesting :D
Gun damage
The scientists were more cartoonized
I love the graphics
Basically Gold Source is the q2 engine but better.
I love this
How exactly do you find our about all of these alphas and stuff. Granted I am only 17 so I wasnt around for the alphas and betas of the half life series but still. Also if you were to recommend an order to play the betas of half life 2 in, what would they be. Because Im currently downloading the one from your video titled, "Half-life 2: Beta - The full original story" but I dont know if that is the one I should play first or not
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@@makeitvyzee what?
@@BountifulGames you will be 22 now
@@makeitvyzee yes, that is correct
half life 3 looks great
Indeed it is!
who came here after Civvie's video about Half-Life?
Half Life 2 on the Gold Source Engine wow before Source 1
15:03 what
very cool.
this literally looks like a arcade version of half-life that is from a 1 dollar flea market, i can definitely see why valve made really major changes
the headcrabs literally look so chonky and thick that they could fit a entire head in their mouths while their only needing the brain for them to take control
the hud looks like it came from a arcade slide-show full motion shooting game like (if you want a example of what im saying, theres the game called Corpse Killer)
the "pistol" looks like a thicker version of james bond 007 : nightfire's pistol without a silencer
the crosshair looks like it came from 19's games like doom
the shadows on 1:53 look so damn blocky like if its minecraft on a budget and a seizure
the sub-machine gun sounds like it has a silencer but it doesnt even have one
the hound eyes look so skinny and their eyes look like their punched inside their body
Edit: theres even a broken skybox at the top on 1:34
what about xen and the barnicles and the zombies were they included only in the tech test or were they not in half life also why does freeman not have that beered in the description it feels so wrong
Xen was made very late it the development, that's why it wasn't here and why it was really badly designed
This Alpha is just meh, here why (This is just my opinion):
1. The gameplay: The gameplay is like in the release but it feels more like Quake than Half-life.
2. The Graphics: Is bad, even if it uses gold source. Like the Automatic weapon (or MP-7) it looks soo bad.
3. The maps: The maps look similar to the release maps but more empty and boring, but i will let it pass.
4. The HUD: Is bad, no complaining.
5. The enemies and NPCs: The designs are ok, The scientists like Kleiner or coomer look alright and the other scientist with red hair is curaed, Barney have seen things (it has short arms for some reason), The HECU grunts are the same with the same voice lines, The headcrabs are soo weird, The rest of the enemies are nice.
6. The weapons: Crowbar looks cursed, The pistol (or G17) is alright and the automatic gun (or MP-7) again is bad but just in graphics, it works the same like in the release.
Thats all folks and not gonna lie, This version of Half-Life in 1995-1996 is 2 times better than the original Quake and it could compete with Quake 2.
This opinion is invalid, here's why:
1. Too much text
2. Bad grammar
3. I'm too lazy to write anything else
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first of all, this is literally the unfinished alpha version of half life, of course its not as good as the release. idk what you expected to see here
also, this alpha is from 1997 as mentioned in the description, not 1995/1996.
i understand that its your opinion but many aspects of this version are just objectively bad, such as the janky doors and ladders or the weak weapons. thank god half life spent an extra year in development because the official release is just infinitely better (for obvious reasons)