This trailer was made around the time Elder Scrolls Morrowind and Grand Theft Auto Vice City came out. That's just wild! I'm pretty sure a lot of games around this time didn't even have dynamic lighting, reflective surfaces, emotive facial animations, and a proper physics engine. That's how ahead Valve was with this game.
Das Problem ist, dass GTA und Elder Scrows eine offene Welt haben, Half Life jedoch nicht, also haben sie damals versucht, sich keine Sorgen um die Grafik zu machen
I specifically remember those blue tentacles attacking the dude, and my young mind ablaze with excitement. But prime among my thoughts was, "Woh, they're making a _second_ one? You mean _other_ people know about that game I played on the computer? Awesome!"
ah the hydra,back then I never heard of the Beta until I found out about mods like Dark Interval and Raising the Bar Redux (missing information doesn't count since it's a collection of beta maps with no story).
Let's just get a moment to say that this was MADE IN 2002 the games that release that time would be completely defeated by Half-Life 2 seriously this trailer is FUCKING AMAZING
am i the only one that finds things like leaked betas really intresting? its like taking a snippet out of time from over a decade ago. the internet is really cool
I think the original HL2 concept and beta was more original, creative and more visually interesting and compelling then the retail version. I'd like to see if I can get the WC map pack working with Gmod 13, I wonder if anyone knows how to do that.
You're not alone. Coming back to this stuff after becoming really interested in game development has blown my mind. Of course, then there's the inevitable feeling of sad nostalgia...
+TheTehme The reason a lot of the beta stuff is cut is because a hacker leaked almost the whole game onto the internet in 2003, and so Valve remade the entire game in a rushed period of time. They still managed to made a good game, but I think the original version would've been much better. Someone has to make a finished mod of what was originally going to be Half-Life 2. I would fucking LOVE to see that. There's a team working on what Half-Life 1 was originally going to be prior to it's revision after it was decided the original version wasn't good enough, and while I'm very interested in that, I'd much rather see the original version of Half-Life 2.
+Particular Particle And guess what? We're not really going to see a finale of the Half Life series. If someone does make a HL2 mod of what was going to be originally Half Life 2, it would be a HUGE slap in the face for Valve since they'd have allowed the community to work on their version of Half Life. Thing is is that I would have liked to see the Borealis, I would have liked to see all of the new locations and the winter fights.
Mr Prisen it’s 2003. Now just shut up. The difference could be just 1 day from ‘02 and 03’. What you should be talking about is how much innovative this looks compared to vice city for example
imagine: Valve at E3 showing off some fake game and after like the first 10 seconds, the screen goes black and you hear gman saying "doctor freeeeemannn"
It's eerie how similar to Goldsource this still is, like you can see the old viewbobbing and viewroll is still there and the new sprint behaviour wasn't implemented yet, it also still had the old menu, even in the 2003 leak
but, the real HL2 game files from 2003, was tottaly different, it contains blurry textures, alot of missing models "ERROR" and alot of terrible stuff, they arleady made a fix patch for this.
@@White927 well idk why would i apply patches for a beta, to then keep playing the beta without issues, except it just lacks, i know there's the WC map pack and i can compile alot of old maps but then, most of those maps arent fun to walk at as well, and fixing can be sort of fun but also sort of underwhelming the results
It looks really well animated to! It's very smooth. It seems smoother than animations we have in Half Life 2 as it is now. Also that combine soldier suit looks a lot like the ones in Half Life Alyx. I wish they kept that style of Combine Soldier for Half Life 2.
@@Knight_Of_Eleum_Loyce It seemed it never evolved into anything real gameplay wise. In the leak that scene is 100 percent scripted. It's just a map with that one scene that plays and that's it.
@@KingMetalMario Yes, but Valve contradicted itself, because the development of the tentacles in the previous game was preserved, not abstracted, but kept.
It's interesting to see, that Valve, by 2002 (possibly 2001), already settled on a much more unique Eastern European setting, there's still a missconception that they just changed the setting around 2003, or some think that they changed the game because of the leak. It's also interesting to note, that the lightning and skybox still retains some element from the 2000-2001 Half-Life 2's style. Also, those water reflections would look aswesome even today, it's so weird, that they managed to make it that good already in 2002 (possibly even earlier)
The style did change in 2003, from a classic Central European one seen here, to a more Eastern Soviet one that was kept for the final game. That's not weird, the graphics are good *because* of the era. No one at Valve today would have the talent to create something so beautiful.
They actually cut it from the game because of the exact opposite. Apparently the Hydra was awesome to watch, but in combat against it it was very easy to die for what seemed like no reason simply because the Hydra didn't telegraph it's attacks properly.
the first time i have played it was on 2006 .i want to go back in 2002 and watch this trailer ,this must look much better than any game announced these days. on 2003 i had a friend saying oh my ***** god how you didnt hear about half life 2 he was saying i have no words to explain how perfect is this game.and now this is my favorite game for ever.
@@Batwarkov again those are great games but he said immensely impressed who are other people to bash him for stating what is his top most number 1 game?
I think that Gabe has to do a Half-Life 2 with all the things that were cut, so the people can know trying it out and knowing what was cool for the game.
@@gamepad3173 Retail still does it too, imo better its more subtle. Earth is drained the combine don't make elaborate buildings they just leach resources. They do so because they don't care, we can look at the suitcase's, the atmosphere of just how lonely the world of HL2 is how evil the combine are. The beta combine where too elaborate imo, the retail version shows us an alien force that was so strong it took out the earth in 7 hours, only to leave some things to drain natural resources and a small guardy duty force.
I can see they reused the bobs from the original HL1 release, also the music from this is an unused track from opposing force which is why it sounds a bit familiar
It used the original walking/running mechanics of Half-Life 1. While I like the walking/mechanics we got in Half-Life 2 today, the weapon turning lag is a bit too much.
Would have been super dope to get just a black screen with the Lambda/Black Mesa symbol, and hearing Gmans voice saying time to choose from the end.of HL1 when you are supposed to agree to his terms. Or it could have been gman saying his rise and shine line from the start of HL2. Everyone would absolutely lose it!
I can't believe this game came out in 2002 i also can't believe that team fortresses 2 came out in 2007 that was the year i was born both of those games are pretty old but have really good quality valve knew what they were doing
Raising The Bar: Redux, and Dark Interval. Keep in both of those are unfinished mods and are still in development, but you can still play them as they do a good job at recreating the HL2 beta.
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Why? That hack was the best thing to have happened to a gaming community. Without the leak, we'd only have this video, the raising the bar book and a few screenshots. But thanks to the hack we can actually play the early levels seen in this video and so much more.
Bruh, I can tell why they cancelled it. The video is super low quality (there is even a massive glitch at 0:32) and it would be better to have somebody playing it live rather than a compilation of clips.
@@carsvengaming5558After what happened on the hl2 anniversary with releasing the e3 2002 video. Well we didn't miss much if it had come out. Seeing how some things were "unfinished".
Is there any possibility to get the leaked files? I'd really like to fix and then recompile them, to finally have a working HL²-Leak mod. With a little bit effort I really could to this.
This trailer was made around the time Elder Scrolls Morrowind and Grand Theft Auto Vice City came out. That's just wild!
I'm pretty sure a lot of games around this time didn't even have dynamic lighting, reflective surfaces, emotive facial animations, and a proper physics engine. That's how ahead Valve was with this game.
Das Problem ist, dass GTA und Elder Scrows eine offene Welt haben, Half Life jedoch nicht, also haben sie damals versucht, sich keine Sorgen um die Grafik zu machen
@@Great_britan_today_im_going hl2 was semi open world, it was linear but the maps were pretty big.
It's not semi-open world, it's a very linear game. Nothing wrong with that, I like linear shooters and Half-Life is great, but yeah.
gta vice city actually had a pretty good physics engine, but hl2 is on another level.
@@Great_britan_today_im_going bro wat speak english
A right Gabe in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world...
So wake up, Mr Newell, wake up and.... smell the steam sales....
*all them now is official by valve and no longer lost media.*
I specifically remember those blue tentacles attacking the dude, and my young mind ablaze with excitement. But prime among my thoughts was, "Woh, they're making a _second_ one? You mean _other_ people know about that game I played on the computer? Awesome!"
ah the hydra,back then I never heard of the Beta until I found out about mods like Dark Interval and Raising the Bar Redux (missing information doesn't count since it's a collection of beta maps with no story).
1:02 love that crouch to show the water reflections
Im too
I still remember playing with the leak and that little demo scene. The char models just stop in place right after what you see in the video happens.
Or black screen and voice DOCTTOORR FRRREEEEMMMAAAANNNN
Tf
Фримен, ну как там с деньгами?
@@kaiserchino ?
Pavel N С какими деньгами?
**Aye"*
Let's just get a moment to say that this was MADE IN 2002 the games that release that time would be completely defeated by Half-Life 2 seriously this trailer is FUCKING AMAZING
am i the only one that finds things like leaked betas really intresting?
its like taking a snippet out of time from over a decade ago.
the internet is really cool
I think the original HL2 concept and beta was more original, creative and more visually interesting and compelling then the retail version.
I'd like to see if I can get the WC map pack working with Gmod 13, I wonder if anyone knows how to do that.
Ben 1337 perhaps copy and paste from old hammer to new hammer and compile? sounds rather dumb but it just might work
You're not alone. Coming back to this stuff after becoming really interested in game development has blown my mind. Of course, then there's the inevitable feeling of sad nostalgia...
+TheTehme The reason a lot of the beta stuff is cut is because a hacker leaked almost the whole game onto the internet in 2003, and so Valve remade the entire game in a rushed period of time. They still managed to made a good game, but I think the original version would've been much better. Someone has to make a finished mod of what was originally going to be Half-Life 2. I would fucking LOVE to see that. There's a team working on what Half-Life 1 was originally going to be prior to it's revision after it was decided the original version wasn't good enough, and while I'm very interested in that, I'd much rather see the original version of Half-Life 2.
+Particular Particle And guess what? We're not really going to see a finale of the Half Life series.
If someone does make a HL2 mod of what was going to be originally Half Life 2, it would be a HUGE slap in the face for Valve since they'd have allowed the community to work on their version of Half Life.
Thing is is that I would have liked to see the Borealis, I would have liked to see all of the new locations and the winter fights.
For 2002 that was AWESOME!!!
2003*
@@Devilot91 No, it's 2002
@@prisonshift3r236 1:11 2003
@@caiogabriel1613 trailer was leaked in 2003 but video was made in 2002
Mr Prisen it’s 2003. Now just shut up. The difference could be just 1 day from ‘02 and 03’. What you should be talking about is how much innovative this looks compared to vice city for example
imagine: Valve at E3 showing off some fake game and after like the first 10 seconds, the screen goes black and you hear gman saying "doctor freeeeemannn"
Volvo pls
It's eerie how similar to Goldsource this still is, like you can see the old viewbobbing and viewroll is still there and the new sprint behaviour wasn't implemented yet, it also still had the old menu, even in the 2003 leak
Yeah, you are totally right. I definitely looked over the bobbing and lack of view model sway when I first watched it. Nice eye.
Even in the 2003 demo you can see they were still using the HL1 blood sprites.
Honestly I wish they kept the viewroll from HL1 😅
it looks good even now
but, the real HL2 game files from 2003, was tottaly different, it contains blurry textures, alot of missing models "ERROR" and alot of terrible stuff, they arleady made a fix patch for this.
@@rapappathepepper3996 yep
@@rapappathepepper3996 The game was still in development.
If you mean the mod then yeah.
@@White927 well idk why would i apply patches for a beta, to then keep playing the beta without issues, except it just lacks, i know there's the WC map pack and i can compile alot of old maps but then, most of those maps arent fun to walk at as well, and fixing can be sort of fun but also sort of underwhelming the results
@@rapappathepepper3996 Go check out raising the bar - redux those guys are putting alot of effort for the beta
This trailer was leaked during the Black Mesa Incident.
Best 2002 gaming trailer ever
the citadel looks like a building from a 80's movie
***** Good that they changed it...
Any old building in an 80s movie
Soviet movies
"Get Your Free TVs!" was a in-house demo. Valve never publicly released any video based on it, sadly.
Half Baked XD
Not anymore…
00:57 that scene blows my mind when I saw it for first time
It looks really well animated to! It's very smooth. It seems smoother than animations we have in Half Life 2 as it is now. Also that combine soldier suit looks a lot like the ones in Half Life Alyx. I wish they kept that style of Combine Soldier for Half Life 2.
Also that neon blue tentacle monster looked so cool. Idk why they didn't keep it.
@@Knight_Of_Eleum_Loyce They cut it not long before release because they couldn't make it fun to fight against.
@@Knight_Of_Eleum_Loyce It seemed it never evolved into anything real gameplay wise. In the leak that scene is 100 percent scripted. It's just a map with that one scene that plays and that's it.
@@KingMetalMario Yes, but Valve contradicted itself, because the development of the tentacles in the previous game was preserved, not abstracted, but kept.
Its 2012...And still the best game series ever made...
It’s 2022…And still the best game series ever made
actually, extreme paintbrawl has more entries and is better than half life. get on the new wave.
Now almost '23, still one of the best
The greatest game even in 2023
It’s 2024 and 4 years ago we got Half life Alyx one of the best VR experience and Half life in general is still one of the best games ever
Remember when the game exceeded the expectation of the trailer? Those were good times.
Is it just me or does that combine soldier at 1:00 look like some of the combine soldiers in Half Life Alyx? I wish they kept that design for HL2.
It does sort of resemble the Ordinal or Wallhammer with the blue accents.
2020... half-life Alyx ... 17 years after ... I’m very old
They didn't change Half-Life 2 because it was leaked, and you're a fool to believe that.
This was 1 year after blue shift. Let that sink in
Fun fact: The guy responsible for the music also did the OpFor sountrack
The music was indeed created initially for Opposing Force, but went unused.
already sounded like something from opposing force for me
Anyone else remember downloading "high quality" bink format versions of these HL 2 videos back in the day?
It's interesting to see, that Valve, by 2002 (possibly 2001), already settled on a much more unique Eastern European setting, there's still a missconception that they just changed the setting around 2003, or some think that they changed the game because of the leak. It's also interesting to note, that the lightning and skybox still retains some element from the 2000-2001 Half-Life 2's style. Also, those water reflections would look aswesome even today, it's so weird, that they managed to make it that good already in 2002 (possibly even earlier)
The style did change in 2003, from a classic Central European one seen here, to a more Eastern Soviet one that was kept for the final game.
That's not weird, the graphics are good *because* of the era. No one at Valve today would have the talent to create something so beautiful.
the source engine is truly ahead of it's time
Can't believe that we had such a technology in a damn 2002!
They actually cut it from the game because of the exact opposite. Apparently the Hydra was awesome to watch, but in combat against it it was very easy to die for what seemed like no reason simply because the Hydra didn't telegraph it's attacks properly.
i like how there's the old half life 1 weapon bob
oh man, i would love to see this version of the game. such an eerie and atmospheric feeling that you really just get sucked in by its realism
the first time i have played it was on 2006 .i want to go back in 2002 and watch this trailer ,this must look much better than any game announced these days. on 2003 i had a friend saying oh my ***** god how you didnt hear about half life 2 he was saying i have no words to explain how perfect is this game.and now this is my favorite game for ever.
Half-Life 2 was the first and last time I was immensely impressed with a video game
Than it sucks to be you i guess. There was so many great games after HL2...
I wrote immensely impressed, I have been impressed with other games sure. But not as much as Half-Life 2.
Crysis 1
*Resident Evil 4* (2005), *Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory* (2005), *F.E.A.R.* (2005), *The Elder Scrolls IV : Oblivion* (2006), *BioShock* (2007), *Crysis* (2007), *Grand Theft Auto IV* (2008), *Dead Space* (2008), *Killzone 2* (2009), *Uncharted 2 : Among Thieves* (2009), *Heavy Rain* (2010), *God of War III* (2010), *Portal 2* (2011), *L.A. Noire* (2011), *Max Payne 3* (2012), *The Last of Us* (2013), *The Witcher 3 : Wild Hunt* (2015), *Uncharted 4 : A Thief's End* (2016), *God of War* (2018), *Detroit : Become Human* (2018), *Red Dead Redemption II* (2018). _You're welcome, good bye._
@@Batwarkov again those are great games but he said immensely impressed who are other people to bash him for stating what is his top most number 1 game?
I think that Gabe has to do a Half-Life 2 with all the things that were cut, so the people can know trying it out and knowing what was cool for the game.
CombineOverWiki has its own channel!?! That's beast!
I am here after Half-Life: Alyx trailer.
Benjámin Kurilla same 😭😭😭
Okay.
same
the fact that this was made the same time when Vice City came out shows how valve was ahead of its time
Source looks really good for 2002.
Hl1 came out in 1998. 4 years later this trailer came out. The jump in graphics in just 4 years was insane.
Man, I wish i had an OICW in HL2...
the beta spas 12 and the headcrab and the fire look amazing ngl
Despite how awesome the beta looks (Especially the Combine Guard), What we got was still awesome.
yes it is,but the dark atmosphere of the beta it really casts Dr. Breen and the Combine in an evil,savage and oppressive light.
@@gamepad3173 Retail still does it too, imo better its more subtle. Earth is drained the combine don't make elaborate buildings they just leach resources. They do so because they don't care, we can look at the suitcase's, the atmosphere of just how lonely the world of HL2 is how evil the combine are. The beta combine where too elaborate imo, the retail version shows us an alien force that was so strong it took out the earth in 7 hours, only to leave some things to drain natural resources and a small guardy duty force.
too bad we didnt get this cancelled masterpiece, no wasteland, no cool weapons no free tvs and gasmasks, shame on gabe!
Well the reason is,it got leaked in 2003 so valve had to literally change everything
@@SD-R_IC-0nSimp some people say not because of the leak, but because valve didn't see their vision in there
It was not cancelled.
@@SD-R_IC-0nSimp In 2003 when the leak happened, the game was already like retail.
@@videotape2959 huh r u dumb, the original half life 2 is clearly canceled
im proud that we got what we got.
Hope we get to see a full version of Missing Information soon. And that they include the Hydra!
I can see they reused the bobs from the original HL1 release, also the music from this is an unused track from opposing force which is why it sounds a bit familiar
Did anyone notice that the wiggling of the weapon was different?
It used the original walking/running mechanics of Half-Life 1. While I like the walking/mechanics we got in Half-Life 2 today, the weapon turning lag is a bit too much.
We can actually see this complete demo on valve's channel in good quality, holy shit.
Oh man everything looked so different back then D:
For people thinking its 2003, its not 2003!!! its 2002! look that alyx and combine soldier skin!
He shot a barrel and it moved! How awesome could it be?
0:43 this is creepy how alyx semil
I am from 2023 and still waiting for the third edition. I hope to open it before I die.
Half Life 2 is the best fps game ever made.
I like how no one is talking about this big blue tentacle piercing through a combine
That's the hydra, a cut monster.
@@videotape2959
Well, Hydra is the formal successor to Tentacle's origin.
There is not a single thing in this trailer that remains in the final version of the game.
Welcome to game development
There is the strider and the city scanners
@@eletronictoenailsyou mean combots
Damn this game looks cool! Can't wait to play it.
"1 year ago"
Maybe this year... just maybe...
Well we technically have hl3
even reading it gave me goose bumps
@YourMomBakesPies The reason it was cut was because it was actually a terrible NPC to fight.
look at the 00:47... That's some beautiful sky and lightning!
Yeah I kinda wish they kept it
Much advanced for its time
Would have been super dope to get just a black screen with the Lambda/Black Mesa symbol, and hearing Gmans voice saying time to choose from the end.of HL1 when you are supposed to agree to his terms. Or it could have been gman saying his rise and shine line from the start of HL2. Everyone would absolutely lose it!
15 years gone
0:42 that smile is my paralysis demon.
It's incredible how Valve managed to make a game like that in 2002, GTA vice city came out that year and it's nothing compared with this
I just realized that the Combine OverWiki posted this.
RIP, beta combine at the end...
I can't believe this game came out in 2002 i also can't believe that team fortresses 2 came out in 2007 that was the year i was born both of those games are pretty old but have really good quality valve knew what they were doing
Half-Life 2 was released 2 years after, in 2004!
back when trailers had gameplay
The Hydra would be like the Tentacle from Half-Life 1
The music and overall feel gives off the same vibes as the original half life even more than the reial!
Legend
this looks cool when will it release
They say that it will release in 2022
here after half-life alyx trailer
And noticing that the trailer almost resembles hl2 e3 beta
The Trailer utilises E3 2002 maps.
😭😭😭 me too
@95Navigator its the earliest zombie, theres another zombie that looks similar to retail, but with a greener texture
I like how they remixed Opposing Force OST
alex looks pretty great in her 2001/2002 model
*all them now is official by valve and no longer lost media.*
I guess this is one of the only glimpses we get of how they originally wanted Half-Life 2 to feel like..
Wish this was the game we got... What's the mod that comes closest to resembling/recreating these builds best?
Raising The Bar: Redux, and Dark Interval. Keep in both of those are unfinished mods and are still in development, but you can still play them as they do a good job at recreating the HL2 beta.
I remember this trailer! Oh, the nostalgia.
Pretty much was, yeah. Similar ideas and concepts, similar chapters, similar ending, etc etc.
Is there an alternate link for the song? The soundcloud link no longer works
ruclips.net/video/nq0RF5qF0Ro/видео.html
Half-Life 2 Soundtrack: Docks
I love this song in the video
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Alyx looks like her retail version.
Nice.
dude how i wish we could still experience the beta but as if it were released by valve 😭
"Have a nice E3.."
@YourMomBakesPies there are mods that add it back in, trust me, it looks fun to fight, but it is a PAIN
@fourthspartan56 That, my friend, was a Hydra, a cut enemy with three heads
If only that hacker didn't hack the code and leak the game. I still love retail HL2 but seeing this...wow...it's really something.
Why? That hack was the best thing to have happened to a gaming community. Without the leak, we'd only have this video, the raising the bar book and a few screenshots. But thanks to the hack we can actually play the early levels seen in this video and so much more.
El mejor fps de la historia...
trailer music /watch?v=nq0RF5qF0Ro
ruclips.net/video/nq0RF5qFORo/видео.html
@Edward8Bro
Thank you.
Bruh, I can tell why they cancelled it. The video is super low quality (there is even a massive glitch at 0:32) and it would be better to have somebody playing it live rather than a compilation of clips.
That's a compression error from how this was archived... If this was presented at E3 it would have looked much better
@@carsvengaming5558After what happened on the hl2 anniversary with releasing the e3 2002 video. Well we didn't miss much if it had come out. Seeing how some things were "unfinished".
Why does the copyright at the end say 2003?
That was the original planned release date
Bruh. that Alyx is so funny than final release
I do know it was leaked, but it wouldn't be changed if he didn't hacked it.
Is there any possibility to get the leaked files?
I'd really like to fix and then recompile them, to finally have a working HL²-Leak mod.
With a little bit effort I really could to this.
May 16th… THE DAY OF THE BLACK MESA INCIDENT! :O