Amateur Film Makers Tease Impressive New Half-Life Project

[maninahat]

Interesting, and though I obviously don't know any details to the story, I think they have incorrectly portrayed Adrian Shepherd.

Shepherd was part of the team set to kill Freeman. He was detained by the G-Man, so he could keep the corperal as a secret ace in the hole. What would work well was if the G-Man released Shepherd, on the condition that he tracks down and kills Freeman (who has gone missing, and due to the vortigants, safe from G-Man's psychic control).

Shepherd is put in an awkward position in which he is neither allied with the resistance nor the combine. He is not a priority target for the combine, but he is also mistrusted and a threat to the resistance. Shepherd is basically racing across the country, following his target's trail of destruction and trying to catch him up.

And what's with the characterisation? Shepherd should be in his old army fatigues, and quiet as hell.

 

[Arcanist]

I thought Adrain was an SaS officer, why does he have an American accent?

No, he was an HECU Marine, just like the legions of cannon fodder that Freeman slaughtered back in Black Mesa. 'Cept he's a player character, so he kicks so much ass his boots perpetually smell of farts...

 

[Doog0AD]

So Half-Life and Portal seem to be very much a part of the same universe. Now, whether this will play any part in future games in either of them is anyone's guess.

Gordon Freeman finding a Portal gun? That's a recipe for Combine disaster, isn't it?

 

[duchaked]

sweet, nice to see more well-made fan films

always seem to be a long wait for Half-Life material tho =/ ironically lol

 

[Weaver]

IMO they need a new narrator.

 

[darthzew]

I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite cousin on the Citadel.

Looks great, but I hope it isn't all action and they actually put in some cool perspective to the story.

 

[RebelRising]

So Half-Life and Portal seem to be very much a part of the same universe. Now, whether this will play any part in future games in either of them is anyone's guess.

Gordon Freeman finding a Portal gun? That's a recipe for Combine disaster, isn't it?

I have this great mental image of Combine soldiers chasing Freeman through a Portal only to find that they just exited out the side of a skyscraper. They only fall when they look down and see the ground, a la Wile E. Coyote.

Because more Looney Tunes influences are what the series desperately needs.

 

[Zaik]

Would have rather played it, but valve has still got 17 years of development left on episode 3 before they can pick up something else half-life related

 

[Soviet Heavy]

This reminded me of Escape from City 17:


What ever happened to it?

It is in hiatus while the Purchase Brothers work on their feature length film.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I don't think its as good as Escape From City 17 (well, nothing can be better) but that doesn't mean it is at all bad.

Scanners, Striders and Adrian Shepard themselves look amazing, but the Civil Protection costumes, explosions and grenades are severely lacking.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

This reminded me of Escape from City 17:


What ever happened to it?

It is in hiatus while the Purchase Brothers work on their feature length film.

I don't know, I saw a trailer for it once on Machinima's YouTube channel (an actual trailer, no the Rick Roll ones). It was a while ago, when I think of it...

Well, here it is anyway:


Date it was posted: October 19, 2009. Abandon hope.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Snip

After that video came out, the Purchase Brothers released an edited version of Escape from City 17 Part One, which shortened it up a bit and tightened the action. In the info section, the two explained that Part Two is still in post production, and is currently on hold while their full length film is being developed.

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

"Amateur"... psh.

Better than something that Uwe Boll would make.

Me videoing two of my friends dodging traffic is better than something Boll could make.

OT:
I want this. Really this was the only good way they could make a Half-Life movie, Gordon is beyond amazing, but he doesn't talk and that wouldn't make good movies, and all the other characters, i think, those who didn't die yet, are all in with Gordon.

 

[The Great JT]

That's awesome.

 

[Yokai]

Awesome. I just hope it doesn't go the direction Escape from City 17 did. Impressive special effects, for sure.

 

[Vrex360]

Considering we are talking about amatuer film makers here, this looked pretty good. Very well made and very well put together. I'm actually kind of intrigued.

 

[Flying-Emu]

Wow. They managed to make Half Life look like a generic action movie. Impressive.

Rather than a little-bit-more-than-generic Sci Fi movie

 

[CanadianWolverine]

Adrian Shephard deserves an encore, if for nothing else but as an insight into the mysterious G Man. Even if that encore is a placed corpse like Bill or just some writing on a wall like Chicago Ted, though IMHO he deserves either friendly NPC status like Barney Calhoun or enemy NPC status like Dr Breen but my ultimate ridiculous hope would be a co-op game where Adrian teams up with Gordon - total pipe dream, I know, I know.

The video only reminds me of this in name only, for all I know that running character in the video was just a particularly light of foot rebel since he didn't necessarily display any characteristics that I associate with Adrian Shepard from my experience playing things from his point of view in Opposing Force. Still a decent short for a fan made, not spectacularly bad or good.

 

[The Lost Big Boss]

This reminded me of Escape from City 17:


What ever happened to it?

It is in hiatus while the Purchase Brothers work on their feature length film.

I think they went under or something. I just checked their youtube page and it hasn't been logged on in a week, and the site is gone. So I think everything is dead

 

[new_age_reject]

Hmmm... looked like every other Half-Life based fan film; Grey, brown and very un-specific.
They always seem to allude to what would be an awesome spectacle to see in the 'real life' but they never actually show much.