In the festive courage about the twenty anniversary of Half-Life 2 team Valve I rolled out a long documentary about the game. It was not only told about the creation of the second part, but also showed materials from the third addition that did not work out.
Below we collected basic information about Episode Three From the video:
About why the episode did not come out
Half-Life 2 I had to get https://romibet.uk/withdrawal/ a trilogy from additional episodes. Two of them saw the light, and over the third, the team managed to work hard for six months. But at some point, experts were pulled to the development of Left 4 Dead, since there was not enough hands.
Then we had only a collection of disordered playable levels and a set of individual pieces of the plot and concepts [Episode Three]. About six months later, we would have gained a critical mass of a mechanic and would begin to arrange them on a timeline. I think we would easily manage for one and a half to two or two and a half years.
Engineer David Spider (David Speyrer)
But why did not get the episode after completion of work on Left 4 Dead? Firstly, the team could not come up with quite advanced changes in the game design that would seem to be worth. According to the level designer David Riller (David Riller), the team experienced “fatigue from elements” and believed that there was a need to “increase bets or do something else”. “I think at that time we studied a lot of what made sense in the universe Half-Life 2 and her setting", -said Level-designer.
The screenwriter echoes him partly Mark Laidlow (Marc laidlaw), who noted that even Arkane There were problems in order to come up with something new for the abolished spin-off in the end Ravenholm.
Secondly, as soon as the zombie explosion came out, the developers remained with the feeling that they missed the opportunity to finish the addition. And if then they still decided to continue the series, then it would have to be done a new engine. “Looking back, all this seems so wrong. We could definitely go back and spend two years on the third episode ", – shared his bitterness Spacerer.