Team Hyperborea has released a trailer for its upcoming “Half-Life 3” Mod, called Half-Life 2: Infinite Finality. Half-Life 2: Infinite Finality will attempt to faithfully adapt the story of Marc Laidlaw’s Epistle Three. Not only that but it will also feature some brand new content.
This is the third Half-Life 2: Episode Three (or Half-Life 3) project that is currently in development. The other two are Boreal Alyph or Project Borealis. From what we know, these two projects are still alive. Both of them are in a serious development hell state, but they haven’t been canceled yet. So, at least that’s something.
It’s also worth noting that we’ve already gotten two smaller Half-Life 3 Mods. These are Half-life 2 Episode 3: The Return and Half-Life 2: Episode Three Minimalist. As said, these are really small and simpler mods. They are nowhere close to what the other HL3 mods attempt to achieve. So, be sure to keep your expectations in check.
Unfortunately, there is no ETA on when Half-Life 2: Infinite Finality will come out. Naturally, though, we’ll be sure to keep you posted.
Speaking of Half-Life 2, there are some other awesome mods you can download for it. First, there’s a 6.8GB HD Texture Pack that makes the game’s graphics look much better. Then, there’s a mod called Entropy: Zero 2 that gives you a whole new story with seven chapters to play. And if you’re a fan of Opposing Force, there’s a fan-made sequel called Half-Life: Through The City, and you can check out a demo. Plus, there are two exciting mods in the works, Half-Life 2 Path Tracing and Half-Life 2 Remastered. So, lots of cool stuff to explore in the Half-Life 2 universe. Finally, let’s not forget Half Life 2 RTX Remix which NVIDIA revealed in August.
Enjoy the following trailer and kudos to our reader “durka durka” for bringing this to our attention!
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I’ve always made a distinction between HL2:Ep3 and HL3. Ep3 would be another short installment in the HL2 story which would take us through the HL2:Ep2 cliffhanger and finish up the story of HL2 and HL3 would be another full game in the HL universe.
I can understand that Valve wanted to avoid another full game (HL3) but it is still unreasonable that they left Ep2 on a cliffhanger if they never planned to make an Ep3.
No matter what stories come out about the why of never making a Ep3 I still believe that it was the huge financial success of Steam that took the attention from Ep3 permanently.
Valve canceled Episode 3 probably before 2010 (I don’t think we know the exact year) due to the fact that they wanted to develop a more ambitious game and what they had made thus far was not providing a sense of “wonderment, or opening, or expansion”, and also the fact that they were trying to develop Source 2 and apparently working on Half Life 2 in Source and trying to develop a new engine simultaneously was problematic for them. They eventually decided to abandon the episodic model altogether, so if there is ever an official continuation of Gordon Freeman’s story then we won’t see it in Half Life 2: Episode 3.
Apparently they decided to start working on Half Life 3 in 2013, and canceled it in 2014 at least in part due to issues with the development of Source 2.
Wikipedia has an interesting list of canceled Half Life games if you’re interested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreleased_Half-Life_games
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Alyx’s voice was surprisingly good during the first couple of minutes of the video.