I seriously love these videos that YouTube’s NeoGamer has been publishing lately. Following the video that showcased the early versions of the first Half-Life, NeoGamer has released another video showing the early beta versions and the tech demo – that amazed all gamers when it was originally showcased – from Half Life 2.
Going into more details, this video features the Half-Life 2 E3 2002 reveal trailer (which featured content that was cut from the final version) as well as the E3 2003 Tech Demo.
These are really old videos so I’m pretty sure that some of you will remember them. Still, there are some gamers out there that have never seen them so make sure to watch this video if you are one of them.
As said, I really love this type of videos as they remind me what some of our beloved games looked like prior to their official release. A good example is the Halo video that showcased the game from its strategy roots to its full fledged first-person version.
Enjoy!
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Nice.
“” Still, there are some gamers out there that have never seen them so make sure to watch this video if you are one of them. “”
Count me in. Watching it now. Thanks for sharing this video.
Never seen it? Consider me shocked, i saw that many times over the years ;o then again im a huge HL 2 fan so idk ;p
I still remember being wowed when the video was first available online. Was definitely impressive back in the way. The physics, the shaders, the facial animations. Even the mattress – a rather small and insignificant part of the video – surprised me, as I’d never before seen a physics object bend, outside of character ragdolls.
That’s just valve doing valve.
It’s just a shame that that Valve is no more. So many truly great games:
Half Life
Half Life 2
Portal
Portal 2
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
I’d add Team Fortress 2 too, but that’s only until 2011/12, after that they went crazy with adding BS, but the game itself is a masterpiece. Dota 2 well it’s a good game but not perfect, and CSGO is a fkin trashbag.
Good ol’ days.
Hell that was impressive back then ! The first time i ever saw real physics ingame, some games have pretty good ragdolls in the early 2000s like Hitman 1 & 2, but THIS was badass as all the environement seems obeing physics laws… Probably Havoc at it best, well implemented by Valve and also cleaverly used in the game/level design… And the graphics were depressingly good as i knowed my rig can’t even handle that at 400×300 😀
dope
I remember this video, I also remember playing a lot of it when the code was leaked.
Yeah when games were evolving. Everyone was releasing a cool tech demo to showcase the latest stuff.
Now it’s first who comes up with a better microtransaction system.
Yet another early access game that will never come out of beta.
Very good…
It’s sad to see innovation and technical prowess like this has all but vanished.
This is actually really old footage that existed within the bowels of youtube for a long time.
Do you all see the reflection in the water from the alien monster? Yea, this is why i’m not sold on RTX and the ray tracing thing. We had reflections from 2003. They looked super good back then and they still do. Maybe they are not real time, but they sure look real time to me (and nearly perfect)
And yea, i often see the limitations with the old ways of reflecting things.. but it doesn’t bother me too much. Surely id rather save 1000$ from a new GPU or play at 4k if i happen to get 1. 1080p with reflections wont cut it.
old news is old news