Unknown Dino, an artist who works in the upcoming dino FPS, FEROCIOUS, has shared a short fan film based on the Half-Life universe. This video showcases what a trailer for a sequel to Half-Life 2: Episode 2 could look like.
In this trailer, we get to see the world of the Combine as they prepare for their next attempt to regain control of Earth. As you will see, their world looks nothing like Earth.
For this trailer, the artist created from scratch almost every visual asset. This includes concepts, models, textures, rigs, and animations. The only exceptions to this are G-man and Dr. Breen’s face. Moreover, Unknown Dino did not use any generative AI assets or tools for this project, even for the concept stage.
The main inspiration for this short film was the Half Life 2 Artbook “Raising The Bar”. Plus, Alien, Prometheus, Denis Villeneuve sci-fi movies and the Scorn game were used as additional inspirations.
The end result is quite amazing, and I highly recommend watching the video.
Now before getting excited, no. Unknown Dino does not plan to turn this into a proper game. So, don’t expect another free fan-made HL3 game. That’s not going to happen. So, make sure to temper your expectations. This is just a cool concept video and nothing more.
As said, the artist is currently working on an upcoming FPS that will have dinosaurs. FEROCIOUS promises to feature rich, detailed environment, textured with a mixture of hand-crafted and photo-sourced assets. The island’s shores are hammered by simulated waves, and the forests are dense with destructible foliage and physics-driven trees.
The game is inspired by classic pulp adventure stories like King Kong and Jurassic Park, as well as modern tactical shooters such as Crysis. And although it doesn’t have any ETA as of yet, I’m really looking forward to it.
The last time we heard about FEROCIOUS was almost a year ago. So, we might get a new trailer this month. Perhaps at Summer Game Fest 2024?
Anyway, enjoy the video and stay tuned for more!
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You seem to be misattributing this fan film to the creator of Ferocious. this "Unknown Dino" guy is a separate person and he only works "for" Ferocious, he is not the creator (OMYOG). I don't see any indication that OMYOG has anything to do with this video at all.
Yeap, fixed it.
Woah, that was amazing. Seeing this makes me wish Valve hires this guy to head up development on it. Pie in the sky fantasy of course, man that was a cool concept video.
You know that there's a giant difference between making a pre-rendered cinematic mockup vs making a game, much less being the director of the whole team? What you're saying is just utterly insane.
Sure this person could work in the design/art department, nothing more.
Thank you for saying it! Ha! Artistic Director? Could be! or just a very good artist within the team.
Nothing wrong with liking the concept, I think it looked really cool.
I at least wish someone would mod the finally properly. It's my favorite game of all time.
Nothing wrong indeed! We just meant that the fact that he can make this doesn't necessarily qualify him as a good whole game director.
"the artist created from scratch almost every visual asset. This includes concepts, models, textures, rigs, and animations."
Im guessing this is similar to a movie director who story-boards their vision first.
I like it, looks great!
"This is what Half-Life 3 should look like"
gotta love that headline……..
this is the only era that i dont want a game to come out because its gonna suck.
I feel you bro.
Shoulda, woulda, coulda….
That video does look f*cking amazing that it has to be said…
one can only dream…..
looks better what those fan made mods tried to create. Such as Project Borealis mod. Bunch of clowns.
Valve is too lazy and risk-averse to ever make it happen.
I'm one of those annoying nostalgic people who prefer to preserve the original feeling.
And well, here, it's completely gone.
Half-Life 1 just felt like a fun 90s FPS.
This, on the other hand, looks like it's trying too hard to be over-the-top epic, scary, extremely dark, even gore, disturbing… well, all the ingredients of most unoriginal modern games.
HL1, and even HL2 almost feel "comfy" compared to this nightmare.
Too bad I seem to be in the minority here.
I'm just tired of modern games always doing their best to recreate absolute HELL.
I remember the 90s when I almost wanted to visit games in real-life, or even live in them. lol ….. Now I would definitely never want to even catch a glimpse of modern games in real life, they're too horrible.
Besides, this video makes it feel more like MATRIX than HL.
Why would the HL lore necessarily evolve towards a Matrix-style universe?🤔
Well, in fact, although it was praised by everybody, even HL2 new direction towards a 1984-like world was extremely questionable. (my first reaction in 2004 was "what the hell? Is that even HL?" I really didn't like the atmosphere at first, but it grew on me.)
Maybe that's the only thing I hate about the HL universe: like the GenZ who is confused about gender, it doesn't even know what it wants to be. 🤣
Anyway, this is the perfect situation for the "look how they massacred my boy" meme. 😢
Personally, I think that the whole HL universe should go back to HL1 style, like Black Mesa, which was perfect.