Half-Life: OVERWORLD

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Welcome to the Universal Union!
Until Valve reveals their next Half Life game, I tried to imagine what a trailer for a sequel to Half Life 2 Episode 2 would look like... Welcome to the Combine Overworld, and their next attempt to regain control of Earth.
Almost every visual asset in this short film (concepts, models, textures, rigs, animations) have been designed and handcrafted from scratch. Exceptions: (G-man, and Dr. Breen's Face)
No generative Ai assets have been used in this project, even for the concept stage... if that even matters to anyone.
I wanted to thank the Half Life subreddit for all their support and and even suggestions during the design process and a friend who helped with retopology of the bear and the "mother" creature.
Inspiration/references:
Half Life 2 Artbook "Raising The Bar" has been used as initial inspiration for the many original concepts I had to create but at the same time, other media has influenced the design process in many areas. "Alien", "Prometheus" "Scorn - game" and Denis Villeneuve sci-fi movies are some of the them.
Voice lines:
Dr. Wallace Breen by Robert Martin Culp 1930-2010
Half Life 2 and HL2 Episode One
Music
Half-Life 2: Combine Harvester music remixed from @DarrynYT • Combine Harvester (Slo...
Half-Life 2 EP2 "Dark Interval" Slowed down and reversed.
Half-Life: Alyx "Anti-Citizen"
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Game I'm working for
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My Artstation
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To thank you for reading this far!
As a reward, here is the Nova Strider 3D animated asset free to download and use
in your HL fan projects.
drive.google.com/file/d/1pLR5...
Software:
Blender,
Embergen

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@TheParryGod Месяц назад

That was incredible.

@UnknownDino Месяц назад

Wait... That's actually you!

@UnknownDino Месяц назад

I saw almost all you HL movies last night, just for a refresh 😁

@andromeda32916 Месяц назад

omg real theparrygod

@TheParryGod Месяц назад

@@UnknownDino Haha, ty! Can't wait to see what else you'll make. The portal startup sequence was chef's kiss. Also very glad to see that the almighty algorithm seems to be picking this one up. Well deserved.

@enverse244 Месяц назад

We’re in the presence of greatness

@freshglizzy3763 Месяц назад

Who would win: Incomprehensible bio-mechanical alien civilization Or 27 year old MIT grad with a crowbar

@Galaxy613 Месяц назад

But what does "winning" look like at this scale? Somehow getting the combine cut off from earth forever? They'll just re-establish connection sooner or later. Find and destroy the "head" of the combine? Surely they have an administration structure that can reconstitute itself in such an event if they are universe-spanning..

@escapegulag4317 Месяц назад

chad grad

@H31MU7 Месяц назад

one orange boi

@escapegulag4317 Месяц назад

@@H31MU7 Trump's boi

@rino4995 Месяц назад

The old fat guy who can't count to three wins

@teamclown755 Месяц назад

'It'll be the Seven Hour War, all over again. Except this time we won't last seven minutes...' - Eli Vance

@ZeGmodPlayer Месяц назад

YEHEY TEAM CLOWN.

@thechrissguy Месяц назад

Damn, just like me fr

@ZeGmodPlayer Месяц назад

They won't last 7 minutes because the Earth's military is VERY VERY WEAKENED after the xen race x and combine wars or They are becoming MORE aggressive and stronger (Universal union)

@mrviking2mcall212 Месяц назад

If Gordon gets into the Overworld, it’s the grubs that won’t last seven minutes.

@thesaddestdude3575 Месяц назад

I cant even last that long!

@joedredd1168 25 дней назад

Dr. Gordon Freeman with 25 HP, no shield, and armed only with a super gravity gun: "They don't stand a chance."

@ydk1k253 22 дня назад

1:40 *portal opens* Combine troopships: "LET'S FUCKING GOOOO!!"

@Erorblck 18 часов назад

They were killed by Gordon few hours later

@bLEKI557 Месяц назад

So, this is how that 'permanent off-world reassignment' looks like.

@franciscoandres4907 Месяц назад

Imagine playing as a "reassigned" human who manages to escape custody after the Citadel is destroyed, now having to fight their way through the Combine's home turf to get back home.

@stuntpenguin Месяц назад

@@franciscoandres4907 Half Life : Gray shift

@Benjamin_340 Месяц назад

BOGER STRPODERS RAHHHHHHHGHHH

@vonderkunstler Месяц назад

I have always thought it as just a fancy word they use for death. Since even Combine does not know what happens after death.

@Comfortable_crow Месяц назад

Permanent CBT Mr.Freeman, permanennntttt

@spacemanYoutuber 29 дней назад

2:35 I would be so fire if valve made the full game this way

@spacemanYoutuber 24 дня назад

I hope to see a battle 2:35 Gordon Freeman VS. Combine Overlord On the Combine Over World Would be Fire..

@Kimo_uwu Месяц назад

This guy just leaked HL3 trailer and still doesn't has even a few million views? Give this man some fame!

@damsen978 Месяц назад

I hope you're joking on the "leaked" thing, because i can't tell if you're joking or not lol

@Iz4kiTiago Месяц назад

🥸

@Joe-dy7bb Месяц назад

This video game out five hours ago, calm down, fanboy. Also this much of the plot has been known for almost 5 years now.

@rickeyheard4454 Месяц назад

@@Joe-dy7bb Dude don't be so rude. You're even more weird than he is.

@myblaonga Месяц назад

@@Joe-dy7bb Piss off let him be a fanboy. We've been depraved from Half-Life 3 long enough. Let us have excitement for something probably we wont live long enough to see it.

@DoubleRealitian Месяц назад

This is fucking VALVE quality animation, this is BEYOND amazing.

@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth Месяц назад

Don't forget the audio design! That stuff really stood out to me!

@eemasd 27 дней назад

0:30 If you look up in the middle to upper part of the screen, you can see G-MAN!!! I love all the details in this, honestly!

@c.andrew3944 25 дней назад

Half Life has been incredibly successful in many ways, but the fact that the art, writing, design, and lore continues to inspire stuff like this is a testament to its lasting success.

@spoodarman7748 20 дней назад

too bad a lazy company has the rights to the game, rip hl 3

@Un_revealing 13 дней назад

@@spoodarman7748 No They acctually want to make games more impressive and intractable, But there's not enough good tech to push the limits

@LMC764 Месяц назад

Hello? Peak cinema?

@sectorsweep14 Месяц назад

Kino, perhaps?

@phazon911 Месяц назад

it's not bad but still pretty mid idk about "peak" lol

@john-fe5fi Месяц назад

@@phazon911 and no constructive criticism offered, great job dude!

@tetonis2452 Месяц назад

@@phazon911 im not even a second in and i already know its peak just from the hd mud

@SnakeKoRn Месяц назад

Sir this is a Wendy's.

@ponds34 Месяц назад

Screw a return to ravenholm or the borealis, the combine overworld would be sick as an episode 3 or 4

@trainenthusiast5199 Месяц назад

We already have the Borealis sidestory. Why not have another sidestory?

@IdentificadorNoDisponible Месяц назад

Entropy: Zero 2 is Borealis, we now need Overworld

@Paraceratheriumedits_P Месяц назад

@@IdentificadorNoDisponibleYes, we need a game just like in this video!

@dkkanofkash8798 Месяц назад

@@IdentificadorNoDisponible This trailer has so many Scorn vibes to it and nails the Combine aesthetic PERFECTLY. We need a game like this.

@naturesquad9174 Месяц назад

Pretty sure that was the eventual destination in old script drafts

@GamingRevenant 24 дня назад

Love the image of all these striders in this large-scaled environment basically looking like Opilione spiders. Can't wait!

@GeneraluStelaru 22 дня назад

Can't wait for what?

@CallMeSlade 20 дней назад

bro its a fan made trailer, its not real 🤣🤣🤣

@insanetrickster 29 дней назад

What makes this fascinating is the massive scale is coupled with speed and efficiency. In particular on how the massive tower structure receiving the final piece, being powered up, opening the portal and the reinforcements pouring into it in the span of thirty seconds. Human technology is ponderous in comparison.

@konkeydong6514 27 дней назад

H. G. Wells' idea of aliens having three legs in The War of the Worlds was genius, I'm so glad they gave a nod to that in Half-Life 2

@user-gk8cf2sg1x Месяц назад

Valve, hire this man.

@habibpines Месяц назад

If I were them, I would hire this man and just announce that Half Life 3 is on the way, since this dude certified chef.

@unknownmaskman Месяц назад

eh, they are busy making money with steam and cs2.

@atsizbalik Месяц назад

@@unknownmaskman they don't even care about cs2 anymore, just dota

@snark567 Месяц назад

Why? So he can be can be surrounded by a team of people who don't do anything all day?

@gues.t Месяц назад

@@atsizbalik ?, They've been updating the game constantly. It isn't just one team working on all games, it's multiple. I know that CS2 is ass as of now, mainly due to input lag, peeker's advantage, and the anticheat, but it's definitely going to improve later on There has been leaks of a new Cache being made, a snowy cobblestone map in the works, a possible operation, and Danger Zone as well. Danger Zone used the codename "survival" in csgo, and there has been mentions of it in cs2's code I might be coping hard, but I'm hopeful that CS2 is going to be polished in a year or so

@nerdgusgun Месяц назад

Ok now this, this is the real Combine army that fucked the earth in 7 hours. (edit: i did not expect 1k likes)

@chickennugget8112 Месяц назад

There is a reason for that..

@gustawbobowski1333 Месяц назад

The earth never encountered real combine army, just the small scouting contingent.

@nerdgusgun Месяц назад

@@gustawbobowski1333 nah that wasnt the scouting party, they prob just sent in a single big arse carrier-like ship, which then proceeded to spam the shit out of those fly synths that rode on the strider 👌

@gustawbobowski1333 Месяц назад

@@nerdgusgun ?? it's well established it was a tiny scouting contingent wat are you waffling about

@hugo8500 Месяц назад

@@gustawbobowski1333 When is that ever stated?

@MajinMist603 10 дней назад

2:30 Past Breen: " Is it worth it ?!?!? " 2:32 Present Breen : .......

@sideways0667 29 дней назад

no generative ai used at all, SEE PEOPLE, PURE CREATIVITY ALWAYS WINS

@Krisfer. 16 дней назад

ok and?

@BoSPaladin-102 10 дней назад

@@Krisfer. And...using fully generative AI is just bad and kind of lazy.

@whatarewesomekindofspookysquad Месяц назад

This is so peak. Really gives the vibes the Combine are just playing a giant RTS game

@Taron_HaiTar Месяц назад

More like interdimensional version of Stellaris, mixed with few RTS missions in invasions, sometimes leaving their AI to play a hybrid of City manager and Lambda Wars (RTS Half-Life 2 mod) style RTS game hybrid, with Advisors playing "no-build/limited resources" missions when shit gets real, like in Half-Life 2 and Episodes!

@ashdjones Месяц назад

Sh gets real ™ Valve+ MFX (mind effects)

@ptolemaicfoxxo3032 Месяц назад

Its when you already beat the mission but dont finish the objective so you can harvest every resource and build the biggest base you can imagine

@dkkanofkash8798 Месяц назад

@@ptolemaicfoxxo3032 And you leave a little bit of your enemy remaining so that you can continue toying around with their forces, while your opponent is doing their best to not even try to beat you, but to survive.

@sowpmactavish Месяц назад

So you mean like an empire Next youll comment on a WW2 documentary "this shit is so peak, it really gives the vibe that the allies were playing Company of Heroes"

@sensei4042 Месяц назад

Bro you nailed the combine aesthetic so well. Biomechanical beings + some unfathomablely large architecture + sharp and assymetric edges = Combine

@artisticgamer777 Месяц назад

true, it looks really good and accurate to how they might be.

@ETA801 Месяц назад

Wow sensei youre here? Lol

@cred7862 27 дней назад

It’d be sick if this actually turned out to be HL3. I’d love to see those new combine units fight alongside the remaining garrison on Earth.

@moltum 28 дней назад

Anyone notice that the gun Gordon is holding at 2:50 has the Aperture science logo?

@specdock8031 Месяц назад

0:13 Zombie bear very cool

@Goldsrc17 Месяц назад

A zombear

@unfunny3313 Месяц назад

@@Goldsrc17 the spas-12 in my HEV suit:

@Gaelic-Spirit Месяц назад

A zombie combine bear? That's like some kind of zomcombear

@MetalArrow Месяц назад

I demand a zombear to be produced as a plush.

@NodRodge Месяц назад

Also absolutely terrifying!

@cellophanezebra4663 Месяц назад

Getting giant Oddworld and Scorn type vibes, this legit looks like a final level in a Half Life game. Remember this all happened because a guy was late for work

@ilkeribrahim6541 Месяц назад

Not really, his lateness to work made other people's lives longer with at least 30 or minutes with the incident for people that died instantly and bit longer for others.

@RootVegetabIe Месяц назад

@@ilkeribrahim6541 They're being humorous. You don't have to reply seriously and "acktually" every fucking thing.

@ilkeribrahim6541 Месяц назад

@@RootVegetabIe Well I know ,but it's still not accurate as a joke . There are many reasons basically, why this happened and being late is not one of them . Yes it's funny ,but it will be funnier if was actually true . :)

@ChezzyKnytt Месяц назад

@@RootVegetabIe This is a worse response tbh

@santiago8816 Месяц назад

@@ilkeribrahim6541 I think freeman forgot to take the straight train and instead he take the scenery route

@konradlorek3043 29 дней назад

The fact that watching this in fullscreen with the best resolution really feels like playing during a cutscene of a Half-Life 3 type game is just amazing.

@UnknownDino 29 дней назад

Yeah, I would suggest people to try and watch it on the largest screen they can find. The sound though is not great...

@efraimkent 24 дня назад

⁠@@UnknownDinosound could definitely use some tweaking, mostly the music however as voice sounds good imo. send me the vox and music files separately if you want and i’ll master it for you (professional audio engineer) image could be ever so slightly colour graded for better contrast ratio, if we’re nitpicking, but already looks great as is too. amazing job either way! could have easily fooled me that it was the official HL3 trailer we’ll probably never get…

@anomalo. 21 день назад

The combine in general feels so unimaginable to me that I’m surprised someone was able to come up with something like this

@sinclair3101 Месяц назад

was really skeptical about this video because fan projects that usually try to capture the deeper and more alien aspects of the combine miss the mark or make them too familiar. but this was absolutely amazing. practically perfectly captures the disturbing, unimaginably massive, alien aspects of what make the combine so interesting. great work!

@lukebelvin4900 Месяц назад

Making the Striders look like crawling spiders on giant Combine architecture was GENIUS.

@KFishproductionII Месяц назад

its like a spider crab colony

@XavierAlbertStudio 27 дней назад

Absolute masterpiece. You mastered the combine design language and got it even more powerful. Great architecture, animations, rendering, scale, vfx and world building. Congrats man !!

@kubikkuratko188 13 дней назад

Love how it goes from machinery to straight up Geiger art

@fyraltari1889 Месяц назад

0:33 Everybody's favourite alien bureaucrate spotted!

@Falllowman Месяц назад

I love g-man sightings

@damonnugent1993 27 дней назад

Seeing him in the Combine homeworld is weird.. as if he's arrived to make war against them.. "Now we take the fight.. to THEM..."

@GavinMakesVideos-xm7dd Месяц назад

I love how there's almost no humans present, and just original alien combine synth designs, and I love the giger aesthetic for the overworld bio-structure things

@chewy99. Месяц назад

Yeah only 2 humans, including Gordon. Actually 3… including… breengrub lol

@josh113866 24 дня назад

Damn man, this has it all, the complete 'other-worldness' and true might of the Combine, G-man cameo, the Aperture logo on Gordon's gun, bloody amazing. Not to mention praise from the messiah himself; TheParryGod!

@moxifloxi 29 дней назад

Can’t imagine how long this took to put together; this is ridiculously good quality ❤

@desko2041 24 дня назад

Its mox…!

@nsv8613 Месяц назад

MAN! This captures the essence of Half-Life 2 and draws up on it in such a perfect way! Incredible new creature designs, showing how truly alien the Combine are, and that even with their humanity removed, the soldiers we fight in HL2 are the most human part of the Combine we could ever see, and that the desolate streets of City 17 are the most cozy and familiar place humanity can inhabit; the sense of scale, in which even the enormous Citadel dwarfs in comparison, showing how the force we fought was merely a policing garrison. And the last scene showing Gordon's POV making us imagine what Half-Life 3 could have been... Also, this feels a lot like the alien homeworld scene in Pacific Rim (In a good way!)

@trainenthusiast5199 Месяц назад

The Precursor homeworld...I remember that.

@niono1587 Месяц назад

You have quite the artsy mind

@TheKitMurkit Месяц назад

What about the crazy design of the gravity gun

@shiBuyaking109 Месяц назад

I loved that scene in Pacific Rim! It really concluded for the imagination of the viewers thoughts about what or who was sending the Kaiju from the other side 👍 it was amazing for cinema because it fits pretty well for the ending of that movie! it’s done even better here for half life to reiterate the combine threat using its unknown technology to open gateways across the multiverse 😮 this scene also shows the audience how hidden humanity was to this sinister empire had it not been conducting experiments in territories of science not understood! Tie this combine over world scene back to half life Ch1 and it’s the perfect title choice unforeseen consequences! This strikes so many cords for my sci fi itch because I’m starting to see the subject of not what if in this universe but what if in the multi universe has become a serious topic since in actual scientific theory it’s become pretty obvious the multiverse is real!

@fluxdr1ve143 28 дней назад

@@TheKitMurkit The gravity gun reminds me of the gun from Prey (Q-Beam). It has a similar design to it.

@mac1716 Месяц назад

not sure if was intentional, but I love how you made it feel like how all the synths were just 'part' of the overworld, like cells in a unimaginably massive body, fitting with the combines use of medical jargon when dealing with humanity. Showing the combine isnt really an alien empire, but a single organism that is never ending in its growth, an organism so huge that it has to spread through universes to keep itself alive.

@roman11777 Месяц назад

That's definitely my interpretation, too. I like to imagine that there is no 'top' to the combine, no actual leaders or species that's at the helm. The Combine is probably just a giant, impossibly vast AI; a blind idiot god that expands and consumes simply for the sake of it.

@quox3987 Месяц назад

A perfect asthetic for something called “the combine”

@MisterZimbabwe Месяц назад

That's the best way to put it. There is no "leadership" caste or ruling government for the combine. The combine is a super complex series of interlocking systems that brutalizes and absorbs other individual organisms and intellects into itself, reshaping them to become just another extension of The Combine.

@literalsarcasm1830 Месяц назад

So they're the ultimate cancer

@trainenthusiast5199 24 дня назад

ye. kinda reminds me of the Iris of Gemini Home Entertainment, which literally consumes other eldritch beings in order to keep itself alive. And I wrote this cause I just read these comments lmao

@nyantechpostsshii 23 дня назад

Oh man I hope someone can make a game out of this short it looks so peak

@osadniczek140 29 дней назад

i cant believe this doesnt have at least 5 million views by now

@BIGScottyBoyanimation Месяц назад

I like the part where the combine casually invaded probably another planet like it’s just another day as usual. really gives off that earth was just another number to the combine

@linnick4393 Месяц назад

I think that’s still earth

@escapegulag4317 Месяц назад

@@linnick4393 yep

@chewy99. Месяц назад

The Earth is actually really insignificant for the Combine, they’re just so large that they can send what seems like a giant amount of forces to overwhelm the Earth when for them it’s not even 0.0000000001% of their forces. They are literally a multidimensional empire. They must be in control of trillions of worlds with life or far more. They see an entire planet as one being basically. Gordon was the one individual who changed that.

@engineerzy3124 Месяц назад

314

@bornstellar7468 Месяц назад

Yea that's still Earth lol, but it being another casual dimension invasion would be just as good

@magnum7978 Месяц назад

Seeing the Combine Overworld being explored by fans (even conceptually) is something I've always wanted to see. I've had a lot of thoughts on what it may look like myself but THIS has to be the most accurate. I gotta love the striders climbing the citadel like spiders too. That and seeing breen grub was just... chilling. EXCELLENT work, mate!

@mr.killjoy4753 Месяц назад

Pretty sure the grub was Gordon

@whnvr Месяц назад

@@mr.killjoy4753no, definitely breen

@mr.killjoy4753 Месяц назад

@@whnvr he’s wearing glasses. If you look at Gordon’s right hand in the last shot, you can see he’s in a host body

@Spark412 Месяц назад

@@mr.killjoy4753 No... that's Breen.

@mr.killjoy4753 Месяц назад

@@Spark412 am I high cuz I swear even in the first person shot at the end you can see part of the host body

@nmcinturf 21 день назад

Both nostalgic and inspiring. In our AI driven age the fact that you didn't use any AI makes me appreciate just how much work went into this. On behalf of all half-life fans, thank you!

@severdnerv 24 дня назад

I have to admit this is the most actuate way i would believe the alien designs we saw in HALF LIFE would actually look. Valve take notes. lol

@Gubbus. Месяц назад

wow the combines home world looks like such a bright ray of sunshine

@UnknownDino Месяц назад

Lol, it's a happy workplace, like a big family.

@CoolSs Месяц назад

I actually got the vibes that this is not their homeworld but more like worlds between world. a portal hub in sort. also from the HL2 lore. some of the combine penalties is to send you to "off world relocation" for their soldiers and Civil protection officer who disobey them. this probably one of them.

@Gubbus. Месяц назад

@@CoolSsreal

@fyraltari1889 Месяц назад

@@CoolSs I don't think they even have a single homeworld anymore.

@cjthebeesknees Месяц назад

I sure hope the locals are friendly to tourists, I’m sure theirs nothing to worry about.

@elrey9982 Месяц назад

The Combine seeing a Lambda graffiti on the wall In earth: kalm IN THE OVERWORLD: PANIK

@jokelot5221 29 дней назад

In case you missed it, G-Man sighting at 0:32, a masterpiece video.

@georgeoldsterd8994 18 дней назад

I thought that was Gordon. 🤔

@dusksentry5836 8 дней назад

i absolutely Adore how "organic" this all is. With bio-mechanical pieces of the grand machine scuttling around, crawling on things like giant spiders and ticks. Everything looking so alive

@nagger8216 Месяц назад

Love how genuinely alien these Combine look. No conveniently human-sized Combine for us to shoot at like normal soldiers, everything looks massive and like a human should never have gotten here. Taking on these enemies might be the creativity needed to get Valve off their asses to make the next game, since they only ever care about making tech demos.

@CometAurora 29 дней назад

metro cops are regular humans and the combine soldiers are humans that were genetically altered by the combine, but i definitely agree, the first half life had way more crazy alien stuff than the second one for some reason, would have been way more interesting if they went even weirder in half life 2

@MrDecessus 29 дней назад

Lovercraft like things. The stuff of nightmares.

@SgtHawk45 29 дней назад

Same, love the looks here!

@nagger8216 29 дней назад

@@CometAurora I didn't really mean that as a criticism towards Half Life 2 and the Combine soldiers in that, I actually think they wrote in a pretty decent explanation for it since they are actually human soldiers. I'm just appreciating how the Combine here look truly alien and completely different from what we'd normally expect, especially in an FPS. As opposed to something like Halo where almost all of the aliens are conveniently human-sized because they obviously have to be since it's an FPS. Or even like Mass Effect, where all the aliens are basically normal people. Like, this is the *actual* Combine that originally conquered Earth, not the ones that were babysitting it after.

@greenbow7888 28 дней назад

Wish Valve would convert HL: Alyx for monitor / no VR.

@jukebox7719 Месяц назад

the striders climbing over that citadel like tiny spiders this is so cool

@sonatine3266 27 дней назад

For one second I was like "WHAT???" But still... nice work. :)

@pakoti96 24 дня назад

That reminded me of the Dune visuals. Magnificently epic and alien.

@lukebelvin4900 Месяц назад

I imagined when Breen said he was heading somewhere else he ended up in some fucked hellscape like this

@dr.cheeze5382 Месяц назад

I wonder if we'll ever get an answer. I'm of the strong opinion that the barn advisor is Breen, given how it seems to toy with it's environment when it first wakes up.

@balaclavakid3905 Месяц назад

@@dr.cheeze5382 Plus, the scene in episode one where an old recording of Breen plays and then an Advisor in a pod emerges directly after definitely seems like it was foreshadowing this

@user-pq2mu5xc2x Месяц назад

BreenGrub was always a thing

@DutchGlow-fi2ip Месяц назад

I've always thought that they put breen's mind into chell. Like she was a vegetable until they could find a good science brain for her.

@SirKolass Месяц назад

@@dr.cheeze5382 Why do you guys keep saying Breen is an advisor? He never got his host body, he never crossed the portal. When Gordon destroyed the portal generator, the sphere Breen was in fell, and then the reactor exploded, turning Breen and everything else into dust. He's Dead. Plus, that advisor is not toying with the environment, since it was forced out of its life support, it couldn't see properly, so it had to touch things with its tongue to find out what they are.

@T-74 Месяц назад

Good GOD, this is an absolutely stunning depiction of the Combine Overworld. By far the definitive one in my opinion. Every part of this is perfect from start to finish, showing how completely different The Combine is in a way that is impossible to fully describe. The choice to make Breen a malnourished corpse on life support as opposed to a host body is a little odd but it can be excused, because it’s a brilliant visual and only one part of this masterpiece. The part at the end with Gordon is also underrated. Helping to demonstrate how vast the environment is from a first person POV AND setting him up with a weapon CONSIDERABLY more powerful than his usual fare. Like the entire power ceiling just got boosted by a hundred and now he’s going to be fighting what would’ve normally been considered bosses as regular enemies. GOD I’d love a game set on the Overworld now.

@omg-the-best-crazy 24 дня назад

This is amazing! I generally skip ahead of concept trailers but I watched this with play pause repeat to see every detail. Respects!!

@Steven_TheSheriff 28 дней назад

The entire Alien army with super modern weapons, vehicles and smart creatures vs an orange boi, who wins?

@sp00pyspyder28 Месяц назад

This is actually the most incredible fan interpretation of the greater Combine empire I've ever seen in any form of media, and I've been scouring the web for this sort of thing for eons. Absolutely exceptional work with the synth designs, to me they seem to fit right in with what we've seen thus far from Valve. Please don't stop producing this sort of content, it's simply too good to show briefly and never again.

@shahobiddinismoilov Месяц назад

This is the greatest Half-Life cinematic I have ever seen

@Alleriian 28 дней назад

I can't stop rewatching this video, all of the alien designs are phenomenal and truly on-point with the style and feel of half-life. This video really makes me want an entire series based on this world you've created.

@alexeyefimik5710 Месяц назад

The continuous camera shot is incredible!

@RetroChug Месяц назад

HEADCRAB BEARS

@ned2916 Месяц назад

Where

@mrman2476 Месяц назад

@@ned2916 At the beginning.

@tobcyxob Месяц назад

We had zombines. Now we could get a zombears.

@concept5631 Месяц назад

The horror

@JohnyK07 25 дней назад

@@tobcyxob I was bummed when HL: Alyx foreshadowed Zombapes at the zoo, and then never delivered :(

@WeAllWitnessed Месяц назад

This is fucking insane and perfect, they need to hire you. I can’t believe it only too 6 months. I love the striders, the combine architecture is perfect, valve would be proud.

@Smellslikegelfling 22 дня назад

Valve should hire you as a designer.

@nittis323 26 дней назад

You just made my entire week with this video dude. This is amazing literally a work of pure art

@alfredlaalpacadeageofempir9215 Месяц назад

Half-Life: Combined.

@Ilovecatsverymuch2009 Месяц назад

Full life

@darthflipyap7040 Месяц назад

You, my friend have perfectly captured, nay, PERFECTED the Combine design language. Everything, biological or machine, moves and acts as if it were part of a single, omniscient, uncaring being. Breen's grandiose ranting contrasted with his fate is horrifically amazing. And the overall quality of the video is beyond words. 100/10. Cannot recommend enough!!! Valve ain't got nothin on you!!!

@UnknownDino Месяц назад

I'm happy someone finally noticed what I was aiming for with Breen's speeches! He is an amazingly written "villain/victim".

@darthflipyap7040 Месяц назад

@@UnknownDinoHe truly is! It makes you wonder if he truly believed in what he was saying, deluding himself into believing it to justify his actions, or if he just did it all for power, and is just spewing out whatever ge thinks will make the Combine reward him.

@MrDecessus 29 дней назад

@@darthflipyap7040 Or is he even able to think for himself any longer.

@jjconsi2 26 дней назад

Valve needs to hire you immediately.

@RobotArmy3D 26 дней назад

Great work! Your animation and choriography/direction really stand out in this.

@Mrdresden 27 дней назад

This was incredible! So much good will in this IP, and so much longing for content, but none to be had. Can't wrap my head around it.

@gordon_freeman2542 Месяц назад

Man I would love an interactive game demo based upon this, even if it is only 5 minutes.

@hcutter9802 22 дня назад

Ooh, you just gave me a flashback of how good the short demo-game version of OPPOSING FORCE was!!

@UnknownDino Месяц назад

Finally after roughly 5 months of work, here we are! Which was your favorite, part/element/design? How did it differ from your expectations?

@krounos1 Месяц назад

Capturing the magnitude of the Overworld is something that's not an easy task or really been accomplished but I think this has done it. This is the official depiction of the Overworld to me.

@UnknownDino Месяц назад

@@krounos1 and this is supposed to be a tiny "walkable" section of it.

@user-eq3ub3ye9x Месяц назад

What are the long-legged spiders doing and what are some armored jellyfish flying as buses for striders?

@nsv8613 Месяц назад

@@krounos1 Same!

@AsinEyad Месяц назад

The designs really capture it well!

@tropicvibe 24 дня назад

Ok brother, you caught me out there; I was ready to pre-order, lol. I'd imagine The Combine homeworld to look something like this, with their life-forms and tech even more unimaginable and terrifying than what was already witnessed on earth.

@david_parsons Месяц назад

I very much appreciate that you didn't use any generative AI in creating this. Thank you for that.

@PaganPilot Месяц назад

Giving Breen the HL2 early Consul's worm form is a nice touch

@christhefirst Месяц назад

g-mans gotta make a shit ton of nudges for gordon to pull this one off

@UnknownDino Месяц назад

My thoughts exactly 😅

@Galaxy613 Месяц назад

@@UnknownDino Half Life 3: You thought Dark Souls was hard?

@thelelanatorlol3978 25 дней назад

Gordon doesn't have his crowbar, he is powerless.

@lorenzodhernandes 24 дня назад

This is the closest thing to what I've imagined for a hl3. Not just a return to the earth and combine stuff we've seen, but an universe-expanding tone-shifting thing just as hl2 was to hl1. To me this captures the true essence of Half Life.

@mattbaldwin1150 21 день назад

This is perfect. It’s wild that it’s been 20 years since Half Life 2.

@SmusaGames Месяц назад

Absolutely greatest unofficial video-art on Half-Life that I've ever seen!

@Marl-uo2xk Месяц назад

0:34 Gman quietly walking on that platform with all the chaos around him gives me chills.

@Zoidberg420 27 дней назад

Nice catch!

@user-lb5cp5mw4u 27 дней назад

I thought he is not with combine. His employer is supposed to be someone else.

@Sonic-Tonic- 27 дней назад

@@user-lb5cp5mw4u He's not with the Combine, right, his Employers are enemies of the Combine, but of course he's here keeping an eye on Gordon and supervising his progress, as he always has been

@Marl-uo2xk 27 дней назад

@@user-lb5cp5mw4u i think he is some sort of anti hero

@Marl-uo2xk 27 дней назад

He doesn't seem to like the combine but he also exploits Gordon and Alyx for mysterious ends

@damonnugent1993 27 дней назад

That... was.. amazing... Makes me think of Breen's words. "Really, well, let's see how well it serves you.. on the far side of a combine portal."

@Filaxsan 23 дня назад

Amazing job! This was stunning!

@andreisechi7871 Месяц назад

Also : the aperture insignia on the only terrestrial component of the new gravity gun , masterpiece .

@user-iq6gp8qo8b Месяц назад

Imagine if aperature tech allows Gordon and team to teleport into their world and you go on rescue, sabotage and infiltration missions like Warhammer Darktide. I could Imagine this game playing like Half-Life+Doom+Quake

@andreisechi7871 Месяц назад

And then gman becomes super Saiyan and Eli vance becomes a Better nihilant ....but Alyx uploads Her consciusness in Glados and Ripley boxes vs dog in xen

@UnknownDino Месяц назад

Very few have noticed that!

@Galaxy613 Месяц назад

What?! That makes this perfect!

@qwertydavid8070 Месяц назад

@@andreisechi7871 half life if it was peak:

@user-pj1ox2vo3o Месяц назад

The madman solo made the Half-Life 3 teaser trailer, are you even human?

@Galaxy613 Месяц назад

Nope, UnknownDino is an advisor grub now

@OXY187 Месяц назад

Gordon going into the Combine Homeworld to close off the portal from inside after the Combine’s discovery of Borealis.

@Theknightofgothamcity 26 дней назад

The amount of talent this man has to make a cinematic masterpiece like this in 5 MONTHS! Wow, Your good.

@dukenukem3dfx572 22 дня назад

WOW!!!! The level of creativity going on here! Incredible all around!

@drinky_c19 Месяц назад

I absolutely LOVE the Striders (?) crawling around the portal gate at 1:10. It really evokes that sense of unease and disgust that we get when looking at a cluster of wooded stick-insects and the seemingly unnatural way that they move and behave. They're like bacteria infecting an open wound.

@gospelofrye6881 28 дней назад

I reckon the four-legged ones should be called Bigmites.

@Jimmyknapp2 27 дней назад

The synth hit right there is perfect half life

@WhoThisMonkey 25 дней назад

Stick insects sway back and forth on their legs to imitate leaves blowing in the wind. These things are more like a daddy long legs with legs pulled off.

@ydk1k253 10 дней назад

They're probably janitors

@redlightu Месяц назад

To think this is but a fraction of the Combine Empire's actual strength... I also love the design of the extended Synth Forces such as those Striders and Dropships, really sells their aesthetic.

@lestart5091 29 дней назад

Actually, it's like a grain of sand on a beach, considering that the alliance knows how to create Dyson spheres and conquer worlds. For them, Gordon Freeman is like an ant that managed to survive the flooding of an anthill

@MeOwOgai 26 дней назад

This video brings me back to the times when Machinima channel existed, they had bangers like that. Thank you for the work

@Kinodawker 27 дней назад

Oh wow man, this is probably the best depiction of the overworld I’ve ever seen. If it had a canon look this would be it

@manifest5768 Месяц назад

Perfection. You've managed to capture the inhuman, biomechanical, almost insectoid nature of the combine down to a tea. I really didn't think anyone could do the combine homeworld justice, I stand corrected. You sir are an inspiration!

@Pigsy255 Месяц назад

The most important thing about this imaginative sequel is the absence of a "3" in the title - so it might just happen. Good job!

@UnknownDino Месяц назад

I wouldn't dare 😅. Glad you noticed that detail!

@Momo5775 20 дней назад

I feel like there is a comeback of HL2 content these days. One can hope.

@Lasztmichdurch 29 дней назад

Stunning work! Thx for this!

@Xspy70 Месяц назад

VALVE HIRE THIS GUY ACTUALLY NO, DON'T YOU'LL PROBABLY MAKE HIM WORK ON SOME MICROTRANSACTIONS

@blyad2137 26 дней назад

Valve and microtransactions?

@lowerlowerhk Месяц назад

I can see a mix of HR Giger and War of the Worlds aesthetics here. Gabe would be proud.

@spiky464 26 дней назад

Best video I’ve seen in a long while! 🙌🏽

@nocturneop15 22 дня назад

this is SOMETHING! hope Valve will contact you and let you in - this looks like the story I'm waiting for and want to play.

@yungmodulus2237 Месяц назад

Your portrayal of the overworld is honestly the best I’ve seen. From the mix of machine and synths, to the different types of striders that carry different purposes. To it feeling like the inside of an organic system and it feeling both futuristic and nightmarish at the same time. It’s just *chefs kiss*