Did I miss this part of the game?

[dewboy]

Before HL2 came out one of the promo screenshots (and video footage) was this...

http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/9999/99994238F1.JPG

Now I've finished the game I noticed I never encountered the above situation... did I miss it (I played it on medium) or is it not there.

Dewboy

 

[anguished]

That was cut out from the game.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

for the 100000000000th time, they took out the hydra and loads of the stuff that didnt fit into the game. Many levels were scraped or made just for the presentations. Use the search forums feature next time

 

[Mountain Man]

I understand they cut the hydra because it only looked cool when it was attacking your enemies. When it came after you, it just looked like a thin blue line that instantly killed you.

 

[>>NoTarget<<]

Why did they cut it out!! Lying bastards

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Why did they cut it out!! Lying bastards

How did they lie? We were told it was taken out before release.

 

[epmode]

the blue tentacled thing (nicknamed the hydra) was ted blackman's baby, so to speak. he loved the design and it really looked impressive snaking through the maps, piercing enemies, etc.

for several months, he proceeded to work on its AI away from the rest of the team, even building set pieces specifically designed around the hydra. one nagging detail kept it from being included. it wasn't fun to fight. it could do all this cool stuff, but when it attacked gordon, all it could do was sort of stab at him. looked rather lame in first person.

even after cutting it, ted would still love to get it into a future half-life game.

this is all from raising the bar.

 

[Reaktor4]

well what did he expect it to look like lol

 

[cbxpm]

the blue tentacled thing (nicknamed the hydra) was ted blackman's baby, so to speak. he loved the design and it really looked impressive snaking through the maps, piercing enemies, etc.

for several months, he proceeded to work on its AI away from the rest of the team, even building set pieces specifically designed around the hydra. one nagging detail kept it from being included. it wasn't fun to fight. it could do all this cool stuff, but when it attacked gordon, all it could do was sort of stab at him. looked rather lame in first person.

even after cutting it, ted would still love to get it into a future half-life game.

this is all from raising the bar.

But they did not cut the model / textures from the game content.
It is still somewhere in the game files. Maybe someone else will use hydra in future mods

Have fun,

cbxpm