Gordon Freemans :True Identity: REVEALED

[Lyndon]

I Dont know if this is old news, But Read on.

I was watching a bunch of Half Life 2 Beta videos, and then i stumbled on old interviews from Half Life 1 during the beta stage. Two of them boring, and one of them was this sound guy, Meant nothing to me, it was kinda boring. Then I relised who I was looking at, It was Gordon Freeman. The guy is identical, hes the sound effects guy in Valve. In the old Half Life games Gordon used to have a pony tail, and I never knew why, this guy has a pony tail. Thats why. I think I recall a earing aswell but I cant quite remember. Anyways If you want to see the REAL gordon freeman, talking and all heres the link.

Gordon Freeman is Kelly Bailey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtkLmFhUbRw&mode=related&search=

You know what makes me laugh? They pulled a superman, all they did was give him glasses.

 

[Remus]

Hmm... I can't say I'm surprised, game producers often use some of their own team members as sources for skin textures and stuff like that. For example in the First Max Payne they used the face of one of the game producers for the main character.

 

[ríomhaire]

And Kleiner works in the office above them.

 

[RoyaleWithCheese]

and the barnacle is actually Gabe

 

[Apocalypse89]

Barney is Valve's COO, while Eli is some homeless guy looking for work that they found on the street.

 

[Darkside55]

There is actually an HL2 model of Gordon (his head) and it's made up of composites from many of the workers at Valve. I don't know if this guy was among them but probably. They used like six people to make that head though.

 

[nutcrackr]

Pretty good likeness I agree.

 

[Oppressor]

At page 145 in Raising the Bar it says Gordon Freemans face is a mixture of four Valve employees. David Speyrer, Eric Kirchmer, Greg Coomer and Kelly Bailey

 

[tehsolace]

very cool. whoever gordon was based on, i like the end result.

 

[Asuka]

Man i never saw those old interviews or clips of the game. Nice find.

 

[_-_-SELAS-_-_]

Cool, theres even more classic videos there, than just the one with mr. Bailey. If you like "quarter-life" videos etc. see the Half-Life nostalgia project here: http://nostalgia.planethalflife.gamespy.com/hl-movies1.html
you will need a program called uncook though. Its attached to this msg.

 

[PvtRyan]

Guy that stood model for Ivan the Space Trucker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vETkmcSwWuE&NR