I finished HL2 and did not see the "Icebreaker Ship" level mentioned in the FAQ

[XZdog]

According to the FAQ section found in this website, one of the levels includes an Icebreaker ship:

What kind of locations will the game be set in?

The game play is based on Earth (no trips to Xen this time!) with a large number of different locations such as City 17, a harbour, a jail, the suburbs, a dried up ocean, and an icebreaker ship.

The problem is that I never saw any location that resembled an Icebreaker ship (only a bunch of small ships in Water Hazard, Highway 17, Sandtraps..)

Did I miss something here?

 

[Neo_Kuja]

Nope, there was no icebreaker ship level. Must have been dropped ....

 

[XZdog]

wow that was a fast reply, thanks!

(thought I was getting crazy)

 

[hewhowearspants]

What I gathered, I think from Gamespot's Last Hours Of HL2 feature, is that the first draft of the game called for it to start on the icebreaker ship, but that got changed to the train at the trainstation.

 

[cleckmoon]

That would have been errily like 'The Bourne Identity', then. I bet they would have found Gordon floating in the middle of nowhere (IE, where the Gman put him), and pulled him onboard.

 

[Cerpin]

My mate, who played the alpha, told me there was an icebreaker ship where you had to fight stalkers.

 

[we11er]

All these dropped things just mean there's more potential for expansions/HL3! Yippee!

 

[Asknoone]

Yep it was cut