Is it Half-life 2 or Half-life 3???

[Checkmate]

Well... After I had Finished HL2, I just recognized something really strange. (Of course, have to disable the autosave, and in painful with sound problems)
In some E3 Movie, there are some very cool video clips and scenes, very cool and excited scenes.

First:
Take a look at this clip:
http://www.ilvh.net/movies/halflife2_pc4704_om8.mpg

A very cool situation, run away the gunship and take it down
The buggy is a lot different!
The Combine uniform is too!!!
and yeah, which button that make gordon to toss away his weapon (in the clip, he tossed the spas and pick the RPG)????

Second:
http://www.ilvh.net/movies/halflife2_pc4704_om9.mpg

Very cool right? You'll fight against 2 striders with some civilians... but I wonder...

Third:
http://www.ilvh.net/movies/halflife2_pc71703_kleinerlab.mpg

yeah, kleiner was trying to do something when scanners found his lab and called striders, another cool scenes....

Fourth:
http://www.ilvh.net/movies/hl2_barricadedemo_t102.mpg

great, a sudden strike to the civil protection gateway together with barney and civilians, then a gunship come and... who knows???

And there are another clip that Gordon was in a tunnel, full of manhacks (like the tunnel of Chapter Follow FreeMan, fisrt part), and tried met up Alyx, then they saw some tentacles from ... may be new kind of monsters? Who knows? the Film ended when they saw it was catching the combine! I'll find that clip, it's on gamespot anyway
And more!!!!

So my question is.... what the ****??? The story changed? or there are a HL3 (or just simply its expansion) ???
The first time I saw those films, I kept thinking how to get through it... but now I'm so disspointed... :frown:

 

[diluted]

there's been tons of topics like this. yet, the hydras (blue tentacle things) were taken out. yes, lots of other stuff was taken out. we probably still wouldn't be playing the game if stuff hadn't been cut, so i'm not complaining.

 

[epmode]

all of that stuff was cut for gameplay purposes. happens in every game ever.

we might see the hydra in a future game, but who knows.

 

[Checkmate]

tons of topics??? where? I did search through the forum and don't see anybody noticed???

 

[shoman24v]

ALOT of stuff was cut..... alot of the stuff that was cut was in the leak..

 

[Vegeta897]

Didn't you notice that every one of those areas have a STRIKING resemblence to the ones in the actual game?

Cmon man, simple logic, those movies were made over 20 months ago!

Think about it... Wouldn't it be boring and un-suprising to play the levels we have seen over and over again for THAT long?

Sheesh.

 

[Checkmate]

20 months? no, it was on the E3 2004, and guess what? they said that we will go through those
But hey, you see a game, it's not enough, you have to play, play the 2nd time, the 3rd time... and those clips are not long so there will be more surprises, I bet!

 

[shoman24v]

I wonder If valve has 2 versions of half life 2.......

 

[Checkmate]

yeah, I'm sure, there are 2 version, 2 ending, most likely

 

[Computer5k]

20 months? no, it was on the E3 2004, and guess what? they said that we will go through those
But hey, you see a game, it's not enough, you have to play, play the 2nd time, the 3rd time... and those clips are not long so there will be more surprises, I bet!

All those were from E3 2003. Everything seen in 2004 is exactly the same except with a few enemies and props moved around.

 

[westie]

If they had included the Hydra, i wonder how you would go about killing it?

 

[Mickeey]

Maybe you had to move quick around looking for a power generator, to shut it down? Who knows, cuz it doesnt seem like it takes bullets...hehe

 

[The Dark Elf]

If they had included the Hydra, i wonder how you would go about killing it?

Throw salt at it.

 

[Epsi]

They cut the hydra because it was no fun to actually fight. It looked cool as hell fighting other AI, but made for terrible gameplay.

So don't expect it back.

 

[Vegeta897]

Throw salt at it.

Mmmmmm salted Hydra...

Erm.. Did I say that out loud?

 

[Cunni]

Those original demo movies from E3 2003 were some proof of concept levels "thrown together" to make an E3 demo. If you go to www.gamestop.com and read the article "The Final Days of Half-Life 2" it explains all that. They were really no where near completing the game at that point.

 

[Checkmate]

Pardon me but where is that article?

 

[anguished]

Pardon me but where is that article?

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6112889/index.html