Screen found, different areas not existing in game

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There are areas in hl2 that does not exist in the game. Some of them are created to show off the engine and some to show what you can create and do with the game.
However, i have found some screenshots, well.. long before the game came out, that show off events that didnt even happen in game. A creature i never saw in the game even. And where are the bullsquids? There is a lot of things that are not in the game but in screenshots of it.

Go to page 24-25-26 of screen index of half life 2 off of gamespot.com. heres a link to page 24:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife2/screenindex.html?page=24

The first screen is of our beloved alyx. But the next 3 screens are to show off the tech i guess, its in ravenholm, or what was supposed to be ravenholm.
The next 8 screens are from city 17. Remember these? I didnt see any areas like this, appart from that statue with the horse which is there but further on in the game.

Now onto page 25:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife2/screenindex.html?page=25

Same area, the bridge at Ravenholm (techdemo) and Alyx. Now have a look at teh screens on this page, screen 8-11. This didnt happen. And that weapon, its not in half life 2.
Now onto page 26:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife2/screenindex.html?page=26

Those first 5 screens. This is not some creature i saw in half life 2. I was kind of expecting this to happen. Alas it didnt.

This image i liked a lot, it was even a background on my machine for a while, beautiful concept art. But where is it? I didnt see any areas like this. Some that resembled maybe but.. damn, i would have liked to see this in the game:

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/screen0/914642_20031216_screen002.jpg

Remember the strider? Remember the video where you fought with Barney and Gordon threw a grenade and breached a security gate, a car exploded and the "combine" was shooting at you? remember that video? The people in that video had different uniforms. And the sequence with the strider (you can see the resistance people here aswell, look different).

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/screen0/914642_20030912_screen004.jpg

What i mean by this is that there are a lot of stuff that we saw in the videos and many of us thought that this was gameplay excerpts. But it seems they were just consepts that were changed in the final product. Soem of us had the pleasure of trying the leaked demonstration game showed at E3, however an unfortunate accident for valve it showed a weapon called the physgun. Where is that weapon? I didnt see it and i was looking forward to playing with it :)
 
i would love for valve to release the cut enemies and levels later on
 
The physgun was just to show off ragdoll if i'm not mistaken.

The City 17 areas are there, they're not just used to the strider battles anymore. Actually you see the very same building that the strider attacks at some point.
(I believe it's right after you meet alyx and disable the generator)

As far as i understood the zombie scene was initially one of the first levels in the game. Probably the first considered the story went that you came by ship, well atleast before it was changed into the standard trainride.

Also the hydra was removed for some reason stated in Raising the bar :p
 
Expansion packs maybe? Yea and wow they changed the way Alex looked too.. I forgot about that.. good thing they did.. I like the new Alex Model vs the old one
 
I really want that Hydra :(. That last concept art looks like a water processing plant.
 
Ruben said:
Yeah, that last image has become my wallpaper again. Fantastic consept art.
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that pic doenst even look like concept art ... i've seen scenes in the game that look just as good as that does ... i bet source could crank that out easy ... :)
 
yeah i was disapointed when a lot of the parts i was looking forward to werent in the game
 
Everyone keeps saying that they wish Valve had included the levels and areas we countlessly watched in the binks, but why? Sure, they were cool, but after watching them so much, I know I knew them by heart, and it would have been no fun playing through them knowing where each enemy was. Think about that now.
 
lol, i think actually that screen was originally a photoshop of the tower thing in the wizard of oz :D (joke)
 
sigh..too many of the good things were taken out... :( and still managed to be my 2nd favorite game of all time.
 
For those who really want to know why the Hydra was cut:

Valve decided that it wasn't any fun to play it in single player. It was cool to watch it kill NPCs but like zero fun to play against. The idea isn't completely dead, and they're considering doing something with it for HL3 or an expansion pack.
 
i read the excerpt from the book abt the hydra being cut too

but the reason they gave seemed really stupid considering how much effort the designer put into it. i smell a conspiracy..... o_O;
 
If you go to gamespot and read the article "The final hours of Half life 2" you will see that those original movies were just a "proof of concept" that they threw together to demonstrate the engine and what the game might be like. They hadn't even really brought the story and the levels together yet.

As for the Hydra, they also said that they are continuing to work with it, and hope touse it in a future game. :)
 
also the main characters have changed i think. hasn't alyx's clothes changed?
 
I read somewhere that Valve will later on release the so-called ATI levels that can only be played with top-notch graphic cards on their highest settings. Perhaps these locations will be included on those levels.
 
I was thinking about making a thread like this :) Anyway, the scene which was in every magazine for a while (you know, the street scene, ppl against the wall, one lying on the floor and Combine around) would've been better than just the small scene in the beginning where they beat up those guys...

I remember the yell "STRIIIIIDERSSS" from the bink and those screams were also in the game, just you didn't meet the striders at that point, it happened a bit away...

We will see. I have no idea how you could fight the Hydra...
 
Yeah I did find all the areas from the bink videos, just recycled into new areas... After I while when I realised that many of them were hidden away parts of the level, I began to feel like they were put in as easter eggs.

I clearly remember seeing the room the hydra appeared in, the dock that the game originally started on, the barricade barney and gordon stormed, the street Gordon ran around in just before he did the "lob gren under cargo container and crush a bunch of combine" thing, the roof top from the HDR tech demo and ofcourse Kleiner's Lab, and maybe a few others I can't remember at the moment...

The hardest to find was the dock one though, I'm really happy I did see it.
 
http://image.com.com/gamespot/image...6_screen002.jpg

wow, looks amazing. sad it isnt in the game
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That's the Air Exchange. In early scripts, The Combine were originally replacing earth's atmosphere with something unbreathable (all citizens were wearing gasmasks) and at one point the 'tide turn' in the game was not Nova Prospekt but an assault on the Air Exchange with Alyx's old father (white guy), who was the leader of an organised resistance army.

All of this is is 'Raising the Bar'. Buy it.
 
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