Half Life 2 Trivia

[drake3011]

I Know more random trivia from video games than i know what i've done each day, but for some reason, push comes to shove to submit something im pulling up blanks, so ill go with one of my Favorites, Half Life 2 lets start with the Borealis:



The ship seen only in parts in Half Life 2 Episode 2 and the dry dock seen in portal 2, it seems this ship has a lot more history than known to most people. Back in the day of the Half Life 2 Beta, the Borealis was one of the finished levels. Originally planned as the vessel to take the player to City 17, it was later pushed forward in the story to how Freeman gets from the city to Kraken Base, a resistance outpost headed by Helena Mossman

In Fact, the captain of the ship still made it into the final game, as Sergent Odessa



Something else pulled from the game was a creature called the Crementor, A long armed strange creature that wondered the streets with an incinerator cleaning up the remnants of Firefights and combine slaughter



They didnt hang around the game too long, but tell me, dosnt that head seem familier?



Its sat on the table in Eli's Lab in black mesa East, when approached, Eli will remark that "Were still not sure what it does, Alyx brings in the Strangest things..."

Speaking of Eli Vance, did you know he was originally two people? Eli Maxwell, a scrap builder who lives in a cave, and Captain Vance, Alyx's father who works undercover for the combine military. The model for the Captain is reused as a citizen in the final release



The last thing ill mention for now is Eli's Leg. Originally, it was planned that Eli Maxwell lost his leg under an enemy called the "Particle Storm", a line of dialogue was to be spoken of how Eli spent too long examining a strange storm anomaly, and lost his leg as a result of it. It was later redrafted to a bullsquid, but storm lives on, known as the "Sentient Cloud" as Breen near the end of the final release version mentions " gas giants, inhabited by vast meteorological intelligences". This isnt the end of it, as its mentioned Loads more in Portal 2. The pre-recorded announcer messages talk about a world under rule of an "Animal King or Sentient Cloud". In the community update focused on the Multiverse, Cave Johnson Lines mention alternative earths under rule of such a cloud (in a much more humorous fashion)

Edit: MORE TRIVIA!


Despite being the well known Protagonist, Gorden Freeman has Never had an in game model! Unlike other valve titles there is no way for Freeman to see himself, so valve never had a reason to make him. If not for Cover Art, we wouldn't even know what he looked like...


Breen was originally planned to be the "Consul" rather than the Administrator, and it was planned that throughout the game Breen became less and less human to better serve the Combine.



The "Fast Zombie" started life as the counterpart to another enemy, the Combine Assassin, an alien fast-moving creature that used Knifes, preformed barrel roles and used a new form of tripmine, "Hopwire Grenades"