Half-Life 2: Aftermath- Teaser

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2005-08-10 02:08pm

Valve've just released a very short (around 30 seconds' worth) of footage from Half-Life 2: Aftermath.

Here's a Gamespot link, which requires registration.

Fileplanet has a larger, 40mb version. Registration also required.

A rapidshare link, no registration required.

For those who don't want to download, the high-points:

*Being trapped in a Razor-Train full of Stalkers.

*Alyx kicking Ant-Lion ass. (Abdomen?)

*The G-Man sounding angry. (Which is a first for Half-Life.)

DarkSilver · Post by **DarkSilver** » 2005-08-10 02:17pm

was also shown on last night's G-Phoria Video Game Awards on G4TV

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-08-10 02:41pm

Fuck dial-up, I'm downloading anyway. A pissed off G-Man is worth the bandwidth alone.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-08-10 03:06pm

It's not very much... a whole 34 seconds. This just can't compare with the orignal HL2 trailers we saw. I'm hoping for something better, or maybe the game

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2005-08-10 05:32pm

Are you sure that was G.Man? Didn't sound like him.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2005-08-10 06:14pm

Hamel wrote:Are you sure that was G.Man? Didn't sound like him.

Reasonably sure; the voice doesn't sound to me like any other major character, and the way he says "that" reminds me of the G-Man's stilted way of speaking.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2005-08-10 06:24pm

Blasted connection speeds, I must see this as soon as possible!
On a side note, I am once agian Fileplanet's bitch... But in a good way!

*Edit after viewing.
Yes... it does sounds like a pissed off G-man. Far to short for my liking but... ooh the prospects of going up aginst the Gman...

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2005-08-10 06:42pm

I have a sneaking suspicion that Gordon gets away from the G-man.

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2005-08-10 07:46pm

I have a sneaking suspicion that the G-man is protecting Gordon from some otherwordly force that wants to take him away for their own uses.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-08-10 07:50pm

Short and sweet. I wonder why the G-Man's hacked off?

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2005-08-10 08:09pm

Pcm979 wrote:Short and sweet. I wonder why the G-Man's hacked off?

It could be many reasons, Prehaps Sheppard's or Freeman have escaped his control. Prehaps his backers have asked him to do something he does not like.

Prehaps Freeman's finaly got him off guard.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2005-08-10 08:35pm

Maybe the next scene involves the G-man and Gordon's crowbar

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-08-11 03:48pm

I'm doubting Gordon is going to whup the G-Man, a guy who has displayed the power of gods before him (and he's not even the big cheese since he is employed by others). If anything, I agree with the other force that may be trying to butt in and do something the G-Man disagrees with. Given Gordon's track record, he's hardly likely to piss that guy off now since he's so liked (even if the guy is screwing up his life with this saviour schtick).

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2005-08-11 05:12pm

I know it's unlikely to the point of impossibility, but I'd like to see some of the G-Man's employers/superiors/rivals at some point in Aftermath, though I doubt we'll get more than hints. Still, there's always the third game for major plot features.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2005-08-11 06:28pm

In the original Half-Life it appeared the G-mans employers were the US government. But that changed drasticaly as of Half-Life 2.

Anyway, its going to be interesting to see just what the Stalkers are. You get to see them towards the end of HL2 doing menial labor in the citadel.

Julhelm · Post by **Julhelm** » 2005-08-11 07:09pm

What about that huge muscular guy that featured in the original concept art?

nickolay1 · Post by **nickolay1** » 2005-08-12 03:01am

Alyeska wrote:Anyway, its going to be interesting to see just what the Stalkers are. You get to see them towards the end of HL2 doing menial labor in the citadel.

There is already some knowledge about them. Apparently, they were humans who had their higher brain functions severed, and their bodies physically altered. Sexual organs, excess fat and muscle, and the digestive tract are removed, and limbs are augmented with metallic parts. They thus probably won't post much of a threat.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2005-08-12 03:13am

The importance given to them in the trailer and the name says otherwise.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-08-12 07:47am

They were penned for the original HL2 build, as with many things like the Hydra, but scrapped last minute. In the HL2: Raising The Bar book, it mentions the Stalkers as being enemies supposed to have been in some of the later sections of the game as well as around Ravenholme I believe. They were then pulled in favour of the batshit insane zombies that charge you and howl incessantly instead and never put back in.

There were meant to be different versions too, as in some were armed with cybernetic implants such as ranged weapons or claws etc. and able to climb walls and be perfectly stealthy (think the lab monsters from RE). They are certainly not meant to be pushovers.

I'm hoping this expansion will add other cut sequences and creatures and features from the original version.