The wait for a sequel to what many of us consider to be one of the best games of all time continues. But new leaks from a Valve insider now paints a dark picture around the development of Half-Life 3 and suggests that the game was scrapped internally back in 2015 which at the time only had ten people working on it.
The early build of Half-Life 3 is said to have involved a dream sequence where Gordon Freeman gets to experience bits of the so-called “Seven Hour War”. Something that, according to the game’s background story, should have taken place before Half-Life 2 and was about how the Alien Combine took over the earth. Before he finally wakes up in a chamber belonging to Aperature Science. In other words, where the Portal games took place.
Half-Life 3 would also have been connected with and took place after Portal 2, and players would have had access to a robot arm that gave Gordon the opportunity to solve various puzzles. Mainly by changing the size and temperature of various objects. After successfully escaping the Aperature laboratory, Gordon discovers that 20 years have passed since the last time and that he finds himself in the ruins of an anonymous city in North America.
Tyler McVicker who is another well-known and credited Valve informant verifies much of this information and also goes on to say how Half-Life 3 would be pseudo open-world and far less linear than the previous games and feature procedurally generated missions for the player to complete. Finally, Vicker also mentions that the main reason why the whole project was scrapped was internal conflicts at Valve where the majority of the company’s managers preferred to shift their focus to virtual reality.
Incredibly sad and upsetting news if everything is actually true, and we probably can’t (as usual) count on any official statement from Valve either. For those of you who want to check out the entire video where Tyler McVicker goes through all the information, it’s perfectly fine to do so here.
What do you think about all this, is the future of Half-Life 3 done or is there still a glimmer of hope?
