Half-Life fan film premiered online

Published 24 January, 2011 Duration 11:51

Beyond Black Mesa took 2 years to make.

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  • MerricK #1 1 year ago

    good and slick presentation however I dont remember the zombies running around sans headcrab....

  • Takagi #2 1 year ago

    pretty dam good, see hollywood... if people can do this why the frack cant you :)

  • persus-9 #3 1 year ago

    Good but a long way from great. To my mind it’s major failing is making the main character Shepherd. If it wasn’t Shepherd, a trained soldier, then there might be some reasonable explanation for why he can’t shoot straight and is apparently incapable of picking up one of the many many an assault rifles they leave lying about.

    I hope these guys invent their own setting for their next project because it seems to me that all the major faults were associated with it being a fan film. If this had been an original setting then I’d have been blown away by the quality of it but as it is I find it doesn’t fit well enough with Valves the established framework for me to enjoy it properly.

    Still a million times better than anything I could have done through so I should probably just shut up and take my hat off to them.

  • Doctor_What #4 1 year ago

    Good work. Perhaps a bit heavy on the narration - I think it might have worked better without the voiceover (show, don't tell, and all that), but a damn fine job otherwise.

  • lasersrule #5 1 year ago

    The one thing the Half Life universe absolutely needed was a Jason Statham wannabe.

  • Gaiduku #6 1 year ago

    Meh was okay but not as good as Escape from City 17 from a few years back.

  • JudasBlitzkrieg #7 1 year ago

    I loved it. Good pace, nice action, excellent presentation. Utter brilliance, especially considering the limited resources they were using.

  • fizzyfish #8 1 year ago

    Brilliant, although I hate to say it doesn't quite match the production values of <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1UPMEmCqZo>Escape from City 17</a>. Speaking of which: where the heck is part 2 of that? Credit to the creators of BBM for completing their project.

  • Gaiduku #9 1 year ago

    The Purchase brothers are currently making a "secret" feature film - hence no episode 2 of Escape from city 17

  • adi7 #10 1 year ago

    Enjoyable,really good presentation,great use of the games audio and plenty of visual nods.Have to agree with persus-9 though,why didnt they pick any of the assault rifles up.I'd have had so many it'd be impossible to walk.Job well done me thinks.

  • chiz #11 1 year ago

    Better than any crap Uwe Boll puts out.

  • dllord #12 1 year ago

    pretty cool!

  • up_the_ante #13 1 year ago

    Very, very good - I love all the game touches. But why do they have to have zombies in it? Why does everything have to have zombies in it these days?

  • mukki #14 1 year ago

    ohhh it's a love story!
    boy meets girl with zombies thrown in! :)
    but zombies in HL?

    props to the makers! good job

  • Br0ken_Engli5h #15 1 year ago

    It was great until the combine soldier started with the kung-fu (comb-fu?) bollocks. Not that it wasn't slickly done, but it was a bit too slickly done.

    Edited by Br0ken_Engli5h at 24/01/11 @ 14:39

  • LazyNinjaUk #16 1 year ago

    @Takagi

    Sadly this is because there isn't enough good creative talent left in Hollywood to fill a thimble, any decent and/or respected director stays away from anything video game related because of the associated stigma. Hollywood studios believe that the average movie goer could not comprehend or understand a film made exactly from a game, so they feel the need to change it and make shit up that wasn't in the game.

    Then the movie is released, it appeals to absolutely nobody, and the whole annoying cycle starts from the beginning. The only exception to this rule would be Resident Evil, though how it still manages to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars is beyond me. If we had the likes of Christopher Nolan, Neil Blomkamp, Peter Jackson etc making these films as opposed to Paul bloody Anderson and Uwe 'tax-loophole' Boll, then video game films would be as successful as comic adaptations.

    Sadly this is just a distant hope, till then just the thought of David O. Russell's Uncharted adaptation with Nathan Drake being part of a tomb raiding family makes me want to vomit blood everytime I hear about it.

    /rant over.

  • jstar #17 1 year ago

    I have all the admiration in the world for those who made it and it looks very polished. But unfortunately the acting and film direction are both appalling. Still, round of applause for the effort.

  • TheTingler #18 1 year ago

    Pretty cool and believably done, although they're not quite complete Half-Life fans obviously. All the HL zombies have headcrabs on for a start, it's as if someone told them what Half-Life was about and they didn't bother to check the description of "zombies". I mean everyone knows what zombies look and act like, right? Wrong.

    Still, for an amateur production it was pretty slickly done!

  • neoman #19 1 year ago

    i don't think if shepard ever returned by valve's hands he'd be so generic. better faceless with a military suit. also.. samurai combine? and there's nothing heroic in blowing yourself up, if he'd be willing to die, then he could as well throw that grenade and run
    Edited by neoman at 24/01/11 @ 14:14

  • Enigmax #20 1 year ago

    Cool, Commander Shepard is in it.

  • strangerism #21 1 year ago

    Half Life videogame experience was much more deep on many levels including human, social-political and cultural. this is a quite average action movie thing.

  • FortysixterUK #22 1 year ago

    Impressive.

  • Freek #23 1 year ago

    This would have been impressive, were it not for Escape from City 17 wich is far better in terms of tone and production.
    They over did the color grading, the martial arts, the action. Everything seems a little off.

    And Hollywood has made something like this: the Silent Hill movie.
    Same issues to, sticks to its source material fairly close but still feels a little off and has a nonsensical story.

  • GitSomE_UK #24 1 year ago

    Great.... But would have been more true to the game if the main character started jumping repeatedly whilst rummaging around the room, smashing all boxes, looking in all crates and pistol whipping repeatedly the NPCs whilst they were talking.

  • graysonavich #25 1 year ago

    meh?

  • Harmonica #26 1 year ago

    Nicely done minus the garden variety zombies and combine-fu.