Nietzschesaurus knows what’s up. I bet his pee-pee’s longer than that of whoever disagrees with me.
Combine soldiers also wear those super-practical cyclops helmets with blazing white armor.
IIRC every in-game combine unit has glowing parts/eyes except for metrocops
ramirezoid’s right. look at everything involving the combine. they obviously value form over function. i mean, they teleport in mile tall buildings that look menacing and stomp the ground (?) for shits and grins, they plaster everything with super cool logos, every rank of soldier has a completely different uniform; even one that is snow white for no reason. also: they turn absolutely everything into mechs! WHY? because it’s cool.
being utilitarian comes second to being fucking awesome in the eyes of the combine.
striders are pretty fucking cool :>
there should have been a strider fight, damnit
I couldnt agree more. They took the staples of what made HL special and broke them and threw a bunch of crap in there that doesn’t make sense. Couldn’t take this seriously as a HL short film. It’d be alot better if they didn’t tack that title on there.
I forgot this came out yesterday. Thanks for reminding! 
I have to agree with you, the only real things connected to half life were Adrian Shephard, the Combine and a few things thrown in there. They also mentioned City 17, and I thought the combine renamed it City 17
Oh well. It’s not the worst HL related video I suppose.
I enjoyed it. I was a bit weirded out when the zombies were introduced, but even in the trailer you could see they weren’t going to be doing the whole true-to-game thing that the Purchase Brothers did. Hence why i had no trouble in overlooking these apparent “flaws”.
Oh, and Ninja fights are awesome, no matter the context.
I did however think the ending was kind of shitty.
herp a durp look at all my shiny effects and ridiculous places and camera shakes.
IT SUCKS SO BAD!!!
A bit too much on the CGI side, but I liked it. It looked like one of the professional commercials, which is awesome, compared to the budget. I understood it as an action short with HL2 bits and pieces, so I was fine with some changes and non-canonical “flaws” (zombies, katana…).
This was free and fan made = I can bitch about it only if I am able to deliver better, which I am not.
If I would be an advertising agency and see this I would hire them instantly.
If you take out every aspects taken from HL2, it’s a regular short action movie.
Entertaining at most but epic fail with nearly all HL related stuff.
Problem 1- no headcrabs on the zombies
Problem 2- that stupid hologram
Problem 3- using Shephard seemed pointless and didn’t really add to the story
It’s a decent effort but it isn’t what I want from a Half-Life fan film
Other than the headcraps and the fast zombies, I really had no complaints. I think it was very well done. Kept me interested from start to finish, so I give it a thumbs up.
A nicely done Left 4 Half-Life 2 fan made movie.
EDIT: And straight from the Youtube movie description:
Maybe Maxey is right. They made a kickass short movie for their resumé, and based it on a HL universe just to attract more attention.
It’s perfectly acceptable from a fan point of view to go the direction of ‘taking artistic liberties’ rather than ‘straight out of the HL2’ universe.
I’m ok with the lack of zombie headcrabs (honestly I doubt even a AAA movie could do that right, despite their awesomeness they even feel a bit cheesy in the Half Life games themselves).
I’m ok with the arm holographic computer. If the combine MAY have it, then the resistance can. It’s much easier to steal that than a TRUCK, if it’s potentially in the world then they could potentially have it. What I didn’t like was how long they chose to focus on it, it felt like a huge product placement. 
Let’s not pretend that the combine are logically perfect (as someone else already pointed out). I think glowing eyes are an acceptable deviation and the red effect was pretty snazzy.
When the katana was pulled out I flipped a bit, and I’m sure someone did already own one (there are a lot of geeks out there with Katanas). And from the looks of this Brian Curtin guy he knows how to use one and do some flippy stuff. Second point, a bit TOO much flippy stuff but some of it was cool.
Too much awkwardly placed comedy. Do we even know what the combine are yet? Do they pee? It just felt awkward to see that scene, as well as a few others that seemed to have a small amount of humor that just didn’t really belong in such a small clip.
Acting could have been better, but it was made by the same folk so that’s fine. Overall, it was really nicely done, and they took the freedoms they wanted with it. Nice job folks!
(I can only imagine the outcry over the slight changes the BMS team takes)
As a purely fan-made film it was decent, and the Combine do have glowing eyes on their masks in HL2; the Soldiers have cyan, Nova Prospekt guards have yellow and Elites have red, although it is less obvious due to the lack of lens-flare. (which was really over-used in the film)
I agree with the comment about the Combine actors’ deaths; the guy who was peeing looked just like an awesome ragdoll. I lol’d.
They made pretty good use of the Action Essentials (blood splats, sparks, dust, etc…) pack for After Effects too. 
Dood… a freaking katana?!
As many have said, the Effects and location are VERY good. But many the style in which it’s directed, the odd fights, katanas, etc all add up making it not feel very half-life in the end.
Entertaining, but not much more.
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