Just in case anyone hasn’t seen them yet, Purchase Brothers have released a New Cut of ‘Escape from City 17 - Part One’ and a new Teaser Trailer on Youtube. Here they are:
Escape From City 17 - Part One - New Cut
Escape from City 17 Teaser Trailer
Nothing really new here apart from some extra footage in the Teaser Trailer (the ‘New Cut’ adds nothing new but removes the painful dialogue in the middle), i thought, however, it would be good to spread the word that this awesome idea hasn’t died.
Can’t wait for the next part.
Looks cool. I don’t feel like watching the recut version, dialogue is ok by me.
Me too.
But painful dialogue… I think it’s good that they were willing to admit that they didn’t do it perfectly the first time around.
Hmm, matter of opinion i guess. 
One thing i’m really glad they’ve improved on is the headcrab zombies. Did anyone else notice how awesome they look now?
The dialogue they removed is when he was mumbling into the radio about missing the train. I didn’t really like it the first time, so it’s good they removed it. Trailer looks epic.
I especially like how realistic the Combine move.
Honestly, am I the only person in the world who thinks this stuff stinks to high heaven of fail?
Their rotoscoped characters look atrociously laughable. Not just because they’re putting CG heads on human bodies, but because they’re completely disproportionate and poorly placed.
People bang on about it only having a budget of $500, but that budget mainly went on costumes… the costumes are fairly good, but their ‘refined’ CG techniques detract completely from them.
I like their technique, actually.
Uh… yes. Yes you are. 
The only thing good about this series is the costumes and nods to the game. The writing is no better than your average Uwe Boll film. I don’t give a fuck if it’s a low budget film. It’s still a shitty low budget film.
QFT. It may be pretty to watch, but it’s still bland, really bland.
I hope Part II is never released.
EDIT: Took out text.
And HOLY CRAP I know where they shot a lot of the stuff in the teaser trailer. Sort of cool. 
If you watched the edited version, you’d see they took out that clumsy bit in the middle.
In the teaser, one zombies headcrab is realistic, (taken from the game,) the other two are sorta weird looking…
Also, I’m still happy where they filmed it.
That’s cause they’re placeholders for when they edit in the game headcrabs.
That CG headcrab looks terrible. Especially since it’s on someone that can’t shamble for beans.
I’m also put off by the default HL2 zombie voices on a real person that would be capable of making their own vocalizations.
Aside from the gigantic CG heads, it’s all really cool.
The headcrab on the zombie is faaar too big.
more real guns please!
The headcrab is still work in progress. Dont expect that to be final.
I just noticed the new vids yesterday, looks like we are on a smiliar train of thought.
I am excited for the next one, apparantly there’s some large project being worked on. I wonder what that could be?
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