@@UnknownDino Haha, ty! Can't wait to see what else you'll make. The portal startup sequence was chef's kiss. Also very glad to see that the almighty algorithm seems to be picking this one up. Well deserved.
@@davidwuhrer6704 What if the Doom Slayer He could teleport into the Half-Life universe and give Gordon Freeman his armor for a few weeks... Considering that it took Gordon no more than a couple of days to destroy the Alliance's "colony" on earth.
@@Аноним-п1ж That might weaken Freeman, I guess, but he did okay even without his HEV suit, so maybe not? On the other hand, if the Doomslayer had access to Black Mesa's HEV suits with the longjump extension…
It's something to consider. We've never actually seen the true extent of the Combine Empire. As far as we know, Breen's descriptions of it were likely literal. Who knows what kinds of horrors they have under their control, what sorts of incomprehensible power they truly managed to unleash during the 7 Hour War that we don't see from the 'backwater police force' that was left behind.
Most likely a whole bunch of wmds, flesh-eating viruses, and probably a mixture of hunters and striders for a "cleanup duty" to mop up all that's left. Before Breen managed to contact them, Combine were deadset on humanity, or rather, complete life eradication course. If there is one thing about combine that is absolutely true, then it is efficency. They needed resources - water, minerals, metals. They didn't care for slaves much until they realized humans are capable of communication and teleportation tech
In addition, the most horrifying thing I'd say is, while Breen is the antagonist, he is probably the sole reason humanity was alive by the time hl2 started
Your most likely correct, without Breen negotiations with the combine(and that humans are able to make in universe teleporters, idk how the combine never got a race that's able to make in universe teleporters), humanity will just become another race erased or even "COMBINEd" with genetic engineering from the combine.
Imagine playing as a "reassigned" human who manages to escape custody after the Citadel is destroyed, now having to fight their way through the Combine's home turf to get back home.
I like the part where the combine casually invaded probably another planet like it’s just another day as usual. really gives off that earth was just another number to the combine
The Earth is actually really insignificant for the Combine, they’re just so large that they can send what seems like a giant amount of forces to overwhelm the Earth when for them it’s not even 0.0000000001% of their forces. They are literally a multidimensional empire. They must be in control of trillions of worlds with life or far more. They see an entire planet as one being basically. Gordon was the one individual who changed that.
Best thing ive seen all year, Breens got a very Dune God Emperor feel to him in this. now ambigious G-man cameo too, would be really cool if the Gordon starts upgrading his HEV suit with combine Tech, that would be really cool to me. There is SO much they can do in this, its Staggering to think of the possibilities!
not sure if was intentional, but I love how you made it feel like how all the synths were just 'part' of the overworld, like cells in a unimaginably massive body, fitting with the combines use of medical jargon when dealing with humanity. Showing the combine isnt really an alien empire, but a single organism that is never ending in its growth, an organism so huge that it has to spread through universes to keep itself alive.
That's definitely my interpretation, too. I like to imagine that there is no 'top' to the combine, no actual leaders or species that's at the helm. The Combine is probably just a giant, impossibly vast AI; a blind idiot god that expands and consumes simply for the sake of it.
That's the best way to put it. There is no "leadership" caste or ruling government for the combine. The combine is a super complex series of interlocking systems that brutalizes and absorbs other individual organisms and intellects into itself, reshaping them to become just another extension of The Combine.
ye. kinda reminds me of the Iris of Gemini Home Entertainment, which literally consumes other eldritch beings in order to keep itself alive. And I wrote this cause I just read these comments lmao
More like interdimensional version of Stellaris, mixed with few RTS missions in invasions, sometimes leaving their AI to play a hybrid of City manager and Lambda Wars (RTS Half-Life 2 mod) style RTS game hybrid, with Advisors playing "no-build/limited resources" missions when shit gets real, like in Half-Life 2 and Episodes!
@@ptolemaicfoxxo3032 And you leave a little bit of your enemy remaining so that you can continue toying around with their forces, while your opponent is doing their best to not even try to beat you, but to survive.
So you mean like an empire Next youll comment on a WW2 documentary "this shit is so peak, it really gives the vibe that the allies were playing Company of Heroes"
I love how there's almost no humans present, and just original alien combine synth designs, and I love the giger aesthetic for the overworld bio-structure things
That's reference to Alyx's or Russell's offhand comment about whatever headcrabs would make bigger animals more or less dangerous than their naturally primal state in Half-Life: Alyx game.
I actually got the vibes that this is not their homeworld but more like worlds between world. a portal hub in sort. also from the HL2 lore. some of the combine penalties is to send you to "off world relocation" for their soldiers and Civil protection officer who disobey them. this probably one of them.
I just love the organic feel of this combine overworld, all the strange creatures walking on the walls, with smaller synths climbing on larger synths and strange Pitcher Pot Ant like synths dangling from antenna and other things, its all just so good, like this machine is alive, like the planet they are on is alive. everything is alive
MAN! This captures the essence of Half-Life 2 and draws up on it in such a perfect way! Incredible new creature designs, showing how truly alien the Combine are, and that even with their humanity removed, the soldiers we fight in HL2 are the most human part of the Combine we could ever see, and that the desolate streets of City 17 are the most cozy and familiar place humanity can inhabit; the sense of scale, in which even the enormous Citadel dwarfs in comparison, showing how the force we fought was merely a policing garrison. And the last scene showing Gordon's POV making us imagine what Half-Life 3 could have been... Also, this feels a lot like the alien homeworld scene in Pacific Rim (In a good way!)
I loved that scene in Pacific Rim! It really concluded for the imagination of the viewers thoughts about what or who was sending the Kaiju from the other side 👍 it was amazing for cinema because it fits pretty well for the ending of that movie! it’s done even better here for half life to reiterate the combine threat using its unknown technology to open gateways across the multiverse 😮 this scene also shows the audience how hidden humanity was to this sinister empire had it not been conducting experiments in territories of science not understood! Tie this combine over world scene back to half life Ch1 and it’s the perfect title choice unforeseen consequences! This strikes so many cords for my sci fi itch because I’m starting to see the subject of not what if in this universe but what if in the multi universe has become a serious topic since in actual scientific theory it’s become pretty obvious the multiverse is real!
was really skeptical about this video because fan projects that usually try to capture the deeper and more alien aspects of the combine miss the mark or make them too familiar. but this was absolutely amazing. practically perfectly captures the disturbing, unimaginably massive, alien aspects of what make the combine so interesting. great work!
Seeing the Combine Overworld being explored by fans (even conceptually) is something I've always wanted to see. I've had a lot of thoughts on what it may look like myself but THIS has to be the most accurate. I gotta love the striders climbing the citadel like spiders too. That and seeing breen grub was just... chilling. EXCELLENT work, mate!
They won't last 7 minutes because the Earth's military is VERY VERY WEAKENED after the xen race x and combine wars or They are becoming MORE aggressive and stronger (Universal union)
Capturing the magnitude of the Overworld is something that's not an easy task or really been accomplished but I think this has done it. This is the official depiction of the Overworld to me.
Half Life has been incredibly successful in many ways, but the fact that the art, writing, design, and lore continues to inspire stuff like this is a testament to its lasting success.
@@Un_revealing I just want a regular fps game. I don't care about VR or 4d or smelling gmans farts. Just give a nice well developed world to play with. Valve makes hundreds of millions per year, a decent hl3 game is chump change to them.
He basically got turned into the removed consul character that preceded him, a guy who would have slowly been fused with a biomechanical life support system to become immortal. Only now, you see that Breen would've preferred to die should he have known what being in a host body would've entailed.
This is actually the most incredible fan interpretation of the greater Combine empire I've ever seen in any form of media, and I've been scouring the web for this sort of thing for eons. Absolutely exceptional work with the synth designs, to me they seem to fit right in with what we've seen thus far from Valve. Please don't stop producing this sort of content, it's simply too good to show briefly and never again.
Good GOD, this is an absolutely stunning depiction of the Combine Overworld. By far the definitive one in my opinion. Every part of this is perfect from start to finish, showing how completely different The Combine is in a way that is impossible to fully describe. The choice to make Breen a malnourished corpse on life support as opposed to a host body is a little odd but it can be excused, because it’s a brilliant visual and only one part of this masterpiece. The part at the end with Gordon is also underrated. Helping to demonstrate how vast the environment is from a first person POV AND setting him up with a weapon CONSIDERABLY more powerful than his usual fare. Like the entire power ceiling just got boosted by a hundred and now he’s going to be fighting what would’ve normally been considered bosses as regular enemies. GOD I’d love a game set on the Overworld now.
Getting giant Oddworld and Scorn type vibes, this legit looks like a final level in a Half Life game. Remember this all happened because a guy was late for work
Not really, his lateness to work made other people's lives longer with at least 30 or minutes with the incident for people that died instantly and bit longer for others.
@@RootVegetabIe Well I know ,but it's still not accurate as a joke . There are many reasons basically, why this happened and being late is not one of them . Yes it's funny ,but it will be funnier if was actually true . :)
Imagine if aperature tech allows Gordon and team to teleport into their world and you go on rescue, sabotage and infiltration missions like Warhammer Darktide. I could Imagine this game playing like Half-Life+Doom+Quake
And then gman becomes super Saiyan and Eli vance becomes a Better nihilant ....but Alyx uploads Her consciusness in Glados and Ripley boxes vs dog in xen
Love how genuinely alien these Combine look. No conveniently human-sized Combine for us to shoot at like normal soldiers, everything looks massive and like a human should never have gotten here. Taking on these enemies might be the creativity needed to get Valve off their asses to make the next game, since they only ever care about making tech demos.
metro cops are regular humans and the combine soldiers are humans that were genetically altered by the combine, but i definitely agree, the first half life had way more crazy alien stuff than the second one for some reason, would have been way more interesting if they went even weirder in half life 2
@@auroradynia I didn't really mean that as a criticism towards Half Life 2 and the Combine soldiers in that, I actually think they wrote in a pretty decent explanation for it since they are actually human soldiers. I'm just appreciating how the Combine here look truly alien and completely different from what we'd normally expect, especially in an FPS. As opposed to something like Halo where almost all of the aliens are conveniently human-sized because they obviously have to be since it's an FPS. Or even like Mass Effect, where all the aliens are basically normal people. Like, this is the *actual* Combine that originally conquered Earth, not the ones that were babysitting it after.
The end really looked like the beginning of a DOOM game, with the industrial metal music building up, the way Freeman charges the gravity gun and proceeds to launch debris at the Strider. If this was the actual trailer for the next HL release, I'd tell you to take my money. You've done an incredible work on the details, properly depicting a combine world with all the technical challenges that comes along with it, now that's some proper dedication. Be proud of yourself because that's definitely an AAA game trailer quality you've achieved and shared for everyone to witness !
This is fucking insane and perfect, they need to hire you. I can’t believe it only too 6 months. I love the striders, the combine architecture is perfect, valve would be proud.
But what does "winning" look like at this scale? Somehow getting the combine cut off from earth forever? They'll just re-establish connection sooner or later. Find and destroy the "head" of the combine? Surely they have an administration structure that can reconstitute itself in such an event if they are universe-spanning..
@@atsizbalik ?, They've been updating the game constantly. It isn't just one team working on all games, it's multiple. I know that CS2 is ass as of now, mainly due to input lag, peeker's advantage, and the anticheat, but it's definitely going to improve later on There has been leaks of a new Cache being made, a snowy cobblestone map in the works, a possible operation, and Danger Zone as well. Danger Zone used the codename "survival" in csgo, and there has been mentions of it in cs2's code I might be coping hard, but I'm hopeful that CS2 is going to be polished in a year or so
You, my friend have perfectly captured, nay, PERFECTED the Combine design language. Everything, biological or machine, moves and acts as if it were part of a single, omniscient, uncaring being. Breen's grandiose ranting contrasted with his fate is horrifically amazing. And the overall quality of the video is beyond words. 100/10. Cannot recommend enough!!! Valve ain't got nothin on you!!!
@@UnknownDinoHe truly is! It makes you wonder if he truly believed in what he was saying, deluding himself into believing it to justify his actions, or if he just did it all for power, and is just spewing out whatever ge thinks will make the Combine reward him.
"Look, Gordon. Look at what you're throwing away!" Yeah, says the guy who's been eaten from the waist down by a giant worm, had cybernetic implants buried in his head, has his muscle tissue wasting away, and lives in an artificial womb simply to survive the atmosphere of the planet his "benefactors" sent him to.
@@RomeoTheOptimist He's not with the Combine, right, his Employers are enemies of the Combine, but of course he's here keeping an eye on Gordon and supervising his progress, as he always has been
Dude, VALVE definitely should take this into account. This first Gigger architecture impression combined with Tripods striders walking around ...oh dude, you did great work.
@@Joe-dy7bb Piss off let him be a fanboy. We've been depraved from Half-Life 3 long enough. Let us have excitement for something probably we wont live long enough to see it.
This was the best fan-made Half-Life animation I've ever seen. In fact, I've never seen a fan-made video with so much work put into it, and I was like, "let this guy direct this game!". The imagination you have is really endless. Thank you for all your hard work ! ❤
I wonder if we'll ever get an answer. I'm of the strong opinion that the barn advisor is Breen, given how it seems to toy with it's environment when it first wakes up.
@@dr.cheeze5382 Plus, the scene in episode one where an old recording of Breen plays and then an Advisor in a pod emerges directly after definitely seems like it was foreshadowing this
@@dr.cheeze5382 Why do you guys keep saying Breen is an advisor? He never got his host body, he never crossed the portal. When Gordon destroyed the portal generator, the sphere Breen was in fell, and then the reactor exploded, turning Breen and everything else into dust. He's Dead. Plus, that advisor is not toying with the environment, since it was forced out of its life support, it couldn't see properly, so it had to touch things with its tongue to find out what they are.
To think this is but a fraction of the Combine Empire's actual strength... I also love the design of the extended Synth Forces such as those Striders and Dropships, really sells their aesthetic.
Actually, it's like a grain of sand on a beach, considering that the alliance knows how to create Dyson spheres and conquer worlds. For them, Gordon Freeman is like an ant that managed to survive the flooding of an anthill
This is sooo good. This is such a natural escalation and if only Valve saw something like this, it might have ignited their passion for this property to take it to the next level...which is exactly what your concept shows. Great job!!
I absolutely LOVE the Striders (?) crawling around the portal gate at 1:10. It really evokes that sense of unease and disgust that we get when looking at a cluster of wooded stick-insects and the seemingly unnatural way that they move and behave. They're like bacteria infecting an open wound.
Stick insects sway back and forth on their legs to imitate leaves blowing in the wind. These things are more like a daddy long legs with legs pulled off.
given that the og half life is practically a boomer shooter now, it would be damn crazy if hl3 was a REAL boomer shooter, sort of like doom eternal or dusk or ultrakill or whatever good games there are. just imagine gordon freeman bunnyhopping around the combine world giving earth justice to every damned synth being
What’s really terrifying is that we have no clue what the Combine actually look like. All of the aliens we have seen in Half Life are either Xen, Species X, or other species that the Combine have enslaved. So we have no idea what the actual Combine look like.
It would be really fun if Valve did take Borg's way, aka Combine has original species but now it's irrelevance for them as original species melt into all those bioengineering mess and Combine didn't care about that anymore, others also didn't know. It has 'leader' synthetic species but just for efficiency reason only.
What makes this fascinating is the massive scale is coupled with speed and efficiency. In particular on how the massive tower structure receiving the final piece, being powered up, opening the portal and the reinforcements pouring into it in the span of thirty seconds. Human technology is ponderous in comparison.
You are comparing existing human technology(as you know it) to the non-existent vision of an artist. He could just as well have portrayed the almighty god Vishnu here.
@@alexpetrov8871 That makes it even more impressive as existing human technology is already decades beyond what human technology was at the time of HL2, meaning combine technology NOW is even more insane than what it was in the HL2 days.
Fine work, anyone making fan art would wish it to be on this quality level. I like how you extended the design and some solid effect work as well. That base-of-the-tower-portal scene was pretty epic.
@@gustawbobowski1333 nah that wasnt the scouting party, they prob just sent in a single big arse carrier-like ship, which then proceeded to spam the shit out of those fly synths that rode on the strider 👌
i absolutely Adore how "organic" this all is. With bio-mechanical pieces of the grand machine scuttling around, crawling on things like giant spiders and ticks. Everything looking so alive
That's really portrays how Combine is not just any regular alien race with like one star system or a few captured, but that they conquered entire universes, chilling vibes
I don't think entire universes but possibly entire galaxies. It is an interesting idea about how many of these portal planets there could be throughout their empire, and how many planets are being invaded at a time.
@@Omega-tc1xd I guess that even if their technology is not exactly the best possible technology, as long as they have the capacity to rapidly expand within and between universes with warp ships, as well as utilize any mineral resources found on asteroids and planets to produce more ships, they could dominate the universe.
@@ChaseCasimiro The combine conquers entire solar systems easily( theres a photo of various solar system planets in a combine terminal such as venus, mars, etc, they probably didn't conquer them because there wasn't any life form in those planets) so i assume their technology and brutally powerful army makes them deadly enough to conquer universes, but as we saw they needed humanity teleport technology to teleport to universe to universe that's why they didn't come back to earth.
@@ChaseCasimiro They definitely have the best possible technology when they're rivaling god like beings such as g-man's employers, and even the small forces on earth were able to build a temporary prison to trap g-man. They also wiped out entire civilizations of powerful beings like Nihilanth. The only thing stopping them from being invincible is their lack of local teleportation, and that is exactly what g-man is trying to prevent them from getting. I think the Combine has grown so powerful that they've become the ultimate threat.
Damn man, this has it all, the complete 'other-worldness' and true might of the Combine, G-man cameo, the Aperture logo on Gordon's gun, bloody amazing. Not to mention praise from the messiah himself; TheParryGod!
From the sheer size and scope of the Combine Overworld to one of the best usage of Combine Harvester I've seen, amazing work! I really hope it takes off, I've wanted to see something like this since 2007!
Bruh, this is EXACTLY how I imagined the Combine Overworld to be! I really love all the unique synth designs, and the sheer magnitude of everything presented. Also, in this interpretation, is the Overworld just a local command center/nexus or the real “capital” of the Combine?
This shown here is just one of MANY interdimentional-portal generators. Many of them operate simultaneously whenever a massive attack is occurring. We happened to look at the one being managed by "BreenGrub"
By the way, why does Dr. Breens host body still have his original body latched on to it? Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just completely transfer Breens consciousness into the host body?
The consciousness copies of Breen were "incomplete" and "disfunctional" to say the least (based on Mark Laidlaw writings on breengrub). This here was the latest version, the actual body parts of Breen that made it on the other side of the portal in the end of HL2. So the combine kept alive the only version of Breen that did not betray them, the original one.
I think this might be intended to be one of many consecutive sections, and whenever there is an invasion they connect the power plugs to turn the portals on and direct all the troops to them.
Holy shit this is beautiful! I can't stop looking at those Combine walking around, amazing designs. This could very well be just a trailer for Episode 3! AMAZING WORK!!!
After all these years I’ve never seen someone capture the combine aesthetic so perfectly, while even adapting and evolving it for higher graphical fidelity.
Absolute masterpiece. You mastered the combine design language and got it even more powerful. Great architecture, animations, rendering, scale, vfx and world building. Congrats man !!
Perfection. You've managed to capture the inhuman, biomechanical, almost insectoid nature of the combine down to a tea. I really didn't think anyone could do the combine homeworld justice, I stand corrected. You sir are an inspiration!
This is just perfect. The design, so congruent with what we have seen on the games, the ambientation, the lighting, animation... It's a 10/10. I would just say that the "trumpet music" feels a bit out of place. But man, this is awesome. Fantastic job!
This is peak fan creation. Captures what Combine is exactly- a giant hive with insatiable hunger for expansion. Theoretically the most effective way of survival.
Why in the absolute love of God is this straight up peak? He really cooked us a five star meal that even Gordon Ramsay would be envious of for free, for us. You deserve way more than nearly 3K subs, mate.
The fact that watching this in fullscreen with the best resolution really feels like playing during a cutscene of a Half-Life 3 type game is just amazing.
@@UnknownDinosound could definitely use some tweaking, mostly the music however as voice sounds good imo. send me the vox and music files separately if you want and i’ll master it for you (professional audio engineer) image could be ever so slightly colour graded for better contrast ratio, if we’re nitpicking, but already looks great as is too. amazing job either way! could have easily fooled me that it was the official HL3 trailer we’ll probably never get…
Is it just me or the strider, or whatever the hell that machine, or basically striders are organic in the original and this version too in 02:59, looks like a tripod from War of the Worlds (2005 Adaptation)?
this is so cool. Randomly found your account while looking for 3D model beta recreations and found an announcment about this project. I love the kingpin look-a-like and mites. So much work was put into modelling and vfx....
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That was incredible.
Wait... That's actually you!
I saw almost all you HL movies last night, just for a refresh 😁
omg real theparrygod
@@UnknownDino Haha, ty! Can't wait to see what else you'll make. The portal startup sequence was chef's kiss. Also very glad to see that the almighty algorithm seems to be picking this one up. Well deserved.
We’re in the presence of greatness
Dr. Gordon Freeman with 25 HP, no shield, and armed only with a super gravity gun: "They don't stand a chance."
The only thing the Doomslayer fears is Dr Gordon Freeman
@@davidwuhrer6704 What if the Doom Slayer He could teleport into the Half-Life universe and give Gordon Freeman his armor for a few weeks... Considering that it took Gordon no more than a couple of days to destroy the Alliance's "colony" on earth.
@@Аноним-п1ж One must remember that Gordon is steered by something mysterious.. We shall not name it!
I don't like their odds.
@@Аноним-п1ж That might weaken Freeman, I guess, but he did okay even without his HEV suit, so maybe not?
On the other hand, if the Doomslayer had access to Black Mesa's HEV suits with the longjump extension…
Bro you nailed the combine aesthetic so well. Biomechanical beings + some unfathomablely large architecture + sharp and assymetric edges = Combine
true, it looks really good and accurate to how they might be.
Wow sensei youre here? Lol
Reminds me of Vex architecture from Destiny but very dirty and foggy.
oh hello
+Yugoslav music filtered through the 98th dimension
It's something to consider. We've never actually seen the true extent of the Combine Empire. As far as we know, Breen's descriptions of it were likely literal. Who knows what kinds of horrors they have under their control, what sorts of incomprehensible power they truly managed to unleash during the 7 Hour War that we don't see from the 'backwater police force' that was left behind.
The striders gunships dropships are just skeleton crew
Most likely a whole bunch of wmds, flesh-eating viruses, and probably a mixture of hunters and striders for a "cleanup duty" to mop up all that's left. Before Breen managed to contact them, Combine were deadset on humanity, or rather, complete life eradication course. If there is one thing about combine that is absolutely true, then it is efficency. They needed resources - water, minerals, metals. They didn't care for slaves much until they realized humans are capable of communication and teleportation tech
In addition, the most horrifying thing I'd say is, while Breen is the antagonist, he is probably the sole reason humanity was alive by the time hl2 started
Your most likely correct, without Breen negotiations with the combine(and that humans are able to make in universe teleporters, idk how the combine never got a race that's able to make in universe teleporters), humanity will just become another race erased or even "COMBINEd" with genetic engineering from the combine.
I expect this was intentional, masterful horror reveals as little as possible and leaves bulk of the work to the audience's imagination...
So, this is how that 'permanent off-world reassignment' looks like.
Imagine playing as a "reassigned" human who manages to escape custody after the Citadel is destroyed, now having to fight their way through the Combine's home turf to get back home.
@@franciscoandres4907 Half Life : Gray shift
BOGER STRPODERS RAHHHHHHHGHHH
I have always thought it as just a fancy word they use for death. Since even Combine does not know what happens after death.
@@Comfortable_crowjokes on you im into that
Screw a return to ravenholm or the borealis, the combine overworld would be sick as an episode 3 or 4
We already have the Borealis sidestory. Why not have another sidestory?
Entropy: Zero 2 is Borealis, we now need Overworld
@@IdentificadorNoDisponibleYes, we need a game just like in this video!
@@IdentificadorNoDisponible This trailer has so many Scorn vibes to it and nails the Combine aesthetic PERFECTLY. We need a game like this.
Pretty sure that was the eventual destination in old script drafts
I like the part where the combine casually invaded probably another planet like it’s just another day as usual. really gives off that earth was just another number to the combine
I think that’s still earth
@@linnick4393 yep
The Earth is actually really insignificant for the Combine, they’re just so large that they can send what seems like a giant amount of forces to overwhelm the Earth when for them it’s not even 0.0000000001% of their forces. They are literally a multidimensional empire. They must be in control of trillions of worlds with life or far more. They see an entire planet as one being basically. Gordon was the one individual who changed that.
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Yea that's still Earth lol, but it being another casual dimension invasion would be just as good
Best thing ive seen all year, Breens got a very Dune God Emperor feel to him in this. now ambigious G-man cameo too, would be really cool if the Gordon starts upgrading his HEV suit with combine Tech, that would be really cool to me. There is SO much they can do in this, its Staggering to think of the possibilities!
not sure if was intentional, but I love how you made it feel like how all the synths were just 'part' of the overworld, like cells in a unimaginably massive body, fitting with the combines use of medical jargon when dealing with humanity. Showing the combine isnt really an alien empire, but a single organism that is never ending in its growth, an organism so huge that it has to spread through universes to keep itself alive.
That's definitely my interpretation, too. I like to imagine that there is no 'top' to the combine, no actual leaders or species that's at the helm. The Combine is probably just a giant, impossibly vast AI; a blind idiot god that expands and consumes simply for the sake of it.
A perfect asthetic for something called “the combine”
That's the best way to put it. There is no "leadership" caste or ruling government for the combine. The combine is a super complex series of interlocking systems that brutalizes and absorbs other individual organisms and intellects into itself, reshaping them to become just another extension of The Combine.
So they're the ultimate cancer
ye. kinda reminds me of the Iris of Gemini Home Entertainment, which literally consumes other eldritch beings in order to keep itself alive.
And I wrote this cause I just read these comments lmao
This is so peak. Really gives the vibes the Combine are just playing a giant RTS game
More like interdimensional version of Stellaris, mixed with few RTS missions in invasions, sometimes leaving their AI to play a hybrid of City manager and Lambda Wars (RTS Half-Life 2 mod) style RTS game hybrid, with Advisors playing "no-build/limited resources" missions when shit gets real, like in Half-Life 2 and Episodes!
Sh gets real ™ Valve+ MFX (mind effects)
Its when you already beat the mission but dont finish the objective so you can harvest every resource and build the biggest base you can imagine
@@ptolemaicfoxxo3032 And you leave a little bit of your enemy remaining so that you can continue toying around with their forces, while your opponent is doing their best to not even try to beat you, but to survive.
So you mean like an empire
Next youll comment on a WW2 documentary "this shit is so peak, it really gives the vibe that the allies were playing Company of Heroes"
I love how there's almost no humans present, and just original alien combine synth designs, and I love the giger aesthetic for the overworld bio-structure things
Yeah only 2 humans, including Gordon. Actually 3… including… breengrub lol
@@chewy99. G-man is not human.
@@bizmasterTheSlav Yeah definitely not but he looks like one so he is familiar in that sense so it’s reasonable to count him
@@chewy99. good point
@@bizmasterTheSlavhes literally me
That headcrab bear was... An interesting concept. One helluva miniboss.
That's reference to Alyx's or Russell's offhand comment about whatever headcrabs would make bigger animals more or less dangerous than their naturally primal state in Half-Life: Alyx game.
Like in Metro.
@@-ak-634 Leaks show that a headcrab gorilla might actually make it into the next Half Life title
@@DistilledGuava Damn. Now we need all of the headcrabified animals!
A grizzly infected by a fast headcrab would be nightmare fuel
wow the combines home world looks like such a bright ray of sunshine
It's a happy workplace, like a big family.
I actually got the vibes that this is not their homeworld but more like worlds between world. a portal hub in sort. also from the HL2 lore. some of the combine penalties is to send you to "off world relocation" for their soldiers and Civil protection officer who disobey them. this probably one of them.
@@CoolSsreal
@@CoolSs I don't think they even have a single homeworld anymore.
I sure hope the locals are friendly to tourists, I’m sure theirs nothing to worry about.
This is fucking VALVE quality animation, this is BEYOND amazing.
Don't forget the audio design! That stuff really stood out to me!
Making the Striders look like crawling spiders on giant Combine architecture was GENIUS.
its like a spider crab colony
That was absolutely brilliant, 11/10
I just love the organic feel of this combine overworld, all the strange creatures walking on the walls, with smaller synths climbing on larger synths and strange Pitcher Pot Ant like synths dangling from antenna and other things, its all just so good, like this machine is alive, like the planet they are on is alive. everything is alive
MAN! This captures the essence of Half-Life 2 and draws up on it in such a perfect way! Incredible new creature designs, showing how truly alien the Combine are, and that even with their humanity removed, the soldiers we fight in HL2 are the most human part of the Combine we could ever see, and that the desolate streets of City 17 are the most cozy and familiar place humanity can inhabit; the sense of scale, in which even the enormous Citadel dwarfs in comparison, showing how the force we fought was merely a policing garrison. And the last scene showing Gordon's POV making us imagine what Half-Life 3 could have been...
Also, this feels a lot like the alien homeworld scene in Pacific Rim (In a good way!)
The Precursor homeworld...I remember that.
You have quite the artsy mind
What about the crazy design of the gravity gun
I loved that scene in Pacific Rim! It really concluded for the imagination of the viewers thoughts about what or who was sending the Kaiju from the other side 👍 it was amazing for cinema because it fits pretty well for the ending of that movie! it’s done even better here for half life to reiterate the combine threat using its unknown technology to open gateways across the multiverse 😮 this scene also shows the audience how hidden humanity was to this sinister empire had it not been conducting experiments in territories of science not understood! Tie this combine over world scene back to half life Ch1 and it’s the perfect title choice unforeseen consequences! This strikes so many cords for my sci fi itch because I’m starting to see the subject of not what if in this universe but what if in the multi universe has become a serious topic since in actual scientific theory it’s become pretty obvious the multiverse is real!
@@TheKitMurkit The gravity gun reminds me of the gun from Prey (Q-Beam). It has a similar design to it.
0:33 Everybody's favourite alien bureaucrate spotted!
I love g-man sightings
Seeing him in the Combine homeworld is weird.. as if he's arrived to make war against them.. "Now we take the fight.. to THEM..."
was really skeptical about this video because fan projects that usually try to capture the deeper and more alien aspects of the combine miss the mark or make them too familiar. but this was absolutely amazing. practically perfectly captures the disturbing, unimaginably massive, alien aspects of what make the combine so interesting. great work!
1:40 *portal opens*
Combine troopships:
"LET'S FUCKING GOOOO!!"
They were killed by Gordon few hours later
Aperture Science was like: You guys did these just for a portal?
back before Christmas
Yeah I think the Combine aren't a bunch of braindead zoomers
@@arwing20 proof?
Seeing the Combine Overworld being explored by fans (even conceptually) is something I've always wanted to see. I've had a lot of thoughts on what it may look like myself but THIS has to be the most accurate. I gotta love the striders climbing the citadel like spiders too. That and seeing breen grub was just... chilling.
EXCELLENT work, mate!
Pretty sure the grub was Gordon
@@Quenicalno, definitely breen
@@whnvr he’s wearing glasses. If you look at Gordon’s right hand in the last shot, you can see he’s in a host body
@@Quenical No... that's Breen.
@@Spark412 am I high cuz I swear even in the first person shot at the end you can see part of the host body
'It'll be the Seven Hour War, all over again. Except this time we won't last seven minutes...'
- Eli Vance
YEHEY TEAM CLOWN.
Damn, just like me fr
They won't last 7 minutes because the Earth's military is VERY VERY WEAKENED after the xen race x and combine wars or They are becoming MORE aggressive and stronger (Universal union)
If Gordon gets into the Overworld, it’s the grubs that won’t last seven minutes.
I cant even last that long!
Finally after roughly 5 months of work, here we are!
Which was your favorite, part/element/design?
How did it differ from your expectations?
Capturing the magnitude of the Overworld is something that's not an easy task or really been accomplished but I think this has done it. This is the official depiction of the Overworld to me.
@@PepicWalrus and this is supposed to be a tiny "walkable" section of it.
What are the long-legged spiders doing and what are some armored jellyfish flying as buses for striders?
@@PepicWalrus Same!
The designs really capture it well!
This emphasis one possible interpretation of the Combine: it’s not an empire, it’s a living organism made up of billions of cells.
Half Life has been incredibly successful in many ways, but the fact that the art, writing, design, and lore continues to inspire stuff like this is a testament to its lasting success.
too bad a lazy company has the rights to the game, rip hl 3
@@spoodarman7748 No They acctually want to make games more impressive and intractable, But there's not enough good tech to push the limits
Would it even be possible for anyone other than valve to make a new half life game?
@@KatarinaBohtana no, especially not a sequel, but Entropy Zero: 2 is basically a DLC addon
@@Un_revealing I just want a regular fps game. I don't care about VR or 4d or smelling gmans farts. Just give a nice well developed world to play with. Valve makes hundreds of millions per year, a decent hl3 game is chump change to them.
0:13 Zombie bear very cool
A zombear
@@chromosomedcollector the spas-12 in my HEV suit:
A zombie combine bear? That's like some kind of zomcombear
I demand a zombear to be produced as a plush.
Also absolutely terrifying!
the striders climbing over that citadel like tiny spiders this is so cool
2:30 Past Breen: " Is it worth it ?!?!? "
2:32 Present Breen : .......
Wut, that's Breen?
@@ZWChan-vf8hz yup
Yup. @@ZWChan-vf8hz
@@ZWChan-vf8hz Present Breen is more like please throughly eliminate the suffering that is my Existence
He basically got turned into the removed consul character that preceded him, a guy who would have slowly been fused with a biomechanical life support system to become immortal.
Only now, you see that Breen would've preferred to die should he have known what being in a host body would've entailed.
This is actually the most incredible fan interpretation of the greater Combine empire I've ever seen in any form of media, and I've been scouring the web for this sort of thing for eons.
Absolutely exceptional work with the synth designs, to me they seem to fit right in with what we've seen thus far from Valve.
Please don't stop producing this sort of content, it's simply too good to show briefly and never again.
This is the greatest Half-Life cinematic I have ever seen
Good GOD, this is an absolutely stunning depiction of the Combine Overworld. By far the definitive one in my opinion. Every part of this is perfect from start to finish, showing how completely different The Combine is in a way that is impossible to fully describe. The choice to make Breen a malnourished corpse on life support as opposed to a host body is a little odd but it can be excused, because it’s a brilliant visual and only one part of this masterpiece.
The part at the end with Gordon is also underrated. Helping to demonstrate how vast the environment is from a first person POV AND setting him up with a weapon CONSIDERABLY more powerful than his usual fare. Like the entire power ceiling just got boosted by a hundred and now he’s going to be fighting what would’ve normally been considered bosses as regular enemies. GOD I’d love a game set on the Overworld now.
The combine in general feels so unimaginable to me that I’m surprised someone was able to come up with something like this
Getting giant Oddworld and Scorn type vibes, this legit looks like a final level in a Half Life game. Remember this all happened because a guy was late for work
Not really, his lateness to work made other people's lives longer with at least 30 or minutes with the incident for people that died instantly and bit longer for others.
@@ilkeribrahim6541 They're being humorous. You don't have to reply seriously and "acktually" every fucking thing.
@@RootVegetabIe Well I know ,but it's still not accurate as a joke . There are many reasons basically, why this happened and being late is not one of them . Yes it's funny ,but it will be funnier if was actually true . :)
@@RootVegetabIe This is a worse response tbh
@@ilkeribrahim6541 I think freeman forgot to take the straight train and instead he take the scenery route
Also : the aperture insignia on the only terrestrial component of the new gravity gun , masterpiece .
Imagine if aperature tech allows Gordon and team to teleport into their world and you go on rescue, sabotage and infiltration missions like Warhammer Darktide. I could Imagine this game playing like Half-Life+Doom+Quake
And then gman becomes super Saiyan and Eli vance becomes a Better nihilant ....but Alyx uploads Her consciusness in Glados and Ripley boxes vs dog in xen
Very few have noticed that!
What?! That makes this perfect!
@@andreisechi7871 half life if it was peak:
Love how genuinely alien these Combine look. No conveniently human-sized Combine for us to shoot at like normal soldiers, everything looks massive and like a human should never have gotten here. Taking on these enemies might be the creativity needed to get Valve off their asses to make the next game, since they only ever care about making tech demos.
metro cops are regular humans and the combine soldiers are humans that were genetically altered by the combine, but i definitely agree, the first half life had way more crazy alien stuff than the second one for some reason, would have been way more interesting if they went even weirder in half life 2
Lovercraft like things. The stuff of nightmares.
Same, love the looks here!
@@auroradynia I didn't really mean that as a criticism towards Half Life 2 and the Combine soldiers in that, I actually think they wrote in a pretty decent explanation for it since they are actually human soldiers. I'm just appreciating how the Combine here look truly alien and completely different from what we'd normally expect, especially in an FPS. As opposed to something like Halo where almost all of the aliens are conveniently human-sized because they obviously have to be since it's an FPS. Or even like Mass Effect, where all the aliens are basically normal people. Like, this is the *actual* Combine that originally conquered Earth, not the ones that were babysitting it after.
Wish Valve would convert HL: Alyx for monitor / no VR.
The end really looked like the beginning of a DOOM game, with the industrial metal music building up, the way Freeman charges the gravity gun and proceeds to launch debris at the Strider. If this was the actual trailer for the next HL release, I'd tell you to take my money. You've done an incredible work on the details, properly depicting a combine world with all the technical challenges that comes along with it, now that's some proper dedication. Be proud of yourself because that's definitely an AAA game trailer quality you've achieved and shared for everyone to witness !
This is fucking insane and perfect, they need to hire you. I can’t believe it only too 6 months. I love the striders, the combine architecture is perfect, valve would be proud.
Who would win:
Incomprehensible bio-mechanical alien civilization
Or
27 year old MIT grad with a crowbar
But what does "winning" look like at this scale? Somehow getting the combine cut off from earth forever? They'll just re-establish connection sooner or later. Find and destroy the "head" of the combine? Surely they have an administration structure that can reconstitute itself in such an event if they are universe-spanning..
chad grad
one orange boi
@@H31MU7 Trump's boi
The old fat guy who can't count to three wins
Man I would love an interactive game demo based upon this, even if it is only 5 minutes.
Ooh, you just gave me a flashback of how good the short demo-game version of OPPOSING FORCE was!!
The power of friendship may not suffice this time…
How about a right click with a SPAS-12 ?
Hello? Peak cinema?
Kino, perhaps?
it's not bad but still pretty mid idk about "peak" lol
@@phazon911 and no constructive criticism offered, great job dude!
@@phazon911 im not even a second in and i already know its peak just from the hd mud
Sir this is a Wendy's.
Valve, hire this man.
If I were them, I would hire this man and just announce that Half Life 3 is on the way, since this dude certified chef.
eh, they are busy making money with steam and cs2.
@@unknownmaskman they don't even care about cs2 anymore, just dota
Why? So he can be can be surrounded by a team of people who don't do anything all day?
@@atsizbalik ?, They've been updating the game constantly. It isn't just one team working on all games, it's multiple. I know that CS2 is ass as of now, mainly due to input lag, peeker's advantage, and the anticheat, but it's definitely going to improve later on
There has been leaks of a new Cache being made, a snowy cobblestone map in the works, a possible operation, and Danger Zone as well. Danger Zone used the codename "survival" in csgo, and there has been mentions of it in cs2's code
I might be coping hard, but I'm hopeful that CS2 is going to be polished in a year or so
Love how it goes from machinery to straight up Geiger art
Its H.R. Giger, not Geiger.
Absolutely greatest unofficial video-art on Half-Life that I've ever seen!
You, my friend have perfectly captured, nay, PERFECTED the Combine design language. Everything, biological or machine, moves and acts as if it were part of a single, omniscient, uncaring being. Breen's grandiose ranting contrasted with his fate is horrifically amazing. And the overall quality of the video is beyond words. 100/10. Cannot recommend enough!!! Valve ain't got nothin on you!!!
I'm happy someone finally noticed what I was aiming for with Breen's speeches! He is an amazingly written "villain/victim".
@@UnknownDinoHe truly is! It makes you wonder if he truly believed in what he was saying, deluding himself into believing it to justify his actions, or if he just did it all for power, and is just spewing out whatever ge thinks will make the Combine reward him.
@@darthflipyap7040 Or is he even able to think for himself any longer.
Valve needs to hire you immediately.
"Look, Gordon. Look at what you're throwing away!"
Yeah, says the guy who's been eaten from the waist down by a giant worm, had cybernetic implants buried in his head, has his muscle tissue wasting away, and lives in an artificial womb simply to survive the atmosphere of the planet his "benefactors" sent him to.
0:34 Gman quietly walking on that platform with all the chaos around him gives me chills.
Nice catch!
I thought he is not with combine. His employer is supposed to be someone else.
@@RomeoTheOptimist He's not with the Combine, right, his Employers are enemies of the Combine, but of course he's here keeping an eye on Gordon and supervising his progress, as he always has been
@@RomeoTheOptimist i think he is some sort of anti hero
He doesn't seem to like the combine but he also exploits Gordon and Alyx for mysterious ends
Dude, VALVE definitely should take this into account. This first Gigger architecture impression combined with Tripods striders walking around ...oh dude, you did great work.
This guy just leaked HL3 trailer and still doesn't has even a few million views? Give this man some fame!
🥸
This video game out five hours ago, calm down, fanboy. Also this much of the plot has been known for almost 5 years now.
@@Joe-dy7bb Dude don't be so rude. You're even more weird than he is.
@@Joe-dy7bb Piss off let him be a fanboy. We've been depraved from Half-Life 3 long enough. Let us have excitement for something probably we wont live long enough to see it.
Prolly cuz many people have just given up on and lost interest in Half Life.
HEADCRAB BEARS
Where
@@ned2916 At the beginning.
We had zombines. Now we could get a zombears.
The horror
@@tobcyxob I was bummed when HL: Alyx foreshadowed Zombapes at the zoo, and then never delivered :(
Giving Breen the HL2 early Consul's worm form is a nice touch
This was the best fan-made Half-Life animation I've ever seen. In fact, I've never seen a fan-made video with so much work put into it, and I was like, "let this guy direct this game!". The imagination you have is really endless. Thank you for all your hard work ! ❤
Every time I watch the video I see more and more different details. I can't hide my amazement, it's amazing!!
I imagined when Breen said he was heading somewhere else he ended up in some fucked hellscape like this
I wonder if we'll ever get an answer.
I'm of the strong opinion that the barn advisor is Breen, given how it seems to toy with it's environment when it first wakes up.
@@dr.cheeze5382 Plus, the scene in episode one where an old recording of Breen plays and then an Advisor in a pod emerges directly after definitely seems like it was foreshadowing this
BreenGrub was always a thing
I've always thought that they put breen's mind into chell. Like she was a vegetable until they could find a good science brain for her.
@@dr.cheeze5382 Why do you guys keep saying Breen is an advisor? He never got his host body, he never crossed the portal. When Gordon destroyed the portal generator, the sphere Breen was in fell, and then the reactor exploded, turning Breen and everything else into dust. He's Dead.
Plus, that advisor is not toying with the environment, since it was forced out of its life support, it couldn't see properly, so it had to touch things with its tongue to find out what they are.
Half-Life: Combined.
Full life
To think this is but a fraction of the Combine Empire's actual strength...
I also love the design of the extended Synth Forces such as those Striders and Dropships, really sells their aesthetic.
Actually, it's like a grain of sand on a beach, considering that the alliance knows how to create Dyson spheres and conquer worlds. For them, Gordon Freeman is like an ant that managed to survive the flooding of an anthill
This is sooo good. This is such a natural escalation and if only Valve saw something like this, it might have ignited their passion for this property to take it to the next level...which is exactly what your concept shows. Great job!!
I absolutely LOVE the Striders (?) crawling around the portal gate at 1:10. It really evokes that sense of unease and disgust that we get when looking at a cluster of wooded stick-insects and the seemingly unnatural way that they move and behave. They're like bacteria infecting an open wound.
I reckon the four-legged ones should be called Bigmites.
The synth hit right there is perfect half life
Stick insects sway back and forth on their legs to imitate leaves blowing in the wind.
These things are more like a daddy long legs with legs pulled off.
They're probably janitors
The Combine seeing a Lambda graffiti on the wall
In earth: kalm
IN THE OVERWORLD: PANIK
On overworld
"Someone is going to die tonight."
2:35
I would be so fire if valve made the full game this way
I hope to see a battle 2:35
Gordon Freeman VS. Combine Overlord
On the Combine Over World Would be Fire..
given that the og half life is practically a boomer shooter now, it would be damn crazy if hl3 was a REAL boomer shooter, sort of like doom eternal or dusk or ultrakill or whatever good games there are. just imagine gordon freeman bunnyhopping around the combine world giving earth justice to every damned synth being
@@Darkness_8163It looks more like VR than a standard PC shooter.
My god that was just the most amazing piece of fan creation I've seen. Like right there with Astarte's project.
I can see a mix of HR Giger and War of the Worlds aesthetics here. Gabe would be proud.
What’s really terrifying is that we have no clue what the Combine actually look like. All of the aliens we have seen in Half Life are either Xen, Species X, or other species that the Combine have enslaved. So we have no idea what the actual Combine look like.
While I have some rough ideas, I could not dare portray them here. It would be too much and would ruin the mystery and beauty of the unknown.
It would be really fun if Valve did take Borg's way, aka Combine has original species but now it's irrelevance for them as original species melt into all those bioengineering mess and Combine didn't care about that anymore, others also didn't know. It has 'leader' synthetic species but just for efficiency reason only.
And also synths
I assumed they look like advisors. are advisors just another subjugated alien race?
It would be cool if they took the _Remembrance of Earth’s Past_ novel series approach and never revealed the aliens.
What makes this fascinating is the massive scale is coupled with speed and efficiency. In particular on how the massive tower structure receiving the final piece, being powered up, opening the portal and the reinforcements pouring into it in the span of thirty seconds. Human technology is ponderous in comparison.
You are comparing existing human technology(as you know it) to the non-existent vision of an artist. He could just as well have portrayed the almighty god Vishnu here.
@@alexpetrov8871 That makes it even more impressive as existing human technology is already decades beyond what human technology was at the time of HL2, meaning combine technology NOW is even more insane than what it was in the HL2 days.
@@alexpetrov8871 wah wah wah
Fine work, anyone making fan art would wish it to be on this quality level. I like how you extended the design and some solid effect work as well. That base-of-the-tower-portal scene was pretty epic.
Ok now this, this is the real Combine army that fucked the earth in 7 hours.
(edit: i did not expect 1k likes)
There is a reason for that..
The earth never encountered real combine army, just the small scouting contingent.
@@gustawbobowski1333 nah that wasnt the scouting party, they prob just sent in a single big arse carrier-like ship, which then proceeded to spam the shit out of those fly synths that rode on the strider 👌
@@nerdgusgun ?? it's well established it was a tiny scouting contingent wat are you waffling about
@@gustawbobowski1333 When is that ever stated?
Damn, I am blown away by how well you nailed the Combine's feel and aesthethic with your custom models, they feel official! Great work!
The madman solo made the Half-Life 3 teaser trailer, are you even human?
Nope, UnknownDino is an advisor grub now
Gordon going into the Combine Homeworld to close off the portal from inside after the Combine’s discovery of Borealis.
i absolutely Adore how "organic" this all is. With bio-mechanical pieces of the grand machine scuttling around, crawling on things like giant spiders and ticks. Everything looking so alive
That's really portrays how Combine is not just any regular alien race with like one star system or a few captured, but that they conquered entire universes, chilling vibes
I don't think entire universes but possibly entire galaxies. It is an interesting idea about how many of these portal planets there could be throughout their empire, and how many planets are being invaded at a time.
@@ChaseCasimiro I think it's actually implied they are a multiversal and multi-dimensional empire, that's what makes them powerful.
@@Omega-tc1xd I guess that even if their technology is not exactly the best possible technology, as long as they have the capacity to rapidly expand within and between universes with warp ships, as well as utilize any mineral resources found on asteroids and planets to produce more ships, they could dominate the universe.
@@ChaseCasimiro The combine conquers entire solar systems easily( theres a photo of various solar system planets in a combine terminal such as venus, mars, etc, they probably didn't conquer them because there wasn't any life form in those planets) so i assume their technology and brutally powerful army makes them deadly enough to conquer universes, but as we saw they needed humanity teleport technology to teleport to universe to universe that's why they didn't come back to earth.
@@ChaseCasimiro They definitely have the best possible technology when they're rivaling god like beings such as g-man's employers, and even the small forces on earth were able to build a temporary prison to trap g-man. They also wiped out entire civilizations of powerful beings like Nihilanth.
The only thing stopping them from being invincible is their lack of local teleportation, and that is exactly what g-man is trying to prevent them from getting. I think the Combine has grown so powerful that they've become the ultimate threat.
Really shows how the 7-hour war was just a small combine invasion before the full force arrives
0:30 If you look up in the middle to upper part of the screen, you can see G-MAN!!!
I love all the details in this, honestly!
I feel like there is a comeback of HL2 content these days.
One can hope.
Damn man, this has it all, the complete 'other-worldness' and true might of the Combine, G-man cameo, the Aperture logo on Gordon's gun, bloody amazing. Not to mention praise from the messiah himself; TheParryGod!
From the sheer size and scope of the Combine Overworld to one of the best usage of Combine Harvester I've seen, amazing work! I really hope it takes off, I've wanted to see something like this since 2007!
Bruh, this is EXACTLY how I imagined the Combine Overworld to be! I really love all the unique synth designs, and the sheer magnitude of everything presented. Also, in this interpretation, is the Overworld just a local command center/nexus or the real “capital” of the Combine?
This shown here is just one of MANY interdimentional-portal generators. Many of them operate simultaneously whenever a massive attack is occurring. We happened to look at the one being managed by "BreenGrub"
By the way, why does Dr. Breens host body still have his original body latched on to it? Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just completely transfer Breens consciousness into the host body?
The consciousness copies of Breen were "incomplete" and "disfunctional" to say the least (based on Mark Laidlaw writings on breengrub). This here was the latest version, the actual body parts of Breen that made it on the other side of the portal in the end of HL2. So the combine kept alive the only version of Breen that did not betray them, the original one.
I think this might be intended to be one of many consecutive sections, and whenever there is an invasion they connect the power plugs to turn the portals on and direct all the troops to them.
Holy shit this is beautiful! I can't stop looking at those Combine walking around, amazing designs. This could very well be just a trailer for Episode 3! AMAZING WORK!!!
After all these years I’ve never seen someone capture the combine aesthetic so perfectly, while even adapting and evolving it for higher graphical fidelity.
Love the image of all these striders in this large-scaled environment basically looking like Opilione spiders. Can't wait!
Can't wait for what?
bro its a fan made trailer, its not real 🤣🤣🤣
Absolute masterpiece. You mastered the combine design language and got it even more powerful. Great architecture, animations, rendering, scale, vfx and world building. Congrats man !!
I like how he's at low health at the beginning; it's as though simply laying eyes on this eldritch place was enough to seriously harm him.
Perfection. You've managed to capture the inhuman, biomechanical, almost insectoid nature of the combine down to a tea. I really didn't think anyone could do the combine homeworld justice, I stand corrected. You sir are an inspiration!
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The most important thing about this imaginative sequel is the absence of a "3" in the title - so it might just happen. Good job!
I wouldn't dare.
I am so in love with each and every combine abomination you've made, they all look so good and so half life 10/10, awesome
This is just perfect. The design, so congruent with what we have seen on the games, the ambientation, the lighting, animation... It's a 10/10. I would just say that the "trumpet music" feels a bit out of place. But man, this is awesome. Fantastic job!
I mean this video was released only couple hours ago and slipped into my recommendations and this is like *the most awesome thing I've seen in ages!*
Same, so glad the algo recommended it to me. This is phenomenal professional quality work. I'm in awe.
This is peak fan creation. Captures what Combine is exactly- a giant hive with insatiable hunger for expansion. Theoretically the most effective way of survival.
but just surviving isnt really living. these creatures don't look like they're living good lives lmao. they're just organic droids at this point.
Why in the absolute love of God is this straight up peak? He really cooked us a five star meal that even Gordon Ramsay would be envious of for free, for us. You deserve way more than nearly 3K subs, mate.
If this isnt a new Formal Half-Life game I'm gonna cry
Now THIS is the proper Art Style for a Half Life Sequel! Antonov meets Bleszinsky. Amazing piece of work!
I did look back at their work during the concept stage actually!
1:20 I'm literally in awe in the animations and how it locks together. 11/10
"impossible to describe with our limited vocabulary"
how about "desolate, FUBAR, metallic, extreme, terrifying" 😂
@@ChaseCasimiro One word. "Eldritch"
The fact that watching this in fullscreen with the best resolution really feels like playing during a cutscene of a Half-Life 3 type game is just amazing.
Yeah, I would suggest people to try and watch it on the largest screen they can find. The sound though is not great...
@@UnknownDinosound could definitely use some tweaking, mostly the music however as voice sounds good imo. send me the vox and music files separately if you want and i’ll master it for you (professional audio engineer)
image could be ever so slightly colour graded for better contrast ratio, if we’re nitpicking, but already looks great as is too.
amazing job either way! could have easily fooled me that it was the official HL3 trailer we’ll probably never get…
Is it just me or the strider, or whatever the hell that machine, or basically striders are organic in the original and this version too in 02:59, looks like a tripod from War of the Worlds (2005 Adaptation)?
THAT WAS SO AWESOME AND YOU CREATED EXACTLY HOW I IMAGINED BREEN TO LOOK LIKE !! o_o OMG I LVOE IT :DD
Exactly the kind of bio mechanical nightmare I expected from a dimension-spanning empire. It's horrifying but I can't stop watching.
g-mans gotta make a shit ton of nudges for gordon to pull this one off
My thoughts exactly 😅
@@UnknownDino Half Life 3: You thought Dark Souls was hard?
Gordon doesn't have his crowbar, he is powerless.
best fanmade animation ive ever seen
H. G. Wells' idea of aliens having three legs in The War of the Worlds was genius,
I'm so glad they gave a nod to that in Half-Life 2
2:49
Hey, look, an Aperture Science logo.
Using the anomaly from the borealis to make a sort of upgraded grav gun would be a really cool way to improve that mechanic for HL3
Some machines looking like fleas, those skinny spiders or ticks... I love that design!
this is so cool. Randomly found your account while looking for 3D model beta recreations and found an announcment about this project. I love the kingpin look-a-like and mites. So much work was put into modelling and vfx....
After this project, 2 month later, Half Life X or "Project Whitesands" is found to be in development by VALVe.
Suspicious, isn't it?!
I'm joking, of course.
@@UnknownDino Hmm.. 🤔🤔
@@UnknownDino They should hire you to work on it cuz this video is some of the best half-life fan-made content i've ever seen. Huge props to you.