Spoilers for the theoretical and unconfirmed plot of the theoretical and unconfirmed Half-Life 2: Episode 3 now follow. X.Īs long-suspected to be the case, the tale centres about a great lost ship, the Borealis (here named the Hyperborea), stranded in the Arctic (or Antarctic, depending on which version you go with) and which contains something of potentially critical importance to the human-Combine war. well, Alex, but a male Alex, we get Wanda Breen and sinister grey figure Mrs. As noted above, most of the characters have been genderswapped - Gordon is Gertrude, Alex is. a first person letter about monstrous events, penned in a Victorian tone) is most agreeable in itself. I strongly encourage you to read the story itself rather than rely on my summary below: there's far more detail, other character's fates are revealed, it'll only take ten minutes, and the entertainingly Poe/Lovecraft-esque writing style (i.e. But, in the near-complete vacuum of Half-Life news over the past decade, this is as real a deal as we've ever got, and may ever get. This might imply all this ever was is draft plot summaries, merely a glimpse of scribbles from the writer's notebook rather than the totality of Valve's vision for a never-was game. For now, he persists with the line that his revelations are nothing more than "a genderswapped snapshot of a dream I had many years ago".
#HALF LIFE 2 EPISODE 3 GAME FULL#
It involves time-travelling cruise liners, resurrected overlords, the heart of the Combine and the fate of one Doctor Gordon Freeman.įirst things first: until Mister Laidlaw breaks cover with full context for this tale and what, if any, links it has or had to Half-Life 2: Episode 3's development, there's no way of knowing if this is the shape game would have taken (or will yet take, haha). While that might sound like satirical tomfoolery, the actual story very much sounds like how the final chapter of Half-Life 3 could have played out. (The site's having a wobble, but the page is archived right here). Long time Half-Life scribe, the excellent Marc Laidlaw ( who left Valve last year), casually tossed out a link to his website last night, which led to a short story about Gertie Fremont, Alex Vaunt and their climactic battle against evil alien invaders the Disparate. Cats go on adventures, presidents threaten nuclear war and, well, ex-Valve writers post thinly-disguised plot summaries of the unreleased and, so far as best guesses go, long-cancelled Half-Life 2: Episode 3. The lesson here is "never go to sleep." All sorts of things happen while people sleep.
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