Half-Life 2: Episode One - Dr. Isaac Kleiner Speech Remade in S2FM

I’ve always adored this title screen from Episode One, and there hasn’t been a playthrough where I haven’t stopped to listen to the entirety of Dr. Kleiner’s speech. Even though I took quite a few liberties with the scene’s layout and sounds I hope you’ll enjoy this recreation nonetheless.

Huge thanks to RetroBoy and Dyna for the Half-Life 2 Remade Assets and to Shane (bucklingspring) for the Classic Combine Soldier Texture Restoration. Also, to my dear friend Csaba who again has been a big help to have the sound effects sound just right. If you’ve got some time, check out the music he’s making with his friend.

Software:
Source 2 Filmmaker (Half-Life: Alyx Workshop Tools)
Vegas Pro 17
Photoshop
Audacity

Song: Johnny Silverhand Ambient OST

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[CoreyLaddo]

Did Kleiner just tell everyone to get busy?

[MauricioJara]

Why does Kleiner sound so freaking badass

[joseignaciolopez]

I love playing Black Mesa and meeting Kleiner and Eli, and thinking "these guys have no idea that they're about to become the leaders of human resistance"

[DJ_BONELESS]

3:28 That metrocop better get promoted straight to elite.

Seriously, being that loyal even after the combine collapsed and are no longer able to bribe you with better living conditions and "non-mechanical reproduction simulations, " you either gotta be stupid, stubborn, or both.

[DoctaM]

Damn, this really showed how streets were just, completely leveled.

Also I like how Kleiner says he's not really good with speeches. And then drops an amazing monologue about human hope.

[overwatchordinal]

I swear this is how the game looked back when I played it as a teenager!

[LebenderPanzer]

He's speaking to a literal graveyard of human architecture and machines, which seems symbolic as all fuck to me. It's amplified by the fact that there's no audience in this scene, no one to listen to him.

[Kream_Komi]

“... And purged of their humanity, by the military machine.”
I always loved that part of the speech, the Combine at earth it's nothing more than just robot arms in a factory, overwatched by only a few organic beings who have been put in charge.

Loved the video, the ambience details were great, the community really did a good work with the new Citadel model. Loved it!

[andusensei]

Seeing the Metrocop with the Soldiers was pretty rad. Great work on this, the scene is gorgeous. If EP1 was remastered or something, I could easily see this being a part of it.

[branchyinc]

I think my favorite part about the bit at 3:18 with the soldiers and the metrocop is the way they move; tactical, but seemingly panicked. Overwatch, the entity, is dying. The Combine have a critically lacking command structure. The metrocops by this point are a rogue element, fighting their way out of the city just like the resistance; the fact that these soldiers took one in shows that perhaps their human side is more apparent with less oversight from Overwatch. The thing is too, they look like they're running *away* from something, rather than towards something. Idk, I just really like how humanlike these post-humans are portrayed

[bennyfagor]

"Oh my god.... striders really tore the hell out of this place..."

Such an amazing recreation! There's nothing I adore more than seeing an improved version of HL2 with much more life being put into it like shouting distant citizens, striders patrolling what's left of the streets, and Scanners doing what they're meant to do even when the city they're meant to enforce security in is in complete ruins! And let's not get started on the amazing animations for the Soldiers that make them feel a lot more human!

I love the timing of them as well, running up into shot just before Kleiner talks about the purging of their humanity, by the military machine.

Amazing job dude! I'd absolutely love to see more of this! The scene building is astonishing!

[echo-]

3:20 HOLY UNIVERSE THIS ANIMATION OF SOLDIERS! THIS IS SO GOOD!

[brokenu]

i think episode one is underatted.People dislike it alot and think it was a rather short experience and so on, but god damn does this episode pack a punch. Its basically a civil war that has been present as realistic as it can be and it also shows the rebels being not only willing to fight the combine, but also skeptical of certain people, (such as kleiners speech, along with some rebel saying that he met odessa himself and he thought he was an idiot) making them more human .

[giovannisanfelice]

i absolutely adore the way you built this scene, very professional and polished. i played the half-life series (several times) during my teenage years back when my english language knowledge was still at early stages and was only able to translate the essential bits of the campaign's writing. this is the first time i actually understood Kleiner's speech so i can say i really enjoyed those 5 minutes. hope you continue to produce quality cinematic content

[penguinninja]

3:26, dude this metro cop is so royal to the combine, even if he’s not brain washed, even if the combine society is gone and they can’t provide him with anything anymore, he still says “pick up that can resistance member now”

[Cysco]

Kleiner: Combine forces currently stationed on Earth are now isolated units.

Advisors remaining on Earth: Maybe having only one way to enter Earth wasn't really that good of an idea.

[IJArts]

Great work! I especially liked the moment at 3:18 because the movement from the combine felt really authentic and that little moment has it's own storytelling, well done.

[Resiience]

That metrocop at 3:28 has my full attention. His story is compelling. I want to know what happened to him.

[ValtDewller]

3:22 man those combine soldiers look M E A N. the metro combine mixed in with them is a great touch

[overlordmgcover]

Just perfect! My favourite is the little squad of combine troops with three soldiers and one civil protection officer. What I interpret in it is that they have been lucky and where ordered to advance to a exfiltration point. On the way they picked up a still loyal CP officer and while they make their way to the exfil their squad leader always risks himself first so his squad won't run into a ambush.