Half-Life 3 Opening Sequence

Love making concepts of HL3 and P3, so here is my concept for the opening minute of Half-Life 3!

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Half-Life is a series of first-person shooter (FPS) games developed and published by Valve. The games combine shooting combat, puzzles, and storytelling. The original Half-Life, Valve's first product, was released in 1998 for Windows to critical and commercial success. Players control Gordon Freeman, a scientist who must survive an alien invasion. The innovative scripted sequences were influential on the FPS genre, and the game inspired numerous community-developed mods, including the multiplayer games Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat. Half-Life was followed by the expansions Opposing Force (1999), Blue Shift (2001), and Decay (2001), developed by Gearbox Software. In 2004, Valve released Half-Life 2 to further success, with a new setting and characters and physics-based gameplay. It was followed by the extra level Lost Coast (2005) and the episodic sequels Episode One (2006) and Episode Two (2007). The first game in the Portal series, set in the same universe as Half-Life, was released in 2007. Over the following decade, numerous Half-Life games were canceled, including Episode Three, a version of Half-Life 3, and games developed by Junction Point Studios and Arkane Studios. In 2020, after years of speculation, Valve released its flagship virtual reality game, Half-Life: Alyx. Set before Half-Life 2, players control Freeman's ally Alyx Vance in her quest to defeat the alien Combine.

Portal is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve. Set in the Half-Life universe, the two main games in the series, Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), center on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility. Most of the tests involve using the "Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device" – the "portal gun" – that creates a human-sized wormhole-like connection between two flat surfaces. The player-character or objects in the game world may move through portals while conserving their momentum. This allows complex "flinging" maneuvers to be used to cross wide gaps or perform other feats to reach the exit for each test chamber. A number of other mechanics, such as lasers, light bridges, tractor funnels, and turrets, exist to aid or hinder the player's goal to reach the exit.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺:
Sargentdavido (datguydafydd)
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Jorge

𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀:

Thanks to Harry101UK for putting up with me when I have SFM technical questions.

[hammerdmx]

Its weird how people miss this litle detail in the After credits Eli spech.
When Eli says "Son of a bitch with his unforeseen consequences" and "When i get my hand on him", he looks in the left, directly at Gman where he sits in the left side watching, and Eli knowing hes there and direclty declaring war on him, in his face.
Its a really intresting detail valve put there and its a shame many people miss it.

[randomradon]

All I need to hear is the HEV suit saying "warning" and it makes me want to play through the entire series again

[TheFederalBerau]

Just played half life 2 ep 1 and 2 over the last 2 days I can’t believe people were left on a cliffhanger for 14 years I can’t even stand waiting 1 day

[Mrtrenigs]

Well, we are waiting for another 13 years and it will come out.

[Pinkmilka]

One of the key element is missing: The orange lightning on dogs hand shows the lambda symbol.

[GuardianofKH]

Doctor Freeman
I reget to ... inform you that, your, services, are not required anymore.
I hope, there is no, hard, feelings between us. Although my own, are leaning a biT on the, dissapointment.
There have, been some changes, in the administrative area of my, employers.
They prefered your, disopsal, but I've convinced, some, of them, that your reward for services provided, although not to satisfaction, should sufice.
Don't interfere and all this, will soon, feel like an old nightmare.
But, I'm sure we will meet again. Although, one, last, time.

Oh, before i forget.


Prepare, for, forsighted, consequenses.

[WaitNoIdidntMean]

This is the actual half life 3 I'm interested in, I'm glad you made this

[spookuman]

This is making me hype real good. I really hope that VALVE will get their act together and release HL3 this decade.

[flynneugene]

PLEASE DON'T STOP CREATING SUCH AWESOME MASTERPIECES

[remi]

When this game gets released I have no doubt it's gonna break the internet

[schriefabraham]

I love it when Gordon Freeman says "It's Half-Life time" and Half-Lifing all over the story

[localsnek]

I love how the blur effect isn't just some stupid "Oh you hit your head kinda hard, and in a few seconds it goes back to normal! :)" type deal like it is in most games. Instead, it's literally because Gordon's glasses are knocked off. As a glasses-wearer myself, the effect is actually somewhat accurate in that closer objects are slightly more in-focus.

Am I overanalysing what's probably just a normal depth of field effect? Probably. Great work anyways, though!

[error]

If a dream ever comes true let it be this one

[EnderCatCore]

0:17 i thought this was showing a :3 for a second

[beniciovalina]

For me, the plan of Valve is this:
Half Life: Borealis (DLC HL:A)
PORTAL 3
Half Life: Return to ravenholm (sequel of opossing Force)
HALF LIFE 3

Otis and the powerfull donut

[nirvana_]

This gave me goosebumps from head to toe.
What a complete masterpiece of 2 minutes.
The best opening to Half-Life 3 ever!

[esterester]

1:32 the coldest transition ever!!! ☠☠☠

[AdamHolland-Adz]

Hang on. Dog has three metal pieces around its eye, and he hands a crow bar to Eli. Crow bars are used to open things like wooden crates. Wood comes from trees. Tree is the word three without a H. H as in Half life. Half life three confirmed.

[Alisoup]

I feel like half life 3 will also be in vr

[Luka_]

Really well made! I cant believe that it has been almost 3 years since Half Life Alyx came out