Go ‘Beyond Black Mesa’ With This Great Half-Life Fan Film

16 responses to “Go ‘Beyond Black Mesa’ With This Great Half-Life Fan Film”

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   ben

   January 22, 2011 at 12:15 pm

   awesome, that was really good and really well done. Hope valve sees this. Only criticism is the start of the fight scene with the combine and the main dude. The combine does a bit of a twirl and brings out a sword and then the other guy was spinning on his hand, didnt like that bit. Rest of the fight scene was good, just the twirls were wierd

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   Virus__

   January 22, 2011 at 12:28 pm

   That was well done. Some of the small time stuff done by amateurs is usually more enjoyable than the big time stuff.

   Although in the credits it said it was dedicated to the lady who played the only female character in it, did she die? =/

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      Argi

      January 23, 2011 at 11:06 am

      She’s the directors Girlfriend, hence the dedication.

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   vv4rhead

   January 22, 2011 at 1:05 pm

   now that was awesome

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4. 

   Brickstool

   January 22, 2011 at 1:30 pm

   Aperture science! 😛

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5. 

   Gavin Bodzioch

   January 22, 2011 at 1:59 pm

   very very cool.

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6. 

   Dunnowhathuh

   January 22, 2011 at 3:39 pm

   Love the XMA towards the end there. Gotta love it when fan made fight scenes are done really well.

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   Chris Guerin

   January 22, 2011 at 5:40 pm

   Very nicely made and very engaging to watch. All the independently made movies seem to get more coverage as opposed to a big budget blockbuster.

   That’s what I like about these movies, they can be done cheaper than the big guys, better than the big guys and more enjoyable and more accurate than the big guys.

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   tsengan

   January 22, 2011 at 9:35 pm

   Most excellent. I liked that there was no talking – only the voiceover. It kept a strong Half Life feel to it.

   The fight scene was a little over the top, but cool.

   Kudos!

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9. 

   Slyph

   January 23, 2011 at 12:26 am

   That was really good 🙂 Definitely up there with Escape From City 17. Very cool.

   I just wish that we, the legion of HL2 fanatics, weren’t forced to spend thousands of dollars and years of our lives devoted to continuing a story that Valve have left hanging. Seriously, if we don’t get some word about Half Life: Episode 3 (or Half Life 3, whatever it’s become) by the end of 2011, I’m going to… write a strongly worded letter to Gabe Newell. Then I might cry for a bit.

   Either that, or stop day-dreaming about The Great Lost Sequel and make a fan film like everyone else 😉

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    Cpt. Cuddles

    January 23, 2011 at 10:00 am

    Pretty cool stuff. But I’m with Virus, I dodn’t like the matrix style fighting at the end. And what was with the zombie type people? Where they meant to be the people with the head crabs on them? Still a great fucking effort for $1200.

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    Dr_Stef

    January 23, 2011 at 2:11 pm

    I like the scene with the enemy dudes, 1 peeing against the wall lol

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12. 

    Nick Corcoran

    January 23, 2011 at 4:37 pm

    3 things:

    1. AWESOME!

    2. wouldve liked the headcrab zombie to actually BE headcrab zombies, not just zombies.

    3. do the combines eyes actually go red when they die? i cant remember…

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13. 

    Todd

    January 24, 2011 at 10:00 am

    Zombies…….. hmmmm….. Left 4 Dead maybe…… Warning Infected Area…. cmon how did no one else notice that?! They seemed to be bringing all of Valves IPs together which was awesome, only thing missing was a Heavy in the back ground noming away!

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14. 

    Tuk Sum Bong

    January 24, 2011 at 10:38 am

    Fat Asian Kid FTW

    Surprised he didn’t get eaten by the zombies… that would’ve been so cliched.

    Great fan-film; can’t wait for Ep3

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    Bort

    January 24, 2011 at 4:24 pm

    Not bad. Production values were super high, especially for a fan-made film. Sound was great, effects were well done, ending was surprisingly non-cheesy. Acting left a little something to be desired and the zombies weren’t necessary, but all in all a damn good short film.

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