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Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, January 21st, 2011 12:35pm PST - promote requested by original submitter Zyrxil.

I'll watch this proper when I get home. Always wanted valve to pick up the Adrian Sheppard story li-.. NO! NO GABE!! Don't listen to me!! No it's alright.. KEEP WORKING ON EP3.. PLEASE KEEP WORKING ON EP3.. JUST
FINISH
IT
...focus.

While these sorts of shorts are technically impressive, I find them otherwise pretty boring and not very watchable, even when I'm interested in the source material. They need to focus on storytelling elements and not just computer generated effects.

Ep 3's coming, dont ya worry... my money's on an E3 2011 announcement.

What a bloody disappointment...

The pudgy asian guy? yeah, ok, fine. If you have to.

Combine using G36s instead of MP7s? I'll buy that that was all you could get your hands on.

Left 4 Dead style zombies instead of the proper Ravenholm Head-Crab zombies? Annoying, but I guess the CG or costumes would have been pretty hard to pull off.

Fucking Ninja Combine with a sword? GTFO! I nearly hit stop there. What a disgrace.

There was no dialogue, no story, just some random chase and action scenes cobbled together with a really wasted ending. I'm with Xax, focus on story and believability not the action and effects! These guys nearly put Uwe Boll to shame.

Really makes me wish I could downvote.

Agree with the above. Stopped when it got to the Ninja combine. Here is a videogame famed for its story and characters...and he makes a short film with nothing but "cool" action scenes stitched together at random.

I hope there will never be a HL movie. Its impossible to do service. Here you have a faceless, nameless maincharacter, a void which the player fills. It works for videogames, but for movies?...well, look what they did to Hitman. The story is told in whispers, foreshadowing, tiny little glimpses over the course of many many hours of play. You slowly build a picture of the world, of the combine, of what might have happaned. Nothing is expressed directly and it helps maintain the mystery. How on earth would you do that in a 2 hour movie? You dont have the hours that a videogame does to slowly build everything little by little, episode by episode. It would be a mess.

So, leave HL alone thanks.