Cancelled Half-Life Games: Hostile Takeover & EA's Half-Life

[@RadiationHazardYT]

For Hostile Takeover, I was going to mention the new things (weapons, enemies, gameplay mechanics), but that would have extended the length of the video significantly. I chose to not mention those things. Kept the video short :) Also - 4:34 I meant to say HOSTILE TAKEOVER, not just TAKEOVER... ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@lecar3817]

*Uh oh*

[@Rudeness-l1f]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@greaterpooch7270]

Luckily I didn’t notice the mistake

[@alexlokanin3312]

but I'd love a long video 😍

[@Headcrabman9999]

please give us a long video for it

[@legitbusinessownergus7620]

Honestly it's a shame that hostile takeover was cancelled. It would have been cool to see the black mesa incident in the perspective of a person who isn't even in black mesa but is still experiencing the effects of the disaster.

[@IfindAnimeHot]

Yeah but if think about it we could had a completely different team fortress 2 if that happened.

[@jockeyfield1954]

@@IfindAnimeHot that's why i think if it was made today, the tfc classes would be replaced by equally as interesting guards of the facility

[@PanzerMan332]

A Half Life game from the perspective of a G-Man in training would've been immensely interesting, but probably a big undertaking, even then.

[@jd_kreeper]

The Lambda Team, the same team behind Black Mesa Classic, plans to develop a remake of Hostile Takeover after they finish Black Mesa Classic. I've been working on the story. I've taken quite a few liberties with the story while also keeping the core themes present in the original Hostile Takeover.

[@ivy_magnapinna]

Cool how since the TFC team is canon in the TF2 comics, if Hostile Takeover had released, it would make a connected universe between Half-Life, Team Fortress, and Portal. The Valveverse? Gabenverse?

[@RadiationHazardYT]

#ReleaseTheGabenCut

[@Mr_Nobody2512]

Yknow, i rather keep tf2 away from TFC and Half Life. I want to see TFC battles happen with the combine or even on combine claimed land for red and blue battles. I would die for that kind of stuff to be released

[@GloriG_C17]

If it was, Tf2 Will Be Some like Attacking Combine Outpost/base and Defend the captured bases. All Caracters will use Some of Combine Tech and they Will Expanding it by their Settlement which is located in Wasteland

[@remyrichardson8614]

@@Mr_Nobody2512 But TF2 is canon to TFC.

[@ivy_magnapinna]

@@gabbo7101 good point, but I was just assuming the rest of the valve games would have released the way they did irl after Hostile Takeover

[@nicogeek7528]

ea's half life featuring that now you need to use real money if you want the weapons

[@niccbilac]

In this ea Half-Life universe, gman would take off your weapons because you did not pay for them

[@doomslayerfromanalternativ9363]

$5000 dollars per step

[@dsg3012]

EA making a half life? God that would be awful. Pay wall after pay wall

[@HaliOnRepeat]

Adrian was in stasis for so long because he was saving money for the “Return to Reality” DLC

[@JackBradley07]

Want the tau cannon? 50 Mesa coins please!

[@princeofevil1337]

Fair Enough

[@onutrof1157]

I mean, EA doesn't make bad games, they're just greedy. And basing on that the concept arts were released in 2011, that was before EA have been corrupted to the core. That could have been a good game.

[@flonkthethird137]

oh, i see you want this rocket launcher, that would be $3.99. Oh you want ammo to? that would be $9.99 per round

[@flying6476]

10:05 EA was hired by valve to make expansion for half life 2 (like oposing force and blue shift for half life 1) similar to arkane studios. This project ended development for same reason like return to ravenholm. Fun fact: EA and arkane studios wasn't the only companies hired to make expanisons. Gearbox and many more also had thier projects but none of them ever ended development. These concept art's are probably for this expansion.

[@tomtorry7958]

If EA got rights to a half-life game I would've cried.

[@MondySpartan]

They once had the publishing rights, thankfully for console releases only.

[@tomtorry7958]

@@dauzlee2827 and they were still a good company when first making sports games what's your point?

[@BiqRedOne]

@@tomtorry7958 half life's not a sports game, that's his point

[@Damian-cilr2]

@@BiqRedOne not even sports,remember medal of honor pacific assault? well thats not a sports game.and it was good.

[@RottenMilk313]

Pulse rifle is locked behind a Combine Lootbox™ ($29.99) and can be opened with special Combine Keys™! ($5.99)

[@polish_hat]

Watch new video at 4am because you cant sleep? *Yes why not*

[@mr.illegal5268]

and after I thought I had found ever little bit of half life related content, you come along and prove me wrong yet again. Good Job!

[@estlin2001]

Honestly I'd love to see more half-life games that don't follow Gordon or anyone close to him. There's so much about the universe that could be explored and expanded upon.

[@jezpaa]

A game about 7 hour war would be really cool.

[@johnnyguitar8067]

Play some sourcemods

[@MolkoKillStyle]

@@jezpaa Yea and not THAT game we got...

[@jezpaa]

@@MolkoKillStyle dont even remind me of that shit show

[@brakefluid5.153]

@@jezpaa what game might you be talking about?

[@ZackaryWilliams77]

8:23 The uniform makes me think of an alternate Half-Life Universe where the Combine invaded in the Late 1940s.

[@HaliOnRepeat]

The concept art for EA’s project kinda looks like something out of Alyx.

[@jd_kreeper]

I feel that it is important to mention that Hostile Takeover has been picked up yet again by another studio known as the Lambda Team. While the team is focused on Black Mesa Classic at the moment, I've been writing the story for Hostile Takeover, and I've got something very interesting planned.

[@drkx2]

Hostile takeover seems like a good dlc

[@bigfatcarp93]

I guess the weird thing about Hostile Takeover to me is that the "new location" still just sounds like another Black Mesa. It's another facility hidden from the public eye, teleporting it's staff to Xen, and the military come in with hostile intentions. So just set it at Black Mesa then? If you're going to do a different location, then give it it's own DNA.

[@ausilliam]

Reading half life and EA in the same sentence made me shutter

[@HanniSeidenba0525]

I want to see Gordon in EA's HL struggling find a way to pay for his crowbar.

[@ghos7bear]

9:06 - the armband. What is interesting is that 17 is clearly out of place, pasted on top later, while C is painted as part of the concept art. This might suggest that it was different city originally, but they changed the number to C17 later.

[@DesertThing]

The more you know about Valve, the more interesting things become.

[@i.m.evilhomer5084]

I feel like the EA concept art was for a prequel pitch. They were publishing the Orange Box at the time. Perhaps this was rejected & later morphed into the unreleased episodes by Junction Point or Arkane Studios. Sorta like how Portal 2 evolved from F-Stop, that Portal prequel without portals that featured Cave Johnson who was still alive.

[@hyperthetical]

my personal theory is perhaps it would continue the story of Adrian waking up from stasis as a combine soldier/officer, still remembering who they are and what they have witnessed.

[@TheConsulC17]

I think somebody is working on a remake of Hostile Takeover, I'm not sure though.

[@501stcloneboi2]

Yes they are

[@noodlebro6983]

If EA made a Half-Life game imagine if you needed to buy DLC to use specific weapons like the Gravity Gun or Crowbar.

[@unoriginalperson72]

The ea combine look so cool

[@omgaustria-hungary1192]

Pay 999$ for cool looking combine

[@thejonathan130]

@@omgaustria-hungary1192 your username is apt.

[@omgaustria-hungary1192]

@@thejonathan130 no idea what apt. means but thanks

[@homeygfunkoffacherryfruitl4971]

@@omgaustria-hungary1192 It's an abbreviation of apartment.

[@sorou]

@@omgaustria-hungary1192 apt /apt/ adjective 1. appropriate or suitable in the circumstances. "an apt description of her nature"

[@Vang2009]

We could have gotten “half life but you play as the civilian from team fortress” and “battlefield half life”

[@matijajovic8125]

This is the type of videos I was hoping for from you in the future! Great job as usual.

[@eggowaffle4040]

Step 1: get Nice and cozy in bed Step 2: Open youtube Step 3: see that Radiation Hazard just uploaded April 7th, 2021, the "blissful" incident

[@EliteGordon1337]

Thanks for the video Radhaz! Your really good at these videos I hope you can keep on making them because I know right now everybody is busy, but we will all be patient in the meantime!

[@Typical_Toxic]

10:20 It was most likely as you were saying a sales pitch by EA to make a half-life game because EA tried to buy valve at one point. so it may have been to show what they would do with the game?

[@Headcrabman9999]

hostile takeover's development story upsets me dearly

[@ElephantsDoingCrack]

Same man

[@dalek4463]

Imagine if valve made a HL2 directors cut or Developers Cut

[@charmyzard]

2:07 So you're telling me, in an alternate timeline, TF and Half-Life are in the *same* universe? What would have been of TF2 itself, though? Fighting the Combine?

[@RadiationHazardYT]

TF2 would have been drastically different. Maybe in that alternate timeline, Brotherhood of Arms was the TF2 we got.

[@greaterpooch7270]

I have a theory on 9:17 , what if that was like a grunt faction, an independent group that isn’t with the combine nor resistance. What purpose they would serve is unknown. My second theory is with the metro cop, if you look at the helmet it kinda gives you vibes from Half life 1 security guards, this could be a division of former black Mesa employees working for the combine now. It kinda makes sense and I see breen appointing them to their own divisions as they once worked for him. Not only that orange is a common color in black Mesa so I can see that as their official color. Third theory is that the metro cop is Barney in his own suit.

[@Dino_jacksurvivalboss]

Or an elite group of cps used to protect areas of interest, but wasn't seen in hl2 as their group was destroyed by the protagonist of the ea hl

[@Web720]

Didn't make much sense since security guards barely have much training irl and got massacred by HECU.

[@wegonnastealacopyofhalflif3182]

They could be gman's employers.

[@breakdancegoose1005]

I love these videos but it hurts to see so many Half-Life related concepts being cancelled.

[@pants4337]

the concept art looks like it really inspired half life alyx, the out of place combine tech, the more primitive combine look, it looks really similar

[@zboi4859]

9:23 that's definitely an HECU soldier. That PCV along with the camo is unmistakable.

[@unapersonanormal6154]

imagine if alyx was a dlc pay to win playable character for 10 dollars and could get skins for her with 5 dollar boxes or some shit 😭😭😭

[@dignusdingus3709]

8:45 Or they were thinking of redesigning stuff for the sake of it, which makes me pretty glad it never happened, I ain't a fan of drastic art direction changes with little explanation (FEAR 1 to FEAR 2 as one example)

[@adeen_chee]

EA half life be like: pay 50$ at each loading pause :(

[@auxometer]

I started writing a script for hostile takeover in the form of a sfm film. Only write everything leading up to the disaster then I realized what a pain it would be to make all new assets for it.

[@DopamineDreamss]

If EA made Half-Life , to load the next chapter please pay 7.99$

[@fessvi]

Valve can't count to three, so there never was a 3rd expansion pack

[@WalterUndergo]

Decay

[@ivanthehighman177]

5:54 Gabe can not count to three.

[@theconsulfromthehl2beta362]

The team fortress characters are from a really early version of team fortress 2

[@yourlocalpersonnextdoor4459]

Player: *enters a HL map* EA: Pay 50 dollars to unlock this map Player: *gets weapon from npc* EA: Pay 20 dollars to unlock this weapon

[@ElmeriThePig]

Who knows what valve or someone would do to Shephard in the future? Maybe he could appear in the third game as a boss battle against the freeman himself?!

[@zeeshanhaider563]

5th tip: the 2nd character in ea's project is going to be adrian sheperd that was stuck in g man's some sort of portal dimension and managed to get out of there so then adrian was going to be the main character in ea's project

[@asmrbarista]

Hostile takeover looks like such a good game... sad it never got released.

[@chief6926]

EDC is malding right now

[@ElephantsDoingCrack]

IDC

[@gaming-98]

Hostile Takeover would have been VERY bad for the lore. also sad that shepherd all ways gets the short end of the stick.

[@Bacony_Cakes]

Bad and naughty marines get put in the bureaucracy hammerspace to atone for their crimes.

[@tacobelldriver]

Cool video! I never knew about this canceled game.

[@idioticed4379]

i think they cancelled hostile takeover, because they didnt want the 2 franchises to be connected lore wise

[@vonatok]

Ea wanted buy valve but gaben said nope so the second unreleased thingy is a mystery

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

As for the Team Fortress crossover aspect of Hostile Takeover, the TF characters weren't probably TFC's but rather the unreleased Valve's Team Fortress/TF2 Brotherhood of Arms iteration of the characters.

[@BIGGIANTSGUY]

God now I want a modern Half-Life: Hostile Takeover where there's the TF2 mercs during a serious Black Mesa incident.

[@lecar3817]

I think the canceled half ife of The ev- i mean Ea would probably take After the seven hour war, i think of that.

[@HC100_]

You're my favourite channel now for half life related stuff 👍👍

[@ezajayy]

Banger video as usual!!!

[@morgonfr33m4n1337z]

Interesting how they contemplated canonizing team fortress into Half Life's universe making them field agents of Gman's employers

[@felixc.3444]

A Cp wearing a helmet looks super rad

[@windy2551]

9:16 >Character has old army boots from 90s >has a M81 urban Camouflage variant pattern >has Alice chest rig Yep this is shephard

[@gasmaskcitizen6364]

Idea for the next video that would be about F-stop a game that was suposed to be portal sequel

[@johnpot]

It would be a cool idea to make Adrian Shephard Returning on the Unknown Called Project of Half-Life 2, Although.... There is a Another cancelled game called "Half-Life 2 Episode 4" or "Half-Life 2: Return To Ravenholm", If I heard clearly, The main protagonist in the Another cancelled game would be, Adrian Shephard. The Another Cancelled Game would be developed by Arkane Studio, Commissioned by Valve ( I Think ) Now, in the year 2021 There is a petition to released the Unfinished Build of the Cancelled Game I can show you the proof, but i cannot send the link to the petition of releasing the unfinished build of the cancelled game, Due to KZbin Bot deleting the comment that had a link on it.

[@Rudeness-l1f]

Amazing video as always

[@Immolator772]

EA and HL, each level costing 60 bucks, and microtransaction in SP.

[@commanderAnakin]

I thought of this expansion for HL1 called "Red Shift". Where you would play as Gus (Forklift guy during Black Mesa Inbound) and be able to control those spider robots and kill enemies. I imagine some new weapons like a Walter or Remington. You would fight your way through BM and get knocked out at some point. When you wake up, the Ninilaothn is dead and some Xen and Race X are still around BM. The Vortiguants will begin helping the player and healing them when at low health. You only so much time before nuke detonates. You will fight Black Ops and at some point, escape Black Mesa in a stolen Black Ops truck with a Vortiguant. Just a cool idea I had, if anyone who reads this knows how to mod, think this would be really good. Just remember to credit me.

[@robertf7610]

Great Idea! But it needs to be called Yellow-Shift (The color of his hat and forklift). Someone already came out with a series of unrelated "Red-Shift" mods that have been less than well received.

[@mrmr_zoomie]

A “Junior G-Man” sounds like an interesting concept. Employed by the same “people” but regarded as a lower rank.

[@zeeshanhaider563]

3rd tip: the 2nd character in ea's project is adrian sheperd from half life opoosing force that adrian successfully escaped out of black mesa and found him self in the seven hour war and then that's how adrian was going to be seen in ea's project

[@valinypse]

EA making a Half-Life game. I never thought of that, and I would never wanted to.

[@clownimpregnator]

honestly thank god ea never got their greedy fingers on the Half-Life franchise

[@sydneyyarl]

thank god EA didnt well uh we all know how EA works make bad game make money p r o f i t , unless EA were actually attempting to make something good

[@Sourcemaster1]

If EA did make the game it would cost $70, then to walk it would cost $99. After that to use a weapon it will cost $9999.

[@ivanthehighman177]

I pray someone makes a mod for hostile takeover, that would be fun as fuck.

[@atlev]

Ea's changes to the HL2 art style look awful.

[@xengrunt1830]

I just found your content and I really love it! Good job on the great videos!

[@RadiationHazardYT]

Thank you! :)

[@narrowgauge0727]

the gun the weird grunt guy is holding looks like an M1A1 Thompson smg

[@spinosaurus9518]

9:16 that looks like a combine version of a HECU.

[@bigearsinc.7201]

EA Hl2: *Buy the gravity gun battery! Buy the shotgun! No ammo? Buy it! Give us 50 bucks to save alyx!*

[@nelosangero]

Valve is the only corporation to cancel 1 expansion cause of fear of oversaturation but then release 2 the next year

[@MolkoKillStyle]

EA be like: "Please pay 50$ for non mechanical reproduction simulation"

[@Yasthebosstv]

Man I love watching your content it’s amazing always interests me thank u for posting.

[@ghhn4505]

While part of me thinks the idea of Half Life crossing over with Team Fortress Classic would have been awesome, the other part is glad they stayed away from this idea. It would either mean TF2 being more serious and inline with the tone of the original TFC and the mercs we know and love today never have existing, or the goofiness of TF2 being canon to Half Life, which would make the story harder to take seriously knowing that out in the world are a bunch of idiots wearing goofy hats fighting over gravel and magical Australia gold with wizards and sentient eyeballs running around the place.

[@hexelss]

EA’s Half Life... This is where we cry in fear

[@VanquishSpeed]

This and Return to Ravenholm are both unique concept games that will never see the light of day. :(

[@pumpkindof]

Hey, the last cancelled Half-Life game is actually "Half-Life 2: Episode Four" or "Return to Ravenholm" It was a cancelled project by Arkane Studios. I imagine that that concept art was made when that artist worked for Arkane but was just dumped on his page in 2011.

[@Vienna3080]

I guess the closest thing we got to a third Half Life expansion was Decay I hope that one day we get Hostile Takeover leaked along with Arkhane studios Episode 4

[@Hijackerrr]

0:36 thx my furniture started howering around

[@Cento100]

For EA's Half Life charcater photos What if the metrocop was actualy Barney in his first appearance, just with the beta concept? If the second "combine" was Adrian, maybe EA was going to create a coop Half Life? (if there is some errors, i'm not english lol) Great video btw, i was watching your videos lately and you gained a subscriber ;)

[@garakds9]

EA making Half-Life really? We're gonna pay EA everytime we swing a crowbar?

[@grassfur1950]

Fans: we if your not gonna make half-life 2 episode 3 then just make a game about what happen to barney or Adrian Shepherd. valve: Alyx take it or leave it.

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

Ea already did the Orange box porting so it would make sense to let them make a separate game

[@dillzz7450]

EA half life be like: TO UNLOCK [XEN] AND [DANCE_01] PACK THAT WILL BE $39.99

[@MondySpartan]

EA’s Half-Life: some crates in the game are actually loot boxes.

[@Bacony_Cakes]

Seriously, i'd like to see the second one as a mod, with some of the unused synth concepts appearing as enemies.

[@ElephantsDoingCrack]

Great video! I liked it a lot. For the EA part, most people forgot that Valve and EA were partners during the Orange Box era. Hell both companies unveil the Orange Box and EA did, YES EA DID THEMSELVES, the ps3 port of the Orange Box. But even though this game was never made, EA still got their name on a half-life game (PS3 port)... and that is the last thing I want to see. What I like to think it would have been was a console exclusive expansion or something, though the PS3 port sucked ass. But I think it would have been cool. Edit: Also my evidence for console exclusive? Well it wasn't the first time Valve did console exclusives: Decay, Blue Shift (originally at least), and Portal Still Alive. Portal Still Alive was for the Xbox 360 exclusively. But, there was nothing on the PS3. So who did the port? EA. That is what I like to think, for more content on PS3 like what the Xbox 360 did... I have spent too much time thinking about EA's Concept what THE FUCK AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE??!?! HELEL!p!-

[@Web720]

Didn't Tyler said EA was making a prequel HL2 game in 2005?

[@ElephantsDoingCrack]

@@Web720 No he didn't. In fact Marc Laidlaw disproved it saying how nothing like an expansion would have happened between Valve and EA. Maybe they dreamed up of one, but Valve never saw it. When Arkane Studios and Junction Point's projects started, Laidlaw was one of the first to be informed about them (since he was the lead writer). He had never seen those EA concepts before in his life and he would have been told about it. In short, no, EA and Valve weren't doing anything along these lines. Also... I forgot about this video 😐

[@MrSunny-fj3eg]

Guys... Harz didn’t threaten us at the beginning intro, you know that mean’s right? If we won’t subscribe he will punish us by putting us our own personalised holocaust!

[@matthewsteele99]

wouldve loved to see the 10 tfc classes within half life universe

[@Awesomeness-iz3dh]

Maybe the EA project was just a proposition to Valve that was never approved. The Star Wars looking guard and the other guy don't really fit in well with Half-Life.

[@zeeshanhaider563]

plus the 2nd character in ea's project weapon that the 2nd character was holding could have been the H.E.C.U soldiers standarad issue MP5 sub machine gun

[@tehcooler]

One of EA member disliked this video 😳

[@fausto123]

But maybe we can have Episode 3 for 20 dollars and Episode 3 Part 1 for 50 dollars

[@tehcooler]

@@fausto123 Don't be a fool! 😅

[@andresbravo2003]

How do we know Valve never wanted for the publisher EA? He might have done with The Orange Box.