Valve has released lost footage of Half-Life 2's earliest public demo from 2000, a missing link between HL1 and HL2 that already teased Episode 3's infamous Borealis

s part of Valve's celebration of Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary, the studio has released 17 minutes of early development footage for the game that was long thought lost. The demo shows a version of Half-Life 2 partway between HL1 and the final release—it's familiar, yet also surreally, intriguingly different...
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