Gordon Freeman's original PC model vs his Dreamcast model

PC Gamer - June 2004 cover

MEDIC

Maybe he just got SO excited by Half Life he got confused and thought his lamp was in the game, plus when he looked over at it, it was killing a guy????????

….But the author already shows and describes the barnacles, the one thing I thought might be closest to a “lamp” with any notably unpleasant killing method. He extensively describes the head crabs and the tentacle, too. He says he doesn’t want to spoil what the “lamps” are really called but that the way they kill you is so terrible, we will “know it when we see it?!”

small detail, but according to a halflife2.net interview from 2004, gordon weighs 85 kg or 187 pounds (suit included) 

GMR Magazine #25 reviews Half-Life 2

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half life 2 holiday edition boxart i came across on ebay 

Half-Life 2 - Face Models

Isaac Kleiner - Ted Cohrt

apprently i just learned of this single photo of half life 2 bottled water which was most likely given out during E3 2004, and its the only image we have of it since the original site it came from got lost and never archived 

back to posting obscure content since i found some more, some early promo art for alyx showing an earlier design 

some promo teaser art for the mac version of half life 2 which i really like

thinking abt this early prototype blue shift cover where barney has 6 fingers