Half-Life 2: Episode 3, Alyx & Dog. Stars of Blood… you can check out more of these images.

 

DidYouKnowGaming made a documentary about the canceled Valve games? We’ve embedded it below. But shortly afterward, David McGreavy, by his admission, a Valve superfan and someone who found his way around in the games industry (he was recently the marketing producer for Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands under Take-Two, specifically 2K), published concept art on the Internet Archive, which are indeed official, and thus from the Gabe Newell-led company.

McGreavy said in the video that he had several internal contacts at Valve. One Valve employee rescued the images when the company moved to another office building and sold his loot to McGreavy, who has images not only from Half-Life 2: Episode 3 but also Left 4 Dead, a very early Half-Life: Alyx concept (which was named Alyx and Dog), a DotA spinoff (Underlords), and the mysterious space pirate game Stars of Blood. The Internet Archive post also mentions Counter-Strike: Source 2, which was a tease, and in the meantime Counter-Strike 2, the fifth installment in the franchise, a sequel to Global Offensive, has officially surfaced.

The move was made in 2016, so the de_dust concepts were born as a sequel to 2004’s Counter-Strike: Source, and from that came 2011’s Global Offensive, or “CSGO” as many call it. The images in Half-Life 2: Episode 3 show rocky, deserted areas with scrapped ships, with another Combine citadel in the background. Borealis, the planned location for the episode, has been turned from an icy landscape to a desert by the Combine. The ship’s interior appears, and Wallace Breen is seen in a Combine Advisor version. The Stars of Blood images show what another story-driven Valve game could have been like, but Combine also pops up in one of the images. Would it have shared the world with Half-Life and Portal? The Gigerlike character concepts aren’t bad, either. Underlords shows a Halloween-like city, and Alyx and Dog offers a backdrop resembling the moon. In the Left 4 Dead folder, you can see alternative character designs and some deleted zombie concepts.

They’re worth a look.

Source: PCGamer