Impressive fan-made Half-Life 2 movie released

Posted Feb 14th 2009 3:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, FPS, Video

Fan made productions are usually of a low quality in terms of production value. That's not the case with this first episode of Escape From City 17, a fan-made 5 minute movie based on Valve's Half-Life 2. Valve liked it so much that they featured it in their weekly Steam news update.

The team that made this film, the Canadian-based Purchase Brothers, have made two episodes so far (although just the first has been released) and they claim that the budget for both was $500. They made that budget stretch like there is no tomorrow with scenes of CGI Striders and battle sequences that look like something out of the Terminator future war sequences. We can't wait to see the second episode.

Download HD Escape from City 17 Part 1 (45 MB)
* Video file hosted with permission from the Purchase Brothers

Tags: escape-from-city-17, half-life-2, purchase-brothers, steam, valve, valve-software

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Impressive indeed!Posted at 5:32PM on Feb 14th 2009 by Game_playa

Definitely well done, even if the voice acting is a bit sketchy ;).Posted at 10:27PM on Feb 14th 2009 by Gripen40k

This video is fabulous. Already I have seen several times and am impressed. Can't wait for future episodes to be released. I have no complaints about the actors.Posted at 8:59AM on Feb 15th 2009 by Ladron

Epic.Posted at 1:44PM on Feb 15th 2009 by xtrmlybad

Valve should put these on Steam.Posted at 4:38PM on Feb 15th 2009 by Einhanderkiller

Very impressive! I think these people have a future in video production.Posted at 5:54PM on Feb 16th 2009 by Migraine

Valve, HAS put this on steam xDPosted at 11:16PM on Feb 16th 2009 by Joe