Amazing Half-Life 2 Inspired Viral Campaign

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Torch81says...

I'm sure Valve had something to do with this.....maybe? If it's fan created, then HOLY SHIT! It took some $ or some major time. Awesome video, wish the guy would have fought back like I do in HL2.

Offsajdhsays...

DEFINETLY fan created, alternativly cleverly disguised viral marketing (for what?). Nothing in there that would cost alot of money, only skillfull use of effects. The props used in the other HL2 fan movie had alot higher quality, although this one had alot less crappy acting which is good.

ForgedRealitysays...

Guys, seriously? Valve had nothing to do with this. Anyway, it's pretty boring. It could have done with some creative editing to speed things up a little. Doesn't help that it's all first person perspective.

If something like this were to be made into a movie, I don't see it doing too well, or honestly being any good.

bleedingsnowmansays...

Cool video, but totally a commercial. The last year Samsung has been uping the ante on their viral marketing campaigns, and this seems to be another ramping up. To what, who knows yet. The reason it is Half-Life inspired is probably because the theme hits the target consumer base. Remember Gabbo, anyone?

harrysays...

The guy who made the effects (Tim Smit) was just on a Dutch talk show. He's a physics student with a passion for film, and this is sort of an experimental video to see what he could do. It is a concept for a longer movie, hence the poster and the website etc. It was made on a 150€ budget, 3 days of location shooting, and from what I understood, a few months of tinkering with special effects. He's been studying and replicating visual effects as a hobby for years.

The link with the game wasn't really explored (presumably because the talkshow host didn't know), but he did briefly mention that the sound effects (and thus, probably the whole HL2 inspired setting) were 'off-the-shelf', and that he would do all that differently if he ever had a chance to make the 90-minute movie version.

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