Arkane Studios may have canceled Ravenholm, the operating name for its Half-Life 2 derivative, over ten years in the past, however that gained’t forestall online game historians from digging up photos of the sport. These days, the online game documentary channel Noclip shared a video with just about an hour of unfiltered photos from the deserted zombie shooter challenge.
The photos is contextualized by way of Danny O’Dwyer, who explains the improvement procedure in addition to the sport’s surroundings and characters in between sections of narration-free gameplay. As O’Dwyer starts enjoying, Lieutenant Shepard (the participant personality) positive factors awareness in an deserted sanatorium and is guided by way of Father Grigori, who’s recognized for his function in Half-Life 2. It doesn’t take lengthy for the motion to kick in, because the sanatorium is quickly invaded by way of zombies.
O’Dwyer notes that the sport, whilst nonetheless playable, is visibly unfinished. It’s obvious that the sport has some tough edges — as many commenters famous, one of the zombies are comically dressed in shirts that say “I’m a placeholder.”
The sport used to be canceled for unknown causes after construction happening between 2006 and 2007. Prior to now, photos of the sport used to be revealed for the first time by way of Noclip again in 2020 in a documentary on Arkane.
Maximum lately, the Half-Life sequence used to be expanded by way of Half Life: Alyx, which IGN gave a perfect score. Rather than Alyx, Valve hasn’t achieved a lot paintings at the Part-Existence sequence for the reason that 2000s, however fanatics have lately taken issues into their very own palms with Black Mesa, the fan made Part-Existence remake that we praised for its skillful (but relatively old-fashioned) enhancements to the unique sport.
Amelia Zollner is a contract author at IGN. In finding them on Twitter: @ameliazollner.
