Half-Life 2: Episode 3 Concept Art

[brokenergy]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/06/27/rumor-half-life-2-episode-3-concept-art-appears-online.aspx

 

If this is real content for EP3, then all I have to say to Valve is "WHY AREN'T YOU MAKING EP3?"

[AliasTheory]

If it isn't concept art, then I can be absolutely sure that Valve just hates the number three.

[WrathOfDeadguy]

Those may or may not be genuine, but they're cool regardless. Some of the pics (mainly the colored shots of Alyx) look an awful lot like heavily modified photos (compare the high quality of the face to the lower quality of the clothes), which isn't consistent with concept art from other Valve games... including other Half-Life releases.

 

Compare the following pairs of images:

 

This one to this one.

 

This one to this one.

 

This one to this one.

 

Note that in each pair of images, the faces are identical. In the frontal shots, the face and neck are both the same, while on the other two pairs of images the faces match but the shape of the neck does not. Lots of cut-and-pasting going on here. At least three layers can be identified: clothing, face, and headwear. Each layer is of obviously different quality. You can even tell which image in each pair was created first by how the hair is edited to fit the headwear.

 

Lots of these are very nicely done- somebody sunk a fair bit of time into making them- but sadly I don't think Valve is the source. What we have here is a collection of really cool fanart.

Edited July 4, 2012 by Wrath_Of_Deadguy01

[MooseTail]

If it isn't concept art, then I can be absolutely sure that Valve just hates the number three.

Haha Ikr! They just decided "Mmh what game doesn't have a 3... Ah! Ricochet! Lets make Ricochet 2!"

:facepalm: VALVE