Manhack Arcade



The Manhack Arcade is a cut area from Half-Life 2 that was to be seen in the first chapters of the game in a business/entertainment area of City 17, between the Trainstation Plaza and the Combine Factories.



Features
In this entertainment place, the player was to see citizens playing video games consisting in controlling Manhacks into the streets and killing fugitive citizens, ignoring that the Manhacks they were controlling were real and actually killing on the streets. Although it sounded good on paper, it was considered not actually very fun by the team and was therefore cut.

Trivia
In the film Toys, a similar idea shows teenagers unknowingly controling, in a vast arcade, remote-controlled military robots that actually kill in real-life.