Get Your Free TVs!



Get Your Free TVs! is the the very first Half-Life 2 level to be created, in 2001. It was rather a test sequence designed to highlight all the new technology created for the game and test NPCs and physics and not to be included in the final product.

Description
The concept was to simulate a street war between rioting citizens and the Metrocops sent to contain them. Such a sequence would test the engine's ability to create a vast, believable world and lifelike characters. There would be APCs and tanks rolling down the streets. Citizens would throw Molotov cocktails at the vehicles, which would then explode. Other characters would start looting stores and yell, "Get your free TVs!" There was even a hand-to-hand fighting system so the Metrocops and citizens could get into fistfights.

External link

 * "The Final Hours of Half-Life 2", page 7, on GameSpot