Eli Maxwell[2] is a character cut from Half-Life 2 who was merged with another cut character Captain Vance to form Eli Vance.[1]
Overview[]
Originally, Eli Vance was intended to have no more relation with Alyx Vance than being close friends and appear as an old bespectacled man with a white beard, a bonnet, an apron, and walking with a stick because of his missing leg, and named "Maxwell", "Vance" being the name of the captain, Alyx's original father.[1]
He was to use a scrapyard and a cave as his lab, rather than a real building like Black Mesa East.[1][3] A prototype map of this original lab, last edited in August 2001, can be found in the WC mappack under the name "proto_eliden003.vmf
" ("Eli's Den"). It does not contain any hint of a lab, but rather some sort of garage with a damaged school bus and several damaged cars, mirroring Mossman's sentence about the facility being more suited to mechanics than research scientists.[2][3]
He would work in that lab on the physics manipulator with his robot[1] Dog and show Gordon a slideshow of what happened between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, mentioning the Air Exchange, among others.[1] In sound files located in the Half-Life 2 Beta files (in the folder /sound/temp/Eli/), he also warns Gordon about Particle Storms, to which he lost his leg,[2] while the final version uses a Bullsquid.[1]
Fate[]
Apart from his last name, appearance, and relation to Alyx, Maxwell is mostly identical to the final retail Eli Vance in Half-Life 2 and its episodes, and Half-Life: Alyx.
One concept art with him wearing a black beanie cap is reused in Half-Life: Alyx, as part of his younger successor's attire with a bit of realistic detail.
Gallery[]
List of appearances[]
- Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar (First appearance) (Non-canonical appearance)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Playable Half-Life 2 Beta files
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 WC mappack