Journal #7086

It's very nicely done but it screams "done with after effects".

It's alright. Better than most fan efforts, but it was shot on a piss poor camera and the cinematography is janky. Also, overuse of Half-Life 2 sound effects really cheapens it: why do you hear the health pick up sound effect when they pick up a health vial? Doesn't really make any sense.

I think this is the worst of all the Half-Life shorts that have been popping up recently. At least Escape From City 17 respects the source.

Combine with samurai swords? 28 Days Later zombies? Rebels with holograms?

Feels like they had a random collection of 'this looks cool' thoughts and they decided to throw some Half-Life elements in there, and in the title, so people would actually look at it.

I saw this one from Valve's official YouTube channel. I was impressed.

Clearly a lot of effort has gone into the production. The slo-mo hand-to-hand combat was cool, even if it doesn't make sense. But then again, you see that all the time in Hollywood films.

I actually thought all the same things Strider thought, and the 28 Days Later zombies really confused me. Why would you take a video game series with it's own rather well known (at least to the fans) type of zombie and replace it?

haha the zombie thing totally agree maybe if they were making a split video on left for dead and half-life, and yes the health vial pickup was retarded. I was like, umm, wtf.