Escape from City 17

For those of you who have played Half Life 2, and its extended episodes, you will get a real kick out of this:

The Purchase Brothers have created a short series called 'Escape from City 17', and have just released the first Episode. The story follows a group of citizens escaping City 17 and the storyline is supposed to run concurrently with the main story arc in HL2: episode one. Check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1UPMEmCqZo

...Be sure to watch it in HD if you have the chance, there should be a button in the video that allows you to do this, if not, follow this URL direct link to the YouTube HD version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1UPMEmCqZo&fmt=22

I think it looks really good... the production values are excellent. The only thing that lets it down is the acting, but the sneak peek at episode 2 looks very promising in that department with the addition of new characters.

should make for some interesting discussion.

-Cub. =o)
I read they spent $500 on that. If that's true, the game is changing.

-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!
Yea I saw this.

This was pretty neat.

How did they get those sets though?

Did they just take renders and footage from the game and intersplice them with real footage?

Anxiously awaiting the Second episode.

Cub, let us know when the second ep is out.
Matt
That was pretty amazing, especially given the budget.