For Hostile Takeover, I was going to mention the new things (weapons, enemies, gameplay mechanics), but that would have extended the length of the video significantly. I chose to not mention those things. Kept the video short :) Also - 4:34 I meant to say HOSTILE TAKEOVER, not just TAKEOVER... ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Honestly it's a shame that hostile takeover was cancelled. It would have been cool to see the black mesa incident in the perspective of a person who isn't even in black mesa but is still experiencing the effects of the disaster.

Cool how since the TFC team is canon in the TF2 comics, if Hostile Takeover had released, it would make a connected universe between Half-Life, Team Fortress, and Portal. The Valveverse? Gabenverse?

As I read "EA's half-life" I almost choked on my breakfast

ea's half life featuring that now you need to use real money if you want the weapons

10:05 EA was hired by valve to make expansion for half life 2 (like oposing force and blue shift for half life 1) similar to arkane studios. This project ended development for same reason like return to ravenholm. Fun fact: EA and arkane studios wasn't the only companies hired to make expanisons. Gearbox and many more also had thier projects but none of them ever ended development. These concept art's are probably for this expansion.

Watch new video at 4am because you cant sleep? *Yes why not*

EA making a half life? God that would be awful. Pay wall after pay wall

If EA got rights to a half-life game I would've cried.

Honestly I'd love to see more half-life games that don't follow Gordon or anyone close to him. There's so much about the universe that could be explored and expanded upon.

The concept art for EA’s project kinda looks like something out of Alyx.

Hostile takeover seems like a good dlc

Reading half life and EA in the same sentence made me shutter

and after I thought I had found ever little bit of half life related content, you come along and prove me wrong yet again. Good Job!

The more you know about Valve, the more interesting things become.

I feel that it is important to mention that Hostile Takeover has been picked up yet again by another studio known as the Lambda Team. While the team is focused on Black Mesa Classic at the moment, I've been writing the story for Hostile Takeover, and I've got something very interesting planned.

9:06 - the armband. What is interesting is that 17 is clearly out of place, pasted on top later, while C is painted as part of the concept art. This might suggest that it was different city originally, but they changed the number to C17 later.

I feel like the EA concept art was for a prequel pitch. They were publishing the Orange Box at the time. Perhaps this was rejected & later morphed into the unreleased episodes by Junction Point or Arkane Studios. Sorta like how Portal 2 evolved from F-Stop, that Portal prequel without portals that featured Cave Johnson who was still alive.

I think somebody is working on a remake of Hostile Takeover, I'm not sure though.

The ea combine look so cool

2:07 So you're telling me, in an alternate timeline, TF and Half-Life are in the *same* universe? What would have been of TF2 itself, though? Fighting the Combine?

I have a theory that the combine suit that appears would be, rather, a training or cadet suit. I say this because it seems to be made of improvised parts like a gas mask, an armored helmet and so on, something that the combine does not usually do even in, for example, Half Life Alyx which occurs a time before Half Life 2 . Obviously it's just a theory of mine

I want to see Gordon in EA's HL struggling find a way to pay for his crowbar.

my personal theory is perhaps it would continue the story of Adrian waking up from stasis as a combine soldier/officer, still remembering who they are and what they have witnessed.

If EA made a Half-Life game imagine if you needed to buy DLC to use specific weapons like the Gravity Gun or Crowbar.

I have a theory on 9:17 , what if that was like a grunt faction, an independent group that isn’t with the combine nor resistance. What purpose they would serve is unknown. My second theory is with the metro cop, if you look at the helmet it kinda gives you vibes from Half life 1 security guards, this could be a division of former black Mesa employees working for the combine now. It kinda makes sense and I see breen appointing them to their own divisions as they once worked for him. Not only that orange is a common color in black Mesa so I can see that as their official color. Third theory is that the metro cop is Barney in his own suit.

8:23 The uniform makes me think of an alternate Half-Life Universe where the Combine invaded in the Late 1940s.

I love these videos but it hurts to see so many Half-Life related concepts being cancelled.

This is the type of videos I was hoping for from you in the future! Great job as usual.

Imagine if valve made a HL2 directors cut or Developers Cut

hostile takeover's development story upsets me dearly

the concept art looks like it really inspired half life alyx, the out of place combine tech, the more primitive combine look, it looks really similar

Thanks for the video Radhaz! Your really good at these videos I hope you can keep on making them because I know right now everybody is busy, but we will all be patient in the meantime!

Banger video as usual!!!

Cool video! I never knew about this canceled game.

Step 1: get Nice and cozy in bed Step 2: Open youtube Step 3: see that Radiation Hazard just uploaded April 7th, 2021, the "blissful" incident

Amazing video as always

Valve can't count to three, so there never was a 3rd expansion pack

Who knows what valve or someone would do to Shephard in the future? Maybe he could appear in the third game as a boss battle against the freeman himself?!

Nice! Thanks for this video!

It would be a cool idea to make Adrian Shephard Returning on the Unknown Called Project of Half-Life 2, Although.... There is a Another cancelled game called "Half-Life 2 Episode 4" or "Half-Life 2: Return To Ravenholm", If I heard clearly, The main protagonist in the Another cancelled game would be, Adrian Shephard. The Another Cancelled Game would be developed by Arkane Studio, Commissioned by Valve ( I Think ) Now, in the year 2021 There is a petition to released the Unfinished Build of the Cancelled Game I can show you the proof, but i cannot send the link to the petition of releasing the unfinished build of the cancelled game, Due to KZfaq Bot deleting the comment that had a link on it.

You're my favourite channel now for half life related stuff 👍👍

Nice vid as usual!

nice video mate , keep it up

Man I love watching your content it’s amazing always interests me thank u for posting.

Hostile takeover looks like such a good game... sad it never got released.

I think the canceled half ife of The ev- i mean Ea would probably take After the seven hour war, i think of that.

Idea for the next video that would be about F-stop a game that was suposed to be portal sequel

9:16 >Character has old army boots from 90s >has a M81 urban Camouflage variant pattern >has Alice chest rig Yep this is shephard

As for the Team Fortress crossover aspect of Hostile Takeover, the TF characters weren't probably TFC's but rather the unreleased Valve's Team Fortress/TF2 Brotherhood of Arms iteration of the characters.

10:20 It was most likely as you were saying a sales pitch by EA to make a half-life game because EA tried to buy valve at one point. so it may have been to show what they would do with the game?

9:23 that's definitely an HECU soldier. That PCV along with the camo is unmistakable.

I just found your content and I really love it! Good job on the great videos!

Hostile Takeover would have been VERY bad for the lore. also sad that shepherd all ways gets the short end of the stick.

Cool vid friend!

EDC is malding right now

We could have gotten “half life but you play as the civilian from team fortress” and “battlefield half life”

Another epic video by Radiation Hazard

Nice video.

Ea wanted buy valve but gaben said nope so the second unreleased thingy is a mystery

thank god EA didnt well uh we all know how EA works make bad game make money p r o f i t , unless EA were actually attempting to make something good

Awesome

i think they cancelled hostile takeover, because they didnt want the 2 franchises to be connected lore wise

If EA made Half-Life , to load the next chapter please pay 7.99$

I started writing a script for hostile takeover in the form of a sfm film. Only write everything leading up to the disaster then I realized what a pain it would be to make all new assets for it.

Player: *enters a HL map* EA: Pay 50 dollars to unlock this map Player: *gets weapon from npc* EA: Pay 20 dollars to unlock this weapon

You somehow managed to trigger my Google Assistant twice in the first 2 minutes of this video lol

Damn, I knew two canceled games but I never heard of these. Always fun to learn about HL's history! Plus, the images that show the canal and damaged/decrepit buildings up to the CP's design; seems to be like as if the combine were just starting their reign after the seven hour war. (I do know it's concept, but it really does look like it just started). The uniform on the one character with a small vest, is the HECU or is similar to their uniforms. So I'd speculate it probably was a more "Opposing Force 2" kind of idea. Which I still think an Opposing Force 2 idea would be fun to play as if done correctly.

8:45 Or they were thinking of redesigning stuff for the sake of it, which makes me pretty glad it never happened, I ain't a fan of drastic art direction changes with little explanation (FEAR 1 to FEAR 2 as one example)

The team fortress characters are from a really early version of team fortress 2

For EA's Half Life charcater photos What if the metrocop was actualy Barney in his first appearance, just with the beta concept? If the second "combine" was Adrian, maybe EA was going to create a coop Half Life? (if there is some errors, i'm not english lol) Great video btw, i was watching your videos lately and you gained a subscriber ;)

Great video! I liked it a lot. For the EA part, most people forgot that Valve and EA were partners during the Orange Box era. Hell both companies unveil the Orange Box and EA did, YES EA DID THEMSELVES, the ps3 port of the Orange Box. But even though this game was never made, EA still got their name on a half-life game (PS3 port)... and that is the last thing I want to see. What I like to think it would have been was a console exclusive expansion or something, though the PS3 port sucked ass. But I think it would have been cool. Edit: Also my evidence for console exclusive? Well it wasn't the first time Valve did console exclusives: Decay, Blue Shift (originally at least), and Portal Still Alive. Portal Still Alive was for the Xbox 360 exclusively. But, there was nothing on the PS3. So who did the port? EA. That is what I like to think, for more content on PS3 like what the Xbox 360 did... I have spent too much time thinking about EA's Concept what THE FUCK AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE??!?! HELEL!p!-

A “Junior G-Man” sounds like an interesting concept. Employed by the same “people” but regarded as a lower rank.

EA making a Half-Life game. I never thought of that, and I would never wanted to.

from a person like you i expect like 174k subs but seriously you deserve to have more subs

EA’s Half Life... This is where we cry in fear

I guess the closest thing we got to a third Half Life expansion was Decay I hope that one day we get Hostile Takeover leaked along with Arkhane studios Episode 4

EA Hl2: *Buy the gravity gun battery! Buy the shotgun! No ammo? Buy it! Give us 50 bucks to save alyx!*

0:36 thx my furniture started howering around

5th tip: the 2nd character in ea's project is going to be adrian sheperd that was stuck in g man's some sort of portal dimension and managed to get out of there so then adrian was going to be the main character in ea's project

Fascinating.

5:54 Gabe can not count to three.

9:41 Reminds me of the G11

imagine if alyx was a dlc pay to win playable character for 10 dollars and could get skins for her with 5 dollar boxes or some shit 😭😭😭

EA be like: "Please pay 50$ for non mechanical reproduction simulation"

0:25 bro is spitting bars

EA making Half-Life really? We're gonna pay EA everytime we swing a crowbar?

About Hostile Takeover and the "Junior Gman". Maybe you would play as someone who either replaces G-man, or gets a position equivalent to his?. G-man is not his own boss. He himself says he have "employers"

How do we know Valve never wanted for the publisher EA? He might have done with The Orange Box.

Ea already did the Orange box porting so it would make sense to let them make a separate game

Hey, the last cancelled Half-Life game is actually "Half-Life 2: Episode Four" or "Return to Ravenholm" It was a cancelled project by Arkane Studios. I imagine that that concept art was made when that artist worked for Arkane but was just dumped on his page in 2011.

I pray someone makes a mod for hostile takeover, that would be fun as fuck.

Maybe the EA project was just a proposition to Valve that was never approved. The Star Wars looking guard and the other guy don't really fit in well with Half-Life.

Ea's changes to the HL2 art style look awful.

I think this concept is what ultimately lead to the HL2 ideas.

Thanks Tyler McVicker, very cool.

plus the 2nd character in ea's project weapon that the 2nd character was holding could have been the H.E.C.U soldiers standarad issue MP5 sub machine gun

Never heard of that Addon before.

God now I want a modern Half-Life: Hostile Takeover where there's the TF2 mercs during a serious Black Mesa incident.

If EA did make the game it would cost $70, then to walk it would cost $99. After that to use a weapon it will cost $9999.