Gabe's Lost Half-Life E3 Commentary, Restored

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Valve must have forgotten something huh? Even though they may have published an excellent recording of the original demos, they left out all the original commentary from the E3 booth.

Sure, you've like heard the commentary given by Greg Coomer on the 13th of May 2003 (and the legendary 486 comment), but Gabe Newell also did presentations that day, and only a single, terrible recording of it survived.

We restored it.

Original Sources:

Valve's New 2003 Demo Recordings:    • Half Life 2 Anniversary Archive: E3 2...  

Greg Coomer's Presentation:    • Half Life 2 Tech Demo - E3 2003  

Gabe Newell's Presentation:    • Half-Life 2 E3 2003 Demonstration wit...  

Gameplay Footage from the Half-Life 2 Beta MEGABUILD: https://hl2-beta.ru/index.php?topic=3...

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
2:40 - Presentation Intro
2:57 - GMan Demo
4:40 - Physics Demo
6:24 - Shader Demo
8:30 - Traptown Vista
9:20 - Alyx Lab Scene
10:58 - Traptown Demo
14:24 - Hydra Demo
16:14 - AI Demo
18:30 - Bugbait Demo
21:30 - Coast Demo
24:26 - City 17 Demo
27:13 - GMan Goodbye
27:47 - E3 Production Context
28:24 - Unused Demo
30:21 - Outro

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