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URBAN - 2000

As Half-Life 2 has now reached its 20th birthday, the HL2 community and its numerous beta enthusiasts have been graced with the first true look into how the game appeared back in Y2K; the glorious SIGGRAPH tech demo!

Needless to say, everyone knows about the Free TVs demo and all that good stuff, and I found the numerous little micro-differences to be worth creating this map for.

Of course, as this previously lost media is fresh (as of writing this, only released 8 hours ago), this map does not accurately recreate a number of the lost textures that went previously unknown until this demo's surfacing.

That said, I couldn't help giving my own rendition of this beautiful piece of crappy, proto-Source, 480p video file technology.

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CUSTOM SKYBOX (CREATED BY ME, EDIT OF SKY_C17_01)

ADDED APARTMENT BLOCK, PREVIOUSLY NEVER INCLUDED IN ANY OF THE CITYTEST MAPS, YET STILL USED AS A PREFAB IN LATER, ARCHIVED CITY MAPS

LIGHTING ALTERED TO RESEMBLE THE BRIGHTER, GREENISH TONE OF THE DEMO

TEXTURES CHANGED TO RESEMBLE THE DEMO, TEMP PROPS AND MODELS SWITCHED AND REMOVED FOR ADDITIONAL ACCURACY


HL2_BETA.RU AND ITS MANY CONTRIBUTORS << TEXTURE RECREATIONS

ME, AND A COUPLE HOURS OF FREE TIME << MAP FIXES AND CUSTOM SKYBOX