Half-Life 2: Aftermath Teaser-trailer
Posted by inpheaux on August 10th, 2005 at 11:40 am
The teaser-trailier for the upcoming expansion pack to Valve's critically acclaimed Half-Life 2 premiered a week ago at the taping of G4's yearly feature-length commercial "G-Phoria", and since G-Phoria actually aired last night (and was, as expected, unbelievably horrible), the trailer has finally found it's way onto the internets.
I've tried finding a better link than this lame ad-supported stream available at GameSpot's HL2:Aftermath Media Section, but it looks like mirrors just haven't shown up yet. I fully expect a better copy will be pushed out via Steam in the relatively near future as a glorious super-huge ultra-mega-quality Bink video, but the stream is still perfectly watchable. So for the time being, go ahead check out the stream. Only downside (apart from being a stream) is that it's short. Really short. Shorter than the US Army ad I had to sit through to see it. But hey, it's a teaser-trailer, what do you expect? It's better than the single poorly-lit screenshot we were going off of previously.
Details regarding the game are currently sketchy, it seems you won't be playing as Alyx (as previously speculated), though she (as well as other secondary characters, like Alyx's robot Dog) will be more prominently featured. It also seems like you'll once again be killing aliens/zombies/alien-zombies as Dr Freeman, so I guess the G-Man's magical subway car to the future broke down . . or something.
No matter who exactly will be showing up in the game, the basic premise that's floating out there right now is that in Aftermath you'll be escaping from the rubble of City 17, and getting out into the scorched countryside that makes up the rest of the planet. This new setting will result in encounters with all the super-powerful alien critters whose threat was used as the justification for making all the monolithic totalitarian-rule Cities from Half-Life 2.
But again, a lot of this is still up in the air, since all we know for sure is the timeframe of "after Half-Life 2" plus what's shown in the ~30 second trailer. More information will obviously be coming out between now and the expected Fall 2005 release, and we'll be here to report on it.
Source: GameSpot's Headcrab Union
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