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I always wondered why the following concept art never made it in the following games, as they looked very cool:

Half Life 2
I remember when I 1st saw this scene, I thought it would have been quite tough & challenging to fight and avoid these Hydra creatures.
I wish they had made it in the final version of Half Life 2.
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/1572/hl2hydra.jpg


Unreal 2
This scene were the marine is performing a space walk on an asteroid belt around a Red Giant Star is so cool! It’s a real pity they never included this stage in the final version of Unreal 2.
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1059/unreal23.jpg


And is this a Boss of some kind, frying the Skaarj warrior just before fighting you?
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/1507/unreal24.jpg

And what is this jelly-fish alien thing? They would have looked great in a water stage, but as far as I remember, there was no true water world in Unreal 2. So where were these aliens supposed to have appeared in the 1st place?
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9060/unreal22.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/6867/unreal21.jpg

And was this in a smaller form in the final version? It looks a bit silly.
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/9877/unreal25.jpg


Doom 3:
There were various scenes removed from the final version of the game, for example:

I don’t remember this scene with the pinky demon immerging from the fiery inferno.
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/2691/doom307.jpg
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/5240/doom306.jpg

Also did these guys actually appear in Doom3? I only remember them in the Expansion pack “Doom III - Resurrection of Evil”
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8443/doom311.jpg

And these scenes in the Hell stage of Doom3?
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1252/doom303.jpg
http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/1306/doom304.jpg
http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/2263/doom305.jpg

What is this bird-demon dude?
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4060/doom309.jpg
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/8500/doom310.jpg

What ever happened to the Spider Master mind Boss & the lost souls?
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/1218/doom302.jpg
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/6403/doom301.jpg


And finally I never understood why they removed the infamous “bathroom scene”?!
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2095/doom308.jpg

Prey
I have completed Prey, but I don’t remember any of these guys? Please, correct me if I’m wrong …
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/1237/prey1.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2744/prey2.jpg
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2033/prey3.jpg
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/153/prey4.jpg
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/9697/prey5.jpg
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/5117/prey6.jpg

Quake 4.
Over all I thought Quake 4 sucked, but it’s a real pity they never included these scenes in the final game:

This would have been an awesome boss. Just look at the batteries in the back, they’re actually tormented marines! That is so cool, in a sadistic, sick kind of way!
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6397/quake42.jpg

I think these guys made it in the final game, but they removed the 2 torso batteries from the bottom. Pity…
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/544/quake45.jpg

This Strogg-Tiger think, looks so fierce!
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/2776/quake44.jpg

The dispersal plant in the final game looked nothing as revolting and sick as this. Pity they didn’t do it like this.
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6375/quake47.jpg

What is this mech?
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3255/quake46.jpg

Lol! This chap looks so miserable! I wonder what he was replaced by?...
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4805/quake41.jpg

This platform look awesome. It would have been cool seeing this in motion.
http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/7128/quake43.jpg

So, any thoughts, opinions or answers concerning my queries, will be highly appreciated.
Also if any of you people have any more scenes or concept that didn’t make it in these games or others, feel free to post them here.

The halflife1 was never seen or used, because it was part of the ORIGINAL design, before it was hacked and leacked, then valve changed it.

pics 1&2 from Prey are of a Mutate, and you fight a lot of them towards the middle/endish of the game. You fing like, 3-4 at a time if i remember right. The rest of the pics are of the different forms of the Harvester. The one with the legs hides in the obscene holes in the walls, and uses a weapon on its arm that is the same as the launcher that you get to use after a few encounters with the Harvesters.

as for the rest, i dunno XD

btw, those aren't concept art, the prey ones, and the half life ones, they are screen caps.

I like when they include it as unlockables.

A taste of what never happened.

Haoie wrote:I like when they include it as unlockables.

A taste of what never happened.

As far as I know none of these were added as unlockables in their respective games.
However the Hydra from Half Life 2 was added in a mod (or so I've heard)

Here is what they look like in motion from the Beta:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB9gZdZBYFI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNb-q3JGHy0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-rVSn8PLzY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-toGCptJ2Vw

I would still like to know what happened to that space-walk scene on the asteroid field around the red giant in Unreal 2.

Yeah, I wonder when (and if) black mesa Half Life 1 remake will ever me released?!
To be honest I never bothered in completing HF1 back in the day, due to its lousy graphics (even for 1999 standards) as I was spoiled by the awesome graphics of Unreal, so it would be cool to complete it now with HL2 graphics.

http://www.blackmesasource.com/