Arkane Studios, known for their Dishonored and Prey games, talked about working on the canceled Half-Life: Ravenholm in a massive interview with YouTube channel NoClip. In this episode, the player took on the role of Adrian Shepard, the protagonist of Half-Life: Opposing Force. Also, it should have better revealed Father Gregory - in Ravenholm he is shown more as insane a scientist whose inventions expand the gameplay: for example, with the help of one of them, Adrian learns double jump.
The gameplay demo starts at 37:10. This is an early alpha build, so the game was far from polished at this stage, but you can still see how much Arkane Studios has invested in Ravenholm. The project was canceled a year before the end of work on it: Valve decided that the episodic release scheme was a bad decision for the Half-Life series.
It seems like combining survival horror elements from the original Ravenholm level from Half-Life 2 with Arkane Games' signature gameplay elements including puzzles and unusual mechanics could give the universe something amazing - but decisions were made, and demo videos and studio concepts are all we have there is.
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