Get Your Free TVs! (partially found "Half-Life 2" tech demo; 2000): Difference between revisions

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The only known official image of Get Your Free TVs

Status: Partially Found

This article has been tagged as Needing work due to its lack of focus and proper structure formatting.

Get Your Free TVs is the first known tech demo for the game Half-Life 2. It showed off what VALVe was working on with their new Source Engine.

History

2000
- Get Your Free TVs is shown at SIGGRAPH 2000^[1]. Sadly, it was shown behind closed doors to members of the press.

2001
- A shortened version of the demo was probably shown here

2003
- The Half-Life 2 Beta gets leaked, and along with this, some assets to Get Your Free TVs. This is the first, and as of now only, time assets for Get Your Free TVs got into the public's hands.

2004
- An image is released, showing multiple Gasmask Citizens running from the "Strider" enemy from Half-life 2, which has already killed a few.
- One of the 2 known images is published in a GameSpot article^[2]
- Concept art is released in the book Half-Life 2: Raising The Bar.

What's Been Found

Half-Life 2 2003 Leak
- Textures for the gasmask citizen shown in the photo
- Modified versions of the level shown in the photo

What's Still Lost

The gasmask citizen model
The version of the level shown in the GameSpot screenshot and tech demo video
- Several unused textures are in the GameSpot screenshot
The tech demo video

Reference

[1] SIGGRAPH 2000 Confirmation

[2] GameSpot Article

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 '''''Get Your Free TVs''''' is the first known tech demo for the game '''''Half-Life 2'''''. It showed off what VALVe was working on with their new Source Engine.