World War Z’s Developer Approached Valve to Remake Half-Life 2
World War Z’s Developer Approached Valve to Remake Half-Life 2
Today, Half-Life 2 is considered a classic, making the game a prime candidate for a remake, one which could take advantage of all of the graphical enhancements that the past 15 years have wrought. Now, it looks like Saber Interactive had the same idea, but Valve turned them down.
Saber Interactive is well known for their work on Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary and Halo 2 Anniversary as well as their work on World War Z, a 4-player Co-op zombie Survival game. Saber Interactive’s CEO, Matthew Karch, has confirmed that the studio had approached Valve to express interest in a Half-Life 2 remake, an option which Valve refused.
Given recent history, this decision seems strange, as while Valve’s “Sorry, if we’re going to do it, we’re going to do it internally” comment makes sense, the company has since allowed a team of modders to create a remake of Half-Life, a new game called Black Mesa. Valve is seemingly interested in making internal remakes of Half-Life while simultaneously being ok with allowing a group of modders create remakes of their games. Strange.
Where’s Half-Life? Half-Life was the game that made Valve. Before Left 4 Dead, there was Half-Life, which needs to be remade in my opinion, because I think we’re scratching that itch with World War Z on the Left 4 Dead side. I think other developers are going to come and do similar types of things. But Gordon Freeman, man, he’s as iconic as Master Chief. Where is it?
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