Anyone who’s played Hλlf-Life 2 (Lambda added for coolness and pretentiousness) is immediately familiar with ‘Ravenholm’, easily one of the craziest, most well put together and scariest levels in gaming’s long storied history. Well there was going to be a game based on it, co-created by Arkane Studios, responsible for Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah Of Might And Magic.
It was scrapped though. Which is a shame because any sort of Half-Life anything to come out right now would be awesome. Mark Laidlaw had this to say about the canceled ‘Return To Ravenholm’…
“There was indeed a project called Return to Ravenholm. We are big fans of Arkane and wanted to come up with a project we could work on together. We threw ideas around, they built some cool stuff, but we eventually decided that it didn’t make sense to pursue it at the time. As I recall, we felt like a lot of the staples of Ravenholm–headcrabs and zombies!–were pretty much played out, and the fact that it would have to take place sometime before the end of Episode 2 (so as not to advance beyond where Valve had pushed the story) was a creative constraint that would hamper the project…and Arkane.”
Do you think that the project should have seen the light of day?
