10 Announced Video Games That Mysteriously Disappeared
1. Half-Life 2: Episode 3
This final entry really speaks for itself. Valve can barely sneeze without enthusiastic fans taking it as a coded message that Half-Life 3 is on the way.
There’s really no overstating the community’s love for this series. For good reason, too: the industry has a lot to thank this genuinely deep and interesting FPS for.
One thing fans don’t appreciate, though, is Half-Life 2’s ending. It was rather abrupt and left a lot of things up in the air, hence the appearance of Episode One and Two. While they expanded on several elements of the game, in both a narrative and a gameplay sense, the promised Episode Three never arrived.
Episode Two arrived in October 2007, and there’s been nary a word ever since. Entreaties from fans, tales of assets being discovered and an increasing silence from Gabe Newell and Valve have all meant that we’re none the wiser as to when the game may see the light of day, all these years later.
Half-Life 3 confirmed? Sorry, not just yet. The more anticipation there is for the title, the more weight on its shoulders to deliver. It’s a rough cycle, but that’s the burden of being one of the most beloved video game franchises of all time.