The Half-Life 2 burnt corpse controversy revolving around corpse01.mdl has rekindled its flame 18 years after the game’s release. Many even hint that it might be leftover from Half-Life 2 beta which was leaked 2 years prior to the game’s retail release.
The prerogative for game developers to imitate real-life possibilities to the best of their extent is pretty much a corporate necessity. Research teams sometimes go as deep as studying real-life cases just to texturize the same in-game. Half-Life 2 creators may have done something similar.
What is the Half-Life 2 Corpse01 controversy?
So to simplify it for you, the internet spawned multiple images of corpses in a certain subreddit. Within that subreddit, users found that one of the corpse pictures had stark similarities with the half-life corpse01.mdl model.
TRIGGER WARNING: corpse01.mdl shown below in one of the youtube videos
How did the internet discover the burnt corpse controversy?
Multiple sites, including GamesRadar have tried going to the depth of this. Resulting from the well-sought intentions of the press are the source of the burnt corpse controversy.
- Apparently, this discovery first came through a subreddit named r/eyeblech. A user shared a photo of a corpse. Carrying the photo was the caption “Some pretty gnarly forensic photographs.”
- Then a few days ago, a user had an enlightening reckoning. They replied, “Oh hey 1st one’s the half life 2 corpse01.”
How YouTuber connected all the pieces
https://twitter.com/richterovertime/status/1604653975856357376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1604653975856357376%7Ctwgr%5E6aded5e86e6d882a1a2518084f80d8cccdc3f5db%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegamer.com%2Fhalf-life-2-fans-discover-that-corpse-model-was-ripped-from-real-medical-book%2F
The internet is a gnarly place. However, even more than it is gnarly, it is actually interconnected. YouTuber Richter Overtime took to his channel to put things together. Ever since the internet has been a boggling place for players feeling traumatized. For a corpse01 model that has nothing seemingly interesting to it, this is quite a dark turn.
Why a corpse model may resemble a real-life corpse in Half-Life 2
- So how do they go on about doing it? So developers will usually research before they develop cities, models, NPCs, etc. City and stuff are more architectural, and there are well-to-do simulations for that.
- But usually, to imitate real-life corpses and gore, developers may have to study actual medical footage of corpses and so and so.
Is the Half-Life 2 Burnt Corpse controversy a hangover of the Half-Life 2 Beta legend?
The thing with old games is that they usually end up homing a culture surrounding them. Los Santos feels like a real thing thanks to GTA San Andreas. Adding to such a list was the legend of the Half-Life 2 Beta version.
- For the uninitiated, the Half-Life 2 BETA was a leak that occurred 2 years prior to the actual release of the game. In 2002, an early model HALF-LIFE 2 was released somewhere on the internet.
- It soon took too many users but was eventually taken care of. The BETA model however homed a City 17 that looked like a run-down steampunk Los Angeles. The Beta version was not only cruel in its textures but also in the storyline that it resounded.
20 years after the release of the retail version of Half-Life 2, progress still continues for many fan developers who have tried to put the beta version together.
- This is done using whatever reminiscent is left from those leaks, and bits of information revealed by Half-Life 2 developers every here and then.
thegamer believes that half-life 2 corpse01 being based on a real life corpse adds recluse to the darker tone that Half-Life 2 initially may have tried to emulate. The very emulation that was shown in the leaked Half-Life 2 beta.
The entire controversy could also be just another coincidence
- It is also entirely possible that the corpse that the Redditor found and the corpse that developers modeled corpse01.mdl into is not intentional. It could simply be a bizarre case of coincidental similarity.
- If so, it may just mean that we are digging more than we ought to. Ultimately the corpse01.mdl had to be modeled after something – some pictures of some corpse, the concept of a corpse, etc.
What do you think? is this all a coincidence or is there a larger dark reality brewing underneath Half-Life 2’s premise? Let us know in the comments section down below.
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