“Sorry, if we’re going to do it, we’re going to do it internally.”
Saber Interactive, the developer behind World War Z, approached Valve with the possibility of having it remake Half-Life 2. However, Valve responded that if a remake does happen, it will be done internally.
GameWatcher spoke to Saber Interactive CEO and co-founder Matthew Karch who discussed that after Saber worked on Halo: The Master Chief Collection, the team then turned its eyes to Half-Life 2.
“After we did Halo Anniversary and Halo 2 Anniversary, as part of the Master Chief Collection, I reached out to Gabe Newell personally, because I knew him from a past life, and I said I want to remake Half-Life 2,” Karch said. “That’s all I want to do. I won’t charge you anything for it. I’ll do it for rev-share and doesn’t even need to be a big rev-share. I just really want to do because I love that game so much.”
Valve, unfortunately for Saber, responded by saying “Sorry, if we’re going to do it, we’re going to do it internally.”
Karch, like many of us, continues to ask the question, “Where’s Half-Life?” He believes Saber is “scratching that itch with World War Z on the Left 4 Dead side,” but “Gordon Freeman, man, he’s as iconic as Master Chief. Where is it?”
While we still don’t know when/if Half-Life will ever return, we do know that World War Z does a good job of recreating the chaotic zombie-filled fun of Left 4 Dead. In our review, we said “World War Z’s lack of variety and ambition can’t stop a satisfying zombie slashing with a good group of friends.”
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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN who knows where Half-Life 3 is. You believe him, right? You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst.
