Siggraph 2000 / Get Your Free TVs (GYFTVs)

[Avro_]

i found this image claiming to be hl2 beta (1999)
now,idk if is fake and i never saw someone talking about this image,so is this fake or just a beta image from half life 2????

the image im  talking about:


the place where i find it:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-2-1999-build

Edit:
They actually released the video of this demo!

[OddDoc]

It is the only known screenshot from "Get Your Free TV" HL2 demo, which was shown at Siggraph 2001.
In the other words, it is a first known official screenshot from HL2.

[Avro_]

It is the only known screenshot from "Get Your Free TV" HL2 demo, which was shown at Siggraph 2001.
In the other words, it is a first known official screenshot from HL2.

ok now i understand the image,i aleardy knew that the game was in creation since 1999 but i never knew that exist images in game about it,thanks to reply btw

[Витой]

The source of that screenshot is Gamespot’s The Final Hours of Half-Life 2 article. You should read it, it’s pretty interesting.

[Cubemapper]

The source of that image is from one of the very first levels for hl2, you can see.
It was supposed to be a test level.

Get Your Free TVs! was the very first Half-Life 2 test level to be created in 2001 when the Valve development team had only a rough script of the game, some concept art and was experimenting the new technology. It consisted of a test sequence designed to highlight all the new technology created for the game and test the NPCs and physics, not to be included in the final product.[1] Based around a very early version of the Source engine, this sequence was the real start of the game's development.

The concept was to simulate a street war between rioting citizens and the Metrocops sent to contain them. Such a sequence would test the engine's ability to create a vast, believable world and lifelike characters. There would be APCs and tanks rolling down the streets. Citizens would throw Molotov cocktails at the vehicles, which would then explode. Other characters would start looting stores and yell, "Get your free TVs!". There was even a hand-to-hand fighting system so the Metrocops and Citizens could get into fistfights, a feature never implemented or seen in the final game.[1]

[Ванька_Космобайкер]

This is the first screenshot of HL2, not fake.

[Vanixty]

I got the city_test03 and city_test09 maps. But they don't have any events or NPC'S. Where do I get the one with NPC's? 

[LordRevolution]

To my knowledge there isn't any

[MorinCoo]

There is one obvious, but sort of difficult option - You can add some events by yourself, if you know how to work in Hammer editor.

[Vanixty]

Aw man.

[tw1zz]

I'm working on a recreation of it.
Now it's nearly completed but I need gas mask citizen model compiled for leak hl2 engine.
So I have to wait for megapatch 4.
I think that the result should be very interesting.
If anyone could send me the model, please leave me a message.

[Vanixty]

I'm working on a recreation of it.
Now it's nearly completed but I need gas mask citizen model compiled for leak hl2 engine.
So I have to wait for megapatch 4.
I think that the result should be very interesting.
If anyone could send me the model, please leave me a message.

I hope this helps. https://drive.google.com/open?id=14dzolEF3PvrEYZyIKKpNGS4d9dHty6Kj 

[Spicy]

I'm working on a recreation of it.
Now it's nearly completed but I need gas mask citizen model compiled for leak hl2 engine.
So I have to wait for megapatch 4.
I think that the result should be very interesting.
If anyone could send me the model, please leave me a message.

I saw it. pretty good.

[PCF13]

AFAIK, the map, NPCs, and especially the models, have unfortunately been lost to time. Better off finding a recreation somewhere. 

[Spicy]

I'm not sure if this is real, but here is the get your free tv's screenshot without the gasmask citizen.