Early Access Review

Valve Meeting 1:

Valve: "We've made day of defeat and day of defeat source and we want you guys to make a third one".

New World Interactive: "So what's the problem? Why us? Can't you guys just do it?"

Valve: "We can't make a third day of defeat game ourselves, it just can't work, it would be too obvious to the players that we are working on Half Life 3 and LFD3 and Portal 3."

New World Interactive: "Okay, we'll make the game for you. I mean we already tested it in insurgency, and it seems to be doing well".

Valve:"Good and also change the title, we can't just name it Day of Defeat it would be a dead giveaway."

New World Interactive:"How about Day of Infamy?"

Valve: "Perfect. The players will never suspect it's from us."



Valve Meeting 2:



New World Interactive: "I think they're starting to catch on. I mean they know that we are adding DoD maps into the game, and that we currently use stuff from DoD: source."



Valve: "Don't worry, for every time someone thinks ZuperSoldat's review is funny, we'll just push back the release date of Half Life 3 for a year or so."



Valve meeting 3 uh..... 2.1:



New World Interactive: "This isn't working, maybe we should just call it Day of Defeat. I really don't want to wait 700 years to play Half Life 3."



Valve: "This is the second and a half time we have to explain to you that we must stay the course, no matter what. And don't use the number 18/2 - 6, someone could be listening in on this."



Valve meeting 2.2:



Valve: "Okay now we're starting to get concerned about this 'review' this ZuperSoldat put out. The guy isn't even a real critic and he's not even funny."



New World Interactive: "Do you think they know about the easter egg in one of the maps pertaining to a third... i mean a certain game in a certain series that has a half life in it.



Valve: "No, I don't think so, but keep an eye out. I have a feeling these people are one step ahead of us. I mean come on, we can't go out of the bunker anymore without someone asking "when is there going to be a HL3?" It gets worse every century."