I remastered the Half Life 2 Trainstation in Unreal in 1 Month

You can check out some fixed lighting (my bad lol) here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6L31nO

I spent the last month remaking the trainstation introduction mission, Point Insertion, from Half Life 2, in Unreal Engine 5. I remastered and reimagined the station from the ground up, making a ton of assets and materials and having a lot of fun putting it all together, and making my own artistic and design choices. I'll be making an in-depth deep dive breakdown of how I did all of this soon!

Credit goes to Valve for the HL2 character models, sound effects/audio, and their HL2 IP and Combine branding etc.

I'm Ben, a professional video game environment artist. I've been working in industry for 8 years, at a lot of big studios. I’ve shipped AAA titles across the industry, from Call of Duty at Infinity Ward to the World Rally Championship games at Codemasters and worked at Wargaming, and Lightspeed LA. My channel pulls back the curtain on how real video game dev pros think about and create art for video games.

I've built a career at home in the UK, and had the privilege to move abroad to Los Angeles, and work at the biggest studios in the world in the USA.

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00:00 - Point Insertion
03:42 - Behind the Scenes: Reference Gathering
09:55 - Behind the Scenes: How to make big levels quickly

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Дата на публикация: 24 януари, 2026
Категория: Игри
Ключови думи: In The Life Half Remastered unreal month Trainstation