Early censored Models

When Half-life was released in Germany it needed to be censored. But did you know that when valve was developing the game it was censored outside of the German build too? There were plenty more features programmed for Half-Life that were cut due to the game being censored. In this article, we’ll be covering early versions of German censorship, early features that got censored in the base game, and what type of censorship made it into the released German build.

Features Censored From The Game

Early versions of the game were much more violent than the retail build. An example of this is the cut headshot feature with the hgrunts. If the player got a headshot with a powerful enough weapon, the top of his head would have gotten blown off, leaving only the jaw and neck. Scientist also used to have skins for corpses. The earlier versions of the scientist models would have shown organs spilling out of a stomach wound, and his back would have had exposed bone and a gaping hole.

Early German Censorship

In early builds of the game, German censorship was tackled by making the human npcs robots.

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  The only known screenshot of the German Alpha's security guard.

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  Pre-release German version of the scientist.

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  Another image of the scientists.

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  German Alpha Zombies in an early version of Office Complex.

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  A Grunt in the early version of Apprehension.

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  A Grunt on the cliffside.

Final German Censorship

In the released German builds, hgrunts are robots, hassassins lack jiggle animations, killing allies would have caused them to sit down and shake their heads, and bibs were replaced with gears.