Wow. That’s the only possible response to this frankly terrifying feat of gaming from a speedrunning team zooming their way through Valve’s venerable sci-fi shooter, Half-Life.
The team, with members quadrazid, CRASH FORT, coolkid, pineapple, YaLTeR, Spider-Waffle and FELip, managed to complete the game entirely in 20 minutes 41 seconds, an astonishing nine minutes quicker than the previous record of 29 minutes, 41 seconds.
There’s something hypnotically graceful about the whole thing, as they bounce from grate to ladder to mutant fish-monster to walkway. The amount of planning and preparation that goes into something like this must be insane.
”Starting back in the summer of 2010, the estimated time for this run was thought to be roughly 27 minutes,” writes team member quadrazid, who uploaded the run. “However, after almost four years of painstaking planning, theorycrafting and execution, we have arrived at our final time, smashing all of our wildest expectations.”
This run has truly been an endurance test for everyone involved, and we’re extremely happy to finally be able to share it with you.