A closer look
Swapping out Stephen King's religious zealots for silent scientists fighting headcrabs was apparently the ultimate recipe for PC gaming history. Valve initially codenamed the project 'Quiver' as a direct homage to the military base from the famous horror story where a science experiment accidentally unleashes interdimensional monsters. They took the premise, strapped a crowbar to a mute theoretical physicist, and accidentally revolutionized how narrative storytelling worked in first-person shooters forever.
