Eli Maxwell
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| Eli Maxwell | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Homeworld | |
| Function(s) / Belongings | |
| Rank / Occupation |
Scientist |
| Physical description | |
| Species |
Human |
| Gender |
Male |
| Hair color |
White |
| Eye color |
Wears glasses |
| Chronological and political information | |
| Era(s) | |
| Affiliation |
The Resistance |
| Game information | |
| Designer(s) |
Dhabih Eng (concept art)[1] |
Eli Maxwell[2] is a character cut from Half-Life 2 who was merged with Captain Vance to form Eli Vance.[1]
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[edit] Overview
Originally, Eli Vance was intended to have no more relation with Alyx Vance than being close friends and appear as an old bespectacled man with a white beard, a bonnet, an apron and walking with a stick because of his missing leg.[1]
He was to use a scrapyard and a cave as his lab, rather than a real building like Black Mesa East.[1][3] A prototype map of this original lab, last edited in August 2001, can be found in the WC mappack under the name "proto_eliden003.vmf" ("Eli's Den"). It does not contain any hint of a lab, but rather some sort of garage with a damaged school bus and several damaged cars, mirroring Mossman's sentence about the facility being more suited to mechanics than research scientists.[3][2]
He would work in that lab on the physics manipulator with his robot[1] Dog and show Gordon a slideshow of what happened between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, mentioning the Air Exchange, among others.[1] In sound files located in the Half-Life 2 Beta files (in the folder /sound/temp/Eli/), he also warns Gordon about Particle Storms, to which he lost his leg,[2] while the final version uses a Bullsquid.[1]
[edit] Fate
Apart from his last name, appearance and relation to Alyx, Maxwell is mostly identical to the final Eli Vance.
[edit] Gallery
 Maxwell and the HEV Suit. It is unknown what this picture suggests, since Gordon was likely to have his HEV Suit already when arriving in Eli's lab. |
 Concept art of Eli Maxwell, Gordon Freeman, Alyx Vance, Skitch - and Dog in the back, made during the first year of Half-Life 2's development. |
 This face texture can be found in Odell's texture files,[2] but it seems to be rather the face texture file for a missing Eli Maxwell model. |
 Inside Eli's Den. |
[edit] List of appearances
- Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar (First appearance) (Non-canonical appearance)
