Half-Life

The Half-Life guitars as they appear in the uncorrected proof of Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar

Half-Life is a series of first-person shooter games developed and published by Valve Corporation.

Connection to Weezer

In 2004, a book titled Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar was released. The book contains a behind-the-scenes look at the production of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, as well as other Valve titles. A pre-release uncorrected proof exists of the book, which contains a large amount of information not present in the final release. In this uncorrected proof, an image can be found of two Half-Life themed guitars, with the following subtitle:

The Half-Life guitar, constructed for the band Weezer

The two guitars are known to have been ordered for production by Valve director of marketing Doug Lombardi and likely still reside in Valve offices. The subtitle implies that the two guitars (which appear to be Gibson SGs, a model Rivers Cuomo and Brian Bell often use) were created with the intention to be used by Weezer, but this claim remains unconfirmed and unlikely as neither the guitars nor the subtitle appear in the final release of Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar and the band is not known to be in possession of them.

See also

• Half-Life (series) on Wikipedia
• Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar on the Half-Life fan-wiki Combine OverWiki
• Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar Uncorrected Proof on archive.org