Half-Life: Uplink

Half-Life: Uplink is a five minute action film adaptation of Valve Software's 1998 first-person shooter computer game Half-Life produced by a British marketing agency called Cruise Control. Originally slated for a release over the Internet on February 22, 1999, it was delayed due to licensing issues with Valve and Sierra (then publisher of the Half-Life series). However, Cruise Control proceeded to release the film anyway on March 15 that year. As this was done without authorization of either company, the distribution of the movie was immediately pulled by Sierra. Many Half-Life websites, which had initially carried mirrors of the movie, were forced to withdraw the file. The few reviews it received were mostly negative. Filming was done...