According to one of the developers, the legendary Half-Life shooter could be called Crysis or Fallout

According to one of the developers, the legendary first-person shooter Valve Half-Life could be called Crysis or Fallout.

Dario Casali, designer of levels, launched a series of programs called Half-Life 25 Year Developer Commentary on YouTube, in which he plays an original game, talking about how it was created.

The gameplay is accompanied by objects from the Casali collection, including old recordings from the diary, screenshots, photographs and documents of the game development times.

At the very beginning of the first episode, Casali is divided by a document that lists the possible names for the game. According to Casali, when he came to Valve, the game already had the code name Quiver, but the studio tried to come up with another name for it.

At the time of publication of the document, the most popular names for the game were Bent, Dirt, Lead, Pressure, Pressure Chamber, Pressure Pit and Screen.

A secondary list of names that "Still in the process", And Half-Life was included in this list.

However, the list also includes Fallout, Free Radical and variations on Crysis (including Cry.Sys, Crisis, Crysis and Krisis).

There are no obvious connections between Valve employees engaged in the development and subsequent release of Fallout or Crysis games, or the Free Radical Design Developer Studio.

Although Fallout was released in 1997 (a whole year before Half-Life), this was not always the planned name of the game. For some time it was supposed to be called Vault-13: a gurps post-nuclear role-Playing Game, then the name was changed for a short time on ArmageDDON, after which the name Fallout was agreed.

However, since the development of HALF-Life began in mid-1996, it is likely that Valve developers did not know about the existence of Fallout or its final name, so Fallout was considered as a name in the early stages.

Free Radical Design was founded in 1999 and consisted mainly of former RARE employees. By random coincidence – given the list of Valve – in 2009 it was acquired by Crytek, Crysis Creator.