Fake Gerald

Fake Gerald is the embodiment of sin, anger, and rage. Not to be confused with dlareG, he is NOT Gerald. He was believed to be a hoax, nothing more than a myth, but on May 16th, 2011, a hacker by the name of DukeNukemFan479 found an unused and heavily unfinished boss in the files of, you guessed it, Duke Nukem 3D. The only complete thing about the boss was it’s sprite. Unfortunately, only one image of Fake Gerald exists, all of the footage of Fake Gerald in Duke Nukem 3D has been taken down and is considered lost media. If you are in possession of any footage taken by DukeNukemFan479, please contact the owner of this page, and they will happily put it on the Wiki.

Fake Gerald was also rumored to be in Hlaf-Life 2 but scrapped later in devopment. Here is all the info we have from a now taken down wiki on the lesser known removed things from half-life.

“You want *Gerald?* *Gerald* show you *Gerald!*” - Fake Gerald, Half-Life 2 Beta

Fake Gerald is a scrapped boss featured in the Half-Life 2 Beta, a result of the game’s AI-generated personalization software is utilized in the beta to create a unique experience for everyone who played Half-Life 2. The concept was scrapped when Fake Gerald was introduced. To unlock Fake Gerald, players would have to get to the final boss battle at the top of the Citadel after already having beaten the game once. You would have to walk to the very end of the platform you’re standing on and jump off in a very specific way and land at a very specific point on the ground. If this is done correctly, you’re taken to an unused arena. This arena is filled with missing textures, unused guns, and a few Combine Soldiers. If you kill all of the soldiers, Fake Gerald appears and the boss fight is initiated. Fake Gerald starts out with 1500 health, and his attacks involve siphoning your health from you with needle projectiles, summoning smaller Geralds to aid him, and running very quickly towards you. If he touches you, you die instantly, and you will be unable to activate his fight again. If you take him down, he leaves a personal message and addresses the player by their full real name. He congratulates them for managing to defeat him and leaves a key. When picking up the key, you are booted back to the main menu. Inspecting the key in the game’s files reveals a garbled-up block of text that is said to be a code to unlock Half-Life 3.

***(DO NOT CONTACT THOSE INVOLVED WITH THE REDISCOVERY OF FAKE GERALD, AS THEY WILL FALL INTO A SEVERE STATE OF CATATONIA)***

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