Black Mesa debuted in Valve's Early Access program in 2015 and, after round after round of bug-testing and feedback, and the difficult decision by the team to build Xen from scratch so its areas amounted to (let's be honest) more than a series of 3D platforming puzzles, the game hit 1.0 this year.
Black Mesa recreates Half-Life as you remember it, not as it was. Multiple delays, painstaking attention to detail, new releases of Source that necessitated upgrading to better tools and redoing completed work, and extensive testing, Black Mesa emerged, but in an incomplete form, featuring the eponymous facility but absent the levels set on the planet Xen that made up the game's final act.
BLACK MESA RESEARCH FACILITY L4D MOD
The mod went through development hell for years before the Crowbar Collective, the result of a merger of two indie teams, collaborated to rebuild their favorite game in Valve's superior Source engine after Valve's own re-release, Half-Life: Source, fell far short of what fans expected.Ĭrowbar succeeded, but not without paying a toll. Labyrinthine, yet with verisimilitude that made it feel like a real, lived-in place.īlack Mesa recreates Half-Life's infamous science facility and alien planets, and then some. There's no place like home, though, and for me, Half-Life's Black Mesa facility was home. Don't get me wrong: Gordon Freeman's second go-round was excellent, full of better characters, fun weapons, and Ravenholm, one chunk of a larger world, left me more shaken than most full-length horror games. I may be in the minority, but I've always preferred Half-Life to Half-Life 2.
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