Dystopia Mod Released for HL2

fistfullast33l writes "Dystopia, a Matrix meets TRON mod for Half Life 2, has finally been released to the public today. This has been one of the more beautiful and original mods under development for HL2 so far. Files are available all over the place but check out their homepage for more details." From the article: "After 9 long months of heavy development and another year of planning and designing before that, it has been a long and challenging road to this point. We're extremely excited to let the public see what we've been so busy working on all this time and hope that you enjoy it as much as we do. This demo version is limited to only 1 map; Vaccine, but features all of our high powered weapons and extensive range of implants."

Comments

Amazing

[Satertek]

This mod is amazing. The production values are on par with most (and above many) retail games. Looking forward to its full release.

A cyberpunk game?

[The Evil Couch]

Sign me up!

While this game doesn't look as deep as I'd like to see from a cyberpunk setting, the graphics are really well done and it seems as though they've put a great deal of work into getting the one map that they have really well set up. It looks to have a fair amount of depth, as far as team-based FPSes go.

The fact that they actually have deckers and allow for the deckers to be put to good use in cyberspace makes for a really great concept.

I don't know why the article summary references the Matrix. Shadowrun and other cyberpunk sources are clearly much bigger influences on the development team. Their portrayal of cyberspace does look a lot like TRON 2.0, though.

Demo or Beta

[Bios_Hakr]

So, a demo leads me to belive that the expect people to pay for a finished version. I can't really see myself paying for a mod for a game I already paid $60 for.

Re:MP ONLY

[Ford Prefect]

So that those who prefer SP games don't get their hopes up,

IT'S MULTIPLAYER ONLY

Of course, if you want some single-player HL2, there's always my episodic MINERVA (less cryptic site), which had its first chapter released just over a week ago.

And yes, the first map is a bit of a homage to Halo's Silent Cartographer (it was originally nicknamed 'Flatulent Geographer' for a start), but they should all come with a liberally Marathon-flavoured dollop of mystery and intrigue, through text messages sent by an unnamed third party which guide, goad and cajole the player through the story.

Entirely different approach to Dystopia too: while they've got some immensely talented modellers, texture artists, sound engineers etc., I'm repurposing existing HL2 content for my own needs. There is some new music, but that was an unexpected gift from someone who really liked the look of the mod when first publicised by Valve themselves. Everything else is done by me - it's the closest you'll get to a one-man mod these days... ;-)

Still, there's half-an-hour to an hour of gameplay there, so do have fun!

Better than NS

[AngryScot]

This is the best mod since natural selection was released on 2001. I think there could be a few changes to let you know whats going on in cyber space but other than that I love it :D

Re:Dystopia, my take.

[Mukaikubo]

I'll buy it at retail if and only if the devteam can come up with an interesting single player campaign to go with the multi.

Re:Single player Mods?

[Quill_28]

Most of the mods are still being worked on.

Here is a list I have found

http://games.moddb.com/61/