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Fans Bring Back Half Life Game Series: Black Mesa Mod Launches 9/14

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-by-popular-demand dept.

MojoKid writes "In a little less than two weeks, Half Life fans will have an opportunity to relive Valve's original 1998 title Half Life, albeit reborn and modified using the company's Source engine. The ambitious third-party project is called Black Mesa (previously known as Black Mesa: Source) and it's been in development for eight years. Black Mesa will deliver Half Life as you've never seen it before. It will have all new graphics, maps, a new soundtrack, updated voice acting, support for multi-core processors, hardware accelerated facial animation, and other goodies."

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  1. Re:Details... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Couldn't they just skip the lame Xen stuff & make it an improvement on the original?

  2. Re:Colour me a cynic for saying this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Therein lies the root of my cynicism. Nearly a decade in the offing, little more than a few trailers and some concept them suddenly *boom*. I wish the team every success, but I'm afraid it will take more than a countdown and a nugget of backstory before I can offer them my congratulations.

  3. A timeless classic by GodfatherofSoul · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I played HL for the first time a few years ago; years after I'd played HL2. The game had tons of content, ingenious puzzles to solve, and maybe the best final boss I've ever fought in a FPS. Even with the low-end graphics, I still found this one to be a blast to play. Don't let the age of the game detract you from revisiting it.

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