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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. Details... by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 5, Informative

    They haven't completed it yet but still plan to. They are releasing up to the Lambda Core, so Xen and Multiplayer support will come later. That's still most of the game right there.

    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:Details... by EdIII · · Score: 5, Funny

      Geeez, I need to take a vacation or something. My first thought was, "What the fuck does virtualization have to do with a Half Life mod?"

  2. Re:All new voice acting? by Anaerin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here you go. You're welcome. https://www.youtube.com/user/freemanmind?feature=results_main

  3. 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.

  4. 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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    I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
  5. Test already passed by daveschroeder · · Score: 5, Informative

    Valve has already "blessed" this effort, and the Black Mesa devs have said as much. There will be no C&D letters.

    From Valve (in January 2007...)

    Congratulations to the Black Mesa for Half-Life 2 MOD team for picking up the Most Anticipated MOD Award for the coming year from Mod DB. Over 80,000 votes were cast for MODs built for a number of different games, and they have been crowned this year's most wanted. More information on this ambitious project to recreate Half-Life 1 from scratch in the Source engine is available on their site. We're as eager to play it here as everyone else.

    The only thing Black Mesa did was remove "Source" from the mod name, but Valve allowed them to keep the domain because of fan base recognition.