![]() ![]() The Crowbar Collective, the team behind the remake, have wisely chosen not to be slavishly accurate to the original game. Black Mesa is a complete remake of the original Half-Life up to the end of the chapter Lambda Complex, with the last four chapters that comprise the Xen section of the game still in development. Thankfully that wasn’t going to be the case. Too often complete remakes of games mess with the formula too much and fail to capture what was great about the original, so was that going to be the case here? Every few years I’ve gone back to it (thankfully now on Steam so I don’t have to find the disc) so when I first heard of Black Mesa Source as it was known at the time I was a little apprehensive. I spent many years involved in the online community, always playing new multiplayer maps and both single and multiplayer mods and even dabbled in making maps myself for a while. Half-Life had a huge effect on me as a teenager (and I think was one of the first games that I bought more than once when the original disc was damaged during a move) and I’d say was the game that really hooked me on first person shooters. Through interactions with other characters and many cleverly scripted events, Gordon makes his way from the initial experiment lab through alien and hostile armed forces to try and escape the facility and prevent the alien invasion from spreading. ![]() Bucking the trend for big, flashy full motion video cutscenes, Half-Life tells its story entirely from the point of view of silent action scientist Gordon. ![]() Once such experiment goes disastrously wrong, rupturing space and allowing alien life forms to invade the Black Mesa complex. Taking place in the super secret Black Mesa Research Facility you play as Gordon Freeman, a member of a research team experimenting with various items of unknown origin. Before all of that came to be though, Half-Life stood on its own merits. ![]()
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