Fans hoping for Half Life 3 might be disappointed, as Gabe Newell, founder of Valve, stated that the expansions to Half Life 2 were essentially Half Life 3. Players should not get carried away with the joy riding, as they might pass their objective!įans were given more of the game in two sequels, titled Half Life 2: Episode One and Half Life 2: Episode Two, as well as an additional level to the game, Half Life 2: Lost Coast. An enjoyable part to the game is use of vehicles, including beach buggies and speedboats, which are a pleasant change of pace to an otherwise long trek on foot. Without giving away too much information, it is safe to say that Half Life 2 ends in as just a dramatic fashion as the first game. Gordon meets further characters, both friend and foe, throughout the game, and as in the first installment of the franchise, he has to fight his way out of difficult situations and use the environment to overcome obstacles. Alyx Vance, the daughter of one of Gordan's former co-workers at Black Mesa, is the games female star, shedding some humanity and passion into an otherwise bleak world. Fan-favourite character Barney Calhoun is back to help Gordon out, going undercover as an officer for Combine. As to be expected, an underground resistance movement formed and Gordon is introduced to them early in the game. A police state was put in place and the citizens suppressed.
The world has changed a lot since Gordan's escape from Black Mesa, as now twenty years have passed and a multidimensional corporation, Combine, has taken control of the planet.
Continuing the story of scientist-turned-action-hero Gordan Freeman in a alternate Earth world where aliens had arrived from another dimension after a science experiment gone horribly wrong in the first game, players experience a first-person shooter like none other, with outstanding graphics for its time as well as a realistic physics engine, which the game took full advantage of.Īs in the first game, Gordan begins his adventure without any weapons and slowly builds up an arsenal to face consistently more ferocious enemies.
Developed by the Valve Corporation, it was the very first game to use the developer's Source engine. Six years did fans of the critically acclaimed Half Life have to wait for its successor, Half Life 2. In addition, it works on practically any computer that is at most 5 or 6 years old, is completely free, and even lets you to listen to the soundtrack from its website.Half Life 2 is a first-person shooter by Valve Corporation.
Graphically, as usual, Black Mesa has a lot more detail than Half-Life, and while it doesn't achieve the level of excellence of other modern titles, it is overwhelming at times thanks to its excellent artistic direction.īlack Mesa is a free mod for Half-Life that every videogame lover should enjoy. Despite that the game develops in the first person and you'll use tons of different weapons like pistols, shotguns, machine guns, or weapons from another planet, the game has many exploration and puzzle phases that turn the experience into something much more dynamic. The playability of Black Mesa (and in Half-Life, the original) is truly amazing. Gordon Freeman won't have any choice but to fight against every obstacle that gets in his way to stay alive in one of the most exciting adventures in the history of videogames. Things really go awry when added to the alien problem is that of the government, who, once they find out what is going on, sends special forces troops to silence everything that could be going on-aliens and scientists included.
What happens is during a failed experiment, a portal to another dimension opens in the laboratory, allowing a race of aliens with very evil intentions to enter. In Black Mesa you will once again play as Gordon Freeman, the distinguished theoretical physicist in the underground Research Laboratory of Black Mesa, who becomes a hero thanks to a stroke of bad luck. Black Mesa is a modification of Half-Life, the game that made Valve famous and got it to be the giant that it currently is, and basically recreates the original game with modern graphics.