Readers' Recommendations

Releases that readers have recommended others play.

Gut Reaction

for Half-Life

Mr Freeman has once again been “recruited” by the elusive and stone-faced G-man to handle a “situation’ that could prove catastrophic if not handled immediately. It seems that a rift in the space-time continuum has allowed the minions of Xen to establish a stronghold inside one of the main reactor cores in the Lambda Complex.… Read More

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Total Downloads: 5,47020th June 2015
34 Comments and 19 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!

A Venetian Welcome

for Half-Life 2

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

Being Imprisoned in Venice is the least of your worries…

Gordon attempts his escape from the dark prisons, as he travels a brief part of the Italian city, and attempts to escape the heavily guarded combine outpost.

Wake up Dr. Freeman

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Total Downloads: 4,7415th February 2012
27 Comments and 19 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

Chaos Theory

for Half-Life

You are Gordon Freeman, a scientist working at a top secret government laboratory.

Your team is working on discovering the implications of the Chaos Theory, but so far the results have been inconclusive.

However, you have the feeling that today’s experiment may provide answers one way or another…

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Total Downloads: 3,0219th August 2011
29 Comments and 19 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!

Parallax

for Half-Life

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

This is the beta release of an unfinished mod. Since this will never be finished, Adam gave permission for it to be released.

There are only two maps and the second one is just two small areas.

My original post had many more screenshots, including outdoor areas with trains, but these are absent from the released files.

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Total Downloads: 2,7095th July 2011
27 Comments and 19 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

DiamondDogsVille

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

For this competition, entrants had to create an area from which the player must escape.

This “Escape” is most probably accomplished through the solving of some puzzle and/or combat.

The area can be a room, a series of rooms or even outside. The concept is that the player must find a way to move outside of the area.

I was hoping for some clever puzzles, hopefully environmental in nature and not some obscure and impossible to solve button pressing sequence.

This mod contains 3 official entries, one extra entry and a bonus map made over a longer time period.

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Total Downloads: 3,66819th June 2014
45 Comments and 17 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

E7 Black Star

for Half-Life

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

“The story takes place in Russia at the secret plant called “Object E7” or “Black Star” at the same time as the unexpected consequences at Black Mesa. G-Man was planning to organize three incidents of portal opening originally.

First one – at Black Mesa Complex. Second one – at Black Star plant. The third place is unfortunately unknown. But thanks to the fact that the cascade resonator at Black Star was out of order, the planned incident didn’t take place there.

Object E7 is a laboratory complex researching anomalous materials and organisms. Its academic adviser is Dr.Victor Shmurghe. He has connected directly with G-Man. The protagonist is a political prisoner who was moved from a jail to Object E7. His main purpose was to test a prototype of the new protection suit H.E.V.5000. But he could escape during usual testing by chance.”

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Total Downloads: 6,7072nd July 2012
80 Comments and 17 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!

Chronicles Episode One: Traumatic Experiences

for Half-Life

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

Half-Life: Chronicles once again places you in the boots of scientist Gordon Freeman. Trapped in the Black Mesa Research Facility, and persued by humans and aliens alike, you must use your wits (as well as firepower) to stay alive. However, Chronicles takes place in what could be called an “alternate timeline” wherein certain events in Half-Life unfolded differently.

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Total Downloads: 2,9781st August 2011
31 Comments and 17 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

Decay

for Half-Life

Half-Life: Decay is an add-on included in the PlayStation 2 port of the first-person shooter computer game Half-Life, developed by Gearbox Software and published in October of 2001, and has now been released as a mod for PC by independent Ukrainian developers along with the help of other European developers/fans.

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Total Downloads: 3,60424th September 2008
41 Comments and 17 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!