Readers' Recommendations

Releases that readers have recommended others play.

Half-Life: The Infected

for Half-Life

Enjoy a new 28 Map Half-Life campaign. Take the role of Gerald Backman, an industrial electrician interning at Black Mesa at the time of the resonance cascade. Face off against all the enemies from Opposing Force.

Half-Life: The Infected uses Opposing Force content but does not require Op4 to be installed.

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Total Downloads: 3,15316th June 2020
20 Comments and 15 recommendations, most say "Play It Later"

Hamlet Combat

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

This map was originally released on FPSB as Hamlet. After playing it and realizing it didn’t have any combat but was so well made that it deserved to be seen and played by you guys, I contacted the author and requested he add some combat.

He kindly agreed and eventually got the new file to me, which I present here. It starts with an exploring style and finishes with a clear objective. I recommend you play on Medium or Hard.

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Total Downloads: 3,58710th December 2010
40 Comments and 15 recommendations, most say "Play It Later"

Nuclear Winter

for Opposing Force

About Nuclear Winter is a single player mission for Half-Life Opposing Force. It comprises 29 new maps plus a ton of new scripted scenes, models, artwork, character voices, sound effects and music. Nuclear Winter was recently re released with Steam support. Opposing Force is no longer required. Reader Recommendations Avoid It! Think Twice Maybe Play… Read More

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Total Downloads: 5,8485th September 2006
40 Comments and 15 recommendations, 6 say "Play It Later"

Unholy

for Half-Life

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

Two scientists talking. Sounds like they are talking about you.

You seem to be stuck on the wrong side of a radiation door.

Can you find your way through Black Mesa and escape?

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Total Downloads: 2,41214th August 2011
14 Comments and 14 recommendations with no significant bias

Beginnings

for Half-Life

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

A couple of BM-style levels made to help the author get a job, which he did.

I don’t know if there were issues at the time of its release, but playing it on the latest version of Half-Life 1 via Steam is almost impossible without cheating. There is a fan that seems like it can only be passed by no clipping and the level crashes when you enter the dark room. Loading the second level manually means you must give yourself the suit and weapons.

When I reached the last image there doesn’t seem as if there is anything left to do.

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Total Downloads: 2,47814th June 2011
36 Comments and 14 recommendations with no significant bias

TrapVille

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

TrapVille AKA AdmiralAckbarVille

Welcome to the fourth challenge from The Hammer Cup 2016, which has a Grand Prize of a NECA Gravity Gun, plus other prizes for second and third places.

This mod contains 9 entries, each with their own style and setting.

The theme for this challenge was a trap. The player could be the one setting it or caught in it.

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Total Downloads: 4,40910th June 2016
81 Comments and 13 recommendations, 5 say "Play It Later"

Power Outage

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

Gordon Freeman must fight his way into the remote arctic prison, Angel Mogila. The level is a small area of roughly the same scope as a single area in a larger Half-Life 2 level. Consequently the module is a slice of what would be a larger level. This level features stealth gameplay using a custom designed night vision effect and custom AI controllers to enable stealth gameplay. The player can elect to rush the level at a higher margin of difficulty. Power Outage also features destroyable power transformers that knock out the lights in each section of the level.

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Total Downloads: 1,8689th January 2012
18 Comments and 13 recommendations, 5 say "Play It Later"

DoomEd

for Half-Life 2

DoomEd is a single-player first person shooter learning game that combines science and history with FPS action, taking players through the horror of bio-terrorism and WWII chemical experimentation gone wrong.

The backstory mixes factual content (the WW2 experiments at Porton Down, Chemical Defence Experimental Station, ‘urban exploration’ in disused London underground stations) with fiction and fantasy (a lost labyrinth populated with human mutants and military personnel who believe the war is still going on).

The action is set in the labyrinth of lost London underground stations and tunnels that have not been in operation for over fifty years. The game follows the conventions of FPS gameplay – interweaving between orientation/exploration and action/warfare with mutants but replacing puzzles with science-based problems and puzzles, drawing on appropriate aspects of the KS4 science curriculum.

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Total Downloads: 2,06321st August 2018
31 Comments and 12 recommendations with no significant bias

Black Guard

for Half-Life

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

Dr. Eddy has been up to no good. To be honest, that seems like most scientists at Black Mesa.

You are part of the Black Guard, I suppose that’s like Black Shift, but maybe not.

Without warning, things really get crazy and you find yourself in the middle of it.

Do what BMRF has paid you to do: Kick some butt!

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Total Downloads: 9,38128th June 2014
30 Comments and 12 recommendations, 6 say "Play It Now!"