Readers' Recommendations

Releases that readers have recommended others play.

The Xen Campaigns

for Opposing Force

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

You are part of a team of army grunts sent in to perform some specific operations.

You receive your orders and are expected to carry them out efficiently.

Go do what you have been trained to do soldier!

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Total Downloads: 3,66224th November 2012
25 Comments and 13 recommendations, 5 say "Play It Later"

Half-Life: Shadows Part 1

for Half-Life

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

“What a party, eh! Those barneys sure know how to throw one, and the antics of that professor, what was his name? The one with the moustache?

Ah who cares, anyways, hell of a party, and then some. Of course, most of it lies quite dead in your memory, as you blacked out somewhere halfway, a short while after someone brought in some home made drinks, created in his lab while the supervisor wasn’t looking, then kept running under pretense of biological experiments! Applejack, that’s for sure!

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Total Downloads: 1,82127th June 2011
17 Comments and 13 recommendations, most say "Play It Later"

Valve Pressure

for Half-Life

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

With Gordon Freeman about to enter the world of Xen, the military air strikes continue to pound Black Mesa into the night. You play a remaining HEV suited scientist, and with Freeman about to escape to a far worse situation, you have to get out of your own tight spot. There’s a bunker near your location, it’s best if you get into it before the military bombardment kills you.

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Total Downloads: 1,76511th June 2011
19 Comments and 13 recommendations with no significant bias

Overtime

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Weapons galore sit on two tables in front of you.

Collect them and go forth to eliminate any enemies you find in your way.

Expect fierce resistance and no regard for their personal safety.

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Total Downloads: 1,21231st July 2018
17 Comments and 16 recommendations, 8 say "Play It Later"

Residual Error: Volume 1

for Half-Life 2

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

The player starts the mod with no clear objective or goal. By trial and error the player eventually finds access to a suit room where they don a Combine Elite suit. Again, through trial and error testing doors and forcefields the player makes their way to the surface only to find Zombies, Combine AND rebels against them.

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Total Downloads: 09th December 2007
40 Comments and 19 recommendations, 8 say "Play It Now!"

Torment

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

You start in an empty reception area. Explore the rooms carefully, you never know what you might find.

As you progress you become a little disorientated, but don’t worry, it will pass.

The question is would you prefer to stay that way when you find out what awaits you?

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Total Downloads: 1,58329th November 2009
29 Comments and 21 recommendations with no significant bias

Trespasser

for Half-Life

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

Your name is Mark Hunt, an elite Marine sent in to ‘clean up’ the Black Mesa Incident. Near evening your platoon was ambushed by a superior force, taking you completely by surprise. In the chaos you became separated from your C.O. and by sheer luck evaded the atomic blast that followed. The Brass didn’t call it luck. You were courtmartialed for desertion and sentenced to ten years in a maximum security prison. Two years into your sentence, something happened…

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Total Downloads: 2,8189th July 2011
29 Comments and 15 recommendations, 6 say "Maybe?"

Hard!Ville AKA HardVille

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

UPDATE: A late entry was received and has been included in a patch and an updated file. It will not be entered into the voting system.

This Ville contains 6 entries, each with varying degrees of design quality, visuals and polish.

The theme was designed to encourage difficult gameplay and challenging scenarios.

You decide if the entrants achieved this.

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Total Downloads: 3,19315th December 2016
63 Comments and 12 recommendations, 6 say "Play It Later"

Reviviscence

for Half-Life

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

After escaping with the scientist in Rescue 9-1-Freeman you find yourself with him dead and no where else to go but forward!

This time, you are intercepted by an old friend and that’s when things get a little tough.

As always, keep going and kill everything that is in your way.

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Total Downloads: 3,36627th August 2011
14 Comments and 12 recommendations with no significant bias