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Author’s Note:
“The map is a fictional scene where Gordon Freemen is thrust into a town where about half of the Combine soldiers are rebelling. To tell the truth the story isnt very important i just like showing off the AI since I don’t think valve did it enough. Both sides are hostile to you but [...]

About
This mod has ten levels and includes the following weapons:

A combat knife
Desert Eagle
Franzi Shotgun
Short 9mm Mp5
Grenades

There are new sounds, music and textures.. One claimed special effect is, that you can see the snow falling in some levels. There are also tanks and other effects.
Basic Details

Title: Soldier
File Name: half-life-soldier.exe
Size : 20.1Mb
Author: Manaax
Date Released: [...]

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You start in a lab with a few scientists milling around talking. A barney waits for you by a lift shaft with no lift. Your mission: To get to the end of the corridors. Along the way you will encounter a few nasties. The would have been OK if it was [...]

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Author’s Note: “This is my 1st “real” map and i have spent much time trying new things on it. Hope you like it
It ends when you get the message “you have found a way out””
Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

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X.E.T. Xen Exploration Team
The mod XET is singleplayer and takes you on the roll of XET member Bill Freeman. XET is supposed to be the survey team mentioned late in the game and in parts of Blue-Shift. You will visit new parts of Black Mesa and old parts of it; you will, of course, also [...]

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This mappack consists of three small maps: Lambda Bowling, Puchi Puchi and Bomber Free Man. Clearly there is no story involved and I don’t think the maps link to each other. Just a bit of fun with the editor, it seems! Enjoy. Images courtesy of City17.ru
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Title: Japanese Episodes
File Name: japanese-episodes.zip
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You are Gordon Freeman. What is “Gman Islnd”? It will become clear by part 2. Your mission in part 1 to purse Gman. Hurry!
Basic Details

Title: Gman Island Part 1
File Name: ja.zip
Size : 1.8Mb
Author: Jack Amano
Date Released: 23 July 2000
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After destroying Black Mesa, the Gman went into hiding. Previously the island was managed by the government, now it is controlled by the Gman. In there, aliens are subjected to experiments and research. However, something is beginning to happen!
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Title: Gman Island Part 2
File Name: gi2.zip
Size : 4.7Mb
Author: Jack Amano
Date Released: 10 March 2001
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You don’t know much at the beginning. You can’t remember anything from your previous life or how you came into this cage of glass in which you have been living several weeks and in which these scientists have performed cruel experiments on you. But what you know is: you want to get out and pay [...]

Author’s Note
“The Bad Guys have taken over a building in a Generic American City, and they’ve kidnapped some Innocent Scientists and forced them to genetically engineer Evil Mutated Monsters as part of a fiendish plan for World Domination. But the creations have turned on their creators and escaped, and are running amok inside the [...]

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Poseidon is a submerged deep sea laboratory sponsored by CryoTech Incorporated, a large firm dealing mainly with cryotechnology (would you believe that they started out by selling refrigerators?).
It’s located just east of Denmark, about 110 km of the coast of Aalborg, a major Danish city. The rig is a cooperation between the Danish fraction of [...]

Introduction
I’m a little older than the average gamer, not the oldest I know but still at an age where my contemporaries consider my hobby as childish. A typical Monday morning conversation could be:

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Kyle recently sent me this file and I had never heard of it. Eager to play I fired up Half-Life and was pleseantly suprised. This map has lots of bad points but the good points easily outweigh the bad. There’s no story but the cut scenes are quite funny. The [...]

Perception
I learnt today that a person I occasionally work with is colour blind. As strange as it may seem I have never met or known anyone colour blind before. He has trouble distinguishing between greens and yellows. Not bright yellow or dark green but the lighter shades.

A change is as good as a rest
We have a saying in English: “A change is as good as a rest”. If the meaning isn’t clear to you let me explain. If you change something about your life it will have the same benefit as taking a rest. So instead of going [...]

Imagine you woke up one morning with an itch in your lower back. This itch just got worse no matter how much you scratched it. Then over the coming weeks you noticed a protrusion where your coccyx is. This protrusion got longer and longer.

About
I don’t know anything about this mod at the moment. As soon as I play it I will post some information and screenshots. Enjoy
From the ReadMe
This mod requires Half-Life 1.1.1.0. It is not compatible with Steam! It contains 7 playable maps and 3 cutscene-only maps. There is no actual story. The first three [...]

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A single Player Half-Life 2 map set around a pertol storage area. I’ll add a short review at the weekend, until then you are on your own!
Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

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Your son has been captured by the Demons of the Underworld. He is to be sacrificed to the Master Demon. The Drow Wizard has agreed to supply you with weapons and armor on your quest to save your son.
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Title: Medieval World
File Name: medworld.zip
Size : 6.00Mb
Author: Michael Hindman
Date Released: 20 June 2000
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It’s very easy to argue that this isn’t really an SP map. There’s no story, no real objective tec. I’ve included it because I want the database to be complete and there are plenty of maps with no story or sensible objective!
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Title: Torture a Friendly NPC
File Name: torture-a-friendly-npc.zip
Size : 150Kb
Author: [...]

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Title: Facility Escape
File Name: facility-escape.zip
Size : 531Kb
Author: halo4life
Date Released: 28 January 2006
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Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 2.33 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.22

Basic Details

Title: Phobos 4
File Name: phobos4.exe
Size : 7.65Mb
Author: Pavel Koten
Date Released: 22 December 2002
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Reader RecommendationsCurrently there are no recommendations

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Bloodreign is another Mod for Half-Life by Ragman, who in past has already developed the Mod “VOLCAN”. This release of Bloodreign contains only 2 levels, taken from somewhere in the story. Bloodreign is a rather difficult Mod, which should not be played by inexperienced players. Its amount of enemies, their skill and behaviour might be [...]

Introduction
This post will discuss a possible method for amateur content delivery using Steam that would that improve the replayability of Half-Life 2 and other similar games.

Introduction
As with most of my mod stories I will start with the story told in fiction form and then explain the reasoning behind it and also give more details about the gameplay and twists/spoilers.
A Rude Awakening
All is dark and warm and quite and peaceful. Then suddenly: Noise, heat, light and movement……PAIN……nightmares!

Introduction
I spend a lot of time looking for SP mods and maps for the games I’m interested in. However I’m not perfect and I’m sure that my database is missing lots of files.
I do feel that the database is the best resource of Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods available on the [...]

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In this Single Player Mod, Gordon is back in a whole new story. In this episode you fight your way through a Combine Prison only to find yourself established into a secret Rebel force called The CryShield. This mod only contains one other mission after your fight through the prison. It’s short but sweet.
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Title: [...]

Introduction
In a previous post entitled Why I Play FPS Games I posted a response to a comment where I mentioned different types of people who could design levels for games. It got me thinking about designer’s lives outside the gaming world.

Story
After the catastrophe in Black Mesa, you, the junior adviser to the divisional administrator of the Biodome Complex, are sent back to 1982 in order to change history. Can you do it?
Note: This map requires opfor.wad
Basic Details

Title: History Can Be Changed
File Name: hcbc.zip
Size : 695Kb
Author: Igor Sivets
Date Released: 12 December 2003
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Introduction
Welcome to Project: Quantum Leap, a Half-Life single player episode with a bit of a twist: each map is by a different mapper – 20 maps, 15 authors, one hell of an incoherent map pack!
History
PQL started with an innocent post on the Valve ERC Half-Life Mapping forum on December 29, 2001. A horde of regulars [...]

Basic Details

Title: Underground Facility
Filename: underground-facility.zip
Size : 333Kb
Author: XargoL
Date Released: 03 August 2004
File Name: underground-facility.zip
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Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

About
Do you like classic games like such as the Quake, Unreal or Doom series? Then you will enjoy Classic Games Mod; where you will find maps inspired by these games. In this mod you will find new enemies, weapons, textures and maps. In the final version of the mod you there will probably be [...]

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From the Author: “Basically the idea of Wivenhoe (which is the name of the dam that now houses some nasty cannister-launching Combine hardware) is that the player is part of a civilian uprising trying to stop the bombardment of Ravenholm. They don’t succeed, as seen in Half-Life 2. Wivenhoe is set upriver from City 17, [...]

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Another version of 5 Ways to Die
Note
This is a TWHL map and the original release can be found here: 5 More Ways to Die at TWHL
Basic Details

Title: 5 More Ways to Die
File Name: 5-more-ways-to-die.zip
Size : 1.03Mb
Author: James Archibald AKA The Hunter
Date Released: 20 December 2005

Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 2.5 (out of 5), standard deviation: [...]

Story
A demo release of Silent Hill style maps. There will be 4 maps, new sounds, models, sprays and textures.
Basic Details

Title: Silent Zhildor
File Name: silent-zhildor-demo.rar
Size : 6.74Mb
Author: EIF
Date Released: 31 January 2006
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Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.67

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Route City is a single-player modification for the action first-person shooter game Half-Life. It is still in early stages of development and only version 0.1 beta is available for download. The beta version has many bugs and errors which will hopefully be fixed in the future versions. You could download and try the v 0.1 [...]

Story
Most of this is said at the beginning of the level anyway, but the terrorists are at it again. This time they’ve stolen the one of careless yanks hi-tech spy jets and you, Steve Hunt, have been called in to sort it out again (I know Hunt works for Mi5, but you don’t think the [...]

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Title:
Episode Secret Weapon
File Name: esw.zip
Size : 7.23Mb
Author: Peter Kucera
Date Released: 10 November 2003
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Note: These images are NOT links to larger ones. Sorry!

Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

About
I recieved this from Erik who says “This is my first HL1 project called Night Shift Beta. Warning, it is only mappack! You must open .doc file and read it”
Let’s make sure we provide useful feedback for him.
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Title: Night Shift
File Name: night_shift_beta.zip
Size : 2.89Mb
Author: Erik Hagara
Date Released: 25 February 2006
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Story
You are a scienist called Gordon Freeman, following a convey with some high-tech weapons to a secret base “Black Mesa Research Facility”. But at middle of way, your convey got ambuse by a group of revolutionist. The way of return is blocked, You must fight a way for your survival….
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Title: Road of Destiny
File Name: [...]

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Title: Run for life
File Name: rfl.zip
Size : 2.4Mb
Author: Air-dan
Date Released: 04 April 2001
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Reader Recommendations4 recommendations, average score: 4 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1

Basic Details

Title: Construction
File Name: construction_1.exe
Size : 2.62Mb
Author: Alexander Hubl
Date Released: 01 September 2001
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Reader Recommendations4 recommendations, average score: 3.5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.25

Introduction
I’m sure we’ve all experienced something similar to this: I’m playing a game or mod and something happens that the first time is quite cool and then from that point forward the level designer thinks I need to see it at almost every turn.

Introduction
Just a quick question for you: How often do you switch weapons when playing SP Games?
Am I the only player who rarely switches weapons? I was playing a Chaser mod last night called Longwood Complex when I noticed I that although I had collect about 5 other weapons I hadn’t switched to any [...]

Basic Details

Title: Deth
File Name: deth.zip
Size : 770Kb
Author: Deth
Date Released: 16 April 1999
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Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 3.5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.25

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Title: Crawler
File Name: crawler.zip
Size : 251Kb
Author: Karl Jones
Date Released: 23 September 1999
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Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 2.5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.25

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Title: Total Evasion
File Name: totalevasion.zip
Size : 422Kb
Author: Tyler ‘TylAK’ Munden
Date Released: 25 February 1999
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Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 4 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1

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Title: The Silo Station
File Name: the_silo.zip
Size : 586Kb
Author: Steve ‘Nailer’ Graehl
Date Released: 01 January 1999
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Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 1.33 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.22

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Title: Gateway
File Name: gtwyhalf.zip
Size : 7.77Mb
Author: Mikael Hindman
Date Released: 04 September 1999

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Title: C5
File Name: c5.zip
Size : 124Kb
Author: Karl Jones
Date Released: 24 November 1999
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Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

Story
Hours after defeating Nihilanth, Gordon Freeman remained lost in the other world known as Xen. As time passed, and rations ran low, Freeman ran into a room filled with humming teleporters. He didn’t know which one to choose, so he stepped into one and was transported back to the Black Mesa Facility.
Reader Recommendations6 recommendations, average [...]

Story
You are about to enter Freeman’s Tomb… a dangerous place for one man, so be careful, there are some traps waiting for you. You must head for the Tomb to unleash the power of the place… and then you’ll have to wait til I finish the second part. When I do, you’ll just have to [...]

Description
Your country is in chaos. Death squads and gangs rule the streets. Your nearest relatives have been killed, and you fear you will be next. Selling your last possessions in exchange for passage on an unseaworthy vessel, you risk your life travelling across the world in search of a new beginning. But when you arrive, [...]

Description
A Russian mod that I have yet to play. The ReadMe is all in Russian so I can’t tell you much. You’ll just have to play it!
Basic Details

Title: Black Death
File Name: ol-black-death.rar
Size : 65.6Mb
Author: Black Death Team
Date Released: 14 October 2004
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Reader Recommendations8 recommendations, average score: 2.25 (out of 5), standard [...]

About
This is another Russain mod and consists of three episodes.   You play as Stiv Wolker, the hero of the mod.   The first epsiode takes you through the events of that ill-fated day at Black Mesa.   The second and third are spent fighting the various Xen creatures and of course the clean-up army grunts.   The mod contains new textures, [...]

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Basically it’s a “hold off the zombies” map, you get some time to prepare, then the door opens and the mayhem begins. It’s pretty challenging the first time…but after a play or two you’ll get good at it.
Basic Details

Title: Zombie Attack
File Name: zombie-attack.zip
Size : 516Kb
Author: Snpbond
Date Released: 27 March 2006

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Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: [...]

What is known
It’s a small three level map. The image to the right is the only one I could find. Most of the resources are in French, as is the map.
Now Available!
It’s now available and I would really appreciate any screenshots and reviews!
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Title: Destination Black Mesa
File Name: hldbm.zip
Size : 12.9Mb
Author: Legacy
Date Released: [...]

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Title: Bloody Pizza: Vendetta
File Name: ol-vendetta.exe
Size : 115.21Mb
Author: Unknown
Date Released: 09 February 2005
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Reader Recommendations5 recommendations, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.4

About
This map is set on a space station. It’s very linear and square. Every corridor seems to end in a right-angle corner. The lighting effects are really good but the enemies simply appear out of nowhere and that really bugs me. Similarly ammo is left strategically lying around. I have not finished [...]

Story
The year is 2194…
Humankind has been wiped out because of the Atomic wars on Earth. Over time the climate began to change, the Earth's crust became scorched and a thick layer of sulphur caused the few remaining humans to mutate. These humans began to practice Demonic worship. You play Angelic, the last [...]

Story
The HL Invasion story starts at the end of Half-Life. Remember, you were in a train with the strange G-man … Fortunately, scientists hidden in a subsidiary laboratory with Black Mesa manage to repatriate you there with a space probe, in which you jumped just before the G-man kills you.
Once awoken, you discover this secret [...]

About
This is the collection of maps submitted as part of Valve’s VERC first ever competition:
Best use of a pop machine in an interactive sequence. Pop machine must die.
The thread descibing things in detail can be found here: Chatbear Thread
Basic Details

Title: Contest 1 Maps
File Name: contest1.zip
Size : 8.18Mb
Author: Various
Date Released: 12 June 2001
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This map was made for the ‘Best Train Ride’ Contest at the Valve Editing Resource Center. I searched but I couldn’t find anything there. The thread descibing things in detail can be found here: Chatbear Thread.
Basic Details

Title: Contest 2 Maps
File Name: contest2.zip
Size : 2.5Mb
Author: Various
Date Released: 18 June 2001
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PlanetPhillip Note:
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Story
The year is 2832, Earth is going to its fall. Many citys have been destroyed. You are a man called Edvard Jones. Your parents were killed in a hover accident, so your closest relative has brought you up. You live in a city called Rodor. You are on the way home from your work, when [...]

Story
A baby who feels the destruction and pain with his own blood; and watches
the annihilation of the world with his bloody tears…
Angelic; who unintentionally released the energy that destroyed the world; who watched the exhaustion of the last hope; who gets burned and drown in the ashes…
And then, a beam of light radiates from the [...]

Basic Details

Title: Breakdown 1
File Name: breakdown.exe
Size: 4.66Mb
Author: Pavel Koten
Date Released: 16 August 2002
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Reader Recommendations4 recommendations, average score: 3.25 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.19

Sanitation Engineer Required
Immediate Openings for full time position in laboratory setting. Ideal candidate must be able to handle vigorous work schedule, possible overtime, and pass drug screening and background check. Hazardous Environment Suit to be provided to you on site. Please apply to the Human Resources Department, Black Mesa Research Facility.
It’s your first day at [...]

About
Chinatown is a new Single-player MOD for Half-Life. Since Half-Life originally came out, the graphics performance of PCs has vastly increased. To create a more realistic atmosphere, Chinatown features a higher poly count that most other MODs.
PlanetPhillip Note
This mod was never released and to my knowledge is the only file ever made available. It’s [...]

Basic Details

Title: 1986
File Name: 1986.zip
Size : 1.65Mb
Author: Brendon Chung
Date Released: 01 July 2002
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Reader Recommendations10 recommendations, average score: 3.8 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.16

The Story So Far
Remember back at the start of Half Life 2, when the Metropolice knock you out and Alyx comes to the rescue? Well, this storyline assumes that Alyx never showed up, and that you ended up in a Combine “Re-Education facility” instead. You have now been there 13 days and nights. The Combine [...]

Update
12 March 2006: I’ve finally found and uploaded the beta maps and they are now available for you to download.. Thanks go to Adam for publically releasing them.
About
Parallax was a set of Half-Life maps that were under production by Adam Foster. There was no published release date and few other details. [...]

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What if everything that went wrong on “A Red Letter Day” was not caused by what you thought? What if your teleport ripped a hole in space and time? Now you must travel through time to correct the events and set right your past.
Reader Recommendations27 recommendations, average score: 4.15 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.24

Basic Details

Title: P.I.Z.D.E.C.
File Name: pizdec.zip
Size : 6.15Mb
Author: Greader
Date Released: 30 November 2004

Files

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Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 3.5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.25

About
In Silent_room, you play as just another average citizen of an average city. On a certain day, you and Quinn, a friend of yours, were invited by Danny, your paranoid friend, to party in his home. As it turned dark, you got too drunk to even stand up and so had to lie down in [...]

Introduction
A long time ago I started a thread on a gaming forum about expert SP FPS gamers. I asked if anybody had beaten a modern (HL1 or Unreal 1 onwards) Single Player First Person Shooter on the hardest setting without playing sections twice. Let me explain that a little. You are allowed [...]

Introduction
In a previous post entitled Do We Expect to Die? I discussed the idea that players need to die, or at least have an event that make it clear the game has “beaten” you, in FPS games because if we didn’t then we wouldn’t feel challenged. Writing and thinking about that post got me [...]

Introduction
In a previous post entitled Define a Great SP Player I discussed what skill set a good SP player needed. I didn’t provide the definitive answer but I at least started the discussion. As with many other posts the idea kept bouncing around in my head until another thought popped up.

Update
Retribution was never released but a demo level was. You can download it here: Retribution 2 demo. (It’s 6.75Mb) The reason it was never released was because XaeroX (the author of Retribution) was focusing on his other upcoming releases. “Also the Retribution 2 project is now “Option Implicit” – it will [...]

Basic Details

Title: War Mod
File Name: war-install.zip
Size : 18.6Mb
Author: Adama Magiery
Date Released: 01 June 2003
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Reader Recommendations4 recommendations, average score: 4.25 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.19

About
Dark Truths places the player in command of Captain Hunt, member of the Black Operations division of Section Six. Taking command of her fellow Black Operators, Cap. Hunt will explore new and old sections of the Black Mesa Research Facility. However, in the end, it shall fall on her shoulders to plunge headlong into the [...]

About
You have been Gordon Freeman, Adrian Shepard and Barney. And what did you did during all that time? You killed all those poor Xen aliens! Have you ever thought about their Point of View? POV-Point of View is a new single player Half-Life MOD where you will play as a Alien Slave [...]

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Title: Scientist Slaughterhouse
File Name: ssh09.exe
Size : 18.8Mb
Author: Denix Linelli
Date Released: 01 January 1998
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Reader Recommendations10 recommendations, average score: 4.3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.21

About
Half-life: Emergency is a Latvian-Russian mod.   You are playing characters are two real people. There is a detailed storyline but it’s only available in Russian.   (Please contact me if you speak Russian and are willing and able to translate it for our English readers!)   The mod is by “MEGASIS TEAM”, they are: Eif aka Arthur Feoklistov, Nod aka [...]

About
You live your everyday life. Work, family, house, children – whatever. But one day you get caught in an absolutely dark, surrealistic and sadistic world called Halfquake. Is it an institution? Is it on earth? Noone seems to care about you, your pain and your life. Forget your past, it’s gone forever. Just pray [...]

Description
I can’t tell you anything about this map because I currently can’t get Steam to work!! As soon as I play it I’ll try and give you some infomation. Stay Tuned.
Basic Details

Title: City Prison 5
Size : 5.0Mb
FileName: Map_HL2_City_Prison_5.rar
Author: Egor Koshanov
Date Released: 13 August 2005
Download: PlanetPhillip FileFront Server

Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 2.33 (out [...]

I managed to bully Leon into giving me an interview about the much-anticipated release of his second mappack entitled Leon’s Coastline to Atmosphere. Some of you should recognize the name from his first release, prosaically entitled Leon’s Mappack.

Anyway, with further ado here is the interview

Introduction
Please be patient while I explain my philosophy regarding this topic. I believe that amateur developers need to view potential players of their mods as customers. Whilst these customers don’t pay with money to download and play maps and mods they “Pay” with something more valuable – Their time and effort.

About
Our hero has become very bitter toward the government for sending in the storm troopers to kill every living thing at Black Mesa. He locates another installation where the government continues experimenting with the world of Xen. With the taste of blood still fresh in his mouth, his path is clear. His HEV suit, [...]

About
You start as a worker on a fuel line, fixing some pipes, working on some kinks; you know that type of stuff. When the next thing you know, a rival company has hired a small ‘faction’ of troops to come in and collect the data from the mainframe(s). Your objective is to stop them using [...]

About
Author’s Note: “This mod was based off of a television show, I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say the name of it. It somewhat follows the environments of the show. You get informed by this woman that she has taken your brother and that you have to get into jail to kill a certain [...]

Introduction
In the Switching Weapons post, Darth Marsden asked “Would you buy a game that didn’t have a machine gun?” And a clever question it is because it goes to the root of a particular issue that has been on my mind for a while, which we will return to in a moment. Although the [...]

Author’s Note
The strategically positioned grunts will make you fight for your life, but there is some puzzle-solving involved. So if it’s not your style of gameplay, don’t accept the mission.
The scenario is that you are trapped inside a museum in Paris after all the artworks have been stolen. The armed guards are convinced that you [...]

About
Wait a moment for you to regain consciousness, and you’ll find yourself stuck in a jail. The outside landscape looks like the usual Black Mesa you have been working at, but the complex looks unfamiliar. Turn around to face away from the jail window, and in the dark corner away from the unconscious [...]

Story
Guess what? Gordon got himself another job! And once more it’s a high Tech low profile kind of thing at another secret location somewhere in the Arizona desert. Some people just never learn, do they? Unfortunately, Gordon’s old army buddies got wind of his new job and following the saying “if at first you don’t [...]

Basic Details

Title: Trigger Happy
Author: Oakstar
Date Released: 01 May 2000
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Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

Story
This time you are sent in to Black Mesa for an entirely different reason – Giant Scientists!
PlanetPhillip Note
I’ve just found out that this was built for the Spirit of Half-Life engine and that is probably why it keeps crashing for me.
I played for about ten miutes and then the game crashed. Perhaps you will [...]

Story
After a heavy flash you and some others have been transported to an outer realm zone! Your only option is to kill all the bad dudes! And of course STAY ALIVE!!
Basic Details

Title: Rogat
File Name: rogat.zip
Size : 13Kb
Author: HaLf-DeAd
Date Released: 03 April 1999
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Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 1 (out of 5), standard [...]

From the Read Me:
This level is very loosely based on HardBoiled, by Hong Kong action director John Woo. The brief story line goes as so… Big crime boss type bloke is using a hospital as a front for criminal operations. You are the number one type super cop fella, and thus your job is [...]

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The evil commander from Chicken Mix 1 has taken control over earth, you must stop him :O
Basic Details

Title: Chicken Mix 2
File Name: chickenmix2.zip
Size : 3.11Mb
Author: Chicken Fist
Date Released: 01 october 2005
Download: PlanetPhillip Filecloud Server

Reader Recommendations6 recommendations, average score: 2.5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.25

Introduction
Starlost of a one-series Sci- Fi show from the early 1970s. The basic concept was quite simple. Planet Earth was nearly destroyed by a “disaster of Galactic proportions!” (Although I don’t believe we ever learn what this disaster was). Humanity decides to build an Ark to ensure its survival. The Ark [...]

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This singleplayer map takes place in a recently discovered (and well preserved) ancient underground city somewhere in the Andes mountains.
Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 4 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1

Story
This is a Single Player Half-Life modification which replaces all the NPCs so they will look like G-Men. It also replaces some weapons and provides new features and some new easter eggs.
Final Notes:
The mod itself uses the standard HL maps, it only replaces all NPCs so they will look like G-Men. It also has some [...]

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This mod is based on powerful Half-Life engine with many additions and changes! Thanks to Zhouy for suppyling the screenshots.
Reader Recommendations5 recommendations, average score: 2.8 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.76

Introduction
This is a story for Half-Life 2. It is a specific story written to provide a background for a mod. I have no plans to make this mod; I just enjoy creating stories and concepts that could make mods. I will tell the story first and then describe the background and gameplay [...]

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This level is some sort of lounge area. Obviously, a few of those friendly little guys from xen have been teleporting in and killing everyone. Gordon is taking a break and happens to come across the mess in progress.
Basic Details

Title: The Lounge
File Name: lounge.zip
Size : 127Kb
Author: Mike Warren (aka PieGnome)
Date Released: 30 [...]

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“Here is an unfinished mod by the Letkyx team. In August 2004 source files of this project (more than 50 maps, new textures, models and sounds) were totally lost after hacker’s attack and so the project was canceled. Recently one of Letkyx’s members decided to upload some of the remaining files. It’s not a fully [...]

Authors Note
“This is a Half Life 2 map set in the Star Trek universe based on the first Warp 5 star ship Enterprise. This is my first serious map/mod I’m making so wish me luck, I not trying to get it 100% right as long as it has the general feel of the ship then [...]

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Just another small horror episode (6 maps) with evil zombies and headcrabs released.
The images look quite good though.
Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

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A Half-Life single player map with lots of grunts to kill.
Basic Details

Title: Grunt Match
Size : 132Kb
File Name: gruntmatch.ZIP
Author: Unknown
Date Released: 26 June 2001
Download: PlanetPhillip Filecloud Server

Screenshots

Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 1 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

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This is a single player Half-Life map where you have to take out an APC and some grunts from your chopper.
Basic Details

Title: Gunship
File Name: gunship_v1.ZIP
Size : 245Kb
Author: Unknown
Date Released: 10 March 2003
Download: PlanetPhillip Filecloud Server

Reader Recommendations5 recommendations, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.8

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A Half-Life single player map that is designed to test your skills.
Basic Details

Title: Killing House
Size : 176Kb
File Name: killing_house.ZIP
Author: Unknown
Date Released: 19 March 2003
Download: PlanetPhillip Filecloud Server

Screenshots

Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1

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A short single player Half-Life 2 map.
Basic Details

Title: Catch G-Man
Size : 118Kb
File Name: catchgman1.zip
Author: benjy355
Date Released: 04 May 2006
Download: PlanetPhillip Filecloud Server

Reader Recommendations4 recommendations, average score: 2.25 (out of 5), standard deviation: 2.69

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Some noise. Bryan, young cleaner, wakes up thinking “Again those old bastards…” When he comes out of his room something falls on his head and he blacks out…
Reader Recommendations11 recommendations, average score: 3.73 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.47

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Your mission is to escape from the G-Man’s laboratories. It’s the research labs where scientists observe monsters from Xen and their interaction with humans.
“Thanks to Qwertyus for supplying the file!”
Basic Details

Title: Final Run
File Name: FinalRUN-1.0.exe
Size : 916Kb
Author: Otis
Date Released: 25 January 2002
Download: PlanetPhillip Filecloud Server

Screenshots

Reader Recommendations4 recommendations, average score: 1.75 (out of 5), standard deviation: [...]

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There are no enemies in this map, so it’s just a look a round!
Basic Details

Title: Wybuchowka
Size : 851Kb
File Name: wybuchowka.rar
Author: Filip Herzig
Date Released: 28 May 2002
Download: PlanetPhillip Filecloud Server

Screenshots

Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 4 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

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A single Player Half-Life 2 Map.
Basic Details

Title: My First Map
Size : 1.31Mb
File Name: My_first_map.zip
Author: Maxkiller
Date Released: 29 January 2006
Download: PlanetPhillip Filecloud Server

Screenshots
Images kindly supplied by City 17.

Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 4 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

Story
It’s approximately 6 hours after Gordon Freeman attacked Nova Prospekt and warped out. The rebellion, taking this as a signal to start the uprising, begins fighting their way into City 17.
You are Julian Cessna, a former police officer before the 7 hour war and combine takeover. You joined the 7th chapter of the rebellion in [...]

Description
Following the events of Antlion Troopers, you again play a young combine soldier. Due to your exemplary performance in the first antlion encounter, the Combine Advisors have started you on a path to become a Commander. They have placed you under the care of Commander Vesque to train you in the abilities needed to be [...]

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This map continues the story of The House 2: Hypnose. That’s all I can tell you at the moment. The screenshots look good, especially number 12.
Screenshots
Click on the thumbnails below to open a 1024 pixel wide image.
WARNING: The screenshots may contain spoilers.

Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

Authors Note
“After 20 years after first part, John Bekid turned out to be in unknown city, City 13. He it is necessary to run down from city. In this he will help the doctor Saimons, which already Two years makes out scheme escape. But power of the Combine this dislikes. And they try to [...]

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An entry for the TWHL Competiton: Destructification!
Authors Note
“My Compo 20 map. Enjoy…you know you waaaaannntooo”
Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

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An entry for the TWHL Competiton: Destructification!
Authors Note
“This is my compo20 entry. I used mostly horror effects and didnt allow much destructification. Anyway, I had fun making this map. And thats what makes it valuable to upload it in the map vault.”
Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: [...]

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An entry for the TWHL Competiton: Destructification!
Authors Note
“Who are you? Where are you? I don’t know. Do you?”
Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

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An entry for the TWHL Competiton: Destructification!
Authors Note
“Here is my entry to competition 20. Its in mini format so just extract it to your root HL directory. The splash screen is set up for WONHL only and is not compatable with Steam. Special thanks to Muzz for helping me with a leak.”
Reader [...]

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An entry for the TWHL Competiton: Destructification!
Authors Note
“Since there are many other Compo 20 entries in the vault, I figured why not… I included the rmf too, for anyone who’s interested.”

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An entry for the TWHL Competiton: Destructification!
Authors Note
“This is my first compo (Compo 20) entry i have submitted, hope you like it.”
Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 1.5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.25

Authors Note
“Thanks to Dauby and Captain P, and everyone else who made constructive critiques…I tried to make as many changes as possible in the time allowed. “floatables” are still glitchy, but more manageable imo. To push them out of your way quickly, get close without touching it, and hit the USE key. Cycler [...]

Story
You are Bob Dewey, Black Mesa janitor. You arrive at the research facility for another day at work: cleaning up the mess those smart ass scientists leave behind, refilling the soapboxes in the toilets, listening to Barney’s stupid jokes and reading Penthouse Magazine.
Reader Recommendations14 recommendations, average score: 4.07 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.35

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The map takes up the story after Gordon Freeman refuses the G-man’s offer. The rest should be explained to you as you go along.
Basic Details

Title: Sub Humanity
File Name: sub.zip
Size : 4.3Mb
Author: Jim Silva
Date Released: 31 October 1999
Download: PlanetPhillip Filecloud Server

Screenshots
Click on the thumbnails below to open a 1024 pixel wide image.
WARNING: The screenshots may [...]

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A short map with a few zombie and a few more headcrabs. There were a couple of nice features but ultimately there’s little you can do to retain a player’s attention when the map is short.
Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

Introduction
I wrote the following story for a couple of mod developers who were looking for a specific co-op storyline. The idea of writing a draft story specifically for a Co-Op mod is an interesting one and to my knowledge that has never been done, nor has a mod been made specifically for two players. [...]

Author’s Note
“This level is inspired by the movie “Back to the Future 2″ and is acclimatized in the Hill Valley of 2015. You will have to eliminate all the combine and Breen closed in one safe. But there will be also to fight Antlion guard.”
Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: [...]

Authors Note
“A rather strange map where you’re overwhelmned by zombies, complete with a fortress and a telegraph pole to stand behind.”
Reader RecommendationsCurrently there are no recommendations

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Author’s Note: “It’s based on Hl2 city17 maps, the mission is to get to the other side of the street and enter in the citadel walkway. It’s packed like a mini based on spirit of hl code, so extract it to your half-life folder.”
Reader Recommendations5 recommendations, average score: 2.8 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.36

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Author’s Note: “My entry for the destructification compo. Based on a ransacked church theme…(yeah, I’m into churches lately) Only visuals, no time for entity work ;P”
An entry for the TWHL Competiton: Destructification!
Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 1.67 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.22

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I haven’t played this map, so I can’t tell you anything about it. I am awaiting persmission to host this file. Until that happens the file is available from the author’s website for approxiamtely 12 hours a day. The TWHL thread has more details.
Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 2 (out of 5), [...]

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I know nothing! Can somebody play this and tell me a little about it? I would laso like to have a few screenshots. You may need to speak French as well.
Reader RecommendationsCurrently there are no recommendations

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I know nothing! Can somebody play this and tell me a little about it? I would laso like to have a few screenshots. You may need to speak French as well.
Reader Recommendations4 recommendations, average score: 3.25 (out of 5), standard deviation: 2.19

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Author’s Note: “This is version 2 of the quite popular “Torture that Alien.” This includes all the skills I have learnt since my first map… this is in unfinished stuff for a reason… (duh!) i know the textures are a little crappy in places… buts it the idea that counts!! please read readme quickly before [...]

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This map is to be the first of hopefully many ‘puzzle maps,’ as they seem to be quite successful. Each ‘room’ will contain about 6 challenges, as does this one.
Please contact the author with any ideas for later puzzles, He is hoping for about 6-10 maps in all, and doesn’t want to run out of [...]

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A Half-Life 2 Single Player level that expands on the Ravenholm story. The screenshots look good and the few reviews I’ve read suggest this is one to download.
Reader Recommendations8 recommendations, average score: 3.38 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.98

Introduction
I recently started playing Pariah and was really looking forward to it. Imagine my surprise when I found out that there was no manual save option. OK, I think it’s good when developers try new things and I was prepared to see what happens. I thought I read somewhere that the game [...]

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In most aspects the quality of today’s mods have reached the professional level and you only need to look at the number of downloads to see that the gaming community is eager to play these mods.

Story
At the age of 18 Gordon leaves his mama to join the US army. One week later the high official found that Gordon had limitless potential and assigned him to the highest rank. Gordon Didn’t care what rank he got. All he cared about was the classy new room he was assigned to.
Reader Recommendations5 [...]

Introduction
When you are new to something it can be very daunting; there seems to be so much to learn, resources can be hard to find and use, help is often focused towards more advanced users. What’s needed is a gentle introduction with a specific focus for the type of questions you are likely to [...]

Introduction
I think I am beginning to see a pattern emerging regarding the cultural influences of FPS games. I have been thinking about this longer than I have been playing games and have been planning a post about it for a long time. The announcement of Inhabited Island: Prisoner of Power has forced me [...]

Introduction
Please bear with me while I talk about two seemly unrelated topics and then cleverly merge them into something you had never even considered before. (Well, that’s the plan!)

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A Half-Life 2 Single Player Total Conversion that places you in the Star Trek Universe. The website has plenty of information and there is a media update due very soon. I will add some screenshots and more details about this interesting mod sometime soon.
Please visit the Homepage for more details.
Reader RecommendationsCurrently there are [...]

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Story: A piece of space high above the sky once suddenly disappeared, and on its place strange floating islands appeared along with many colourful dudes walking around on them.
Reader Recommendations8 recommendations, average score: 2.88 (out of 5), standard deviation: 3.11

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Apparently taking place during Gordon’s absence after the fall of Nova Prospekt, the story seems is centered around one man, John, a Resistance member who was injured in a firefight and brought by his friends to the outskirts of Ravenholm to recover. None of them remember how to get out of Ravenholm, and it’s up [...]

Story
It was written in the ancient scrolls of Xian that, during the last Crelat of Xen time, a portal would be opened between two universes and a being would cross the void and cause the second re-birth of Nihilanth, and all Xen would be drained of their lifeblood, their knowledge. And that, in this time, [...]

Basic Details
Nothing is known about this map. Can anybody supply screenshots and some basic details about the gameplay? Thank you.
Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 2.5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.25

Story
You are Adam from the planet Esidarap. This planet is prestine with no violence, weapons or pollution of any kind. The members of this society have never been exposed to the evil ways of other primitive planets and Esidarap’s world council want to keep it that way.
The people of Esidarap are born with [...]

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Author’s Note: “This map is intended for fun. It is not ment to be a serious map that is to be taken seriously. If you were one of the. maybe, 20 to play with me in Gmod, then you know how fun it is. I have received a good amount of feedback stating that this [...]

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During the uprising of City 17, Freeman and a handful of resistance fighters started an assault on Combine defences and check points, which gave way for our rebel forces to attack in force and with limited casualties.
Reader RecommendationsCurrently there are no recommendations

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Author’s Note: “This map takes place in some sort of Egyptian tomb, where you will find combat as well as some little puzzle solving. It’s longer than Vilcabamba and better designed IMO. Custom textures by me, so I apologize if some of them look cartoony. Enjoy the map.”
Reader Recommendations4 recommendations, average score: 3.25 (out [...]

I want to challenge a gameplay concept that we take for granted. It’s been on my mind for a while now but starting Half-Life 1 Episode 1 brought it to the forefront of my thinking. The weapons included in a game are one of the most, perhaps THE most, important element of that [...]

Here is another collection of images that I think would make either a great level or at least provide inspiration for one.

These images come from Russia. To my knowledge they are not part of the normal underground system.

Any extra information about them would be appricated. If you know of similar types settings please contact me.

This mod continues the story where Half-Life 2 finished and offers one possible scenario. After the big explosion you fall to the ground and are very badly injured. Some people find you and take you home to a small village outside the city where the citadel was built. After 3 months you’re strong again and want to fight on

Introduction
I’m not the first to discuss this, nor the last, but whilst there are many aspects about Valve that really annoy me, I can’t help but congratulate them on their creativity. The image above (Sorry it’s not very clear!) is taken from the video below of a newly discovered weapon, from HL2 Ep1, which [...]

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In Socialist Tension, you are in the role of a Contract killer, who was sent to City 17 for his next assighment. His client, one of the citizens of City 17 wants you to assassinate Dr. Breen and put an end to his domination. But he doesn’t know that the “death” of Dr. Breen will [...]

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Afraid of Monsters is a survival horror mod for Half Life 1 that doesn’t follow the beaten trail of zombies and haunted mansions. We recommend that you play AOM in a dark room, with the game on full screen and the volume up high.
Reader Recommendations21 recommendations, average score: 4 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.14

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Gordon Freeman crashes his car on the way to a presentation at his alma mater. Will he be able to escape Combine pursuers? (The answer is “of course,” but play the map anyway.
Reader Recommendations6 recommendations, average score: 4.5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.58

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You are Gordon in a parallel world and the city is under attack from unknown enemies. You have to find out a way to stop the invasion by traveling into their world and correcting the “mistake.” You’ll experience unique single player experience spanning 3 chapters, 10 maps.
Reader Recommendations28 recommendations, average score: 4.14 (out [...]

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The mod is a hazard course, where you are a member of staff in a training facility for Bio-tec research. During your training terrorists ambush a colleague and gain entry to the facility. At this stage you are in the middle of training. and you have to help stop the terrorists from taking [...]

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Pay attention – things are more complex than they might first appear. Intrigue, subterfuge, and mystery predominate. An ancient machine tainted with human technology, guarded by a vicious pack of Nihilanthi aliens. There are few answers, but many questions. Will they ever be resolved?
Reader Recommendations24 recommendations, average score: 4.33 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.97

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Dark Goverment Forces lead by the shadowy agent know only as “The Administrator” have taken control of the Black Mesa complex. They’ve sealed off the underground laboratories and are constructing a powerful dimensional device know only as Infinite Rift. This device must not be used or it could spell doom for our entire planet. Someone [...]

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You are Gordon Freeman. On your quest to the Lambda lab you find another one of Black Mesa’s nuclear weapon storage facilities. This one is different though; a rogue group of military has stormed the building and plans to detonate the weapon to rid earth of the alien invasion. You, becoming aware [...]

After explosion of the Citadel, G-man immerses Gordon Freeman in stasis, but after a while deduces it from there for the new mission. The target of this mission is penetration into a citadel which is in City 18 (the city located near to City 17). In this citadel there is a teleport into the Combine world. Using this teleport, it is necessary reach the Combine world and to destroy their leader.

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You are a rebel during the war wich opposes you to the Combines, Gordon Freeman has disapeared since 4 days at Nova Prospect. You were on a ship when a Combine Gun Ship opened fire at you, most of your crew drowned, you and the few others could reach the beach, and there you found [...]

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Life in City 14 is less user-friendly than in City 17. Civilian Protection are more and more oppressive, and civilian beatings are commonplace.
Reader Recommendations9 recommendations, average score: 3.56 (out of 5), standard deviation: 2.02

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Author’s Note:“The player has made a mistake in the past, so we (the mappers) will punish him now. The punishment comes to the player in 4 parts and one additional final part.”
Reader Recommendations7 recommendations, average score: 4 (out of 5), standard deviation: 2.57

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Author’s Note:“Well, this is a small (and I mean small) add-on for Half-Quake Amen. We had the idea to do it because we were all visiting MS and we thought some output just had to be there. Besides, Halfquake had its one year birthday (this mini was actually meant to be released at the birthday, [...]

I found these images recently and immediately thought they would make a great level for a Half-Life 2 Mod.

It could be part of a large puzle, meaning that certain actions have to be performed before the ship reaches the dock, get the electricity working, open the gears etc.

I have no idea where this is, so if you have any information please contact me.

Introduction
For those that don’t know (is that possible?) the Source engine used to power Half-Life 2 and a number of other games include the ability for developers to insert comments anywhere within the game. This allows them to discuss certain design features, gameplay decisions etc. It’s a great idea but one that I [...]

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The main hero (Jack Whyton) is a prisoner, who escaped from prison together with others. But on the second day their hideout was already attacked by cops. Jack managed to escape from the police. But he didn’t know that he is the subject of a very dangerous experiment and that some kind of xen creature [...]

Introduction
Everything mass-produce is simply a replica. Just a copy, an almost perfect copy of a prototype. It does its job and we forget it. What makes something that is hand-made different? The fact that each one is slightly different. That’s the basis of the world of art. A painting, [...]

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You are one of the citizens who did his best to put up with the combine until they decided to set your flat on fire.You have had enough and once you escape you soon learn many other citizens are also fed up and are fighting back.In this level you escape from your flat work your [...]

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After falling into the abandoned underground (yes you could not tell what is was where is finished) You kinda lost all all of your weapons execpt for your trusty crowbar. Get through the underground and back up to the surface to back up your buddies.
Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 2.67 (out of 5), standard deviation: [...]

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So, the plan is real simple, Gordon. You and Crazy will charge in, grab some guns, and let us out of the cells. Once we’re out, well…we’ll figure it out from there. Talk to Crazy when you’re ready, he’s probably watching the zombies again. Good luck…we’re counting on you.
Reader Recommendations6 recommendations, average score: 4.5 (out [...]

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eXterminate is a FPS type mod in pure kill-everything-that-moves style. I’ts very similiar to the classical game Phobia II, with the exact same same point: Kill as many things as possible before you die.
Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

Introduction
For some strange reason I started thinking about the old fisherman character in The Lost Coast and I thought that he might make an interesting character to make a mod around. Below you will find a couple of skeleton ideas for some mods.

Introduction
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while but keep forgetting! As games get more and more graphic-card demanding the loads times seems to be ever increasing.

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It’s inside the Citadel and it’s an onslaught vs. Combines with Mp7’s and Shotguns.
Author’s Note:
“There are 4 respawning combines, 2 with Mp7 and 2 with shotgun. They rush both ways around your ammo depot (The one with the green light), making you stay on your toes to avoid getting shot. Use grenades and beams [...]

Introduction
In a post entitled Loading Screens � A Waste Of Time? Leon said; “it�s even nice to have small break between all the action.” I disagreed because I feel that’s the job of the developer but it got me thinking about the flow of levels and the constraints of a game engine. Let me [...]

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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 Recommendations8 recommendations, average score: 3.88 (out of 5), standard [...]

Introduction
Many readers here are probably aware of playlists, these allow people to control the music they listen to. Many create different types of play lists to suit their mood or even the time of day. Why can’t we do this with levels?

Author’s Note: “This is my first level for Halflife. The reason its called 101 Grunts is because their are 101 grunt enemies in the level. There is also 4 Assassins and some gun turrets.

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You are Handy Man in Black Mesa! This is both a Single Player and MultiPlayer mod. If anybody has more details please contact me.
Reader Recommendations5 recommendations, average score: 1.6 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.64

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You are Thomas Redgrave, a Black Mesa scientist, who decides to come to work early. You choose to check your skills in Hazard Course. But as you start to train, your holographic assistant shuts down. Tye crowbar is replaced by an axe and there are some new sounds.
Reader Recommendations6 recommendations, average score: 4.17 [...]

Story
Taken from the homepage:
“That day should be the beginning of great celebrations, because the mankind created machine for transferring a biological material. But the scientists at Black Mesa didn’t count with surfeit of transport nucleus, and the whole transfer can sprain out of control. Something like this has happened during the main test, which was [...]

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Cthulhu is a single-player modification for Half-Life. It contains 65 maps, 21 new monsters and 14 new weapons.
Story
You are Ranulf Satfford, occult investigator in 1928 Arkham, USA…
Reader Recommendations12 recommendations, average score: 3.25 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.69

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A single player mappack/mod featuring the Daleks from the cult TV show Doctor Who. You are assigned to investigate a situation taking place in a junk yard in Totters Lane, London. It is believed that a small group of militia are held up in this area, possibly protecting some form of transmat device which is [...]

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I don’t know anything about this mod and there is no english information in the read me. Please can somebody supply some details?
Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1

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I don’t know anything about this mod, so if you play it please write a comment. I need to look for Dr Kleiner 1! I’m not sure what to expect considering the author is responsible for A Dog Was Hit In The Head With An Axe! Anyway, enjoy, if you can.
Reader Recommendations3 [...]

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“Built for TWHL competition 21. I hope it complies with the rules. The map doesn’t have any particular story. It’s your typical detailed HL2 city with a slight combine theme. Performance isn’t meant to be great, so beware! NPC behaviour hasn’t been 100% tested due to lack of time.”
Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 4.33 [...]

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“This is a single map for Half-Life2. This map based on Doki Doki Panic. So many enemies spawn on the platform. You don’t have any weapon, but there are many traps on the platform. Survive by using traps effectively. Try to kill all enemies. Please refer to trap.txt file to know about each trap. And [...]

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“A Short 1 Level demo of the Half Life 2 Modification, Project Omega. There are two ways to complete this game, so when you have played it the normal way, try and find the other route.”
Story
The Combine had built a secret underground base (Omega Base) in the far reaches of Europe in the late 21st [...]

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I don’t know anything about this small map and would appreciate any information. The author has made a few other maps but this might be a different style for him.
Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 2.67 (out of 5), standard deviation: 2.89

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The second WakuWakuPanic map. Looks like a special style of map where you simply set off traps and deal with the consequences. Not my style of map but maybe you enjoy them!
Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

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Your aim is to gather seven crystal balls in the pyramid. A departure from the usual style of maps by this author. More screenshots would be appreciated. TIA.
Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

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Another map from Tetsu. He seems to love these types of maps.
Can somebody tell me anything about him or his maps?
Reader Recommendations5 recommendations, average score: 2.6 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.04

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A single player Half-Life 2 map.
I require more information and screenshots, can somebody help?
Reader RecommendationsCurrently there are no recommendations

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The second in the Ispitatel series. Unfortunately I don’t know anything about this series. Anybody want to enlighten me and my readers? Second requries opfor.wad copied into mod directory.
Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.67

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The first in the Ispitatel series. Unfortunately I don’t know anything about this series. Anybody want to enlighten me and my readers?
Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.67

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Single Player Half-Life 2 mod. I can’t tell you anything else, there’s nothing in the file, no readme nothing, except two maps. What do you know about it?
Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

About
This is a gameplay mod idea where you can jump from one player to another. Allow me to explain further. Imagine you are playing a game and in this game you never play a particular character. You can jump between any players you want to but you can’t die. If [...]

I’m Frustrated
“Why?”, I hear you cry. Well, I have wanted to learn to map and create mods for a long time but I finding good resources is proving impossible. “But there are plenty of websites that cover tutorials etc!”. Yes, you are right but it’s not quantity that matters but quality. I’m [...]

About
This a small single player map for Half-life 2 in a nighttime setting. There are indoor and outdoor environments with default textures and background music.
Reader RecommendationsCurrently there are no recommendations

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“It is based in a house that you mysteriously wake up in..and the apparent owner of the house has a little sinister game for you…the puzzles in this map are quite hard (There are clues lying around, but you need to look carefully!) and the best of it is…you only have 30 (Real life mins) [...]

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This is an abandoned level that deserves more attention. You should note that there are some textures missing and a few other minor issues but it was only ever released as a beta anyway.
Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 4.5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.25

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A single player Half-Life 2 map that doesn’t have a story or a real ending. When you reach the wall that says “You Win”, guess what? You’ve won!
Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

About
A couple of single player Half-Life 2 maps. The setting is industrial without a Combine soldier in sight, you get Headcrads and Zombies, though! There’s only a few weapons and very little ammo.
Reader Recommendations7 recommendations, average score: 3.14 (out of 5), standard deviation: 2.98

About
I have an idea that’s not fully formed but I want to present it to you now, so please bear with me while I try to explain it. I want to say that it probably isn’t feasible until the A.I. of the enemy becomes much better and doesn’t need paths and lots of [...]

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A single player level for Half-Life 2.
Your mission is to infiltrate a Combine lab. in a city.
It’s the author’s first single player level.
Reader Recommendations4 recommendations, average score: 2.5 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.25

Introduction
The introduction of Steam and episodic content has changed the way we buy games and I thought I�d take a quick look at some financial models within the gaming industry and see whether they would work for FPS games.

Introduction
There�s something different about listening to music on a radio rather than a normal system. I�m not talking about the sound produced but the psychology behind it. The fact that somebody else is choosing the music for you, the fact that maybe you will be introduced to something new that perhaps you wouldn�t [...]

About
This map for Half-life 2 is a puzzle/obstacle course style map. The goal is to reach the top and find the secrets to allow you to do so along the way.
Author’s Comments
This is an obstacle course type map. You start out on the bottom floor trying to get to the top. There are different puzzles [...]

About
This is a short single player map for Half-life 2.
Author’s Comments
Hello this is my first map ever. Please give me feedback on what I need to improve on in the future. Thanks. My email: herr_matt@web.de
Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 1.33 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.22

About
First Light is a stylish action-oriented survival-horror with an unending wave of dark zombies. Developed for the Source engine, First Light features a four-player co-op mode.
Requirements
This game is for PC only. You must have the full version of Half-Life 2 installed on your computer to play this game.
Reader RecommendationsCurrently there are no [...]

Author’s Note
Experimental Fuel is a map I made for a HL2World.com mapping competition. The challenge was to design a rocket launch. It was a nice project to work on and allowed for some creativity.
Reader Recommendations6 recommendations, average score: 4.17 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.81

Introduction
It seems that the quality of readme.txt files has become quite bad. Sometimes a zipped map file doesn’t even contain one!
The Catalyst Email
Dougjp recently sent me an email which discusses the read me files in map downloads. He’s a quote:
“This was brought to light recently with a HL2 map which could not be [...]

Author’s Note
The idea is simple, you are an assassin and you will need to complete certain missions. The missions will come to you via email or post. At least in this first part. When you’ve read your briefing, you can start your mission.
Not all information is given in the email or post, you will receive [...]

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You start in the future and have to travel back in time to stop Dr. Slcik from doing something.
I’m not exactly sure what!
Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.67

Introduction
I have recently been considering learning how to map and it has caused me to think about exactly what type of maps and levels I want to create. Questions like “why exactly do I want to map? Who will the map be for, me or other players?”

The very first poll question was suggested by PasserbywhoplaysHL. His question: “Have you Crowbarred Barney for his ammo?”

The question may reveal a number of things about you but I’m no psychologist. Here’s my interpretation:

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Author’s Note:“What is Half-Life: Uplink Extended? Well, it is my personal remake of the original Uplink, also known as the Half-Life Demo. I did this remake because i really enjoy the original Uplink. First: it is the first “Half-Life” i’ve ever played. Second: I just love the atmosphere and its simple storyline.”
Reader Recommendations8 recommendations, [...]

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Officer Freeman is sent in to find a madman.
This is the updated version.
Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

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Author’s Note: “A small map where Gordon vs. Combine. It’s my first ever hl2 map so be nice. I know it’s been done loads of times but I am only testing it. You get the shotgun first, and the jeep. It’s quite hard really”
Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 2.33 (out of 5), standard deviation: 3.56

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Author’s Note:“This map has a long history behind it. I started this map on the 10 of October 2005 and I finished it just a bit after then. I went on holiday to Turkey with the rest of my family where I worked on the A.P.C.s on the bridge (you’ll know the bit I mean [...]

Introduction
I believe webmasters of websites that focus on or at least contain content relating to Single Player FPS games should form a new network. We are both competitors and allies. We compete for viewer’s attention and time but also support each other through the dissemination of information.

You have 50% health and 50% ammo. In front of you the enemy is rushing towards you.

There is health to your left and ammo to your right but you only have enough time to collect one before you will be engaged by the said enemy.

Which do you collect; Health or Ammo?

Author’s Note:
“Remember the single player map “5 Ways to Die” for the original Half Life?! Well, I decided to make one for Half Life 2. Like this one? 10waystodie is in the making!”
Reader Recommendations4 recommendations, average score: 3.25 (out of 5), standard deviation: 3.19

October 2007 Update
This will be rewritten as one of a collection of basic Guides for new players.
About
I have decided to create a small playing guide for new players to Single Player games. It was born out of playing a recent Half-Life 2 map where the Combine Gunship kept shooting down my rockets. [...]

Introduction
This is just a compilation of unusual facts and Easter eggs that I�ve researched about Half-Life. Some Half-Life fans will possibly already know of these, but I found myself surprised by quite a few.
This article was written by Sebastian AKA shungokusatsu.

Author’s Note
“While travelling through the headcrab kingdom, Gordon suddenly realised that he nearly lost one dimension! And while being trapped in this strange world made out of odd blocks and with really weird physical properties, Gordon needs to make his way through packs of headcrabs and reach an oddly scaled castle, which is his primary [...]

You reach a point in a game where you have to choose between two paths.

The paths do not cross and there is no way to replay either path.

Perhaps the game is a Single Player Online game, meaning you cannot just load from a save point.

Introduction
Thinking about Poll Question 3 got me thinking how a game designer could control the consequences of a player’s choice. Specifically, when a player chooses a particular path what’s to stop them from saving just before the choice and then going back later and taking the other path?

Introduction
I’m not a big fan of the episodic content release concept. I understand the so-called benefits but think too many people are jumping on the bandwagon. A nice comparison is that of a magazine and a book.

Introduction
I was watching television a few days ago, which is very unusual for me, and I was fortunate to see a short clip about Alfred Hitchcock. I started watching in the middle of the clip but he was explaining how mixing different shots produced different results.

Introduction
I present three people who I believe would have made excellent game and/or levels designers. I’ve tried to briefly explain why and hopefully you agree.

Leonardo Di Vinci
Leonardo Di Vinci was a genius. Accomplished in many, many arts, he was a man before his time. He would have certainly seen the [...]

Introduction
I started playing Star Trek Elite Force 2 and whilst it�s not a bad game it�s not as good as the first one. This got me thinking �How often has a sequel equaled or bettered the original?�

Author’s Note
“The second map from the “…waystodie” series. Not really expecting to make a third, but that would be excellent, if I hadn’t rattled my brain trying to come up with new things for this map. But here’s the second in the series, I guess it’s sort of also a take on “5MoreWaysToDie” [...]

There’s no doubt that game graphics have improved tremendously over the last few years, the same seems to be happening with game physics.

Unfortunately, game A.I. is lagging behind.

I’m sure things will improve but who knows when?

Introduction
I need to buy a new graphics card and I want to buy a physics card. Probably the same is true for many of you. Well maybe the day will come when you need to buy an A.I. card!

Author’s Note
“This is the first level to a three part trilogy. You start out in my part of the map once you get into the other house you are in the part Nubblecakes did but we take no credit in the outdoor area. That part of the map was made by Valve….well the [...]

About
If there is a story to this mod then I don’t know about it.
The title suggests one thing but the mod itself suggests another.
Reader Recommendations4 recommendations, average score: 3.25 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.19

Weapons are a curious thing. We all have our favorite and will fight and argue to the death to defend our choice.

In fact they can make or break a game. Weapons can be broken down into two types: Conventional Weapons (shotgun, pistol, machine gun, grenades etc) and Sci- Fi Weapons (Gluon guns, Hivehands, pulse rifles etc.

So, this weeks poll question is simple; which do you prefer?

The mod takes place on a previously abandoned cliffside prison. The combine have moved in and are re-using the prison as a place to hold rebel leaders. Gordon is required to infiltrate, free the Rebel leader and escape from the facility.

About
A hazard course specifically designed to use the Zero Point Manipulator (Gravity Gun). The player will face three challenges, the last one a timed challenge. Don’t expect any easy course, because it’s not.
Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

About
I’m nearly finished play Star Trek Elite Force 2 and at the end of each level, the image to the right appears just before you exit. It sounds good in principle but the designers didn’t really think it through.

With the recent release of Rock 24 I thought PP readers might like to hear what the two developers had to say about designing the mod. Below you will find a brief interview with Henley Bailey & Richard Acherki.

About
This is a REALLY useful gameplay mod I found recently for Half-Life 2. It allows you to rotate an object that you have picked up with the gravity gun. Simply press the USE key and move the mouse. Installation is as easy as placing the extracted folder in your Sourcemod folder and [...]

Introduction
I’ve played, or should I say, started to play, a few 3rd person shooters. Splinter Cell Demo (I think), Metal Gear Solid (Again, I think. That’s the the Snake guy, right?) and maybe a few others, but I hated them. Seriously, I really disliked them.

The types of enemies we face are very important. If they are too difficult, then it spoils the game, too easy and it makes the game boring.

They have to fit with the overall theme of the game and they need to be varied. There are essentially two types of enemy: umanoid (Bipedal – Two legs, standing upright) and Non-Humanoid (Everything else! Headcrabs, Antlions etc).

This weeks questions is simple: Which do you prefer to play against?

About
Due to my HDD and subsequent re-format I don’t have any games installed, so I can’t play it for more screenshots or to guess a storyline. Obvioulsy the title is French but I didn’t want to separate the words because that is how it was found.
Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 3.5 (out of 5), standard [...]

Author’s Note
“Ok, I’m back, here’s map i threw together this weekend, no enemies, no real purpose other than showing off some texture work i did. This map isn’t meant to be for general gameplay, and as such doesn’t contain ANY AI.
Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

About
Your software development firm has been awarded a contract from a top-secret organization to assist them in the development of a classified software application. Upon being awarded the contract you catch a flight to go meet with the directors at their new office complex over the weekend.
On arrival you are informed that the office [...]

There are a few different types of puzzles used in FPS games but the most obvious are Jumping, Logistical (Press this button, get the power supply etc.) and Physics.

Now, having to choose one is difficult because it depends on the implementation.

PLEASE NOTE: The map is for illustration purposes only. I’m not asking if you prefer THIS map.

Introduction
Welcome to this introduction to Models, Skins and Animation. I am Thomas �Editor321� Rogers and I will be walking you through this helpful starter guide for those who have just discovered the world of custom content.

About
This model pack contains various replacement models for Half-Life. An easy and interesting way to update you game. For an easy to read introductory guide to models please see: Editor321’s Introduction Guide to Models, Skins and Animation.
Reader Recommendations6 recommendations, average score: 3.33 (out of 5), standard deviation: 2.89

Introduction
Whilst writing another post due later this week, I was thinking how cool it would be if you could completely blur the line between a movie and a game. Now I know this is a constant topic among game designers but give me a chance. This is just a concept, not a concrete [...]

About
This warehouse by the waterfront was obviously a storage area for container crates and of miscellaneous storage crap before the infestation now it has been converted into a stronghold by resisters, plentiful in ammo and weapons. It�s quite easy to hide from the hordes here, but in doing so you run the risk of [...]

introduction
Throughout the world many millions of children will be writing letters to Santa Claus, listing the present they want, well here is my wish list for gaming in 2007.
Can you guess what they are?

Introduction
I recently came across a mapper called Captain Amerika who has been making base maps for FarCry. What are base maps you ask? Well read on to find out!

Author’s Note
“This level was created as coursework for my Games Engines & Physics module at Staffordshire University as part of my Computer Games Design degree. The brief was to create a level in the source engine (we had created a level in the Unreal engine in the first semester) based around Staffordshire University, Beaconside campus. [...]

About
This is a single player half life 2 map. It does not support HDR. This map includes an autosave system, so if you ever get stuck, just load up the most recent auto save. The map consists mainly of puzzles, although you will probably be shot at.
Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 3 (out [...]

Introduction
PS3, Halo 3 and Gears of War have been in the news a LOT recently and now that wii has been released we will no doubt be urinated on with more coverage. (that’s a small play on words there in case you missed it!). Anyway, I don’t own a console for a number [...]

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Here’s a quick story outline for a Half-Life 2 mod. It’s not the deepest or most imaginative story or setting but it might provide some fun and interesting gameplay.

I’m an only child. This means I have no brothers or sisters.

I developed the ability to play on my own. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons I play SP games, who knows.

One aspect that was introduced into Half-Life 2 that I didn’t like was the Squad feature. I recognize that having a squad around you varies the style of gameplay but I prefer to play alone.

About
From the screenshots this one looks like a few rooms and a lot of zombies.
Enjoy!
Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 4.33 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.89

About
DayHard is a single player adventure set before the events narrated in Half-Life 2. You play as Gordon’s brother, Morgan Freeman. He’s not timid like Gordon: he’s able to talk to people, and even to make comments on the situation! Unbelievable, huh? What’s the story? Well, let’s just say that one day Morgan [...]

This week’s poll moves away from the recent trend of discussing the actual gameplay and instead tries to find out exactly what game you are most anticipating for 2007.

As with all polls the answers are nearly always “It depends!”. and this one is no different.

Imagine, for whatever reason, you can only buy one FPS game next year, which one would it be?

About
A simple map that allows you to spawn enemies etc. Not exactly the most exciting mapo in the world but I’m sure some readers will enjoy it.
Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.67

Introduction
With 2007 only a few days away I present 7 questions that I hope to be answered next year. I probably could have written 70 questions but that would have been a very long, and probably boring, article! Read on to see if your burning questions are included. AT the bottom [...]

About
“You are the Corporal Daniel Shephard, trying to escape an infested research facility with aliens and black ops. Stress on “black ops” yeah, there are a ****-load of them. You control Adrian’s brother! for more information read the readme file (if you understand japanese that is.)”
Well, that could be a brief description of what [...]

Author’s Note
“Outpost Xen is a small single-player campaign mod for Half-life 2. You are a nameless person who has awoken to find the Xen Outpost empty after everyone has already evacuated leaving you behind. Vortigaunts lurk the hallways of the Outpost and there is no sign of any friendly life. Luckily, there is a person [...]

Author’s Note
“Well I love night of a million zombies so damn much I thought id make a quick map called “Day of a million soldiers” which takes place in a little maze like or like fy_iceworld style. Ill admit it, I didn’t put a lot of work into it at all but I did learn [...]

About
Here’s my entry for the HL2Files.com contest. I may write more depending on how much time I have. If you like it be sure to vote for it, once the voting starts.
VOTE NOW!
Gordon Freeman’s Blog
The ramblings of an under-appreciated scientist!

After last weeks very successful poll I thought I would continue the theme of “Most Anticipated..”. This week we have Mods. Now a quick look at Moddb.com’s filtered list shows a lot of mods, so I had to make a choice about which ones to list. If you feel I missed one you can add your on choice in the comments. Below is a small selection of what I think are interesting mods.

About
This is the sequel to one of the best known Half-Life mods. It continues the original storyline. If this mod is new to you (What aprt of MArs were you on?) you can find the original here: Poke 646.
Reader Recommendations32 recommendations, average score: 4.75 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.25

About
My second entry for the HL2Files.com contest. You can visit that page and see the other articles. You can’t vote for this one yet because it hasn’t been added.

Author’s Note
“This is a little something that I made the weekend before Christmas Day. It’s short and sweet. If you liked playing H-L 2 then you’ll like this map.”
Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 3 (out of 5), standard deviation: 2

I’ve decided to use this question as poll Question 11. Not because I couldn’t think of anything else but because I thought it deserved a wider audience. So, the question is 1 Great or 3 Average?

Introduction
This article will look at reviews. All I want to do is explore some questions, I will not be telling you how to write reviews because I am not qualified to do that. The purpose of this article is to be the catalyst to a deeper discussion. I don’t intend to provide answers, just ask [...]