Archives for February 2006

• Please note that these are publication date on this site, NOT the actual release date of the maps and mods

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.

Basic Details Title: Run for life File Name: hl1-sp-run-for-life.7z Original File Name: rfl.zip Size : 2.4Mb Author: Air-dan Date Released: 04 April 2001 PlanetPhillip Download Servers PlanetPhillip.Com Reader Recommendations4 recommendations, average score: 4 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1

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…. Basic Details Title: Road [...]

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. Basic Details Title: Night Shift File Name: hl1-sp-night-shift.7z Original File Name: night_shift_beta.zip Size : 2.32Mb [...]

Basic Details Title: Episode Secret Weapon File Name: hl1-sp-episode-secret-weapon.7z Original File Name: esw.zip Size : 5.43Mb Author: Peter Kucera Date Released: 10 November 2003 Note: These images are NOT links to larger ones. Sorry! PlanetPhillip Download Servers PlanetPhillip.Com Reader Recommendations1 recommendation, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0

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 [...]

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: hl1-sp-silent-zhildor-demo.7z Original File Name: silent-zhildor-demo.rar Size : 5.57Mb Author: EIF Date Released: 31 January 2006 PlanetPhillip Download Servers PlanetPhillip.Com Reader Recommendations2 recommendations, average score: 2.5 (out of 5), [...]

About 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: hl1-sp-5-more-ways-to-die.7z Original File Name: 5-more-ways-to-die.zip Size : 891Kb Author: James Archibald AKA The Hunter Date Released: [...]

About 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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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: hl1-sp-history-can-be-changed.7z Original File Name: hcbc.zip Size : 468Kb [...]

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. Career Paths Gaming is still a relatively new industry when compared to movies [...]

About 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. [...]

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 [...]

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!

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.

About 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 [...]