Archives for April 2006

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

About 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: hl1-sp-the-lounge.7z Original File Name: lounge.zip Size : 88.0Kb [...]

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 features. The [...]

About This mod is based on powerful Half-Life engine with many additions and changes! Thanks to Zhouy for suppyling the screenshots. Reader Recommendations4 recommendations, average score: 2 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.5

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 [...]

About This singleplayer map takes place in a recently discovered (and well preserved) ancient underground city somewhere in the Andes mountains. Reader RecommendationsCurrently there are no recommendations

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 is a huge [...]

About 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: hl1-sp-chicken-mix-2.7z Original File Name: chickenmix2.zip Size : 2.51Mb Author: Chicken Fist Date Released: 01 october 2005 PlanetPhillip Download Servers PlanetPhillip.Com Reader Recommendations6 recommendations, average score: 2.5 (out of 5), [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 scientist. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

Basic Details Title: Scientist Slaughterhouse File Name: hl1-sp-scientist-slaughterhouse.7z Original File Name: ssh10.exe Size : 15.1Mb Author: Denix Linelli Date Released: 01 January 1998 PlanetPhillip Download Servers PlanetPhillip.Com (includes tfc.wad and tfc2.wad) Reader Recommendations5 recommendations, average score: 3.4 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.84

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 named Xonxt. [...]

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 [...]

Basic Details Title: War Mod File Name: war-install.zip Size : 18.6Mb Author: Adama Magiery Date Released: 01 June 2003 Download: PlanetPhillip Filecloud Server Reader Recommendations3 recommendations, average score: 4.33 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.22

Update Retribution was never released but a demo level was. You can download it here: Retribution 2 demo. (It’s 5.01Mb) 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 be a totally [...]

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. Multiplayer I don’t [...]

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 thinking about “What exactly makes or defines a good SP Player?