Archives for April 2009

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

Regular readers will know that I never replay mods. Although that may be about to change. There’s been such a dearth of good mods lately I think I’ll try a few good ones again.

Another “first map” released on the community. Find Alyx in this short, linear map.

This is the mod author vision of what happens 6 years after Half-Life. You are up against the Combine. What more do you need to know?

Escape the prison and join your brother in the fight against the Combine.

This week’s poll question is inspired by Jason Gimba AKA Kyouryuu who commented on Dangerous World Demo that after 15 minutes of trying to get past the gate he noclipped through.

Make your way from Station 23 to Station 25, if you can.

A portfolio piece designed to explore and explain game to player communication. Don’t worry, it’s a proper playable map but it has commentary points for those that are interested.

“A SteamCard is a simple way to display your stats from the Steam Community, just like a Live! Gamercard.

A short single player map where you are sent to assassinate a Russian oligark and escape his guards.

Following on from last week’s poll, this week I ask about specific NPCs. The image above is taken from Azure Sheep, where if my memory serves me you had to protect Kate, a female security guard.

Just a simple battle between you, fast zombies and some Combine soldiers around some buildings.

Here is a short chat with Aleksandar Ivanov. The audio quality for this interview is not very goo and I apologize, something went wrong with my soundcard/driver installation. I spent at least two hours working with the various files and using different applications to get the interview listenable, nearly drove me crazy!

Enjoy

A simple “defend-the-base” type map. It has 600 Antlions!

A barn, a group of Metrocops, a small selection of weapons and and never ending supply of zombies and headcrabs. Perfect for a winter’s evening, or not!

A video review of the site changes, the poll questions, articles published, feature highlights and, of course, the maps and mods posted on the site in March 2009.

Regular readers will know that I dislike playing with squads. Mainly becasue they are more trouble than they are worth! Squad Romeo did a good job but I don’t remember any others. I am surprised that the community hasn’t made more maps with squads.

You play as Corporal Adrian Shepherd, awakened from the statis field, where you find yourself in a small deserted town called….Ravenholm!

“After many wars between the humans and the Combine most of the technology is destroyed so people and Combine join forces against the only unaffected enemy – the undead. Of course not everyone is so happy about having the combine as a friends and you are one of those people.Your goal is to escape the prison you are thrown in and make your way to the freedom.”

Gordon Freeman has been captured and taken to a Combine facility just outside of Nova Prospekt. Alyx Vance recovers the gravity-gun and gives it to Freeman (the player) which he then must use to escape the Combine facility

“Betrayal takes place after episode 2, and features Gordon and 2 rebel accomplices breaking into a Combine controlled prison. Hoping to use the mysterious re-emergence of Dr. Breen as a diversion, Gorond and his colleages attempt to rescue their imprisoned friends”

Gordon Freeman is trying to help liberate City 16. He’s heading down the stairs to fight, but he’s going to have a nasty surprise. He’s trapped, and has to use his skills to try to help the citizens of City 16 without leaving the building.