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One night, Gordon Freeman was going home from work. It was late at night and he was in a hurry. The car’s engine purred quietly and inside was pretty comfortable.

Beyond the car’s window was a cold, cold night and black mountains against a dark sky could be seen in the background.One night, Gordon Freeman was going home from work. It was late at night and he was in a hurry. The car’s engine purred quietly noise and inside was pretty comfortable.

Beyond the car’s window was a cold, cold night. Black mountains against a dark sky could be seen in the background.

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

You start in a cave and have some buttons to press and enemies to kill.

It’s a simple map, with a simple layout and a simple ending.

Kill the enemies and press the buttons.

Even a simpleton could do it.

You are sent to Phobos IV which has a deadly virus.

Fortunately, there is an antidote. Less fortuantely, creatures from Xen have taken control of the base.

Follow the on screen instructions and use you ammo VERY carefully.

Starting with a black sequence, it’s clear you were in some medical distress.

Fortunately, the HEV did what it was supposed to do: protect and heal you.

Waking up being guarded by Assassins, seems the least of your troubles.

Pick up the crooked crowbar, go about your usual day: creating mayhem and destruction!

This is the beta release of an unfinished mod. Since this will never be finished, Adam gave permission for it to be released.

There are only two maps and the second one is just two small areas.

My original post had many more screenshots, including outdoor areas with trains, but these are absent from the released files.

A set of maps, including a training room, which lead you through a variety of locations.

You need to reach the bomb – I don’t know if you must disarm it or set it off.

Anyway, things don’t end well – do they ever?

You start in what looks like Black Mesa but things get a little strange after that.

Your objective is to stay alive and reach the Hall of Mirrors doorway seen in the last screenshot.

Good luck

Finding yourself within the catacombs you decide to look for a way out (As if you had any other choice!)

The way is perilous and Indiana Jones could be around the next corner!

Don’t be afraid of the dark corners, only your fear limits you.

“The story is based on the assumption that there might be several secret entrances to the Black Mesa Facility. You are a complete stranger to this as you wander around trying to find help after a car accident (this is at the same time as Gordon Freeman tries to escape from the complex). Unfortunately you run up against some marines sent to guard one of these entrances. It seems that the only way to get out of this terrible mess is to fight the grunts…..”

You are Gordon Freeman. You have accepted work from the mysterious G-Man. You thought he was interested in giving you work as a special agent, to go on secret missions and save the world! Instead, he assigns you to an office, to work through mounds of paperwork.

A top secret splinter group weapon research facility lies underground below the warehouse complex. You must fight your way through the warehouse complex and into the underground facility to collect evidence that they are creating a weapon 10,000 times more powerfull than a nuclear warhead.

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…

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

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

>>> ULN UNCODED MESSAGE
>>> SOURCE: UNITED LIBERATED NATIONS, COUNTER INFORMATION CENTER, EARTH
>>> DESTINATION: ALPHA RESEARCH BASE, PLANET ZUBBEN, LEPUS SYSTEM

>>> 00:34 07/12/2128

“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 succeed, try, try again”, have decided to do everything in their power to make Gordon’s first day at work a very very VERY bad one. As I said before, some people just never learn…”

You find yourself in a large cell. Time to break out me thinks!

Then, work your way through the prison complex and eliminate anybody that stands in your way.

Smart works more than run and gun in this place, so look around, you never know what you might see.

You find yourself on a spaceship, which seems to be researching Xen lifeforms.

Follow the clues to a spot on the ship and then ignore the sign.

At this point things turn fun!

Are you fast and smart enough to escape? Only time will tell….

“Hope you are enjoying your short rest, Mr Freeman. I trust the new apartment is to your liking. Please do not try to escape again, we are watching you.
We have received information that a squad of maverick soldiers at a military base near your previous place of employment has a small number of Xen specimens’ capture and are planning to go public with them, we cannot allow this to happen.”

There is no story or background to this 14 map collection and there levels are a quite repetitive.

The action is relentless and the difficulty ever increasing.

Can you reach Xen and the special portal?

Starting in the kitchen you need to kill everything you find and then look for the secret button to release the floor doors and enter the underground area.

That’s all there is: no story, just an excuse to shoot stuff.

Sounds fun to me!

Made for a Russian forum mapping competition, this map puts you back in Black Mesa.

You need to find your way to the army truck that can be driven to safety.

Of course, plenty of enemies and obstacles stand (and run) in your way.

Only the strong will survive. Good Luck!

You find yourself outside a building and you seemed to have swapped your scientist status for a shotgun and “Sargeant” tag.

Explore the building, if you dare, and ignore the strange visions. Chasing the ghost scientist might not always bring dividends though.

An old friend brings your nightmare to a close.

A new device was developed to stop the alien invasion. That device can disturb transporter signals, so aliens can’t beam in to attack and it is the same for humans. That means no further research in XEN. The Administrator decided to cancel the project, but some scientists blocked all entrances to the Transporter Tesearch labs to continue their work. They finished construction, but were not able to activate it. Your mission is to find that device and activate it. It is located somewhere in the New Mesa Complex. Good luck!