Content Guide

This guide will explain the type of content found on PlanetPhillip.

The site’s content is focused on single player maps and mods for the Half-Life series of FPS games. It also contains my commentary on gaming and ideas for gameplay and other game related topics, interviews with mod makers, mod stories, weekly poll questions, walkthroughs etc.

The site has the best collection of single player first person shooter maps and mods for Half-Life 1 and 2, Episode 1 and 2, Blue Shift, Opposing Force, Chaser and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. These games are actively updated when new maps or mods are released.

You will also find plenty of maps and mods for Doom 3, Doom 3 ROE, F.E.A.R., FarCry, Prey, Quake 4 and System Shock 2. I stopped updating and adding new releases for these games in November 2007, therefore they should be considered archived games.

Other games may be added in the future, perhaps Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2. Portal and Crysis maps will not be added partly because there are already other great sites listing them.

The criteria is simple: Did I really enjoy the game? If yes, and there are SP maps and mods released then I may add them to the site.

There are no portal maps listed on the site mainly because I didn’t particularly like the gameplay the game offers. There are plenty of other sites that list maps and they can be found on my Links page.

This category contains posts that do not fit into the other main categories.

• About
  Information about the site, include Commenting Guidelines, FAQ, details about Reader Reviews etc.
• Phillip’s Blog
  I have an opinion on almost everything and I am not afraid to express it.
• Interviews
  A collection of interviews with single player FPS mappers and mod teams.
• Learning Center
  Clearly written guides, designed to help new players install mods, use the console etc. This is the main site objective for the first half of 2008.
• Mod Stories
  My stories, specifically written for mods, mostly within the Half-Life universe.
• Site Help Center
  A collection of guides designed to help new visitors to the site.
• Poll Questions
  As the name suggest this category contains all the Poll Questions.
• Walkthroughs
  A growing selection of text and images, and video walkthroughs. Some videos contain language that readers may find offensive.

Whilst not exactly content, the forum does contain interesting discussions about gaming topics. Why not visit and join in the chat?

In November 2007 I completely reevaluated my motivation for running the website. It became clear that I was spending a lot of time adding mods for games I was not interested in. I therefore decided to do three things:

• 1: Remove a significant amount of maps and mods . A lot of these entries were almost empty anyway and contained no useful information except the title!
• 2: To keep the games that I had an excellent collection of maps and mods for. These games are considered Archived. This means I no longer update those games with new maps or mods but I keep them for reference only. I
• 3: To put all my effort into Half-Life games. This means better coverage of the SP gaming world and more detailed entries for each map or mod.

Full details can be found here: Content Transition Notice

This page was last updated on Tuesday 08 April 2008