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Eye Candy – Map Labs Test Tube #8

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two


published: 2020

This Map Labs challenge focused on purely visuals – make a pretty map, gameplay optional (and did not count toward the score). This was a Test Tube, so the mappers only had about a week to pull off the best-looking map they could.

This time there were a whopping 28 entries (including a bunch of bonus maps, and adding another fantastic background map). Enjoy!

As always, if you’re interested in learning more about Map Labs and maybe even participate in their upcoming challenges, visit the Map Labs Discord.

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Total Downloads: 3,1635th July 2020
8 Comments and 5 recommendations, most say "Play It Later"

DownFall

for Half-Life 2


published: 2017

You are once more putting on the HEV suit as Gordon Freeman.

Your mission is to recover a newly developed technology by the resistance, known as the “citadel buster”, before the Combine manage to destroy it.

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Total Downloads: 5,6545th July 2017
59 Comments and 21 recommendations, most say "Personal Favourite"

Archives now include Authors!
published: 2015

From today, users of the PLAY archive pages can now view the author of almost each and every map.

Thanks goes to Jan for writing the code to make it happen, which was harder than it might have sounded because we had to extract the details from the post and put them into a custom field.

There are a few maps and mods that don’t have the details, but those are the ones that got truncated when I moved database servers, but at least it makes it easier for me to find them and then slowly update them.

I have tried to make as few changes as possible to the authors spelling but a couple of times I have made changes. For example I have change the Euro sign for an “e” in the hope that it makes it easy to find.

The Author column is sortable and filterable just like all the other columns, so finding maps by your favourite author should be easier than searching the site.

5th July 2015 3 Comments

GravityGunVille

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two


published: 2015

This mod is July’s featured mod in the The Ville Restropsective.

GravityGunVille was a mapping competition that required entrants to make maps that featured the Gravity Gun and one other weapon.

This mod contains 9 entries and most entries decided to focus more on puzzles than combat.

Let’s get straight to the point…

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Total Downloads: 3,9495th July 2015
42 Comments and 12 recommendations with no significant bias

Courage

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two


published: 2014

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

Author’s Note: “Courage is the name of a machine and a state of mind.
This mod is not strictly set in the Half-Life universe, but it can be. You don’t play as Gordon Freeman, but you can if you’d like.
You might get the wrong idea if I said it reminds me of something that’d happen if L4D2 collided with Dear Esther, so forget I said that. You get to do stuff, I promise.”

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Total Downloads: 2,0635th July 2014
13 Comments and 8 recommendations, 3 say "Maybe?"

Parallax

for Half-Life


published: 2011

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

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.

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Total Downloads: 2,8265th July 2011
27 Comments and 19 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

The Mansion 4: G-Man’s Residence

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two


published: 2009

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

Are you brave enough to explore the G-Man’s mansion? In this slightly scary mod you have to work your way through a mansion looking for keys and fighting enemies. Expect some surprises and maybe a few hidden items.

Play in the dark with the lights out to get the best effect. Unless you are too scared. Want me to call your mommy?

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Total Downloads: 1,8505th July 2009
39 Comments and 12 recommendations with no significant bias