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Releases that readers have recommended others play.

Beast

for Half-Life

Your problem: a gonarch. But direct confrontation is not an option. This interesting set of 7 maps lets you puzzle and fight through your mission to make it out alive with the trapped scientist.

The goal is to destroy a monster (Big Momma/Gonarch). Mission is complete if you escape on the train with the scientist alive.

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Total Downloads: 1,3576th February 2021
24 Comments and 10 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

Tunnel Vision

for Half-Life

A pack of seven maps spanning various areas of the Black Mesa Research Facility. Made for TWHL competition 35, Half-Life 20th Anniversary: Vanilla Half-Life.

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Total Downloads: 1,7043rd May 2020
13 Comments and 10 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

The Returning

for Half-Life

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

In this 15-map mappack, you get to revisit the Black Mesa Research Facility.

Of course, nothing goes the way you expect it – that is if you expect it to go smoothly!

You will need to fight your way through and solve puzzles along the way to reach the waiting helicopter.

Are you smart and determined enough? Let’s find out.

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Total Downloads: 4,4408th July 2014
21 Comments and 10 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

Communications Detour

The military has hindered your progress by shutting down a communications array on the far side of the facility.

You need to power up the communications tower in order to re-establish a communication link with the scientists held up in the Lambda Complex.

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Total Downloads: 1,72128th November 2015
6 Comments and 5 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

Assault On A Strider Base

for Half-Life 2

About A 4 level Half-Life 2 mission pack. In this level your goal is to travel with the airboat up river and deliver a message to friendly forces. Along the way you need to destroy oil tanks on the beach. The resulting commotion should distract the Combine and aid in the assault. Reader Recommendations Avoid… Read More

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Total Downloads: 018th September 2005
20 Comments and 5 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

Todesangst 2

for Half-Life

In the original Todesangst we learn about Dr. Jack Newell and his horrifyingly successful endeavors to merge Xen and human life. Freeman and Joe, a courageous member of the Black Mesa security force, hunt down Dr. Newell and eventually succeed in smashing his biological engineering plots.

The scheming doctor ironically meets his doom via his own creation, the “molecular transmutator” transforming him into a vicious Xenantromorph. Fade to black – roll the credits – end of story . . .or so we thought!

Dr. Newell was the genius mind behind the experimentation and development of the Xenanthromorph program but the true power behind the clandestine research was a multi-national anarchistic group called Schwarzgeist. The Schwarzgeist had managed to put their personnel in key scientific positions within Black Mesa since its construction.

They managed to keep their identity secret until an inadvertent exposure during the resonance cascade disaster and ensuing containment revealed their…

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Total Downloads: 1,2821st January 1998
12 Comments and 5 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

Black Ops

for Half-Life

About

The player slips into the role of agent Declan Walker, member of the Black Operations, a special-purpose force for covered operations, created by the government, approximately around the project Black Mesa. In the fictitious metropolis “Metro City” will make you hunt on the escaped scientist Dr. Gallagher, who stole a mysterious briefcase, which the government wants to have back at any price. But the good doctor has relations and so it succeeds him to escape one more time…

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Total Downloads: 4,29219th October 2005
131 Comments and 24 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

AmbushVille

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

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

This is the first mod in the 3×10 Mapping Competition Series.

Mapper were tasked with creating an ambush scene.

“The winning map will be the one that sets up the ambush in the best way, paying attention to the atmosphere, the surprise and the general gameplay. If a map sets up the ambush beautifully but is then boring to play, it won’t win.

Attention to detail is very important in this competition. I would much prefer smaller but highly polished maps than larger, less polished maps.”

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Total Downloads: 4,92529th October 2013
41 Comments and 19 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"

CrossbowVille

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Well, here it is. The entries from the CrossbowVille mapping Competition.

The objective was to create an interesting release that used the Crossbow as the main weapon.

The mod contains 3 entries, with varying styles.

I would like to thank the competition’s sponsors; SteamContests.Com and Tt Esports.com and of course, the modders who entered.

Enjoy!

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Total Downloads: 6,56814th January 2012
51 Comments and 19 recommendations, most say "Play It Now!"