Readers' Recommendations

Releases that readers have recommended others play.

En Route 66

for Half-Life

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

Jose Reynolds, a journalist, for the “Santa Fe Times” in New Mexico, obtains interesting information from his sources, that a few hours ago, not far from “Route 66”, strange animals were found dead.

Without hesitation, he left the office and hit the road, riding the highway, and after some time came across one of these…

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Total Downloads: 3,59129th October 2011
30 Comments and 9 recommendations with no significant bias

Sickening Sanity

for Half-Life 2

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

Sickening Sanity takes place in the sleepy town of Stillbury.

As government forces suddenly take up position around the abandoned Stillbury Hospital, you, as an unnamed protagonist, decide to investigate the matter further.

Can you survive the ancient horrors that stir in the bowels of the old building?

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Total Downloads: 2,2081st November 2009
18 Comments and 9 recommendations with no significant bias

HMS Defiance

for Half-Life 2

About In 1942, the prototype battleship, the HMS Defiance, went mysteriously missing without a trace. It is now 2018 and the HMS Defiance has been located and an expedition cruiser sent. Reader Recommendations Avoid It! Think Twice Maybe Play It Later Play It Now! 9 recommendations, average score: 3.33 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.33… Read More

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Total Downloads: 90426th June 2007
14 Comments and 9 recommendations, most say "Maybe?"

The Tram Complex

Here is the second mapping challenge in the Mesa Cup.

The release contains 4 entries.

For this challenge, entrants needed to make a tram the main conceptual element of their entry. There was no actual requirement for the player to use the tram though.

For full details of the announcement, please see the original theme announcement.

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Total Downloads: 1,73428th August 2018
14 Comments and 6 recommendations, 3 say "Maybe?"

The Crate Factory

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 map is a Guildhall scripting project, where the player controls a crane and must kill some metrocops and free some rebels.

The crane allows you to pick and drop exploding barrels, and accurately position the drop via a mini screen on the crane control deck

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Total Downloads: 97613th February 2010
18 Comments and 6 recommendations, 3 say "Maybe?"

Outpost

for Half-Life

Story Most of this is said at the beginning of the level anyway, but the terrorists are at it again. This time they’ve stolen the one of careless yanks hi-tech spy jets and you, Steve Hunt, have been called in to sort it out again (I know Hunt works for Mi5, but you don’t think… Read More

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Total Downloads: 1,00525th February 2006
13 Comments and 6 recommendations, 1 say "Play It Now!"

Aftermath

for Half-Life

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

Aftermath casts you as a survivor in a post apocalypse wasteland.

As it starts you’ve stumbled on the, seemingly deserted, remains of an outpost of some sort.

Do what you can to survive and move on.

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Total Downloads: 1,7498th August 2011
18 Comments and 13 recommendations with no significant bias

Vengeance

for Half-Life

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

At the end of Half-Life, you had the choice to work for the GMan or to take a little lethal trip with some really nasty travel companions. After all you had done since the first accident in the test lab of the Black Mesa complex you really didn’t want to die now in some stupid way so you accepted the proposal, hoping secretly that you would have another occasion to screw up this strange man with his little briefcase.

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Total Downloads: 2,7382nd August 2011
32 Comments and 20 recommendations, 8 say "Maybe?"