Post by Dan @ 02:26pm 01/12/08 | 15 Comments
Black Mesa (formerly Black Mesa: Source) is a Half-Life 2 total conversion remaking VALVe Software's award-winning PC game, Half-Life. Utilizing the Source engine, Black Mesa will reintroduce the player as Doctor Gordon Freeman, along with the original cast of memorable characters and environments seen in Half-Life. Black Mesa was built and founded on the basis that Half-Life: Source was inadequate as the Source engine port of Half-Life, regardless of the intentions of VALVe Software. As such, Black Mesa was founded to fully reconstruct the Half-Life universe utilizing Source to its fullest potential in terms of art detail, level sizes and code features. This total conversion will not require Half-Life: Source to play - only a copy of any Source Engine game installed on Steam.Today's trailer offers a very slick look at the mod, definitely a cut-above what you would usually expect from a project like this. Check it out right here on AusGamers.
In addition to a complete re-creation of the original Half-Life singleplayer campaign, Black Mesa intends to support full cooperative multiplayer and a deathmatch component. You can find a few more screenshots on our game page or check out the mod's official site for more specifics.
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Posted 02:42pm 01/12/08
Posted 02:52pm 01/12/08
last edited by Phooks at 14:52:28 01/Dec/08
Posted 03:03pm 01/12/08
Posted 03:33pm 01/12/08
Posted 03:39pm 01/12/08
Posted 03:44pm 01/12/08
Half-Life had so many really good/popular mods cs,dod, natural selection etc. Without CS half life would have died a long time ago, valve would be crazy to not help mods along.
Posted 03:47pm 01/12/08
Plus valve are awesome and this will only aid their image.
Posted 03:48pm 01/12/08
Posted 03:59pm 01/12/08
Still, as Frakture said, this mod is definitely high-profile and Valve must be aware of it, so if it hasn't been canned yet, it's probably safe.
Posted 04:16pm 01/12/08
Posted 04:21pm 01/12/08
Yeah companies often go bats*** crazy over IP even if the game costs next to nothing. Some attitudes are better than others but generally it's good to clear it up before a mod is started! A mod I was working on with a group a while back got axed by Bullfrog's lawyers.
Posted 04:36pm 01/12/08
That wasn't my point. Things like Counter-Strike were original IPs when they came out. They weren't infringing on anything. What I was saying is that Half-Life is still being sold (for more than 98c now), and this group will be giving away their IP for free.
If Valve have already contacted them about, asking nothing more of them than removing the word "Source" from the title, then it seems like they're fine with it, but as Dan said, other mods have been hit with a cease and desist for a lot less. That's all I was saying.
Posted 08:42pm 01/12/08
this game is free? if you have ANY steam game?
Posted 08:43pm 01/12/08
Posted 08:47pm 01/12/08