Black Mesa mod for Source Engine finally released

After years of waiting, Black Mesa Source has finally been released. Black Mesa is a mod for the Source Engine, which aims to recreate the entirety of the original Half-Life. The game is available for download on the official website, and will eventually be available on Steam as it was one of the ten games to be greenlit through Steam Greenlight.Those familiar with the original Half-Life will notice that the Xen epilogue levels aren’t included in the first release. This is because the first release is only up till the Lambda Core and gives a complete 8 to 10 hour experience with a solid ending. The team is still working on its own interpretation of the Xen levels and Black Mesa Deathmatch, which would give the players access to the weapons from the original Half-Life in a deathmatch game mode made in the Source engine. The main reason the team is redoing the Xen levels is because the levels in the original game were panned by almost everyone for being nothing more than repetitive platforming levels, and the team behind Black Mesa Source is going to remake the entire Xen segments and give them a larger part in the story of the game.

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