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Deathmatch Classic – A free, official Half-Life mod by Valve that updates the multiplayer gameplay from id Software's Quake, featuring enhanced textures, models, and lighting. [4] It was released on June 7, 2001, [5] and included in an update to Half-Life a month later. [6] OS X and Linux ports of the Windows game were released through Steam ...
Minerva is an episodic series of single-player modifications ("mods") for Valve's Half-Life 2. The mod was created by Adam Foster. The plot and settings of Minerva are linked to Someplace Else, Foster's original map for Half-Life, and to Half-Life 2. The mod was released on Steam on April 30, 2013. [4] [5]
Black Mesa - A third-party recreation of Half-Life (1998) that was made in response to the release of Half-Life: Source (2004), a port of the original game to the Source engine. [2] Black Mesa originally released as a free mod in September 2012, and later had a full commercial release on Steam in March 2020. [3] [4]
As developing Half-Life 2 and the original Source engine simultaneously had created problems, Valve delayed development of a new Half-Life until Source 2 was complete. [ 28 ] In 2017, the Half-Life writer, Marc Laidlaw , released a short story that journalists speculated was a summary of the Episode Three plot. [ 26 ]
Episode Three was to be the last in a trilogy of episodic games that would continue the story of the 2004 first-person shooter game Half-Life 2. [1] Episode One was released in 2006, followed by Episode Two in 2007. [2] [3] Valve's president, Gabe Newell, said he considered the trilogy the equivalent of Half-Life 3. [4]
Valve announced Half-Life 2 at E3 2003 with a release date of September of that year. They failed to meet the release date, leading to fan backlash. In October, the unfinished source code was published online, leading to more backlash and damage to the team's morale. Half-Life 2 was released on Steam on
Half-Life 2: Episode Three: announced in 2006 with a release date of late 2007, and was put on hold, possibly cancelled due to scope creep, unsatisfactory internal experiments, and the desire to develop the Source 2 engine first. [141] Untitled Half-Life 2 episode: developed by Junction Point Studios and led by Warren Spector.
Half-Life: 2000 April 12 (as Wasteland Half-Life) 3 June 2003 (as The Wastes) 2018 April 12 Began as a modification for the game Half-Life titled Wasteland Half-Life created in the year 2000. The mod would change the name to The Wastes sometime in the year 2002. Wings of Dawn: Freespace 2: 2015 April 8 [69] World of Padman: Quake III Arena ...