6/26/2023 0 Comments Half life opposing force modWanted! is a great game in itself, but its biggest legacy is its loads of custom GoldSrc scripts that future modders could use to slowly branch out from just using Half-Life assets. #3 Wanted! was another total conversion mod, this time set in a spaghetti western frontier and starring a sheriff chasing after a gang of bandits who just ransacked his town. They Hunger set the bar for every mod to come afterward by showing just what the GoldSrc engine was capable of. Almost all the environmental assets were custom-made and it featured custom voice-acting, music, and enemies including zombified farm animals. Starring a writer surviving the zombie apocalypse in a lonely countryside town, They Hunger does for John Romero-style zombie horror what Half-Life itself did for laboratory-catastrophe horror. #2: They Hunger was one of the largest and most ambitious Half-Life mods ever made, and my personal favorite on this list. ![]() Since Half-Life itself has like, no girls whatsoever, you would find this model all over the place back in the day, wearing all sorts of different outfits. See, for whatever reason, the developer felt the need to add a military brothel that the player briefly travels through, and that custom-model became THE base for so many female characters in other mods. It was one of the earliest Half-Life mods, came out in 2000, and it had one of those classic half-baked fangame plots about being an alien trying to kill Einstein…but none of that mattered 95% of the gameplay was just using Half-Life assets to make Black Mesa rooms in your average military base, and the only real “legacy” this mod has is…this naked chick. OK on second thought, you probably can skip playing this one. If you have to pay money for it, it isn’t a mod. So no Counter-Strike or Team Fortress Classic. Quick Disclaimer: This list is only interested in mods, not retail spinoffs. A few of them are super famous, and if it made this list, it’s because I think you should go play it. Valve did a decent job of releasing new content for us all to play, such as Blue Shift and Opposing Force, but the real heroes were the modders who filled the voids with hundreds of standalone fangames of every conceivable length and quality. Half-Life was a great game, had a huge impact on the shooter genre and everybody who grew up back then loved this game, myself included.
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