It's not as bad as people remember, but this otherworldly expanse of floating platforms, bizarre alien flora, and grubby textures is a low point for the game, with frustrating low-gravity platforming and a tedious boss battle against a giant testicle. In the original Half-Life, Freeman's arrival on Xen was, for most players, something of an anticlimax. And thanks to an abundance of movable and breakable objects, and devilish traps that frequently cause explosive chain reactions, the stricken research facility has never felt more reactive, unpredictable, or dangerous.īut let's talk about Xen, because this is where Black Mesa makes its biggest statement. But Black Mesa being built on the foundations of Half-Life 2, borrowing its weapon handling and chaotic physics simulation, makes for a much more dynamic and engaging first-person shooter. Half-Life is still great, but feels increasingly stiff and dated as the years roll relentlessly on.
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But it's a fresh, modern, and lovingly made take on a landmark moment in PC gaming. Black Mesa is not a 1:1 remake, so it'll never feel as authentic as revisiting the original. However, purists may question some of developer Crowbar Collective's design and aesthetic choices-and some things are so detached from the source material that it occasionally feels like an entirely new game. So even if you know Half-Life inside out, there'll still be some surprises here. Some levels have been remixed too, with redesigned, or in some cases completely new, puzzles and set-pieces.
But everything is huger, more detailed, and more dramatic, with production values approaching Half-Life 2, which breathes new life into the Black Mesa Incident. You take the tram into work, watch in horror as the resonance cascade floods the facility with aliens, dodge headcrabs in the office complex, clash with the HECU Marines, deal with giant tentacles in the blast pit, fight through a warzone on the surface, navigate the radioactive Lambda Core, and finally visit Xen. Black Mesa sticks closely to Half-Life in terms of structure.
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