Black Mesa

Best FPS Series in History. You can't find a single game like Half Life

If you have ever played Half-life in your childhood, that's how you remember it. It is really like a dream. This is how you make a good remake, masterpiece of a game.

AMAZING masterpice of a game.
Black Mesa is an exceptional tribute to the classic Half-Life experience, brilliantly reimagined with stunning visuals and immersive gameplay.
The story is captivating—taking players on a thrilling journey through the hazardous Black Mesa research facility as they fight to survive and uncover secrets. The atmosphere is tense and atmospheric, thanks to fantastic sound design and a mesmerizing soundtrack that keeps you on edge.

The game’s weapon variety is impressive—each gun feels satisfying to use and never feels old, adding a layer of realism to the combat.
The level design is meticulously crafted, offering both exploration and intense firefights, making every encounter exciting.
Overall, Black Mesa is a must-play for fans of sci-fi shooters and anyone looking for an exhilarating, well-made game that pays homage to a true classic.
5 stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Graphics: ✅ 9/10 — Stunning visuals that beautifully reimagine the original with modern polish.
Story: ✅ 9/10 — Engaging and well-paced, offering a compelling narrative with plenty of suspense.
Soundtrack & Music: ✅ 10/10 — Atmospheric and immersive, enhancing the tension and immersion.
Guns & Combat: ✅ 10/10 — Satisfying weapon mechanics and exciting firefights.
Level Design: ✅ 10/10 — Thoughtfully crafted, blending exploration with intense action moments.
Overall: ✅ 10/10 — A must-play reimagining that captures the essence of the classic while delivering a fresh experience.

Game was fun... When it worked.

I have had dozens of crashes to the point I gave up finishing this game, even though I was enjoying it, really needs some bug fixes.

Gordon Freeman introduces an alien species to the power of H&K manufacturing

I only marginally recommend this. Sub-par level layout and a unmistakable jankness, especially compared to the original Half-Life, make this only for diehard Half-Life 1 fans.

They've created a marvelous entry point to the Half Life universe for everybody who didn't get to play the first one back in the day. It's polished and retains all of its charm and playability.

: very nice would recommend

The multiplayer was fun (the community maps) that's 90% of my play time for this game.

https://gamebanana.com/mods/cats/5993

Black Mesa Steam Workshop Multiplayer Maps

Great, until Xen ...

The first part of the game is done well and recreates the good and the bad parts of the game faithfully. There are some polished elements and some elaborations, but it feels mostly the same and plays well.

The last part of the game (Xen) completely lacks restraint. Someone said "Hey, lets add a lot of Quake 1/2 stuff to the game and completely change everything". You're going to get extended elevator combat, lots of air tubes, red lasers, and just about everything that was memorable in the Quake games, just done worse. You're then going to get Half-Life 2 spoilers and gameplay elements shoehorned into the game. Why? Because the game lacks restraint. Just because you can do a thing doesn't mean you should. Want some Tron in your Half-Life game? No?! Too bad. You'll get some Tron and anything else we think of.

The first part of Xen is actually pretty good. It feels familiar but adds some breadcrumbs to help you navigate the area. Since there's no NPCs or implied goals, this was needed to keep you from wandering aimlessly. You will "follow the lights" because there's nothing else to logically do.

The rest of Xen is terrible. Everything is too long, too repetitive, too annoying. There's no balance of difficulty. There's no ammo and dozens of the largest enemies spawns at once. Remember the large enemy in the train levels? Well, why not have a chase scene with dozens of them? Early Call of Duty games has these elaborate scenes, why not throw it in here? Also, let's add a lot of dodge mechanics in the game and require them for just about every encounter. Oh, and there are so many one-hit-kills - that's fun, right??!

The game's performance takes a massive hit. The overly large and elaborate sections with way to many enemies brings the FPS to a crawl. I turned down the graphics considerably for these parts and still couldn't make it reasonably playable.

Xen is BUGGY. Game elements just disappear and will softlock your progress. For example, moving a power cable with the physics engine makes it bounce around wildly and just despawn. The jump pads don't work half the time because of randomness from the physics engine. There are so many jump puzzles in Xen you will fail over and over.

Game breaking bug towards the very end of the game (cables on Xen not rendering properly making puzzle impossible) that apparently existed for 2+years that the developers never bothered to fix ruins otherwise pleasant remake.

Recommended for: Anyone who likes FPS games should give this game a try. It has great action and the story is basically the same as the original Half-Life which is also very good. If you have never played the original Half-Life then I recommend just playing Black Mesa. You will get a much more modern and overall better experience compared to the original game which is already more than two decades old and hasn’t aged too well in my opinion.

My experience: I was really confused when I first saw Black Mesa on Steam. My initial reaction was: "Is this some kind of spin-off of Half-Life? No, it's a complete remake?? But it's not made by Valve? Made only by fans and sold on Steam? Is this legal???" For some reason I had completely missed the development of this game and I had some catching up to do reading the wiki page.

It has been a while since I played the original Half-Life, but playing Black Mesa unlocked some core memories for me again. I think they did a great job with this remake and I enjoyed playing it. It really captures the Half-Life atmosphere and even improves upon it. At least, for the most part. Because there is one section of the game I didn’t like and that’s in Xen, especially the later levels. Suddenly the pace of action drops considerably and for the most part you’re just jumping around, doing platforming and solving "puzzles."

In the original Half-Life the world of Xen is indeed a bit barebones and I understand that the developers spent more time reworking that part of the game to make it more interesting and to provide more backstory. But what makes Half-Life one of my favorite games is the combination of great action and a good story. In my opinion the action part was a bit missing here (except for the boss levels, I think those were still good) and it felt like I was not playing Half-Life anymore, but Tomb Raider: The FPS Game.

Technical: There was one unfortunate moment where I fell off a ladder during a level transition and the game autosaved, putting me in a death loop. But this was just a freak accident. After that I had no other problems and the game technically runs fine. (Win10,7800X3D,RX7800XT)

Personal rating: 4/5

What a great remake, I ordered half life when i was barely a teenager, I was so excited, it was of first games to employ an advanced AI,talking and advanced physics ect. It was like breathing life into memories for me. Xen was AWESOME! allot of love and passion went into this creation and from the size of the team that made this I can tell it took some serious time and effort, they skipped nothing and even included the missing pieces that allow the sequel to more correctly integrate into the story. If you liked the valve original, you'll enjoy this, I'm certain. ... so much love!

It’s a remake of Half-Life, but now with prettier graphics, smoother gameplay, and 300% more vents to crawl through like a nerdy raccoon.
Scientists keep yelling “I’m not equipped for this!” while I backpedal through alien fireballs with a crowbar and 12 HP. Same, bro. Same.
A love letter to the OG Half-Life, written in alien blood, duct tape, and late ‘90s nostalgia.

was on sale for 2 bucks. best video game buy i ever made im having a blast. very nostalgic for half life fans. btw plays like a dream...

Wonderful. Just as good as playing the original 25 years ago. I'm glad I waited so long to play this until it was finished, patched, and on sale.

Is it a faithful recreation of Half Life? No, not exactly. But that's a good thing, because the original still exists for everyone to play and they should still do that. This adds some much needed modern improvements to help it keep up with what we expect from modern gaming experiences. It can still feel dated in some aspects but in other areas like the pacing between puzzles and combat, it feels just as fresh as modern titles. The improved fidelity and lighting do a lot of the leg work in expanding the visual identity of the Black Mesa facility itself, and the Xen levels are nothing short of gorgeous. The soundtrack is engaging, movement feels very fluid, and though somewhat more difficult it helps to increase the pace in some of the heavier combat areas. The fact that the majority of the combat and input improvements are pulled directly from HL2 really shows how ahead of its time that game was, now being a 20+ year old game itself. It's great to come back to an experience like this after playing all the sequels, tie-ins, and influenced offspring to see the genesis of ideas and design that permeated gaming. Truly the cool-uncle-that-buys-you-booze-then-teaches-you-how-to-dissolve-a-padlock-with-gallium of modern gaming.

Looking forward to the remakes of Blue Shift and Opposing Force. Blue Shift especially.

I love Half-Life and really enjoyed the remake, but I’ve encountered a problem that makes the game very difficult to play in its current state. There is a bug that causes the screen to become completely dark, preventing progress and making it hard to enjoy the experience as intended.

I tried to fix this by following some tips I found on Reddit, such as using the commands
mat_hdr_level 2
and
mat_tonemapping_occlusion_use_stencil 1
hoping that the screen would return to normal. While it initially seems to work, the screen only stays normal for about 10 seconds before turning dark again. It’s quite frustrating, especially because I can’t tell if the flashlight is on or not, which makes gameplay almost impossible.

Before this issue, everything was going great, and I was really looking forward to continuing my playthrough. Unfortunately, this bug currently makes the game unplayable. I hope future updates will address this problem so we can all enjoy this amazing experience again.


Thanks for listening! I look forward to a version without these issues soon.

Edit:
> Solution from forum <

This is because you have integrated graphics or don't have minimum requirements for the game , You need to put these each in the console OR you can put this in the autoexec file in black mesa's files that can be located in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Black Mesa\bms\cfg and find the autoexec file and put the commands in,

r_meshstaticlighting 1
mat_dxlevel 95
mat_tonemapping_occlusion_use_stencil 1

People still pay from 50$ to 100$ on COD every year lmao.

You can literally gift this game to your worst enemy and turn them into a better person.

What I can say? It's great! So far I've been enjoying it and I think it's even better if you add a bunch of Workshop enhacements too! I got this game discounted and absolutely don't regret getting it, worth the deal! I really miss having games with a long single chapter. Not gonna lie, the loading screen made me feel nostalgic... If you like Half-Life this is a must.
If you are not familiar with the series yet, I do believe it's a good starting point and I suggest to try it out as it's a good mix of shooter and puzzles. Even if you aren't especially good with these genres just like me, I can guarantee you can advance the game naturally without guides if you try enough!

This will forever remain the best remaster/remake of a game, as this was done purely out of love for the original. And you feel that when playing. Very few FPSs (if any) feel this good to play. The visuals are stunning, yet it still feels like a classic PC game, and I love it.
At the time of this post it's on sale for $2, no excuse is good enough to not have this in your library already. Heck, get it for a friend and make them play it too. Y'all will thank me later, lol.

I enjoyed it. I'm old and played tons of FPS, but I never said I was good at them. My aim is okay, but this game quickly overwhelms you with enemies killing you very quickly even on the easiest mode. I simply could not get through the game without enabling godmode. Anyone should buy this for $2 if you like HL or FPS, and I really enjoyed this version of HL, but just be warned it's very hard, probably one of the hardest FPS games I've ever played. If you're not great at FPS and have some issue with using god mode I warned you that it's rough.

they went to valve. said hey, imma remake your game from the ground up and make it better. valve said "go for it." crowbar collective succeeded in every way possible

fucking beautiful ass game but i lag so much

I'm not going to get too into which version of the game is better. I honestly really prefer the original version of the game even if you factor out all my complaints, but I wanted to get the achievements before doing the same for half life 2. Unfortunately, half life 1 doesn't actually have any achievements, so I figured I'd try this out, aand ended up regretting it. This game was painful to complete. It wasn't difficult, it was painful. Why? Because of the glitches; the glitches are nothing too bad if you are playing through the game normally, FOR THE MOST PART, mostly just visual stuff (IF you're playing normally). I did have a puzzle glitch out on me, forcing me to reload my save, but the game creates two auto-saves pretty frequently (note that they will overwrite each other tho). But if you want to 100% of the game, you're either in for a tough time oor a waste of your time. The game asks you to have to carry around multiple items one play through at a time (you'll realize this is the way they intended it as you progress through the game), you caan carry multiple with you by juggling the three items around (that's what I did), but they will constantly disappear, phase through the ground, become intangible, float into the air up to a point you can't reach or actually start running away in some cases, literally, like there were times I would put one of the items down upright just for it to keep flipping over and rolling around for it to clip into the floor or fall off into the abyss (mostly towards the end of the game) forcing you to CONSTANTLY reload your saves. These achievements were extremely painful for so many reasons. I could go on and on, like one example is collisions causing you to drop your items, so doing simple things like going up a ladder or through a vent that sucks you in becomes extremely difficult, forcing you to reload your saves over and over again, hoping to get lucky or making saves each step of a ladder. It really feels like no one actually play tested this, when I can't even progress through part of the game, like getting sucked through a vent without dropping my items. They could have also not given a #### about the players experience, reason being "you don't actually have to do the achievements", like having fun and doing the achievements have to be mutually exclusive. They don't. Either way, they're asking me to do something they wouldn't even bother doing on their own, or they just choose to ignore these problems knowing people would do it anyway. I think it was the ladder. Either way, pretty ###### if you ask me. Go play the original half life. It's great, it's so much more charming imo.

10/10 – The remake Half-Life always deserved.
Black Mesa is a phenomenal reimagining of a classic. It stays true to the spirit of the original while massively improving visuals, level design, and pacing—especially in Xen, which is now a highlight instead of a chore. Whether you're a longtime fan or new to the series, this is the definitive way to experience Half-Life.

This game plays with the controls, graphics, physics, and sound effects of GMod. The campaign is interesting, confusing puzzles at times and you are constantly running out of health and ammo but you keep getting infinite refills so resource management is not important. It is not too hard but it is an EXTREMELY long game. A LOT of bugs and bugged out puzzles, you are constantly looking up your current puzzle to see if you are dumb or the game shat the bed again. The achievements are kind of tedious but the game has enough replayability to make them fun. Overall 7.5/10

This game was always a fantastic idea from start to finish and performed fantastically, this is the right way to port Half-life 1 to the Source Engine, a triumphant work by a community of devotion and care, I enjoyed everything about playing this game from start to finish.
(Well maybe except that one Hivehand animation).

The changes to the game's levels, remixed puzzles and beautifully scenic areas like the surface levels and of course Xen really serves as the icing and cherry on top of this glorious work, this is a must own for Half-life fans!

Happy 10 years on steam too btw!

A game that challenges you with new mechanics and encounters at every corner. Still a GOTY contender if released today.

An utterly enjoyable game. Thoroughly immersive and true to the original.

As an Old Fart, this gives me great joy.

How much recognition are you going to get for a reproduction?

Black Mesa is a remake of the 1998 first-person shooter Half-Life. The original game is a masterpiece of gameplay and level design, and many people would be sceptical that a remake could ever live up to the original. These people would be wrong. Black Mesa absolutely does the original justice, expanding in the stuff that was great and improving the stuff which fell short.

You play as Gordon Freeman, Research Associate at the eponymous Black Mesa labs. Reflecting your lowly rank, you're lumbered with all the grunt work - pressing buttons, pushing trolleys, climbing through the ruined facility to seek help when and experiment literally blows up in your face and lets through cosmic horrors from another dimension...

Half-Life was originally envisioned, at least in part, as a horror FPS, and Black Mesa captures that intention stunningly, using its 20+ years of technical advantage to fill every stage with an immersive, and often terrifying, atmosphere. Another massive improvement is modern physics - Black Mesa no longer feels like everything in the building has been waxed. The NPC voices have also been revamped and expanded, making it feel more like you are actually in a world with real people.

A few levels have been redesigned to make them a better experience - the original's experimental approach sometimes worked brilliantly and other times failed miserably. The most obvious example of levels which have benefited from the redesign are the final four levels, set on the alien homeworld of Xen. In the original, these levels are notorious for being unduly difficult, aggressively abstract, and just tedious to play. Black Mesa scraps all of that and re-imagines Xen as a stunning and vibrant ecosystem, rivalling Pandora in its beauty, packed with story details and lore. The Gonarch fight, which in the original was a pedestrian affair of "Shoot it till it dies" is now a massive game and cat and mouse lasting an entire level, culminating in a life-or-death struggle.

And then we get to Interloper, by far the worst chapter of Half-Life, which consists of fighting your way through some wasteland and then fighting in a factory, and where some enemies are just NPCs who ignore you and others while kill on sight. It is a slog. Black Mesa starts off much, much stronger, showing you a living world unaffected by the Black Mesa incident, before you break into the factory and solve puzzles using factory machinery to progress. The lore here is conveyed far better than the original game, and the set-pieces like the Gargantua chase are excellently pulled off. And then the level keeps going. And going. And going. As much as the new level improves upon the old, it still overstays its welcome by a lot. Plus, the level is short on all ammo except for the gluon gun which recharges infinitely, so I hope you like Ghostbusters. The level also has several massive environments towards the end, and if your computer can't handle it, guess what, you've now got a Ghostbusters slideshow.

The final fight is much better, doing away with the random teleports and jumppads, and instead teleporting things into the chamber. It does get a bit bullet-helly near the end, but that's not too much of an issue.

Black Mesa is Half-Life made by Half-Life fans twenty years later. It's stuffed with in-jokes, nods to the sequels, and the like - but you can tell that they really wanted to make the most of this opportunity. Is it perfect? No. The game still doesn't have a better solution for loading areas than randomly freezing at certain points, and if you're stood in the wrong place you might end up getting trapped inside a rock and forced to use the console to escape. But the original isn't perfect either, and in my opinion these are both masterpieces.

If you're wondering which to play first, then I have to say you should play the original before this one. Why? Because this is a game by fans for fans, and if you play this first then you'll miss what makes both of them so special.

It is probably one of the best remakes ever made. Not only does it keep the essence of the original game, it also polishes and expands on its weak areas. If you are a fan of the Half-Life saga, you must play this one. My only issue was the tedious 'carry items from start to finish' achievements, which require no skill. Without these, achieving 100% would be much more enjoyable.

Really fun game. Originally got into the Half Life franchise through Half Life Alex so I went back and played this game and enjoyed every moment! At least for me I thought the Nihilanth fight was about 10x easier than the Gonarch one.

It started as an homage, and it became the best version of the game. Black Mesa is fantastic remake of Half-Life, that never betrays the source material and gives it what is needed to be appreciated by a modern player on a modern PC - even if Source Engine is definitely very old. Just keep in mind it's a well refined but not triple A game, and you'll be just fine with it. Black Mesa is the perfect way to enter in the Half-Life saga.

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Thank you for bringing my childhood back to me. Fantastic re-imagining of a game. Great music and absolutely beautiful environments!

My only gripe was the timing on the shotgun just felt weird after reload. That may have been what it was like in the original though haha.

Got this remake for the nostalgia reasons and at first it was a blast to play but most of my playtime was spent on Xen levels and oh my god do they suck.

tldr: 9/10 game before Xen levels 1/10 after Xen

Black Mesa is one of the best remakes I've ever seen in gaming history, will definitely go back and replay it for both the little details and achievements. Would recommend playing the original Half Life if you want to experience it in it's original form, but definitely play this after, up to you.

game definitely needs some patches to fix dynamic lighting and the flashlight. any of the dark areas are nearly impossible to navigate because of this serious problem. i was only able to complete those areas from memory of the original game, but it has seriously caused major problems and my ability to enjoy this graphically improved version. i hope it gets fixed. i wouldnt recommend this game in the state that it is in. good luck to the developer in fixing the problems

I was enjoying the game, until it started crashing with the message "ED_Alloc: no free edicts" close to the end. I noticed that a beta had been released on april 19 (four days ago) and reluctantly updated to it. Both unbelievably and unsurprisingly, the developers have not fixed the bug, and instead the game now crashes the instant I try to load my saved game. Now I can't finish the game...

Considering that players have run into this problem as early as 2020, which is *five years ago*, I think it's safe to say that you will get no help from the developers. The only conclusion is that I can't in earnest recommend you to buy a broken game that you can't play through -- if you want to play through the entirety of Half-Life then you can't do it here. I don't usually play modern games but I had thought that the general iterative development, improvement, and distribution process had improved beyond this old, sad state. Alas, Steam's "always online" and "forced updates" culture truly is only in service of DRM, then?

I enjoyed the whole campaign taking place inside Black Mesa. That said, here are the aspects of the game I was not impressed by and did not like one bit:

- The menu system is utterly awful and hasn't been touched by a proper interaction designer. Binding keys is a nightmare and takes 10x longer than it should have to.
- Spoilers for new players in the chapter picker
- Quickload is next to quicksave in the default key bindings (!) Seriously...
- Menu sounds can glitch and repeat indefinitely
- The time period inside Black Mesa isn't entirely captured. It's an odd mix of CRT-era PC cases mixed with blue LED displays on scientific equipment. What year is this game taking place?
- I get stuck in doors, in corners, after plugging in plugs into sockets...
- Crossbow bolts still get stuck in the middle of air near walls, so you still can't trust your eyes in firefights.
- Ladders are still a chore and will cause your death. Especially when you have to battle a f-in' TANK while climbing them. It just CAN'T be that difficult to ensure that "whenever forwards means UP, backwards means DOWN", but nooo....
- Enemies have superhuman vision and superhuman aim at any distance.
- Critical NPCs commit suicide (this is so old)
- The Xen chapter looks pretty but doesn't make much sense, with intricate puzzles shoehorned into an apparent wilderness.
- Invisible f-ing walls in Xen; they give you a jump pack, but instead of designing the level so that it doesn't invite you to jump they just lazily install an invisible wall in the middle of a chasm.

This is, by its very definition, refined excellence.

It isn't a 1:1 of the original game, and it isn't supposed to be. It's better in some ways, I'm sure some folks will find things they find worse in some others.

But for me, I couldn't stop playing it. Couldn't stop taking screenshots like a little kid with a disposable camera. Loved it, loved the experience. Will probably play through it again at some point later on in my life.

Truthfully, knowing what I do now about how the game plays and runs, I'm surprised I only paid $19.99 for it.

Apart from some crashes, the game is very fun and a very modern way to play the HL1 story

The fact the games core was made 30 years ago is baffling. We went wrong some where along the way.

It is oddly refreshing to play a game that has no map, arrows, or quests... you just have to use your eyes and brain.

the definitive way to experience half-life. there really isn't a single way it doesn't improve upon the original.

Must-play to any half-life fan. It's good old half-life but remastered and enriched in the best possible way. Xen is remade entirely from scratch, looks and plays absolutely brilliantly.

Truly an incredible game. I never played the original at time of release but this is a beautiful remaster. Still maintains an old school charm and the early exploration combat and slight horror elements all add up to something special. I can only imagine what it would have been like to experience this when it first came out.

First part of the game is just good Half Life fun. 9/10
The Xen levels, however, are far too long and repetitive. 4/10

Crashes quite a lot when run with Proton.

Black Mesa. The lab, or rather, research complex, in which everything goes wrong, when a physics experiment tears open an interdimensional portal, or I should say, destabilizes our own world’s fabric of reality so that aliens start teleporting in pretty much everywhere, eventually leading to an invasion, a very brief war, followed by occupation, as detailed in Half Life 2.

Playing the game that started it all, and by it all I mean the slow paced, story-driven first person shooter genre, especially compared to fast paced arcade shooters like Doom 1 and 2 or isometric top-down RPGs like Fallout 1 and 2 which were your only other options in the 90s before Half Life, you come to realize how many other games have been inspired by Valve’s pioneer released in 1999. From Doom 3 to the first Resident Evil movie, many other IP’s have ripped their “all hell breaks loose in a high tech research lab” setting from here. And Half Life, remastered as Black Mesa, does try its best to offer a mix between classic linear shooter and platformer, probably inspired by the popularity of super mario in the 90s where timing your jumps to avoid death was an industry standard or something. Just like finding yourself in a room full of locked doors and having to find an unconventional way out. Whether it is grabbing a valve (see?) to shut off pipes leaking burning gasses, draining flooded areas, or turning the electricity on or off, MIT theoretical physicist Gordon Freeman has to occasionally do some basic thinking to progress in the game.

As for enemies, the headcrab, no doubt ripped from Alien 1979 and the zombified scientists it controls, make up the initial foes, but flesh eating plants hanging from the ceiling, alien dogs that want to give you sonic boom hugs, acid spewing alien gators and one eyed bipedal spellcasters from Xen make up the alien faction accidentally invited onto earth by Mr. Freeman’s unwitting resonance cascade event, while soldiers dispatched to neutralize anything that moves in and around the Black Mesa complex are the human antagonists you have to beat – a concept later copied by the F.E.A.R. franchise, along with its two expansions. Speaking of, Half Life had two expansions as well, in one you play as one of the mercs and in another, as a member of the on-site security team. The latter has also been remastered as a free mod called Black Mesa: Blue Shift, but is still somewhat buggy and you can only launch it in Black Mesa’s stead by downloading it from the workshop and changing the launch parameters after downloading. I might give it a try someday, but until then the official release is worth playing, especially for those who think the OG Half Life’s graphics are too retro and want something more modern (like...previous gen modern). The sheer amount of time (measured in YEARS) it took for the developers to finish the final leg of this game in Xen is however something I cant forgive them. Yes, I understand that it was free only because it was a combination of passion project and the devs not having valve's permission to make money off of it (until valve changed their mind and hired them) along with them being even fewer in number than an indie studio, but at the end of the day, it took them an entire console generation to add the final chapters, so the game, originally released in september 2012, didn’t see a full retail release with Xen until march 2020, aka 7.5 long years. Time long enough that made the cutting edge visuals look somewhat dated again. Oh well. They are still pretty. Maybe to make up for it, the devs did another update after launching the retail version where they claimed to have upped the graphics even more, the most visible example being dynamic shadows cast by Gordon's flashlight. All I can say is compared to valve's first attempt at integrating this game into the source engine called Half Life: Source released back in 2004, Black mesa is a worthy Half Life remaster.

Honnestly, its a nice game for sure, it is long, hard, but if you play it ones, you get it later on and completing it quickly.

I do recomend it for sure.

10/10.

-Honnestly.

ABSOLUTE BANGER. from the gameplay to the soundtrack everything about this game is top notch. if you like fps games this game is for you.

10/10

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

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☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Having played the original, I can only say that this was one awesome remake.
Highly recommended, Zen deserves to be seen, Crowbar collective really shows the care and the love that they had for the project.

Вся конвеерная линейка недоигр "халфлайф" полностью под копирку взятая с дед спейса, и быдло оверхайпнуло эту недоигру про ломанную физику,тупейший сюжет,герой без озвучки. единстеный плюс-игра в VR