After four years of development, modder ‘Timian’ and his team have released a new fan expansion for Half Life 2, HL2 – ICE. ICE continues the game’s storyline somewhere in the Antarctic through ice landscapes and underground bases.
ICE is inspired by Half-Life and conspiracy theories like the “Dulce Underground Bases” and the “Nightmare Hall”, and sports a new MKVII HEV Suit.
ICE takes place between Half Life 2 and Half Life 3. Gordon awakens in the artic and is soon on a path to reach some stranded Aperture fallout shelter citizens before the combine do.
This fan expansion features many new weapons, enemies and a campaign that lasts around five hours. In addition, this is a standalone mod/expansion, meaning that you won’t need the base Half Life 2 game in order to play it.
Those interested can download the mod from here. And here is how you can install it:
- Unpack the icemod folder from the icemod.rar into your ‘steam/steamapps/sourcemods‘ folder
- Restart Steam for ‘ICE’ to show up in your games list.
Have fun!
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Fan mods are always garbage. Name one HL2 mod that was any good. *Crickets*
g string, get a life,minvera,ressearch and development, sillent hill alchemila,nightmare house 2 ,water, grey,underhell, there is another zombie themed with humbers in the name, i dont remember whats it called.
Underhell was amazing.
Black Mesa
I’m glad you brought that up. Having played through it recently, it’s a convoluted mess. Gunplay and movement are off, enemy encounters are uninspired, and the only relation to Half Life is the name and the fact that it’s on the source engine. You pay for terrible level design and even lamer puzzles, what a success! Morgen fell indeed, on his head as a child.
The crickets paused for Black Mesa, and kept on chirping!
I am glad you were dumb enough to say that. Everyone’s opinion at Steam > You. It has a Very Positive Rating both Overall and in the Recent categories. Almost 9000 Reviews. Pwned.
Look at what I replied to that ridiculous pwned poster above. Black Mesa has Very Positive rating on Steam. User Score on Metacritic is 89. It is a really good title. He opened his mouth and people shoved his own foot in it. This is what happens when you fire off a remark without considering the question. Black Mesa is definitely worth it.
mods are garbage very few of them are useful
Your a gamer Kim? Sweet!!! How are you an Kanye doing? Let me know when you dump him.
Let’s see your mod.
” In addition, this is a standalone mod/expansion, meaning that you won’t need the base Half Life 2 game in order to play it.”
create a new steam account, download latest version of source engine. Download any mod, apart from maps from planetphilip….ta da you can play half life 2 mods without owning half life 2.
Mods i played with this method. G string, get a life, the final project, the closure, sillent hill alchemila, nightmare house 2,grey, underhell it works.
I was startled and shocked when I read that this was possible.
Nobody has said it yet, so I’ll take it upon myself: Half Life 3 confirmed.
STOP IT!!!
Just let it die
You first!