And we saw that coming. A couple of days ago we reported that the mysterious countdown timer on Black Mesa’s website was most probably related to the game’s Steam release. And today, Crowbar Collective has released Black Mesa on Steam Early Access.
Black Mesa is a re-envisioning of Valve Software’s seminal classic Half-Life. Gordon Freeman and his unforgettable journey through the Black Mesa Research Facility have been lovingly re-created to capture the full spirit of the original game, without 1998’s graphical limitations.
Black Mesa will be $19.99 USD during the Early Access phase, and will be bumped up to $24.99 USD when it is fully released.
In case you’re wondering, this Steam Early Access does not feature any Xen missions.
“We simply didn’t have the resources to create Xen as we would like it. Our ambitions go beyond the original Xen section found in Half-Life. We have a standard of quality that we have to achieve. By using Early Access, we are allowed the resources to bring you the remaining chapters with the quality that you expect”
Here are the game’s key features:
-Over 10 Hours of single player gameplay, up to the Lambda Core chapter
-Deathmatch and team deathmatch multiplayer
-6 Stunningly recreated multiplayer maps from Half-Life 1
-Dedicated servers
-The Source Engine, pushed to its limits!
-An incredible, full-length soundtrack
-Fantastic new choreographed scenes and all new voice acting
Enjoy and kudos to our reader “John Vanitsidis ” for bringing this to our attention!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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What is the point of this ?
What does it have (or supposed to have) that isn’t in the free version ?
New visuals, new voice over, updated gameplay, custom modding tools and workshop support.
“workshop support”
This doesn’t sound so good anymore…
Why not? The workshop is for the multiplayer. You can play maps other people have created.
Where have you been the last two weeks? the gates are open.
Don’t have a clue what you’re on about.
The point of this is to fill greedy valve employees/CEO’s deep pockets… Actually why release this game on Early access when it’s not a wip title? This is beyond me!
Nice book ref. I read that to my son at night… he loves it.
The amount of fanatical idiocy is rampant. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/BlackMesa#announcements/detail/1371639504554053878
From what i see it’s the same thing
OMG! a payed mod! outrageous! valve is killing the community! ban it, ban it ban it!
There’s no way I’m paying for this in its early access state knowing how long these guys take to finish projects. Maybe when it’s fully released.
When I original played this mod I thought it was very well made and I really enjoyed it. It is worth the price of a full game and I recon ill buy it.
Does it worth?