IGN has shared two videos, showing 15 minutes of gameplay footage from the upcoming Xen levels of Black Mesa. The first video shows off the first six minutes of this upcoming mod, while the second video showcases some of its environments and enemies.
Black Mesa Xen has been under development for a while and these two videos were captured from its latest beta build. This could mean that the mod is close to being released, though there isn’t any specific release date yet.
As its title suggests, Black Mesa Xen features all the alien environments that the original Half-Life game featured. In addition, the team has stated that it will extend some and may even add new environments/levels in order to provide a more lengthy experience.
It’s also worth noting that Black Mesa Xen will come with some new graphical features that will make it look better than the original Black Mesa game. Some of the new graphics effects are Screenspace Fog, Flashlight Dynamic Shadows and Soft Particles.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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Wow. That’s.. Another way of looking at it.
I’m fine with a redesign of that awkward chunk of the game, but this is a very boring one. Turning it into almost a fantasy garden with cropped grasses and wetland trees rather than a blasted alien floating rocky hellscape?
“my as s looks like a game from 2004 lmao”
LMAO indeed!
At least someone is working on Half Life 3, shame on you Valve.
I know it’s not Half Life 3 but it’s probably the closest thing we will get to it, awesome work! Can’t wait to play it. If you don’t have Black Mesa and are a HL fan you have to get it, it owns and is legit quality.
Someone should work on your game knowledge.
About what? Can’t you read “I know it’s not Half Life 3 but it’s probably the closest thing we will get to it” I own Black Mesa everyone knows it’s a Half Life 1 remake & Xen is a add on to Mesa.
My comment about HL3 was supposed to be funny, I guess not.
I thought it was funny. TL;DR people miss a lot of things in life.
this is a remake of the first one 😀 borealis is the “3”
I know, I have Black Mesa that is why I said “I know it’s not Half Life 3 but it’s probably the closest thing we will get to it” 🙂
Just saying 3 probably won’t be coming out for years(if at all) so this is the next best thing.
Im really looking forward to the release, perhaps November ? (that’s when the original HL was released).
I played the free alpha (or beta, whatever it was called), then bought the finished version when it released which seems like a long time ago. I’m considering just playing from the beginning again – once Xen is released.
They did just enough tweaking that many times Id be like “Oh man I remember this level, I think. Yeah I do, this is awesome.” They changed just barely enough to make it fresh but kept the whole feel and structure of the original.
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Meh intensifies*
5 years for 3 levels : good !