Black Mesa is much much more than just a remake of the original Half-Life. It's a whole new game with the level design and gameplay quality which one would only expect from an actual modern Valve release. Crowbar Collective didn't just remake all the levels and assets -- they added new levels where the original game fell short, re-engineered large parts of the Source Engine to enable new graphics technologies, and completely scrapped the rushed mess that was Xen in the original release and replaced it with a game world like I've never seen before.

It is incredible that CC had the perseverance to bring this project to a full release after 14 long years of development with probably only minimal resources, and I can only recommend for everyone to give this game a try, Half-Life fan or not, as it certainly become one of my all-time-favorites.

Black Mesa is much much more than just a remake of the original Half-Life. It's a whole new game with the level design and gameplay quality which one would only expect from an actual modern Valve release. Crowbar Collective didn't just remake all the levels and assets -- they added new levels where the original game fell short, re-engineered large parts of the Source Engine to enable new graphics technologies, and completely scrapped the rushed mess that was Xen in the original release and replaced it with a game world like I've never seen before. It is incredible that CC had the perseverance to bring this project to a full release after 14 long years of development with probably only minimal resources, and I can only recommend for everyone to give this game a try, Half-Life fan or not, as it certainly become one of my all-time-favorites.