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* '''Evamod''' - A multiplayer mod based on the popular anime, ]. Planned features include authentic settings and combat in skyscraper-sized Eva. | * '''Evamod''' - A multiplayer mod based on the popular anime, ]. Planned features include authentic settings and combat in skyscraper-sized Eva. | ||
* '''Exterminatus - Rival Species 2''' - This mod is set in Games Workshop's, great Warhammer 40,000(40k) universe, as seen in Dawn of War and our previous mod for Half-life 1, Rival Species. | * '''Exterminatus - Rival Species 2''' - This mod is set in Games Workshop's, great Warhammer 40,000(40k) universe, as seen in Dawn of War and our previous mod for Half-life 1, Rival Species. | ||
* '''Firearms 2''' - Team-based multiplayer mod with a high weapon count, and a very fast-paced gameplay style. |
* '''Firearms 2''' - Team-based multiplayer mod with a high weapon count, and a very fast-paced gameplay style. Not by the creators of the original Fireams mod, the website and name were stolen by a disgruntled group of Firearms 1 players against the wishes of the developers, who wanted to end development to concentrate on their mod. Currently the legality of their attempted work is disputed. | ||
* '''Fire War''' - A multiplayer mod based on a 3rd World War, in the year 2023 | * '''Fire War''' - A multiplayer mod based on a 3rd World War, in the year 2023 | ||
* '''Forsaken''' - A three-way teamplay mod based on ], set in the year 2009, 3 years after a ] nearly erases human life on earth. | * '''Forsaken''' - A three-way teamplay mod based on ], set in the year 2009, 3 years after a ] nearly erases human life on earth. | ||
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* '''Plastic Tactics''' - A mod where your fight for your bricks. | * '''Plastic Tactics''' - A mod where your fight for your bricks. | ||
* '''Project Hull Breach''' - A Sci Fi mod focused on a war between two rival factions, The Alliance and the Senallin. Focuses on realistic weapons and technology with a heavy emphasis on Marine raids of spacefaring vessels as well as land battles. Gameplay includes semi RPG elements and objective based scenarios. | * '''Project Hull Breach''' - A Sci Fi mod focused on a war between two rival factions, The Alliance and the Senallin. Focuses on realistic weapons and technology with a heavy emphasis on Marine raids of spacefaring vessels as well as land battles. Gameplay includes semi RPG elements and objective based scenarios. | ||
* '''Quake III Mod (Name to change)''' - A mod created to look and feel like Quake 3 Arena and Quake 3 Revolution for the PS2. | |||
* '''Realms of Valhallon: Age of Campaigns''' - a professionally-made mod, designed to introduce the Realms of Valhallon setting and gameplay philosophy in advance of a retail MMORPG release. | * '''Realms of Valhallon: Age of Campaigns''' - a professionally-made mod, designed to introduce the Realms of Valhallon setting and gameplay philosophy in advance of a retail MMORPG release. | ||
* '''Rocket Crowbar: Source''' - A source remake of the classic Rocket Crowbar. Featuring tranformations into rollermines and the scientist launcher | * '''Rocket Crowbar: Source''' - A source remake of the classic Rocket Crowbar. Featuring tranformations into rollermines and the scientist launcher | ||
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* '''Wanted: Outlaws & Lawmen''' - A multiplayer Wild West themed shooter. | * '''Wanted: Outlaws & Lawmen''' - A multiplayer Wild West themed shooter. | ||
* '''Zombie Panic: Source''' - The Source engine version of the existing Half-Life mod which features Zombies vs Humans multiplayer. See ] for more info. | * '''Zombie Panic: Source''' - The Source engine version of the existing Half-Life mod which features Zombies vs Humans multiplayer. See ] for more info. | ||
* '''Halo: Source''' - The Source Engine recreated version of the very popular FPS of Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2. | |||
==External links== | ==External links== |
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This is a list of Half-Life 2 mods.
Physics-based modifications
- Garry's Mod website - Garry's Mod is a "Sandbox" mod. It allows the player to manipulate objects, often with interesting results thanks to the game's Havok physics engine. This includes everything that has physical properties, ranging from cinder blocks and seagulls to decrepit automobiles and washing machines and much more. The construction of complex machines within the game could be said to be a contemporary spin on the Rube Goldberg machine principle. Garry's Mod is playable in both single player and multiplayer.
Total and partial conversions
Released single player mods
- Combine Destiny website - First Singleplayer Mod where you play as a Combine Soldier.
- DayHard website - DayHard is a single player adventure set before the events narrated in Half-Life 2. You play as Gordon's brother, Morgan Freeman. He's not timid like Gordon: he's able to talk to people, and even to make comments on the situation! Even without a fancy suit, or an acceptable knowledge of gravity, Morgan will have a valid arsenal at his disposal, including a shiny katana. DayHard focuses on being funny rather than revolutionary.
- Eclipse website - A total conversion Mod for Half-Life 2 in 3rd person view (Fantasy Action-Adventure).
- HL2 Substance website - gives the HL2 single player campaign harder challenges, 4 gamemodes to test your skills with, a wide array of weapons, and 5 different player classes to best suit your gaming style.
- MINERVA website - Episodic single-player mod based in the Half-Life 2 universe, with a style of storytelling inspired by classic games such as Marathon and System Shock. The first episode has already been released to positive reviews, and there are many more chapters to come.
- Mistake Of Pythagoras website The Mistake Of Pythagoras is a mod in which you play as Gordon Freeman in a parallel dimension. All the models and gameplay are exactly the same as in HL2, but the maps and story have been altered.
- SMOD website | (translated download section) - A modification that adds sometimes bizarre new weapons, and new features (i.e. kicking, bullet time).
Released multiplayer mods
- The Battlegrounds website - A Revolutionary War mod originally released for HL1 that has been updated for the source engine.
- Capture the Flag website - A capture the flag mod based upon HL2: Deathmatch, with the addition of new weapons, powerups, and team-oriented gameplay.
- Dystopia website - A cyberpunk themed total conversion for Half-life 2.
- GoldenEye Source website - A total conversion for Half-Life 2 that attempts to recreate the game GoldenEye 007 in the Source engine.
- Half-Life 2 DeathMatch : Pro website - A fast paced version of regular HL2DM which also features the Tau Canon aka Gauss, Longjump and many movement tricks such as bunny hop, gauss jump and wall jumps. It also features new game modes like : Instant Gib, Last Team Standing, Arena, Arcade, ... and a full Match Management System.
- Hidden: Source website - The hidden is a player who is partially invisible and the IRIS team has to hunt this player down before he kills them all.
- Plan of Attack website - "Plan of Attack is a multiplayer first-person shooter that highlights strategy, teamwork, and out-thinking your enemy."
- Project 22 website - A small multiplayer weapon mod featuring a complete set of new weapons.
- Sands of War 2(SoW2) website - Realistic tactical combat simulation in near future desert environments.
- SourceForts website - A CTF-type mod. Teams use the gravity gun to build a fort out of given parts during the build time, and then proceed to assault the other team's fort. Play as a Soldier, Sniper, Builder, Rocketeer, or Scout, in a fast-paced battle for glory.
- Source Racer - A multiplayer racing mod in which you race HL2 vehicles shooting other players with new weapons on the vehicles
Single player mods in development
- Black Mesa: Source website A complete remake of the original Half-Life, with graphics up to HL2 standards. The mod is also planning to incorporate a multiplayer component which essentially is HLDM remade in the Source engine.
- Codename: Osiris website Some obscure HL2 SP Minimod.
- Half-Life 177 website A currently-private Half-Life 2 modification, it contains an entirely different storyline for Half-Life 2, based on a map found in Raising the Bar, and on maps found in the leaked build of Half-Life 2. It features weapons, enemies, dialogue, and NPCs not found in the retail game. Levels such as the Borealis, Arcade, and alternate opening are included.
- The Lost Prophecies: Shadows of Winter a fantasy first-person shooter/slasher. This epic adventure is experienced through the eyes of a courageous squire battling both the forces of evil and the hardships of an under-privileged social caste.
- Nightfall website A Horror Mod developed by some third Party mod developers, release date is nearing.
- No Name website A French single-player mod that is set in City 17 but in a alternate universe. Many of the characters and enemies from the original Half-Life 2 appear, but have completely different roles and personalities. The website is primarily in French, but an English version can be found here.
- Oaken: Reap What You Sow website A first-person free-ended RPG total conversion that is based in a fictional town named Oaken.
- Philosophers Project website A single player mod based on the Metal Gear Solid series of games.
- Resident Evil: Twilight website - The modification will contain a single- and a multiplayer option. There will be five different multiplayer types. The single player mod will be released at first. It works on the story of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. You will meet well or not-so-well known characters, and also opponents. There will be also new and revolutionary and also well known weapons in your inventory.
- Return To Mana website - A new unofficial story in the "Seiken Densetsu" series, made popular on the Game Boy, SNES, and Playstation. 43 Years have passed since a massive war. And the only way to stop them is using the accent powers of Mana. They were stopped but at a terrible price, Mana faded from the world. There is peace now but there is word of an empire rising again. A hero MUST emerge, and it is time to "Return To Mana".
- Rogue Threat website - a single-player modification for Half-Life 2 that depicts the life of Combine Civil Protection Officer Ryan Abbott. The mod will add 10 new chapters to the game and will include a number of new environments such as a revisited Xen, the alien world from the original Half-Life, and will give the player an interesting insight into the Combine's inner workings and methods. Also included will be dream like sequences, which will depict the events known as "The Portal Storms" and the "Seven Hour War".
Multiplayer mods in development
- Alien Element website - Alien Element is a Multi Player game based in 2012. An alien race has come to Earth and demanded its' surrender in “The tournament." Explore vast parts of the world as you take control of several of the human contestants in a desperate struggle to save humanity. Each character has a unique set of skills and weapons that you must use in this epic battle!.
- Badge of Blood website - Explore the future of warfare with Badge of Blood, a science fiction meets realism mod that tells the dramatic story of a bitter independence war fought between the major economic powers of Earth, and the Corporate Colonies of Mars! .
- Bloodthirst website - Bloodthirst is set in a realistic but dark near future that portrays a battle to the death between a reborn vampire clan and a secretive slayer sect. Bloodthirst will create a very fast paced and visually thrilling team-based action experience.
- Broken Arrow website - Broken Arrow is a multiplayer Vietnam War modification currently in development. Get ready to step into the shoes of either soldiers of North Vietnamese Army or US forces, battling through the jungles of Vietnam. Broken Arrow will feature realistic maps and gameplay, with historically correct weapons and vehicles.
- Bushido - Bushido is a multiplayer, Feudal Japan modification that was in development for half-life, but is now in develpment for half-life 2. This mod features class based action and a gameplay system based on earning honor. Classes such as Samurai, Assassins, Bowmen, and Ronin are featured. Strict attention to detail is what makes this mod so authentic, but not at the sacrifice of being fun.
- C4 Commando website - C4 Commando is a third-person_shooter modification starring a commando called Jack Sheppard, nicknamed "Rambo". The mod features a vast selection of US Army and fictional equipment. A single-player mode is also planned.
- Caliber website- Caliber is a fast paced first person shooter team-oriented mod based on Valve's much heralded Source engine technology. This modification is a genre-transcending creation incorporating the best aspects of first person shooters, real time strategy and role playing games. The talent behind Caliber is a diverse group of professionals with years of experience in the gaming community/customization scene. The goal of the Caliber team is to create a high quality, visually stunning, revolutionary, and most importantly, a fun modification.
- Carmagordon website - Carmagordon is a driving modification allowing players to drive multiple customisable vehicles in deathmatch and team deathmatch scenarios. Carmagordon features realistic damage, special viewing angles, weapons, power-ups and much much more!
- Cause And Effect website - A story-driven, coop game, with horror/suspense, action, teamplay, and realism as defining elements. New features, including Tech-Items, player classes/roles, highly interactive environments, interactive inventory, immersive storyline, online/lan play.
- Chitan: Hardboiled Killers website - A mod inspired by Hong Kong Heroic bloodshed movies.
- Day of Defeat: Pacific Theatre website - A mod of Day of Defeat: Source, itself a HL2 mod produced by Valve. Combat between Allies and Japanese soldiers in Pacific island settings. Developers are considering a full-blown Source mod in the near future.
- D.I.P.R.I.P. website - A multiplayer total conversion. Gameplay is based on vehicle combat in various post-war environments. Vehicles use multiple weapon mounts which are activated by finding weapons scattered around the battle grounds. Planned game types are deathmatch, teamdeathmatch and capture the flag. There will also be a possibility to enable players to upgrade their vehicles' weapons and subsystems through the use of a 'money for damage' system.
- Distraction website - There is no settling smoke, this mod is a guns blazing action mod, with a long range of stunts including dives, flips, rolls, climbing and much much more.
- Empires mod website - A total conversion mod which blends first-person shooter and real-time strategy gameplay elements.
- Eternal-Silence website - Eternal-Silence is a sci-fi mod that allows for extremely open-ended gameplay, allowing you to fight fast-paced dog fights in space, bombard an enemy capital ship with a heavy payload, invade the enemy capital ship by foot and attack from the inside, or command the troops and claim victory over your foe.
- Evamod website - A multiplayer mod based on the popular anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion. Planned features include authentic settings and combat in skyscraper-sized Eva.
- Exterminatus - Rival Species 2 website - This mod is set in Games Workshop's, great Warhammer 40,000(40k) universe, as seen in Dawn of War and our previous mod for Half-life 1, Rival Species.
- Firearms 2 website - Team-based multiplayer mod with a high weapon count, and a very fast-paced gameplay style. Not by the creators of the original Fireams mod, the website and name were stolen by a disgruntled group of Firearms 1 players against the wishes of the developers, who wanted to end development to concentrate on their World at War mod. Currently the legality of their attempted work is disputed.
- Fire War website - A multiplayer mod based on a 3rd World War, in the year 2023
- Forsaken website - A three-way teamplay mod based on urban warfare, set in the year 2009, 3 years after a virus nearly erases human life on earth.
- Fortress Forever website - A heavily anticipated modification inspired by Team Fortress Classic, incorporating TFC gameplay with minor adjustments.
- Front Line Force website
- Fueled website - A singleplayer and multiplayer mod inspired by GTA.
- Gang-life website - A multiplayer conversion for Half-Life 2 that sets the player in an urban environment where four gangs must fight for dominance.
- HEAT website - A team-play oriented tactical shooter.
- Holdout website - Human players -vs- AI Zombies, a game of survival against ever increasing odds.
- Hostile Intent: Phoenix Rising website - A realistic multiplayer total conversion focusing on teamwork, objectives, and realism. Source version of Half-Life 1's Hostile Intent.
- I, Robot website - A total conversion developed by a French team and based on the I, Robot movie and book.
- Incoming-Source website - A futuristic mod based in the year 2242. It's humans (Carriers) vs aliens (Altairs) in an epic battle for Earth. The mod features drivable and flyable vehicles, including Dinosaurs with AI coding. It's an amazing FPS, with a unique hud and buy system. The mod is being developed at an amazing rate and is expected to be out sometime soon.
- Incursion website - Team based infantry combat modification. An arcade style FPS with certain realistic elements and a rewarding class system.
- Insects Infestation website - A fps/rts hybrid putting the player in the body of an insect, be it an ant, termite or wasp, with the goal of working with your team to dominate the map, and kill the enemy queen.
- Insurgency website - A modern infantry combat mod that will depict clashes between conventional forces and insurgents.
- Invasion From Mars website - A comical multiplayer mod based on movies such as Mars Attacks!. The gameplay pits Martians against Earthlings in several gametypes such as Take Me To Your Leader, where the Earthlings has to protect the "leader" from the Martian team, and Cattle Run where the Martian team attempts to steal cattle while the Earthlings defends them.
- Jurassic Rage website - A team-play oriented action game with a twist; a 3rd team of AI controled dinosaurs.
- The Last Great War website - A World War II mod that plans to include every major nation that fought in the war. A single-player component has also been announced.
- Mech Assault Genesis website - A multiplayer mod based on Gundams.
- Natural Selection: Source website - Dark, ambient, Alien players vs. Human players. Afer 3 years of Half Life, a source mod is in progress.
- NeoTokyo website - A Near-Future Shooter with Substance and Style.
- NimMod website - An escort mod with a few twists.
- No More Room In Hell website - A co-op zombie survival mod with various gameplay types such as escape, barricade and defend, and others. Featuring both shamblers and runner zombies, limb gibbing, and a very active community.
- Perfect Dark Source website - A total conversion developed by an International team and based on the Perfect Dark game for the Source engine.
- The Opera website - A mod with the aim to recreate a true multiplayer Hong Kong blood opera action experience within the constraints of a first person shooter environment. Such unique gameplay features as a cast list, a schtick system, a dynamic damage system and a score system that rewards the player for playing and killing with style to attain points, not simply scoring the highest amount of frags.
- Off Limits website - The gameplay will revolve around two teams attempting to take out a small, agressive, player controlled alien. The vanguard team will start the round with the only gun that can harm the alien, the rogues team will see the alien's position on their radar. The team that kills the alien, wins the round.
- Operation Shadow Phoenix website - A mod set in the Shadow Phoenix world, with a planned single player version.
- Over The Top website - A World War I mod.
- Pirates, Vikings and Knights II website - 3 way action in various settings and game modes involving pirates, vikings and knights.
- Plastic Tactics website - A mod where your fight for your bricks.
- Project Hull Breach website - A Sci Fi mod focused on a war between two rival factions, The Alliance and the Senallin. Focuses on realistic weapons and technology with a heavy emphasis on Marine raids of spacefaring vessels as well as land battles. Gameplay includes semi RPG elements and objective based scenarios.
- Quake III Mod (Name to change) - A mod created to look and feel like Quake 3 Arena and Quake 3 Revolution for the PS2.
- Realms of Valhallon: Age of Campaigns website - a professionally-made mod, designed to introduce the Realms of Valhallon setting and gameplay philosophy in advance of a retail MMORPG release.
- Rocket Crowbar: Source website - A source remake of the classic Rocket Crowbar. Featuring tranformations into rollermines and the scientist launcher
- Resistance and Liberation website - A total conversion based on World War II which plans to incorporate class-based multiplayer.
- Shattered Society website - Shattered Society is an over-the-top, fast paced, chaotic multiplayer mod for Half-Life 2. The sequel to Desert Crisis for Half-Life.
- Snipa Wars website - A total conversion with the main focus on sniper warefare.
- SourceBall website - A futuristic first person team sports game.
- Spirit of Konoha website - An action game based on the popular anime series Naruto.
- Sven Co-op II website - The most anticipated cooperative modification for Half-Life 2. Sequel to the acclaimed Sven Co-op modification for the original Half-Life.
- Veama: The Last War website - Humans and monsters battle against each other in this medieval fantasy world, rpg-fps game. Some humans classes of the game are amazon, necromancer, barbarion.
- Wanted: Outlaws & Lawmen website - A multiplayer Wild West themed shooter.
- Zombie Panic: Source website - The Source engine version of the existing Half-Life mod which features Zombies vs Humans multiplayer. See Zombie Panic! for more info.
- Halo: Source - The Source Engine recreated version of the very popular FPS of Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2.
External links
Official
Unofficial
- Everything for your BF gaming/CS:S gaming. - Great site with alot of futures
- Half-Life 2 Mods - Small site with links to many mod websites
- Half-Life 2 World Wiki - Comprehensive Half-Life 2 Wiki covering all aspects of the game and related Source mod development
- HLForums.com - A popular Half-Life related community along with Half-Life related news.
- Mod Database: Half-Life 2 - Community site covering the latest news for all mods for all games.
Related
- Half-Life 1 Modifications A wiki of Half-Life 1 Modifications