{"id":2167,"date":"2012-10-08T10:20:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T17:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2012-10-08T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T17:20:19","slug":"looking-for-another-game-half-life-er-black-mesa-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2012\/10\/looking-for-another-game-half-life-er-black-mesa-source.html","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Another Game: Half-Life, er, Black Mesa Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I used to be a big First Person Shooter game lover, once upon a time (before I started gaming with Margie, in fact), starting with Doom, then Quake, and culminating somewhere in Valve’s Half-Life series.<\/p>\n

So when I was at loose ends re games, and Les shared this article<\/a> on Google Plus, it looked like a great thing to try.<\/p>\n

Some fans of the original Half-Life<\/a> (1997, fergoshsakes) have created an remake of Half-Life called Black Mesa Source. Essentially they took the original plot and graphics, and recreated it all on a much more advanced (contemporary) graphics engine. \u00a0What’s funny is that they matched what I remembered of the game, pretty much — until I looked at this:<\/p>\n