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Introduction
Black Mesa is a 2020 First Person Shooter video game that was developed and published by Crowbar Collective. It is an independent remake of Half-Life (1998) made with the Source game engine. Black Mesa was originally released as a free mod in September 2012 and cleared for commercial release by Half-Life developers Valve.
The first commercial version remain released in Early Access in May 2015, and the full version remained released in March 2020 for Linux and Windows. Black Mesa remained created in response to Half-Life: Source (2004), Half-Life’s port to Valve’s Source engine, lacking new features and enhancements.
Both teams wanted to improve the source remake and eventually joined forces to form the Crowbar Collective. Although they originally planned for a 2009 release, the team realized they had reached this point and reconsidered their efforts to improve the quality of the remake.
What is Black Mesa?
- We analyze Black Mesa, it is the remake of one of the best and most influential video games in history, the unforgettable Half-Life.
- For Black Mesa, the year 1998, a year of great releases within the video game sector, being one of the leading candidates for the medium’s history’s best year.
- In 12 months of incomparable joy for the hobbyist, we received countless releases of enormous quality.
- Capcom surprises us with a Resident Evil 2 that turned out to be a huge bombshell, just like its recent remake.
- Sega gave us one last jewel for its dying Saturn with that marvel of the RPG, Panzer Dragoon Saga, a true masterpiece.
- Blizzard He gave a total turnaround to one of the genres that hit the PC the strongest, real-time strategy, launching the colossal Star craft.
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- It would also mark many of the foundations of what electronic sports have ended up being.
- Master Hideo Kojima shook the industry’s foundations with Metal Gear Solid.
- And Lucas Arts offered us a majestic swan song from the Grim Fandango adventure game.
- Nintendo makes our dreams come true by elevating the video game to its highest expression with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
- Lucky PC gamers received titles from the Fallout 2 stall and Baldur’s Gate.
- It odes to the best role with different staging, or the superb Thief: The Dark Project, with Ken Levine’s weight or Warren Spector behind.
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- And with these and other titans, we received dozens of major titles that, for reasons of space we ignore, in a majestic year for the video game sector.
- Standing out in that year within the video game sector was certainly not something that happened because of the shortage of quality exponents.
- The 1998 of indelible memory left us the debut of a virtually unknown developer.
- It is just two years early by a couple of former Microsoft employees, Mike Harrington and one Gabe Newell.
How is the most popular PC video game referred to as “Doom-type games”?
- The first Valve game, which remains the name of these good gentlemen, would remain a game of the first-person shooter in the vein of id classics like the Doom mentioned above or Quake.
- It would remain precisely a version of the engine of the latter licensed by id.
- And also, that Valve customized ad nauseam to adjust it to its pretensions to model its creature.
- In addition to the influences, its creators mention the Stephen King novel.
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- “The Fog” or a chapter in the series “Beyond the Limit” (“The Outer Limits”) entitled topic “The Borderland.
- “After a struggle to find a distributor to launch the game, Mr. Newell’s company allied himself with nothing more and less than the giant Sierra.
- On November 19, 1998, Valve released Half-Life, and the world of video games would never be the same again.
- Half-Life came to completely revolutionize the narrative within the genre of first-person shooter games, particularly the medium in general.
- Valve’s title altogether fled from cinematic or pre-recorded scenes to tell us its story.
- It is giving us control of our avatar at all times so that we fully experience this incomparable sci-fi epic through their eyes.
- Several moments were indeed encrypts.
- But the Valve title knew how to masterfully camouflage it to immerse us in its world.
- It makes us feel that our actions had an impact on it in a way that no title had before.
