
The core gameplay consists of fighting alien and human enemies with a variety of weapons and solving puzzles.


Players assume the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist who must escape the Black Mesa Research Facility after it is invaded by aliens. It was Valve's debut product and the first game in the Half-Life series. “From there I became the art lead, a partner in the new ‘Crowbar Collective LLC’, project lead, and eventually owner of the company.Half-Life is a first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve and published by Sierra Studios for Windows in 1998. “In March 2006, two of my college classmates got onto the Black Mesa mod team,” Engels said in the announcement post on Steam. There was clearly plenty of emotion behind the post by Adam Engels, now owner of the Crowbar Collective. Crowbar Collective reimagines them as something quite different than the original. Known as the Xen levels, the segment’s platforming sequences were widely panned by critics and fans alike.

It also expands the gameplay, with special attention paid to the final act. That game helped to launch Steam, and jumpstarted the modern era of digital distribution.īlack Mesa takes the original Half-Life experience and moves it over to a heavily modified version of the Source engine, which Half-Life 2 was built on. Players inhabited MIT-trained particle physicist Gordon Freeman, a role that would be reprised with Half-Life 2 in 2004. The game was a smash hit, critically acclaimed for its cohesive narrative, which took players on a journey through the bowels of the high-security research laboratory known as Black Mesa. The original Half-Life was released for PC in 1998. The announcement was made on Steam, where the team at Crowbar Collective is selling the game with the blessings of franchise creators at Valve. The game leaves early access on March 5, fully after 14 years after the team at The Crowbar Collective began the project. Black Mesa, a video game that started out as a fan-made mod of the original Half-Life, finally has a release date.
