Tetsuo Time

Maybe Black Mesa, that was a joke ha ha fat chance! Is what the lyrics in 2007's Portal said. Well, it turns out not too much of a fat chance because Black Mesa has been finally released! This long in the making total conversion mod of the original Half-Life in the Source engine which debuted with Half-Life 2 and Vampire The Masquerde Bloodlines has been highly anticipated by many people on the internet including myself. Tonight I will talk some about what I liked, what I didn't like and how I feel the game faired as a whole.
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Overall even with the few crashes and bugs I've had with the game my impression of it is very high and I look forward to the final chapters being released which are supposed to be improved and expanded upon so I look forward to that. Also, it would be great with the the steam greenlight stuff if the game would be run through QA and compiled for Mac. But at least I got to play it in the meantime and had a good time. 

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It's called Half-Life:Decay. It's basically a version of Half-Life especially designed to be played with two players CO-OP. In fact even when you play it single player you have to switch between the two characters in order to progress. I have my Half-Life cd key registered with Steam and the steam edition of Half-Life with HD models added on especially waiting for this mod to come out. It's actually a port of an expansion pack to the PS2 version that hadn't been back-ported to the PC up until now. If any of my friends on my friends list happens to have Half-Life and would like to play this game with me when it comes out leave me a comment\message\what have you. I read their forums and they said they are 60% done with the last level.