He’s no Michael Winslow, which makes the whole experience even funnier. Half-Life 2: All Sounds Replaced with my VoiceĮxcept for ambient noises and character dialogue, Trase666 replaced every single sound file in Half-Life 2 with his own voice equivalent. This mod should appease everyone’s inner 12-year-old.ħ. Sign textures have hilariously been replaced with curse words. Scientists tend to explode into an excessive amount of gibs and blood decals. Like the former, it’s a corruption of the first Half-Life game, though with cruder humour. Scientist SlaughterHouse: Mod Messup 1: WTFīefore Jamie’s Mod there was SSH: MM1: WTF. There is now a PC port that you can play, courtesy of people over on the Facepunch Studios forums.Ħ. At the end of a game, the screen bids you goodbye with the following sentence: “Your fighting spirit will not be forgotten through all eternity”. Girl Gordon’s HEV even has a little skirt attached to it. The female rebel is what appears to be a non-mixed Asian Alyx, and you can dress her up in kitty ears. If you are having stereotypical expectations, fret not. It is tailored for Japanese audiences and meant for arcade cabinets. Half-Life 2: Survivor is not a mod, it’s an actual Valve game licensed to Taito Corporation. Valve Software and Taito Corporation (2006) | Source In Half-Life: Alternative Origin, you ‘play’ as a vending machine. It also follows the logical pattern set by the core Half-Life games: You’ve played as a scientist, security guard, marine, and even as a vortigaunt in Decay. Though simplistic, it’s hilarious because it’s not just nonsensical. According to the concept art, Newton was even going to have a miniature kitty HEV suit.
Cat-Life: GS was the first remake attempt and only playable content available. Despite the issues, the concept is still amusing – You experience the events of Half-Life through the eyes of Newton the cat. The original mod never got finished, and two separate attempts to revive the project failed as well. Only a demo of this mod exists due to bumpy development. Sometimes it wonderfully crosses over into the horrific as you realize that the barnacles are gaping G-Men maws. The tiny rodeo G-Men riding snarks are the most crazy thing. Like Jamie’s Mod, it’s a hilarious twist on the base game. Russian-made G-Man Invasion replaces every character and creature model with the G-man. G-Man Invasion Developers (2007) | GoldSrc The result is an experience akin to what would happen if late-2000s YouTube became sentiment and began assimilating games. All models and weapons in the original game have been mashed with obscure YouTube characters, and then corrupted in some way. At the moment, there is no way for "non-technical" people to experience the original-half life.Įven if you think the HD-models look better, they should be disabled by default, out of respect to the original Hal-life.Born from the pits of Hellfire2345 and lemurboy12‘s imaginations, Jamie’s Mod is possibly the best-known Half-Life crack mod. The historic work of many Valve modelers and artists has been swept down the drain. The official documentation now refers to options that don't work. Old players will become frustrated that they can't get the original Half-life back, as the the only way revert the change is a launch command that isn't documented anywhere (and at the moment this doesn't even exist!). New players to Half- life will think the game always looked this way.
You are effectively rewriting history, as Steam is pretty much the only place to buy Half-Life. Suddenly "upgrading," the look of a 15 year old game, with no option to revert is a very bad idea. Heck, even the promotional images on it's Steam page use the old models. When I play Half-Life, I expect it to look the way it did 15 years ago. The version of Half-life available on Steam is no longer the real half life. When Valve made Half-life Source, they had the option to use the HD-models, but chose not to, as the originals are better.īut that is not the worst of it. The HD-models clash with the art-style of the game and look very out of place.