I reviewed Half-Life remake Black Mesa – which began development in 2004 — six years ago. It was great, but it was also missing something: The game’s final act, set on the alien world of Xen. That’ll be out next year, and if you’re wondering why it’s taken so long, it’s because the section has been almost completely remade.
Rather than replicate the surreal and kinda terrible closing moments of the original, the Black Mesa team (reminder: they’re fans, not Valve employees) decided to fix Xen by making it a fully-fledged, standalone part of the game. It’s “largely original work”, will run for around six hours, and has a colour palette lifted straight from an acid trip. It’s looking fantastic.
The Black Mesa team say Xen will be around Q2 2019.
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3 responses to “14 Years Later, Half-Life’s Remake Is Almost Finished”
WOW. Wow wow wow. This cruelly makes me want to buy a gaming PC. FUCK. Zero chance of playing this on console…
Can somebody please hand these guys the keys to Half Life 3?
God damn…
Nice video, if it’s actually a real game, then they’ve just about beaten every company that has ever made a game just by looking at it.