WTF?! As some of the beloved PC video games of the final 20 years, Half-Life 2 has obtained an innumerable quantity of mods and conversions. Customers have strived to boost its graphics, add digital actuality assist, introduce ray tracing, and construct customized episodes. One modder even changed all the sport’s audio together with his personal voice. Nevertheless, reworking Valve’s basic right into a Lego sport is an innovation we have not seen earlier than.
A lately launched free mod for Garry’s Mod allows customers to play Half-Life 2 from begin to end with all characters offered as Legos. Whereas it does not incorporate the constructing mechanics from official Lego video games (which might be becoming for Garry’s Mod), it gives an amusing approach to revisit the seminal FPS.
Prolific Supply engine modder “No Dave or Daniel” launched a set of things on Steam Workshop that exchange each Half-Life 2 character mannequin with a Lego determine. This contains Gordon Freeman, your entire principal forged, all enemies, and residents of Metropolis 17. Whereas a lot of the mod is new, it incorporates parts from earlier mods like a customizable third-person digicam and an impact that causes characters to drop Lego studs when defeated for an additional comedic impact.
These making an attempt out Lego Half-life 2 ought to be aware that it solely replaces character fashions, leaving environments unchanged. Because of the Lego figures’ cartoonish proportions, the conversion causes the sport to seem like a world stuffed with solely little individuals. Moreover, the first-person digicam stays at its authentic peak, enhancing the absurdist presentation.
The modder primarily builds characters, fashions, and maps for Supply engine video games like Garry’s Mod, Left 4 Useless 2, and Staff Fortress 2.
Different current fashionable Garry’s Mod objects embody a completely practical port of Tetris, hand animations for the highly-regarded digital actuality conversion, and a recreation of the favored new Doom map MyHouse.wad.
The primary Half-Life titles have additionally obtained spectacular mods over the past yr. A conversion that overhauls the 1998 authentic with real-time path tracing launched in February, and one is in growth for the sequel.
Half-Life 2 and each of its add-on episodes lately became absolutely playable in VR, and a fan campaign is now obtainable for Valve’s VR follow-up Half-Life: Alyx. Moreover, that title is now playable in its entirety and not using a VR headset because of a mod.
