About Blacksite Zeta:
Blacksite Zeta a fan game that has grown into an absolute beast of a single player experience. It’s so good that you’d think Valve made it, and dare I say, think it might even be better than Half-Life 2. That’s how good this mod is. Take the finesse and polish of the Source engine that makes all of Valve’s games look and play so good, then apply that to their original masterpiece Half-Life. Crowbar Collective took a simple little project, ‘making a REAL Half-Life: Source’ and it blossomed into a lifetime-long passion, for good reasons and bad. The Half-Life community were first teased this brilliant idea all the way back in 2005, and even then there would still be a long wait until we first saw a proper release in 2012. This version of the game featured everything except the controversial Xen segment of the game, which includes the final boss. It also had no Hazard Course chapter for tutorials, but this won’t ever be in the game, as the team have deemed it unnecessary. For years, Black Mesa ended on a cliffhanger as you, the player, are teleported to the borderworld at the end of the Lambda Core chapter. Finally, after an extremely long wait and countless irritating delays, Half-Life’s proper Source remake, Black Mesa, was completed at the very end of 2019. The chapters Xen, Gonarch’s Lair, Interloper, Nihilanth and Endgame were finally added to the mod, and they are all nothing short of breathtaking. Amidst constant criticism of their delays and shortcomings over the years, Crowbar Collective held their heads high and gave us the greatest remake of Half-Life we could ever hope for. I don’t care if I’m a Half-Life fanboy, this is quite simply the greatest video game mod of all time. It is bursting at the seams with detail, the voice-acting is superb, it retains the campy aesthetic of its inspiration, the game-play is Half-Life at its BEST… and the fact that (pretty much) every chapter is a longer and grander experience makes the entire story last for hours. You’ll start slow during the introduction, you’ll grab a weapon and start killing aliens