Day of Defeat: Source (4 out of 5)
Because of its age, there are a simple huge number of good Half Life 2 mods available. They range from objective based shooters to more abstract games. This Bright Hub article takes a look at a few of the best Half Life 2 mods.
A class-based half life 2 mod, Day of Defeat Source adds more features on to those used in Counter-Strike: Source, but fails to match the better known game’s success.
But Day of Defeat: Source is not a mere deathmatch game. On the contrary, the game is more objective based, as might be expected more in a game such as Battlefield or Call of Duty. While early reviews of the game were negative of its lack of features and maps, through time the map tally has been raised to 17 officially released maps, giving much more of a variety of players.
For players looking for a shooter with a little more brain than the raw Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source is certainly the foremost in the many good half life 2 mods available.
Garry’s Mod (5 out of 5)
While available as a standalone game, Garry’s Mod is nonetheless a heavily modified Half Life 2 Mod.
What sets Garry’s Mod apart from many other good Half Life 2 Mods is the sheer fact that isn’t just a shooter game. In fact, it more or less does away with any relics of a shooter, insteading allowing players complete control of their environment. The sandbox setting allows a vast variety of different contraptions and devices to be constructed using the Physics and Tool Guns, which allows objects to be manipulated in a number of complex ways.
What really makes the game enjoyable is the ability for players to get together over steam and collaborate in creating some truly amazing creations.
Garry’s Mod requires at least one Source based game to be owned by the player, such as Half Life 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead or Counter-Strike: Source.
Dystopia (5 out of 5)
Set in a future world, Dystopia is based around the concept of two competing groups of individuals, Punks and Corps Mercenaries, fighting their way through each other to gain access to Cyberspace – a world spanning computer that is able to manipulate most, if not all, infrastructure in society.
Dystopia could just be the most innovative and original of the available Half-Life 2 Mods. It presents two separate, but interlinked game world – the real life game world where players fight it out, and Cyberspace, where players can jack in and take control of different pieces of infrastructure to benefit their team.
If anything, Dystopia deserves points for striving to be different. But the game is also able to stand up to scrutiny of its gameplay. While certainly not the most popular, and with a rather tricky learning curve, Dystopia is certainly one of many good half life 2 mods, and challenges over the title of the best one available.
Counter-Strike: Source (4 out of 5)
Definitive in the huge group of half life 2 deathmatch mods, Counter-Strike: Source has grown to the position of being considered a game in its own right. Praised by users as offering lightning fast gameplay and easy to use, simplistic controls, it has remained a highly popular mod, six years after its initial release, with xfire.com reporting up to 1,000,000 minutes per day being played by its users.
While criticized by some critics for its lack of a storyline or depth, the game is and always has been a multiplayer only game, with no real storyline needed to spur the course of events along.
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Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat (4 out of 5)
Designed as a modern military themed shooter, Insurgency still has plenty to offer users, though of a different target audience then Counter-Strike: Source. Designed by a former military member, this influence shows through in a number of elements of the game’s play.
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Where Insurgency differs from Counter-Strike: Source and many other half life 2 deathmatch mods is that players must act as part of a team. In CS, players are able to, and more often than not do, go Rambo and attack the enemy one at a time without any real plan of attack or strategy. However, in Insurgency more team related gameplay is not only encouraged but made necessary through the decreased health that each player has, and the numerous ambush locations all through the maps.
Pirates, Vikings and Knights II (3 out of 5)
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A hilariously constructed anachronism, Pirates, Vikings and Knights II is nonetheless a good play for fans of any combinations of the three clichés featured in the mod’s title. It is an imperfect title, but nonetheless a thoroughly enjoyable play.
The game offers battles between the three groups, centered around kills, objectives, or any combination of the two. While it may be far from perfect, it still manages to stand up in the ranks of half life 2 deathmatch mods, even if only because of the sheer ridiculousness of the game’s concept, and its development is ongoing, so there’s sure to be much improvement in this one as time goes on.
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- edited August 2011On A Mountain threatened to take away our siggies! . . . . And I don't even smoke!
- Senior MemberOak Park, CA , USAPosts: 4,686Registered UsersI am here!
Unfourtunately i dont play much HL2 Mods, The only one i do play is Garrys Mod *HIGHLY RECOMMENDED*
There are some free ones on steam: Zombie Panic Source, Age of Chivalry, Pirates Vikings and Knights
Smod is ok, i only played it a few times at a friends house
I dont mess around with mods much, i ehter like a game the way it is or i dont play it at all'we have officially entered into pre-whinning about our games.'- Cogre
I will always respect differing opinions on here, so long as they are presented maturely and in a civil manner
'No Battleplan ever survives contact with the enemy'- Helmuth Von Moltke the Elder
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I'm skipping TW: Warhammer - edited August 2011I am here!
Unfourtunately i dont play much HL2 Mods, The only one i do play is Garrys Mod *HIGHLY RECOMMENDED*
There are some free ones on steam: Zombie Panic Source, Age of Chivalry, Pirates Vikings and Knights
Smod is ok, i only played it a few times at a friends house
I dont mess around with mods much, i ehter like a game the way it is or i dont play it at all
I like half life 2 its just ive played it so many times over the vanilla (unmodded) way and want to ****e things up a bit.
SMOD is ok so far the weapons it adds are for the most part overpowered, and theres alot more combine troops to fight, the only thing I really like is the bullet slowdown mode.
Hmm back to moddb for me to find more I suppose.
Also anyone think the forum is overdoing the word cencorship a bit
I cant say s p i c e? without it being starred out'Two years war and no conquest? The little province of Upper Canada holds out two years against the whole force of democracy? This is very grating,' - Nathan Ford, a local official in New York State.
'Just because you lose doesnt mean you surrender' - Stephen Colbert
Where there's a whip, there's a way.
I have never retreated in a strategy game, I just attack in the opposite direction. - Senior MemberToronto, CanadaPosts: 5,918Registered UsersMy Rome 2 PC: Intel i5-4670, nVidia 760GTX, 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD, NZXT Vulcan mATX case
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Buttons the Kitten needs your help. Click here to save a kitten today. - edited August 2011Counter Striiiikkkeee!!!!
There coming out with a new counter strike game for consoles
Oh wait thats probably not a good thing'Two years war and no conquest? The little province of Upper Canada holds out two years against the whole force of democracy? This is very grating,' - Nathan Ford, a local official in New York State.
'Just because you lose doesnt mean you surrender' - Stephen Colbert
Where there's a whip, there's a way.
I have never retreated in a strategy game, I just attack in the opposite direction. - edited August 2011'For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.'- Carl Sagan
- edited August 2011I really enjoyed the Empires 2.0 mod for Half Life 2.
The best Source mod available on Steam is indeed Pirates, Knights and Vikings II. Although the PVK mod team is the slowest mod ever.
And for the Hardcore HL fans: Black Mesa Source. http://blackmesasource.com/ It's Half life 1 remade in the Source Engine. it's basically Duke Nukem Forever in the mod world. it isn't out yet, been in development for 5 years or even longer And No I do not have much faith left it will ever be finished.Total War: Karling - Coming soon...-ishGrudge's Total War: Attila - Sassanid UI skin here on the Steam Workshop - Senior MemberOak Park, CA , USAPosts: 4,686Registered UsersCounter Striiiikkkeee!!!!
Counter Strike Source (the one with the HL2 Engine) is not a mod because it does not requre HL2 to play.
However i do consider it (along with DOD and TF) to be part of the HL Series as they started as third party mods and there for are honorable members of the HL saga
The New Counterstrike coming out, i dont have much interest, always sucked at CSS so i will probably not get it
Black Mesa Source does look great other than the low chance that it will be finished. Perhaps the devs of this mod could make a deal with Valve to distribute it on steam, just like Gmod. I wouldnt mind paying for BMS as long it is around the same price as Gmod'we have officially entered into pre-whinning about our games.'- Cogre
I will always respect differing opinions on here, so long as they are presented maturely and in a civil manner
'No Battleplan ever survives contact with the enemy'- Helmuth Von Moltke the Elder
The WWI Thread: https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/30914/why-a-world-war-i-themed-total-war/p1
I'm skipping TW: Warhammer - edited August 2011I downloaded an extremely well done mod called Minerva Metastasis, seriously the levels in this mod are very good quality, supposedly the maker of the mod was given a job by valve afterwards because of the quality of Minerva, its a new mission not so much a mod, but its still very well done.
And im in the process of downloading fakefactorys cinematic mod which I guess is supposed to bring half life 2 up to more modern graphical standards without changing the story or anything, the mod is 9GB in size though.
And that Black Mesa mod looks very interesting indeed, I do hope they complete it.'Two years war and no conquest? The little province of Upper Canada holds out two years against the whole force of democracy? This is very grating,' - Nathan Ford, a local official in New York State.
'Just because you lose doesnt mean you surrender' - Stephen Colbert
Where there's a whip, there's a way.
I have never retreated in a strategy game, I just attack in the opposite direction. - edited August 2011I notice a new game has appeared in my Steam games list called Portal Prequel so I shall hopefully try that out at the weekend.
- Senior MemberOak Park, CA , USAPosts: 4,686Registered Users'we have officially entered into pre-whinning about our games.'- Cogre
I will always respect differing opinions on here, so long as they are presented maturely and in a civil manner
'No Battleplan ever survives contact with the enemy'- Helmuth Von Moltke the Elder
The WWI Thread: https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/30914/why-a-world-war-i-themed-total-war/p1
I'm skipping TW: Warhammer - edited August 2011Yeah I noticed it on Tuesday I think it was -I never brought it so I assume it was given to me by Steam because I own the original Portal just like HL2: Lost Coast was given to me because I brought the Orange box.
- edited August 2011I guess you can download it for free... http://www.portalprelude.com/ download button on the right side.'Two years war and no conquest? The little province of Upper Canada holds out two years against the whole force of democracy? This is very grating,' - Nathan Ford, a local official in New York State.
'Just because you lose doesnt mean you surrender' - Stephen Colbert
Where there's a whip, there's a way.
I have never retreated in a strategy game, I just attack in the opposite direction. - edited August 2011Some more:
(MP)Neotokyo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOh3xYPrYF8
(MP)Insurgency: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_CGbNA_g2w
(SP) Nightmare house 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUjTvDDHxis&feature=related
I recommend Nightmare house 2. God that mod scared the **** out of meTotal War: Karling - Coming soon...-ishGrudge's Total War: Attila - Sassanid UI skin here on the Steam Workshop - Senior MemberOak Park, CA , USAPosts: 4,686Registered UsersYea, Insurgency is fun, its actually free to get directly off steam
for those who dont know what insurgency is, its an ultra realistic multiplayer shooter mod using the base of HL2 Deathmatch set in Iraq and Afghanistan in today's wars'we have officially entered into pre-whinning about our games.'- Cogre
I will always respect differing opinions on here, so long as they are presented maturely and in a civil manner
'No Battleplan ever survives contact with the enemy'- Helmuth Von Moltke the Elder
The WWI Thread: https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/30914/why-a-world-war-i-themed-total-war/p1
I'm skipping TW: Warhammer