As Kotaku notes, that original toolset was a mod itself, expanding on the Quake engine's framework. But, the end result might make you nostalgic for that resonance cascade we witnessed at Black Mesa in 1998. It serves as 'a way to see what Half-Life 2 could have looked like in the limits of Goldsrc, if Valve never developed the Source engine,' the listing page says.Īs you might imagine, the game isn't pretty.
To help take some of that sting off, a group of enterprising fans crafted Half-Life 2: Classic, a mod that essentially runs the game in its prequel's 'Goldsrc' engine.
The chances of us getting Half-Life 3 or, hell, even Half-Life 2: Episode 3 seem about as likely as the Detroit Lions winning the Super Bowl at this point.
