Of cource the mod Black Mess has a story. Let me tell you something about Black Mess and the base called CORE where your are playing the mod.
Black Mess is a story about a rebel soldier, a soldier that survived the 7-hour war. He was one of the soldier defending CORE, an inportant base during the 7-hour war. On the end of the war the fight outside the base stopped and the soldiers did surunder to the Combine.
Inside the base there where still soldiers, they where still holdig of the combine. It took the combine 8 hour (without the 7 hour of the war) to take control of the biggest part of the base.
most of the soldiers were killed or captured by the combine, some soldiers did go deep inside the base, they locked themself away from the outside world, the combine where not able to find them, they are still in the base, but where?
Core is base that is conceteced with tunnels (which you see at the end of the demo), the tunnels are leading to other parts the base. If you want to travel though the base, the only way is using these tunnels.
The tunnels are small and you can easely get lost in it, there is almost no light so it is completly dark within the tunnels, this makes it more dificult to navigate trough the base.
every month the combines send 6 squads of soldiers into the tunnels to find the remaining soldiers/rebels inside CORE. None of them ever made it out alive, they did disapear. The combine now know the way in base for 64%.
The base is called CORE because it was and maby even still is the core of human resistance on earth.
Core countains almost everthing that Black Mesa did contain. Only Black Mesa was a sience complex, CORE is a military complex although it still contains labs.
You take place in the skill of a soldier that try to defend the base, but who failed, just like the rest of the earth. get into CORE and solve this Black Mess and take control of the base along with the rebels. And when you again have the base in your hands, strike at the combine and let them never return to CORE and help freeing the earth.
Be prepared for a new update of Black Mess and try out my first demo.
Noek1993