Half-Life: Dark Matter mod

Half-Life: Dark Matter is a modification for the 1999 Game of the Year Half-Life and its sequel Half-Life 2. It takes the user back to Black Mesa in past tense. In the ten years since Black Mesa was nuked, a group of rebels have rebuilt their own base aptly named Black Mesa Alpha. The rebels have since gathered the plans from Dr. Kleiner and have set up teleportation points around the new base and at other Rebel locations across the planet.

You are awoken lying on the ground looking up at three soldiers. “He’s waking, He’s waking”. You don’t remember anything. The only thing you remember is the name the soldiers are calling you, “Giga”. Suddenly, you hear gunfire and raise to your feet. You seem to be wearing some sort of combat suit that analyses any variable in its viewpoint. It tells you to fight. Fight… or die…

The story of the mod will be set in 2010, just after Gordon Freeman dealt a massive blow to the Combine by destroying the City 17 Citadel. There has been a massive revolt in the surrounding other cities, with many taking overthrowing their so-called Benefactors. In a bid to hold back the rebellion, the Combine in “City 1” have derived a strain of a virus, moulded using dark matter and nano-technology that slowly programs the host to whatever pre-set instructions have been set by the Combine.

The player will wake up in what the rebellion will deem a normal fight with the Combine. However, what they don’t realise is that the outpost they will be raiding contains information of the nano-virus, which they know nothing about. The player will be fitted with the latest modified HEV suit, which analyses units and identifies them once programmed into a database.

The game will take the player to several locations unseen in the Half-Life universe, yet pivotal to the telling of Half-Life: Dark Matter. Spanning several rebellion bases and ruined cities that once were the pride of man, the player will be immersed in an interactive experience.