Half-Life Havoc is a mod for Half-Life 2 centred around physics. The objective is to create a middle ground between Half-Life 2 and Garry's Mod. The idea is to take the constrained physics play present in Half-Life 2 and combine it with the lack of urgency present in Garry's Mod. You are presented with a number of premade physics games or puzzles, but each one is designed to encourage free play within the given puzzle. The mod makes use of Valve's developer commentary system so with developer commentary mode enabled you are able to hear explanations of the physics and the games. This allows you to experience the Half-Life 2 engine's physics system and explicitly consider the physics, rather than playing the game with the physics in the background.

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Half-Life Havoc 1.0

Half-Life Havoc 1.0

Apr 11, 2008 Full Version 15 comments

Here's the release build, the one that got handed in.

Alpha 1.2a

Alpha 1.2a

Mar 25, 2008 Demo 0 comments

Updates Since Alpha 1.1: Changed mod folder name to HLH so the chapter names would work. Changed the background map. it now does stuff. Added an intro...

Alpha 1.1

Alpha 1.1

Mar 12, 2008 Demo 6 comments

This is Alpha 1.1. Almost the same as the last release, but all the games can now be reset with buttons to be infinitely replayable.

Alpha 1

Alpha 1

Mar 01, 2008 Demo 3 comments

Here's Alpha 1. There's a bit more to do, but still no commentary. That's the next step.

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mags1722
mags1722 Aug 21 2009, 7:16pm says:

This mod is cool, and it explains more about the physics of half life 2, by doing tests. It was pretty fun but got boring after i finished all the tests. I had a problem where i had to change the use and the reload key back to default (or just press the default button on the controls menu in the options).
i give it a 6/10

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poodleinacan
poodleinacan Mar 20 2009, 6:45pm says:

maybe do some thing like Gmod

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Mr.Samsa
Mr.Samsa Jul 3 2009, 8:50am replied:

Gmod already exists, and it's way better than anything I would make. It would be really cool to have some commentary for how Gmod works, though.

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takos_360
takos_360 Mar 5 2009, 2:20pm says:

On what map did you take the picture? :D

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Mr.Samsa
Mr.Samsa Jul 3 2009, 8:49am replied:

The one of Kleiner pushing the Metrocop? I can't actually remember...It's one of the earlier ones in City 17, it's just a set of about 6 steps in front of a random building you can't enter. It's posed in Gmod.

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omer123
omer123 Jan 26 2009, 1:13pm says:

I love it but It would be great if we could play around with that bathtub filled with water ect.

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Mr.Samsa
Mr.Samsa Jul 3 2009, 8:48am replied:

That was something I really wanted to do, but the water's actually just a rectangle that looks water-like, and it's all mashed into the tub. If you look at the tub from any other angle you can see that the water doesn't actually fill it by volume, it's just a watery rectangle sitting awkwardly in the tub.

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JLx14
JLx14 Jan 1 2009, 5:51pm says:

it was cool but then when i was done listening to everything.... well, i deleted it. there no point to keep it.

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Mr.Samsa
Mr.Samsa Jan 12 2009, 4:31pm replied:

Yeah, it's mainly an instructional tool, not a lot of replay value, I'll admit. Hope it was briefly fun for you.

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resserection
resserection Sep 7 2008, 5:45pm says:

this is really fun i reccomend this to anyone!

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