Forsaken Few mod for Half-Life 2

The mod's still in its early stages, so features are subject to possible change. As such, we can only work on content that we're sure will make the final cut for now, until we finish brushing up some final design details.
The mod's goals may seem optimistic, but with our team having worked with the Source engine since near its intial release, we feel confident that we can accomplish its goals well within the Source engine's capabilities.

The Team:
Marc "Kathar" Hales - Lead Developer, Modeller, Texture Artist, Mapper
Jonny "Blackjack" Girvan - Lead Developer, Modeller, Texture Artist
Jamie "Jiro" Girvan - Modeller
Jordan "Joh" Hutton - Private Tester

The mod is looking to recruit coders. See Media Release #1 for a small taste of what we're looking to incorporate via code.

Story, short summary:
Forsaken Few will be based around a small handful of survivors who recently fled to the fictional city of Oceanic, the last remaining city on Earth to be untouched by "Zombies". These Zombies, previously human, came about by a sudden climate change that occurred throughout the Globe: Glaciers melted causing sea levels to rise, storm clouds brewed; discharging their rage in the form of lightning, towards the dead land below. These clouds continued to expand and merge until they finally ceased to give visual access to the sky. The clouds, a dark and powerful barrier to the outside world, kept the Sun's rays out of sight. Humidity started to increase, accentuating any and all pollutions' effects. These pollutions had nowhere to vent and eventually merged together to form a previously unknown type of toxin. This toxin eventually settled upon the surface of the Earth, infecting the world's water and accessible food supply. If drank from, humans got infected by its effects soon after. Only a few survived the toxin, due an extremely rare, and previously long-thought meaningless genetic defect. These Survivors gathered to the high-grounds of Oceanic City, seeking refuge from the dead world that surrounded them. They were mistaken. Starving from their lack of meals, the Zombies' heightened senses led them towards the last place on Earth containing life; Oceanic City...

General game-play features:
- Complete visual conversion, set in a post-apocalyptic horror theme
- Close over-shoulder third-person view, all the fun of third-person without the "advantages"
- Dense urban environments increase the feeling of tension and unease
- All environments feature a vast amount of freedom and interactivity, therefore opening up new paths to players, such as; destroying environments, starting/extinguishing fires, barricading, trap setting and much, much more
- Zombies will mainly be AI-controlled, although both Zombies and Survivors are playable
- Survivors can use any potentially dangerous objects available as a make-shift weapon to fend off massive hordes of Zombies
- Infection style system forces Survivors to turn on their previous allies, preventing the usually dull spectator experience
- Survivors will have to gather and consume "provisions" to survive, among other unique features
- Highly customisable player models, many aesthetics to choose from
- No preset teams or allies; choose to survive alone, hording potentially useful objects for yourself, or forge a friendship with other Survivors to share the burden of survival
- No preset classes or levelling system; with the interactive freedom of the mod, players choose their own style of game-play
- A dynamic and separated two-handed system allows for a huge variety in weapon/item mixing and matching
- Map locations are set in the fictional city of Oceanic, which features a large variety of environmental districts
- 3 game-modes provide additional variances in game-play for both Survivors and Zombies
- With an absurdly low Survivor-to-Zombie ratio, Survivors must use their wits and cunning to survive the onslaught
- No preset weapon/item positions will be used, instead the maps will be loaded out with huge amounts of "possible" spawn points, some of these will then be picked at random to have weapons/items spawned at them.