This addon aims to improve the music of Half-Life 2 and it's Episodes. Some of the original score has been extended and some new music has been added.
INTRODUCTION
Sorry for my bad English.
This addon aims to improve the music of Half-Life 2 and it's Episodes. While adding more appropriate music to the atmosphere of the chapters, I've tried to stay as true to the original spirit of the game as possible. Not all the music of the game has been replaced. Nearly all of the iconic music has been preserved, and some of the original score has been replaced with extended versions. The musics in addon are not my compositions. They have been imported from other PC games (such as F.E.A.R., Opposing Force, Mass Effect) and transferred to the game by making arrangements on them. Extended versions are my arrangements also. In addition, there is one music from the movie The Dark Knight.
This addon both compatible with old version and steampipe versions of the game. It's also compatible with MMOD.
Here a demonstration from Half-Life 2's Ravenholm chapter and Episode One's Lowlife chapter:
INSTALLATION
- Open the Half-Life_2_Enhanced_Music 7zip archive.
- FOR STEAMPIPE VERSION: Close Steam just in case. Put the "Half-Life-2_Enhanced_Music.vpk" file into the "...\Half-Life 2\hl2\custom" folder. Put the "Episode_One_Enhanced_Music.vpk" file into the "...\Half-Life 2\episodic\custom" folder. Put the "Episode_Two_Enhanced_Music.vpk" file into the "...\Half-Life 2\ep2\custom" folder.
- FOR OLD VERSION: Put "sound" and "scipts" folder inside of "Half-Life-2_Enhanced_Music" folder to the "...\Half-Life 2\hl2" folder. Put the "sound" folder inside of "Episode_One_Enhanced_Music" folder to the "...\Half-Life 2\episodic" folder. Put the "sound" folder inside of "Episode_Two_Enhanced_Music" folder to the "...\Half-Life 2\ep2" folder.
- FOR MMOD: Just like steampipe installation, put the appropriate vpk files into the mmod's "custom" folders.
That's it. Enjoy the game.
AUTHOR and SUBMITTER
Alone_Boy
It's been 5 months and 392 total downloads. I'm expecting some comments here... ;)
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im a just a guest, but this is awesome dude
Thank you mate. I'm glad that you liked my addon.
"mama-mia im-a just a guest-a"
i jest but seeing "im a just a guest" made me think of that
I like it
Its like something the Black Mesa team will make for a HL2 remake
goodjob
Thank you.
Does this work on all hl2? But not the episodes 1 and 2
It works on all of them. Sorry for the very late reply.
Dude this awesome i see your add opposing forces themevon breen case ost it really cool good job
Thanks. I'm glad that you've liked it.
How did you extend the music?
I've used Audacity. A freeware software for editing sound files.
A fellow in using Audacity, its bound to be great!
You dont need comments, you are too good. lol
I'm not fond of Opposing Force's soundtrack, that military drum beat is too droning, if I don't want to use that but I want to try out the rest, is it as simple as checking which tracks you're adding and deleting the OpFor ones? Will that work?
Yes, it will work. But only if you're using old Half-Life 2 version. Steampipe version uses vpk package system, so if you want to choose each music, you have to unpack them from vpk package, strip out the ones you don't like and repackage them again properly.
I see, thank you!
You're welcome.
Is Morch Kovalski remixes are present?
Really like those.