Black Mesa Review on PC Linux | Half-Life
18Black Mesa Review on Linux PC from Half-Life. Set in the first-person sci-fi shooter Half-Life. Hence the groundbreaking game creation with Source Engine. Now Black Mesa is making it's way onto Steam for Linux, ready for some serious review gameplay. A long, exciting, action-packed title and a major achievement for modders Crowbar Collective.
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The Black Mesa visuals are a leap forward on Linux, compared to 1997's review. Which over the years has slowly turned to ugly, except for the most nostalgic of gamers. At the same time, the Source Engine itself is getting rather dated. So Black Mesa gameplay on Linux looks great, but not compared to current releases. Especially the models and animations we see in this game. These are the limits of the Source Engine, which quickly make that obvious in this Black Mesa review. While mostly in and during the loading points between maps.
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Even the famous tram ride at the beginning gameplay comes in three parts due to pauses to load. Plus in some of the faster paced portions of our review gameplay, loading screens crop up so quickly in Black Mesa, they have to edit that out. So from the point of this review, the physics are not really present, even on a Linux PC. Aside from a few new puzzles involving carrying an extinguisher to mall-mounted socket type events.
Black Mesa gameplay takes in the reliance on things like vent crawling, ladder climbing and laser beam jumping. Which becomes apparent, while time spent hunting through the huge complex. Hence Black Mesa gameplay is still about looking for one door that will actually open or a switch that you need to flip.
From this PC review, the fights against the same small enemy types are challenging. So Black Mesa gameplay still encompasses slow-paced trips down to a water-filled, body-strewn area. Only to push a button that starts a generator, pump or giant fan. Where enemies suddenly take up your path during gameplay to position themselves in your way.
Black Mesa brings back the best parts of Half-Life gameplay to Linux. Players will have the chance to re-live the real-time scripted sequences. Where scientists or guards are taken into vents. Or grabbed through ceiling tiles, exploded, shredded, burned and simply munched on. This type of gameplay still proves entertaining on a Linux PC, even moments when players fight their way to the surface. Only to find soldiers who are not there to rescue but permanently silence the player. While you end up back in a new section of the Black Mesa complex. Not to mention being able to chose when soldiers and aliens encounter one another, giving the player a chance to squeak by. And those awestruck lab techs and their frustrated grunt that learn of your exploits before entering a scene.
The Steam for Linux version of Black Mesa comes with multiplayer. But this review is not about deathmatch and team deathmatch gameplay. Playable on a number of arena-style maps, the multiplayer chaos feels like the original Half-Life Deathmatch too.
Black Mesa carries both the up's and down's of the original gameplay on Linux. A huge accomplishment for Crowbar Collective providing hours of challenging and almost tiring gaming.
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