This post provides a listing of Half-Life 2 and Source modifications that have been released and/or are in development.
Art of Ascension
Description: Art of Ascension combines the spirit of online role playing games with the faster battling pace of classical first-person shooters. Players increase their character's level and enhance their abilities by battling to gain exerience. With higher levels comes training points to upgrade their weapons and attributes.
Release status: Alpha 0.16 (07.27.06)
Black Mesa: Source
Description: Black Mesa: Source is the Half-Life 2 total conversion of the original Half-Life game. Utilizing the Source engine and its endless array of possibilities and powers, Black Mesa: Source will throw you into the world that started the Half-Life continuum and introduced Gordon Freeman to the world as a gun-toting, bullet-dodging, Ph.D. Theoretical Physicist.
Release status: Unreleased (no date set)
Combine Destiny
Description: Combine Destiny is a Half-Life 2 singleplayer modification where you assume the role of a Combine soldier and battle through the dark atmosphere of an old rebel base with different paths to choose and non-stop firearm action.
Release status: 1.0 + Patch 01 (01.16.06)
Crazy Ball
Description: Crazy Ball is a crazy Half-Life 2 mod where the aim is to get the ball into the opponents net at any cost. When you spawn you will be equipped with a grav gun and a crowbar. The two teams are rebels and combine - they both decided to put there differences behind them and have a nice fun game of crazy ball!
Release status: 0.46 (04.30.05) *discontinued*
DayHard
Description: DayHard is a single player adventure set before the events narrated in Half-Life 2. You play as Gordon's brother, Morgan Freeman. He's not timid like Gordon: he's able to talk to people, and even to make comments on the situation! What's the story? Well, let's just say that one day Morgan finds the Combines knocking at his door: from then on, it will be a constant fight for survival. Throughout his journey he will face many obstacles, fight tough enemies, but also meet few special friends...
Even without a fancy suit, or an acceptable knowdlege of gravity, Morgan will have a valid arsenal at his disposal, including a shiny katana.
Release status: Patch 03b (01.25.06)
DEAD
Description: DEAD is a multiplayer first-person zombie modification for Half-Life 2. The mod is team-based, meaning objectives will need to be completed in order to win.
Release status: Unreleased (no date set)
Deathmatch Pro
Description: Deathmatch Pro adds features to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch that make the game faster and more addictive and fun to play. The Tau Canon aka Gauss, longjump pack, bunny hopping, wall jump, brightskin models and hitsound are part of it for instance. And there are a lot of other additions that make this mod a real fast paced game.
Release status: 1.7 (06.30.06)
Dodgeball: Source
Description: Dodgeball: Source is an authentic recreation of the favourite school sport. Players throw, block, dodge and duck in a variety of different environments. Multiple game modes including arcade style (featuring powerups), deathmatch and Competition keep the action fresh, and players always on their toes.
Release status: Alpha 7 (03.20.06)
Dragonball:Source
Description: DBS is a Half-Life 2 Modification designed to emulate the Dragonball world and it's characters.
Status: Unreleased (no date set)
Dreamscape
Description: Dreamscape is a 3rd Person Strategic Shooter that is viciously real and unforgiving in nature. The game has no health bar, but instead pin points the damage on your body in a realistic fashion, and on the most "realistic" setting you can kill just as easy as you can be killed. So being strategic on how you go about killing your victims is key, or if you just want to toy with them, wound them by aiming for non-lethal points, then dispose of them as you like.
Release status: Unreleased (internal alpha)
Dystopia
Description: Dystopia is a total conversion of Half-Life 2 that places the player into tense combat situations in a high tech world spanned by computer networks. As either Punk Mercenaries or Corporate Security Forces the player will fight through the physical world to gain access, via jack-in terminals, to cyberspace.
Release status: Update 4 (01.08.06)
Elite Force: Total Conversion
Description: Elite Force: Total Conversion is a modification for the game Half-Life 2. It is a sequel to the two previous Elite Force games, and will include both Single Player and Multiplayer game types. The unique feature of EF:TC is that it is not being released by a dedicated gaming company but instead is a game designed, programmed, and released by the Elite Force community.
Release status: Unreleased (no date set)
Enhanced HL2DM
Description: Half-Life 2: Deathmatch with added bite! Key features include: The crossbow now alt fires exploding bolts, the RPG fires unguided missiles as secondary fire, the scoreboard is now on the HUD and automatic weapons are more accurate.
Release status: 1.0 (08.27.05) *discontinued*
Eternal Silence 2
Description: Eternal-Silence 2 is a multiplayer modification of Half-Life 2. The mod puts you in the role of a soldier helping to fight the war between the United Terran Forces (UTF) and Neo Galactic Militia (NGM). The mod allows for extremely open-ended gameplay, allowing you to fight fast-paced dog fights in space, bombard an enemy capital ship with a heavy payload, invade the enemy capital ship by foot and attack from the inside, or command the troops and claim victory over your foe.
Release status: Unreleased ("feature complete", to be released soon)
FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod
Description: Adds cinematics, new music and textures to Half-Life 2.
Release status: 1.3 (09.29.05), Hi-Res v2.32 (03.21.06)
Garry's Mod
Description: Garry's Mod is a sandbox mod for Half-Life 2. There really isn't an aim of the game. People find many ways to have fun with the mod - ranging from making comic books to complicated chain reactions. Or just putting ragdolls into weird positions.
Release status: 9.0.4 (11.28.05) *last freely available version, future versions released via Steam for $10*
Goldeneye: Source
Description: Goldeneye: Source is a Half-Life 2 modification based on the Nintendo64 classic Goldeneye. The project aims to bring the classic game to online based multiplayer, with updated graphics, physics, animations, game play, the whole deal.
Release status: Alpha 1.1 (01.11.06)
Halloween: Pumpkin Night
Description: Pumpkin Night is a singleplayer mod for Half-life 2. It starts in a similar fashion, a young boy on Halloween night decides to take a detour into an old farmhouse after an evening of trick-or-treating. He stumbles upon the Ostium Mortis, an ancient book. But the prophecy of the traveler was only partially fulfilled, and the false traveler must be punished for his discovery.
Release status: Patch 1 (10.31.05), next release expected October 2006
HL2: Assault
Description: HL2: Assault brings objective teambased gameplay to HL2DM. Either play on the rebel team following the numbered objectives on the radar, or on the Combine team, and hold out the defenses for more than 5 minutes.
Release status: Beta 8b (02.25.06)
HL2: Capture the Flag
Description: HL2: Capture the Flag brings CTF gameplay to HL2DM.
Release status: Beta 1.7 (01.31.06) *1.7.1 in testing*
HL2: Fueled
Description: Fueled is both a multiplayer and a singleplayer mod for HL2. The multiplayer gameplay is centered around the type of mayhem you would find if Grand Theft Auto were multiplayer, mixed with the kind of strategic gameplay of the Battlefield series placed in a dystopic (almost post-apocolyptic) setting. And while the mayhem will be esque` of Grand Theft Auto, and the teamplay will be biased towards BattleField like structure - Bot SP and MP will share a dark, decaying gloomy atmosphere.
Release status: Alpha build 2308
HL2: Substance
Description: HL2: Substance gives the Half-Life 2 single player campaign harder challenges and hectic action: 4 gamemodes to test your skills with, a wide array of weapons and 5 different player classes to best suit your gaming style. Welcome to the real Substance, what action is made of!
Release status: 1.22 (01.20.06)
Insects Infestation
Description: Obviously based on the insect's point of view, II will offer its players to choose among three different insect species, Ants, Termites and Wasps. Each of these will have its own set of unique weapons, powers, behaviour and abilities. To add a little interest, species will be available in two main starting classes: Soldiers or Builders. Classes will eventually evolve into six distinct classes as you play, again to give even more diversity to the game.
Release status: Unreleased (no date set)
Incoming Source
Description: Incoming Source is a continuation of Incoming which was created over six years ago and began life on the Half-Life 1 engine. Incoming was an ambitious game being the first mod to feature both drivable vehicles with usable turrets along with flyable vehicles on the Half-Life 1 engine. Incoming Source retains the vehicles, while adding brand new content and a whole slew of new features and models and environments. Incoming Source has both great graphics and will feature addictive gameplay.
Release status: Unreleased ("coming soon")
Insurgency
Description: Insurgency (INS) is a modern infantry combat modification for Half-Life 2. Take to the modern battlefield and engage in intense firefights and battles as a member of either a highly organized and equipped conventional force, or as an unconventional fighter that uses a combination of firepower and bravery to take on their sometimes overwhelming opponent.
Release status: Unreleased (internal beta)
Minerva
Description: Minerva is not a conventional modification, but instead is an ongoing, episodic series of single-player Half-Life 2 maps. The maps are linked by a common plotline, based in the Half-Life 2 universe but with extensions. Significantly influenced by games such as the Marathon and System Shock series, each map will feature enigmatic directions and instructions from an unknown third party.
Release status: Metastasis 2 (03.03.06)
Mistake of Pythagoras
Description: Due to a failed human experiment, Gordon Freeman is swept into a parallel world. The city is now under attack from unknown enemies. You have to find out a way to stop the invasion by traveling into their world and correcting the "mistake."
Release status: 1.0c (02.06.06)
NeoForts
Description: Neoforts is an updated and constantly improved fort-building mod for HL2. The goal of Neoforts is to be stable, bug-free, and fun.
Release status: 1.60 (08.19.05) *discontinued*
Perfect Dark: Source
Description: Perfect Dark: Source recreates the original Nintendo64 game with updated physics and graphics.
Release status: Unreleased (internal beta)
Plan of Attack
Description: Plan of Attack is a multiplayer first-person shooter that highlights strategy, teamwork, and out-thinking your enemy. Players are faced with important decisions each round that affect themselves and their team. What objective to attack, planning your defense, acquiring money or experience, bankrupting the enemy team, choosing your skill class, and planning your path to victory.
Release status: Beta 4.1u (01.04.06) *final release, source code opened up*
Pong Source
Description: Pong as you all know was a simple video game based on ping pong. Then many years later when video games had got a lot better graphically, a team of modders called Team Reaction took the idea of Pong and put it in to the Quake universe. and so Qpong was born. Instead of two paddles, there was two teams with the ingenious addition of weapons. The idea was still the same, get the ball into the "goal" but now you could hit the Ball with weapons. The bigger the gun, the further and faster the ball traveled. Here at PongSource we have decided to make our own version of Pong for the Half-life 2 universe. It has Guns, It has Goals, but most of all we think ITS FUN!!!
Release status: 0.9 (06.01.05) *discontinued*
Resident Evil: Twilight
Description: Resident Evil: Twilight is a Half-Life 2 conversion based on the second and third games the Resident Evil series. After strange appearances and incidents have flashed through the press, frightening the entire population of Raccoon City, everything happened hit by hit. Citizens disappeared. The number of victims of brutal assassinations increased rapidly. The police couldn’t do anything. Three days later – everything was different… Dive into the deep universe of Resident Evil: Twilight and return to the scenery where everything began. Engage deeper into the horror of Raccoon City as you ever did before. The first sight uncovers only what is obviously. You will realize: There is much more beyond. Get ready…
Release status: Unreleased (no date set)
SourceForts
Description: SourceForts is a Half Life 2: Deathmatch mod where Combine and Rebels face off in capture-the-flag action with a big twist. Players build bases and other structures with blocks and plates in the "build phase" to protect themselves and their team's flag (which is actually a ball), and then fight it out and try to capture the enemy's flag in the "combat phase". Once the combat phase has ended, it's back to build, where players can repair, improve, and change their creations to ready them for the next combat phase.
Release status: 1.9.2 (08.01.06)
Sourceball
Description: SourceBall is a Half Life 2 modification which aims to deliver intense, fast paced and violent sports action. It's an ultra violent First Person Sport which puts the emphasis on teamwork, and will be the first sports game to truly immerse you into the game environment with its epic soundscapes and its unique playing style.
Release status: Unreleased (internal alpha)
Stargate: Rebellion
Description: SG:R is a multiplayer Half-Life 2 modification, set after an invasion of Earth by the Goa’uld. Earth was subjugated over a very short space of time, due to the incredible rapidity and brutal force of the invasion. However, a resistance quickly developed. Along with individual SG teams who were off-world on missions or at the Alpha site when Earth was overrun, the resistance quickly scales up its operations from passive non-compliance to active, outright warfare. You will fight to decide the fate of humanity across a series of crucial battles in the fight between the human resistance and the Goa’uld oppressors.
Release status: Unreleased (internal alpha)
Taturana's Mod
Description: A collection of weapons made by Taturana, it contains some of the HL2 beta weapons and most of the rest are hand made, some of which are based on Perfect Dark for N64.
Release status: 1.0 (07.13.05) *discontinued*
The Hidden: Source
Description: The Hidden: Source is a multiplayer Half-Life 2 modification, set in the aftermath of a medical experiment gone horribly wrong. One player takes the roll of Subject 617, a biogenetically altered human capable of refracting light around his body. However the side effects of the experimentation conducted upon him has driven him insane with pain and anger. Having escaped he his on a hunt for revenge against the corporation that forever changed his life. As part of the elite I.R.I.S (Infinitum Research Intercept Squadron) the other players must track down and destroy Subject 617 or die trying.
Release status: Beta 4a (06.14.06)
Trigun - Escape from Pain
Description: Trigun: Escape from Pain was an attempt at recreating all the action as seen in the popular anime series, Trigun. In this alpha version players can either be a Villian or a Hero, each team with its own custom characters. Would you rather be Knives and have everyone bow at your feet; or become Vash and uphold justice? The decision is yours.
Release status: 1.0 (10.08.05) *discontinued*
