The Half-Life 3 rumor mill is currently spinning so fast that the sails are about to fly. Last month, Valve was rumored to be working on a trailer for the third installment, and before that, insiders were adamant that the game was “almost finished.” Yet we wait. With the announcement of Valve's new hardware, Gordon Freeman's next adventure was absent.
In lieu of any announcement of Half-Life 3, there is some good news for series fans, as a player created custom campaign with six full chapters, focusing on the Black Mesa incident. The perfect tonic for any Half-Life 3 wait.
Half-Life: Unsafe is an alternate take on the Black Mesa event
Developed by producer MPS, Half-Life: Insecure is a retelling of the Black Mesa incident from the perspective of security officer Andrew Cooper. Complete six chapters and run for about four hours, you're “trapped in a facility after a resonance cascade, and your priority is to escape alive before the situation gets worse.”
The mod took four long years to create, with the developer calling the process “rocky, with many pitfalls”. But it is now finally available for the world to play.
The six chapters are titled Entrance Granted, Critical Failure, Enemy Encounter, Point of View, Search and Seizure, and The Border End and include “new additions to Enemies and Weapons from the Opposing Force”.
It is currently the fourth most popular mod on ModDB (over 63,000), and it sits with a 7.8 user review score (from 16 reviews), with early teething problems cited as the biggest issue. MPS says, “This mod was developed with Half-Life and the latest version of Windows in mind, so it is not compatible with Half-Life: Source, Xash3D or CD retail editions.”
If you're looking to kill some time before the inevitable release of Half-Life 3, this might help. You can download Half-Life: Unsafe here.
