Way back in June of 2005, a mere 7 months after the long-awaited release of Half-Life 2, Daniel Squire released his first ever mod: Life’s End, a 35-map Half-Life 1 modification (more of a mappack episode than a total conversion, though), in which the player took on the role of Luther Johnson, your average Black Mesa scientist caught in the middle of the Black Mesa Incident, who happens to stumble onto a Mark IV HEV suit (and if you took HL1 mods’ word for it, HEV suits are just about the easiest thing to find in Black Mesa) and thus becomes a part of the subsequent inter-dimensional conflict.
Nearly a decade later, it’s become a cult classic of Half-Life 1 modding, having garnered an aggregate rating of 4.77 out of 5 on PlanetPhillip. A sequel titled Time’s End (picking up where Life’s End left off, but with a brand new janitor protagonist) has been in the works for at least 3 years, but development has been fairly quiet, and the project has undergone a couple of delays. But now, it seems like it’s coming together very well for its upcoming release, early next year. Check out the trailer, after the jump!
Wow, that looks fantastic! Can we expect a Let’s Play or not?
I will share my thoughts with you guys (but as has been the case with mod reviews, it’ll be within the mod’s release article), as always, but I don’t think I’d be able to perform a full Let’s Play series.
What is name of the stairs in the picture??
Penrose stairs 🙂
Not quite. Actually, that level is directly based off M. C. Escher’s “Relativity”, from way back in December 1953. That’s where those stairs came from.
How have I never heard of Life’s End? Downloading and playing immediately.