Was lurking around Kotaku today when I found this. It’s a mod that updates Half Life 2 to Orange Box standards and includes the 360 Achievements as well! Pretty nifty, I say. Currently downloading it so I’ll feedback later on. In the meantime here’s a comparison video, an Achievements video and also a torrent for the mod.
Holy hell, that’s great.
Already downloaded it! The only problem I’ve noticed is that some of the facial expressions are missing, and I think some lines are missing, but I’m not sure. It’s all god non-the-less though.
Yeah, I saw that a while ago. I wish Valve would just get around to it with HL2 and Ep1… it’d be nice to have an official version.
This guy just earned 1 internets
I’d approve, but including all of the maps in the download, plus making unnecessary stupid aesthetic changes kills it.
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I’m really hoping though that when valve updates HL2 and episode 1, that they do so in whatever engine version episode 3 is, so that they wouldn’t have to update HL2 twice. I’ve also heard rumors around that say they might add commentary onto both Half life and HL2, which was always something I loved in the episodes.
Yeah, Gabe said in an interview that they’d love to update HL2 & EP1 to the Orange Box engine sometime, as well as adding commentary to HL1 & 2, but it’s all a matter of scheduling.
LOL Raminator, I was just about to say that :freeman:, its kinda necessary,I mean your going to have to convert the maps to the orange box engine, or ya know…why bother…
Try this mod https://www.cinematicmod.com/cm_10.php 
Purpose of this mod:
* Unified Engine; play the game (HL2 / EP1 / EP2) with the latest Orangebox engine / Advanced HDR / Dynamic Shadows
* Enhance the old HL2 maps with HDR, blooming, color-correction, new props
* Eliminate all blurry / Lowres textures with new Highres textures and/or Hires-Detail-Overlays
* Give the HL2 trilogy a more stressed, darker and uncomfortable look
* Enhance the soundtrack with a semi-dynamic new hollywood-style music
* Add optional HD characters
* Add more replay-valueI dunno, I liked the cinematic mod for the most part, although I absulutely HATED alyx, zombies, those incrediably out of place pop machines (breen’s water in the original) and those highway roads in ravenholm.
EDIT: and the fat naked aisan guy. seriously, wtf.
and the thousands of asian citizens. and the new eli, mossman, gman and breen.
NVM, I guess I didn’t like the cinimatic mod at all.
That’s pretty much the universal opinion about it.
The Cinematic mods are awful
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Some of the high res textures are ok, but the models… Urghh.
Fun fact. Fakefactory applied for Black Mesa. He was DENIED.
haha
I have not tried it yet. Just fell over it when I read a thread.
Is it really that bad? I’m glad I found out before I downloaded it :fffuuu:
Thank god!