It launched as a mod for Half-Life 2 in 2012, earning overwhelmingly positive reviews. Developer Crowbar Collective finally launched a 1.0 version of Black Mesa, which updates the 1998 first-person shooter with smarter enemies, levels built from scratch, and a level of detail that wasn’t possible two decades ago.īlack Mesa has been sort of playable for some time. Black Mesa was once a humble video game mod - but as of today, it’s a full-fledged remake of Half-Life, newly released out of Steam Early Access.
