Built in Source, Half-Life 2's familiar physics make for more complex puzzles and explosive combat at a much larger scale. What started as a mod homage to the original game blossomed (very slowly) over 15 years into a full blown reinterpretation. Half-Life: Alyx's level designer only played around five hours of the original Half-Life before dropping it for fan remake Black Mesa instead. Release date: 2020 | Developer: Crowbar Collective | Steam (opens in new tab) Read more: Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition brings new light to old darkness (opens in new tab) Black Mesa The men and women you travel with are as rough and rugged as they come, but they have a genuine love for one another that transcends the rote camaraderie of most shooters, and one of the game's most memorable moments isn't an action sequence (although there are plenty of those) but a mournful, introspective wedding song about the loss of innocence during a time of war.Ģ033 and Last Light are smaller and much more linear than Exodus, but their portrayals of a slow, stoic struggle to survive in a genuinely awful wasteland are still well worth playing too. But what really makes it work is its heart. It's still the same shooter at its core, though, with horrific enemies, boisterous comrades, loud, crappy guns, and the best Eastern European post-apocalypse this side of Stalker. Metro Exodus trades the claustrophobic Moscow subway tunnels of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light for a mix of open and linear environments across an unexpectedly lush, living Russia.

Release date: 2019 | Developer: 4A Games | Steam (opens in new tab), Epic Store (opens in new tab)

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