Half-Life: Source
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Half-Life: Source is a "digitally remastered"[1] port of Half-Life to the Source engine, enhanced to include physics simulation, Source engine graphics & effects, and more bugs, while retaining most of it's original textures.
Initially, the remaster received mostly positive reviews when it was launched, with little to no technical issues at the time, but some players were disappointed because the game's graphics looks almost the same as the original, with 3D skyboxes and Source's physics, graphics and effects being added. Because to this, a fan remake of Half-Life, called Black Mesa started being worked on shortly after HL:S release.
Beginning in 2013, with the SteamPipe update, the game has been updated to the Source 2013 engine, which introduced more bugs and other issues not present in previous version. As a result, the game has been criticized for the bugs introduced after the Source 2013 engine update, and for Valve ignoring this game and not fixing those bugs to this day. Most of these bugs has been unofficially fixed by the modders, however.[2] The HD content was later added to the game after SteamPipe update, but instead of using the HD content created by Gearbox, Valve used the fan-made models originated from GameBanana.
10 years later, Valve has unlisted Half-Life: Source from the search result on Steam in favor of promoting the original version as the definitive edition of the game and to avoid confusion.[3] However Half-Life: Source is still available for purchase likely because the assets is still being commonly used in third-party Source games such as Garry's Mod.
See also
Black Mesa - Similar concept, but on a more advanced version of Source with completely new graphics and design.
Half-Life Deathmatch: Source - Multiplayer counterpart of Half-Life: Source.- Configuring Hammer for Half-Life: Source
- Half-Life: Source FGD
- Half-Life: Source Bugs
Trivia
- The Steam store page for Half-Life: Source shows the wrong release date of the game. This game was released at the same time with Half-Life 2.
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