List of Source mods

This is a list of Half-Life 2 mods (modifications). This list is divided into sections by two different criteria. The first criterion is whether the mod is a single player or a multi player mod. The second criterion is whether the mod has a released playable version (alpha, beta, demo, or final) or not. "Released" mods may still be in development, but there is a playable version available.

Released single player mods

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Eclipse

MINERVA

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Mistake Of Pythagoras

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Smod

• Absence website - A third-person fantasy adventure game set in a Victorian industrial town. This game is developed by students at the University of Salford.
• Antlion Troopers website - The player takes the role of a Combine soldier who is being trained to become a commander. The first mission is to help out a base that is in danger of being overrun by antlions.
• Causality Effect website - Starting with the "Red Letter Day" of the original game, the story is changed. The teleportation experiment creates a hole in time and space, the player's task is to travel through time and correct events that happened in the past. Features multiple endings depending on the outcome of in-game events.
• Combine Destiny website - The Combine has lost contact to one of their bases. The player is part of a team of Combine soldiers that is sent out to investigate and regain the control over the base.
• CryShield website - In this single player mod, Gordon is back in a whole new story. In this episode Gordon fights his way through a Combine prison only to find himself established into a secret rebel force called the CryShield. This mod contains one other mission after Gordon's fight through the prison.
• Das Roboss website - Combine forces are constructing a ginormous robot code named "Das Roboss". The player must infiltrate their uber bunker and stop this madness. The fate of the world is in the balance.
• DayHard website - DayHard is a single player adventure set before the events of Half-Life 2. The player takes on the role of Gordon's brother, Morgan Freeman. He's not timid like Gordon: he's able to talk to people, and even makes comments on the situation. Even without a fancy suit, or an acceptable knowledge of gravity, Morgan will have a valid arsenal at his disposal, including a shiny katana. DayHard's stated focus is on being funny rather than being revolutionary.
• Eclipse website - A fantasy themed action-adventure total conversion mod in 3rd person view. Received 2005 Editor's Choice (released mod) from ModDB.
• eXterminate website - eXterminate is a FPS type mod in pure kill-everything-that-moves style. It's very similar to the classic game Phobia II, with the exact same point: to kill as many things as possible before being overwhelmed by the endless flood of enemies.
• FakeFactory & Ogg Cinematic Mod website - A modification that adds high-resolution textures to nearly all of the objects in the original Half-Life 2. The mod replaces the original music with orchestral scores and also modifies weapon strength to resemble realistic stopping power of current guns.
• GROGG website - GROGG is a giant gorilla with a brain in a jar instead of a head. He has been separated from his father, a mad scientist, and it is GROGG´s quest to find him.
• Half-Life 2 Substance website - Modifies Half-Life 2's single player game to be more challenging. Features additional areas, bullet time, multiple character classes with different attributes, melee attacks and additional weapons, and a variety of other effects and features.
• Halloween website - A young boy on Halloween night decides to take a detour into an old farmhouse after an evening of Trick-or-Treating.
• MINERVA website - Episodic single-player mod based in the Half-Life 2 universe, with a style of storytelling inspired by classic games such as Marathon and System Shock. The first episode, Metastasis 1, was released in September of 2005, and the second, Metastasis 2, was released on the 3rd March 2006. Ranked #11 mod of 2005 by ModDB.
• Missing Information website - A recreation of cut and promotional content from Half-Life 2. Currently features the cut level Borealis and the 2003 E3 demonstrations.
• Mistake Of Pythagoras website - A mod in which the player takes the role of Gordon Freeman in a parallel dimension. All the models and gameplay are exactly the same as in HL2, but the maps and story have been altered. Ranked #12 mod of 2005 by ModDB.
• Shantytown website - A point-and-click adventure game taking place in an imagined future where the earth has been largely overtaken by a jungle of poisonous fungus. Humanity has taken refuge in towering vertical cities protected by massive walls that spray fungicide into the jungle to keep it at bay.
• Smod website | (translated download section) - A modification that adds bizarre new weapons, and new features including melee attacks, and bullet time.
• Weekday Warrior website - A comical mouse-driven old-style adventure game, set in an office environment.
• Wivenhoe website - A mod which depicts the events taken place before Ravenholm is overrun by headcrabs.

Released multiplayer mods

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Dystopia

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Empires

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Garry's Mod

SourceForts

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Synergy

• Art of Ascension website - Art of Ascension is a free deathmatch modification for Half-Life 2. Art of Ascension combines the spirit of new deathmatch games with the faster battling pace of classical first-person shooters. Players increase their character's level and enhance their abilities by battling to gain exerience. With higher levels comes training points to upgrade their weapons and attributes. Last release March 11, 2006.
• Battle Grounds 2 website - Based on the events of the American Revolutionary War, The Battle Grounds puts players in the shoes of American or British forces. Features a variety of player classes, large scale maps, and assorted cannons and artillery for players to use. Last release (version 0.17) 2006-07-04. Received 2005 Editor's Choice (reinvention) from ModDB.
• Dodgeball website - A full conversion mod for Half-life 2, which provides an authentic recreation of the classic school sport dodgeball. Last release 2006-03-20.
• Dystopia website - A cyberpunk themed total conversion for Half-Life 2. Punk mercenaries fight against Corporate security forces (Corps) in both the physical world and cyberspace. Last release 2006-01-29. Ranked #3 mod of 2005 and Best action mod of 2005 by ModDB.
• Empires website - A HL2 Deathmatch total conversion, previously for Battlefield 1942 but moved to the Source engine, which blends first-person shooter and real-time strategy gameplay elements. Players can take the role of a commander who constructs a base for the team with options such as vehicle factories and defensive turrets. Vehicles being a central theme of the mod, players can customize them with different weapon, armor, and engine configurations. Last release July 22, 2006.
• Garry's Mod website - Garry's Mod is a "sandbox" mod. It allows the player to manipulate objects, often with interesting results thanks to the game's Havok physics engine. This includes everything that has physical properties, ranging from cinder blocks and seagulls to decrepit automobiles and washing machines and much more. The construction of complex machines within the game could be said to be a contemporary spin on the Rube Goldberg machine principle. Garry has made an agreement with Valve to release newer versions of Garry's Mod on Steam for $10, while the current version, v9, will be a playable "demo". Garry's Mod is playable in both single player and multiplayer. Ranked #1 mod of 2005 and Best puzzle mod of 2005 by ModDB.
• GoldenEye: Source website - A total conversion for Half-Life 2 that attempts to recreate the game GoldenEye 007 in the Source engine. Last release January 11, 2006. Ranked #4 unreleased mod of 2005 by ModDB (the mod is released now).
• Half-Life 2 Capture the Flag website - A Capture the Flag mod based upon HL2: Deathmatch, with the addition of new weapons and powerups. Last release 2006-01-31.
• Half-Life 2 DeathMatch Pro website - A fast paced version of regular HL2DM which also features the Tau Canon aka Gauss, Longjump and many movement tricks such as bunny hop, gauss jump and wall jumps. It also features new game modes like: Instant Gib, Last Team Standing, Arena, Arcade, and a full Match Management System. Last release January 26, 2005.
• Hidden: Source website - In Hidden: Source, one player assumes the role of a modified human, The Hidden, who is almost completely invisible and has a variety of super-human characteristics but is only armed with a knife and grenades. The other players form a SWAT team, called I.R.I.S (Infinitum Research Intercept Squad), with regular human attributes and a handgun and choice of sub-machine gun or shotgun. The human team hunts and attempts to kill the Hidden, while the Hidden attempts to kill all of the human players without being detected. Last release (version beta 4a) June 14, 2006. Received 2005 Editor's Choice (multiplayer) from ModDB.
• Hypercube: Source website - A Half-Life 2 Deathmatch mod based on the movie Cube 2: Hypercube. Players try to escape the hypercube alive by avoiding traps seen in all three Cube movies.
• Kreedz Climbing website - A unique, non-violent, puzzle-type, first person game where the player attempts to climb or jump his way to the top of any given environment, in a race against time and against other players. There are no lock-n-load type weapons in this game. The player is equipped with a climbers tool which is primarily designed to use against environmental obstructions that can be broken. Last release March 17, 2006.
• Neoforts website - Neoforts is a multiplayer CTF modification that is based off of SourceForts version 1.4.1 code. Features include four-team gameplay, and ARGG physgun with 3 way rotation. Last release April 4, 2006.
• Obsidian Conflict website - A co-op mod in which the players are former prisoners of earth, taken to a Combine research facility in the arctic. The players are placed in a holographic space so realistic that they can't tell the difference between the real world and the fake. Last release 2006-07-22.
• Plan of Attack website - Plan of Attack is a multiplayer first-person shooter that highlights strategy, teamwork, and out-thinking the enemy. Last official release October 5, 2005. However, the development team has halted development and released the source code of the mod. Currently a new mod team is recruiting to continue development of the mod.
• Project 22 website - A small multiplayer weapon mod featuring a complete set of new weapons. Last release April 13, 2005.
• Sands of War 2 website - Realistic tactical combat simulation in near future desert environments. Last release: March 1, 2006.
• SourceForts website - A capture-the-flag mod. Teams use gravity guns to build a fort out of given parts during the build phases, and assault the other team's fort during the combat phases. One can play as a Soldier, Sniper, Engineer, Rocketeer, or Scout in a fast-paced battle for glory. Last release May 9, 2006. Ranked #13 mod of 2005 by ModDB.
• Strider Mod website - A HL2 Deathmatch mod in which players can mount and control various vehicles from Half-Life 2 including: Combine hunter-choppers, APCs, and of course, Striders.
• Synergy website - A multiplayer co-operative mod built from several co-op mods such as: "Dev Coop" and "DC Coop 2". With soon to be added more game modes such as "Deathmatch" "Team-coop" and more, and the similar mod "Tim-Coop" has merged with this mod adding more maps and features. Last release September 30, 2005.
• Tim Coop website - A multiplayer cooperative mod which recently has merged with Synergy. Last release April 17, 2005.
• Troy: Divine Playground website - A critically panned total conversion set in the Trojan War.

Unreleased single player mods

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Black Mesa

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Dissolution

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Dreamscape: Pin Point Blank

• Black Mesa website A complete remake of the original Half-Life, with graphics up to HL2 standards. The mod is also planning to incorporate a multiplayer component which essentially is HLDM remade in the Source engine. Ranked #1 unreleased mod of 2005 by ModDB.
• Back to Black Mesa website - Much like Black Mesa, Operation Black Mesa attempts to recreate an earlier title in the series, Opposing Force. This is not to be confused with Opposing Source, a similar attempt which has ceased development.
• Blue Shift: Source website - Blue Shift: Source is a complete remake of the standalone expansion pack for Half Life titled Blue Shift. The mod is much like Black Mesa in that it is being completely remade to take advantage of the graphics capabilities of the source engine.
• Blue Shift 2 website - Blue Shift 2 is an unofficial sequel to Blue Shift. It is set immediately before Half-Life 2, with the player once again playing as Barney Calhoun.
• The Cats Cry website - The Cats Cry is a total conversion mod for Half-Life 2. It's a single player game which will engulf the player in fear, tension, and excitement.
• Codename: Osiris website - Shortly after Dr. Breen's death, the Combine began work on their final steps in assimilating the human race to be used as viable soldiers; thus Project 04219 began. The powers of the human mind and body and the Combine technology synergized to create the perfect soldiers. Out of the thousands of human specimens used to attempt to create these soldiers, only three survived, each code named after Egyptian gods: Atum, Anubis, and Osiris. What not even the combine could forsee as a consequence was the fatal flaw of underestimating the human mind.
• Combine Destiny 2 website - The sequel to Combine Destiny. Delves further into the mysteries of the Combine regime.
• The Corporation website - A single player mod for Half-life 2, with new enemies, weapons, and features. Player plays as a journalist against an opressive, corporate government in a post-World War III setting.
• Dissolution website - A single-player mod that brings fear to the source engine. The mod is set in another planet and combines fear with action. This mod is a total conversion mod.
• Dreamscape: Pin Point Blank website - A third-person stealth RPG mod featuring dialogue like Deus Ex and KOTOR. Features include the Pin Point System, point blank attack, relief mapping, conversation system, buy and sell system and more.
• Kamidex website Kamidex is based on a clash between fantasy and real life. You play as a citizen from Kam, a planet at the edge of the solar system. Helping to fight the battle against Breen, you will also come across government soldiers and other new enemies, using futuristic weapons.
• The Lost Prophecies: Shadows of Winter website a fantasy first-person shooter/slasher. This epic adventure is experienced through the eyes of a courageous squire battling both the forces of evil and the hardships of an under-privileged social caste.
• Nightfall website - A horror mod developed by Nigredo Studios. Will be released in episodic form.
• No Name website - A French single-player mod that is set in City 17 but in an alternate universe. Many of the characters and enemies from the original Half-Life 2 appear, but have completely different roles and personalities. The website is primarily in French, but an English version can be found here.
• Oaken: Reap What You Sow website - A first-person free-ended RPG total conversion that is based in a fictional town named Oaken.
• Philosophers Project website - A single player mod based on the Metal Gear Solid series of games.
• Resident Evil: Twilight website - The modification will contain single and a multiplayer options. There will be five different multiplayer types. The single player mod will be released at first. It works on the story of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.
• Return To Mana website - A new unofficial story in the "Seiken Densetsu" series, made popular on the Game Boy, SNES, and PlayStation. 43 Years have passed since a massive war. And the only way to stop them is using the accent powers of Mana. They were stopped but at a terrible price, Mana faded from the world. There is peace now but there is word of an empire rising again. A hero MUST emerge, and it is time to "Return To Mana".
• Robbery Source website - A multiplayer game of stealth and cunning. Play as a robber and outsmart the housekeeper or be a housekeeper and use brute weaponry to take out the robbers. Effects of real life robberies are included and the developers are looking for a mid-2007 release.
• Rogue Threat website - A single-player modification for Half-Life 2 that depicts the life of Combine Civil Protection officer Ryan Abbott. The mod will add 10 new chapters to the game and will include a number of new environments such as a revisited Xen, the alien world from the original Half-Life, and will give the player an interesting insight into the Combine's inner workings and methods. Also included will be dream like sequences, which will depict the events known as "The Portal Storms" and the "Seven Hour War".
• Savage Defiance website - A single-player mod where a group of genetic scientists, called the Genetic Research Initiative, or GRI, have taken complete control of an entire city. The player is the target of their police force after killing a member of the police. The game will include several new vehicles and weapons.
• Seven Hour War website - The Seven Hour War, a battle in which all human militaries were defeated by the alien Combine in only seven hours, is a section of Half-Life history that has never been truly explained. Seven Hour War tells the story of Sergeant Charles Rico and his squad's desperate defense of their planet.
• Sin City website - A total conversion faithfully transforming the game into the world of Frank Miller's Sin City. Inspired by both his original graphic novels and the recent film adaptation, this mod promises a fresh campaign, following the events of "The Hard Goodbye".
• Zombie Chaos website - A single-player mod where the player is a police officer in a little town outside Tulsa, where you investigate the old abandoned Westford Elementary.

Unreleased multiplayer mods

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Firearms: Source

• Alien Element website - Alien Element is a multiplayer game based in 2012. An alien race has come to Earth and demanded its surrender in "The Tournament." The player can explore vast parts of the world, taking control of several of the human contestants in a desperate struggle to save humanity. Each character has a unique set of skills and weapons that must be used in this epic battle.
• Badge of Blood website - Explore the future of warfare with Badge of Blood, a science fiction meets realism mod that tells the dramatic story of a bitter independence war fought between the major economic powers of Earth and the Corporate Colonies of Mars.
• Battle Royale website - A Half-Life 2 multiplayer deathmatch modification based on the movie Battle Royale.
• Bloodthirst website - A team-based action mod set in a realistic but dark near future that portrays a battle to the death between a reborn vampire clan and a secretive slayer sect.
• Broken Arrow website - Broken Arrow is a multiplayer Vietnam War modification currently in development. Get ready to step into the shoes of either soldiers of North Vietnamese Army or US forces, battling through the jungles of Vietnam. Broken Arrow will feature realistic maps and gameplay, with historically correct weapons and vehicles. It should be noted that the mod under this name has "died" but another team will pick up where it left off and repackage it under a new name.
• Bushido website - Bushido is a multiplayer, Feudal Japan modification that was in development for Half-Life 1, but is now in development for Half-Life 2. This mod features class based action and a gameplay system based on earning honor. Classes such as samurai, assassins, bowmen, and ronin are featured. The mod aims to pay strict attention to detail while still remaining fun.
• C4 Commando website - C4 Commando is a third-person shooter modification starring a commando called Jack Sheppard, nicknamed "Rambo". The mod features a vast selection of US Army and fictional equipment. A single-player mode is also planned.
• Caliber website - Caliber is a fast paced first person shooter team-oriented mod. This modification is a genre-transcending creation incorporating the best aspects of first person shooters, real time strategy and role playing games. The talent behind Caliber is a diverse group of professionals with years of experience in the gaming community/customization scene. The goal of the Caliber team is to create a high quality, visually stunning, revolutionary, and most importantly, a fun modification.
• Carmagordon website - Carmagordon is a driving modification allowing players to drive multiple customisable vehicles in deathmatch and team deathmatch scenarios. Carmagordon features realistic damage, special viewing angles, weapons, power-ups and more.
• Cause and Effect website - A story-driven, coop game, with horror/suspense, action, teamplay, and realism as defining elements. New features, including tech-items, player classes/roles, highly interactive environments, interactive inventory, immersive storyline, online/LAN play.
• Chitan: Hardboiled Killers website - A mod inspired by Hong Kong heroic bloodshed movies.
• D.I.P.R.I.P. website - A multiplayer total conversion. Gameplay is based on vehicle combat in various post-war environments. Vehicles use multiple weapon mounts which are activated by finding weapons scattered around the battle grounds. Planned game types are deathmatch, team deathmatch and capture the flag. There will also be a possibility to enable players to upgrade their vehicles' weapons and subsystems through the use of a money-for-damage system.
• Dire website - A single and multiplayer total conversion. Dire is a 'hell on earth' zombie survival horror, which boasts tensive music, random evented maps, new guns, and the chance to fight against OR as the main enemies; the Hybrids.
• Distraction website - There is no settling smoke, this mod is a guns blazing action mod, with a long range of stunts including dives, flips, rolls, climbing and much much more.
• Eternal Silence website - Eternal Silence is a sci-fi mod that allows for extremely open-ended gameplay, allowing to fight fast-paced dog fights in space, bombard an enemy capital ship with a heavy payload, invade the enemy capital ship by foot and attack from the inside, or command the troops and claim victory over the foe.
• Exite website - Made by the Pilotable Strider Mod team, this is a recreation of Valve's newest game Portal for Half-Life 2 and multiplayer. Currently no website, but videos can be found on the Strider Mod website.
• Exterminatus - Rival Species 2 website - This mod is set in Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 universe, as seen in Dawn of War and the team's previous mod for Half-life 1, Rival Species.
• Firearms 2 website - Team-based multiplayer mod with a high weapon count and a very fast-paced gameplay style. This mod is the sequel to Firearms mod for Half-Life 1 and is under new a management and development team.
• Firearms: Source website - The sequel to the original Firearms mod for Half-Life 1, Firearms: Source is being produced with the approval of the original Firearms team, and with the aim to build on the core gameplay found in Firearms RC2.5. This mod is nearing the release of its first public beta.
• Fire War website - A mod based on a Third World War, in the year 2023.
• Forsaken website - A three-way teamplay mod based on urban warfare, set in the year 2009, 3 years after a virus nearly erases human life on earth.
• Fortress Forever website - A heavily anticipated modification inspired by Team Fortress Classic, incorporating TFC gameplay with minor adjustments. Ranked #5 unreleased mod of 2005 by ModDB.
• Frontline Force: Classic website - Formally known as Front Line Force for Half-life. A fast paced, strategic team-based mod. Opposing teams fight for capture of various points on each map.
• Fueled website - A singleplayer and multiplayer mod inspired by Grand Theft Auto.
• Gang-life website - A multiplayer conversion for Half-Life 2 that sets the player in an urban environment where four gangs must fight for dominance.
• Gangwars website - Modern gang warfare. The original gang mod for Half-Life. Now being developed for the Source engine.
• Ghetto All-Stars: Crunk Rally website - A multiplayer racing game that the team describes as "Need For Speed meets Pimp My Ride". Racers can buy and upgrade their vehicles with performance parts, like exhaust systems and super-chargers, or with cosmetic additions like spinning rims and hydraulics.
• Grand Larceny website - A multiplayer team-based tactical shooter involving SWAT officers and crooks battling it out in a major bank robbery heist in San Francisco
• HEAT website - A team-play oriented tactical shooter.
• Heat of Battle website - A class based, team played WWII modification that is also released as a Call of Duty mod.
• Holdout website - Human players vs AI Zombies, a game of survival against ever increasing odds.
• Hostile Intent: Phoenix Rising website - A realistic multiplayer total conversion focusing on teamwork, objectives, and realism. Source version of Half-Life 1's Hostile Intent.
• Incoming Source website - A futuristic mod based in the year 2242. It's humans (Carriers) vs aliens (Altairs) in an epic battle for Earth. The mod features drivable and flyable vehicles, including dinosaurs with AI coding.
• Incursion website - Team based infantry combat modification. An arcade style FPS with certain realistic elements and a rewarding class system.
• Insects Infestation website - A FPS/RTS hybrid putting the player in the body of an insect, be it an ant, termite or wasp, with the goal of working with a team to dominate the map, and kill the enemy queen.
• Insurgency website - A realistic modern infantry combat mod that will depict clashes between conventional forces and insurgents. Ranked #3 unreleased mod of 2005 by ModDB.
• Invasion From Mars website - A comical multiplayer mod based on movies such as Mars Attacks!. The gameplay pits Martians against Earthlings in several gametypes such as Take Me To Your Leader, where the Earthlings has to protect the "leader" from the Martian team, and Cattle Run where the Martian team attempts to steal cattle while the Earthlings defends them.
• Iron Grip website - A total conversion that combines first person shooters (FPS) with real time strategy (RTS) elements in a full scale city war.
• Jurassic Rage website - A team-play oriented action game with a twist; a 3rd team of AI controlled dinosaurs.
• The Last Great War website - A World War II mod that plans to include every major nation that fought in the war. A single-player component has also been announced.
• Lethal Agents website - A fast paced team strategy mod similar to a Total Conquest or Domination game-type with additional features including vehicles and single player modes.
• Mario Kart Source website - This modification of Half-Life 2 take the power of the Source engine and puts it in use. This mod will take the fun of Mario Kart from the consoles and put it to PC. This mod will include just about all the data from all versions of Mario Kart and more.
• Mech Assault Genesis website - A multiplayer mod based on Gundams.
• Natural Selection: Source website - Currently a mod based on Half-Life 1, Natural Selection is a dark and ambient science fiction game loosely based on the Alien series of movies and video games. The game features alien Kharaa players vs. human Frontiersman players. A Source version is in progress.
• Neotokyo website - A near-future shooter set in Tokyo partially inspired by the Ghost in the Shell universe.
• NimMod website - An escort mod with a few twists.

• No More Room in Hell website - No More Room in Hell is an unreleased modification of Half life 2. It will feature a team of human players cooperating against a team of NPC (Non Player Character) zombies, It has been in development for several years and will most likely release in the near future (summer 2006).
• Nuclear Dawn website - Nuclear Dawn is an multiplayer mod currently in development. This mod is a twist of first-person shooting and real-time strategy similar to Natural Selection. Players fight in the year 2024 in a post-apocalyptic Earth after the Nuclear Dawn. Public beta tests are set to be ready in the near future. Nuclear Dawn is set to be released in Q4 2006.
• Off Limits website - The gameplay will revolve around two teams attempting to take out a small, aggressive, player controlled alien. The vanguard team will start the round with the only gun that can harm the alien, the rogues team will see the alien's position on their radar. The team that kills the alien, wins the round.
• The Opera website - A mod with the aim to recreate a true multiplayer Hong Kong blood opera action experience within the constraints of a first person shooter environment. Such unique gameplay features as a cast list, a schtick system, a dynamic damage system and a score system that rewards the player for playing and killing with style to attain points, not simply scoring the highest amount of frags.
• Operation Shadow Phoenix website - A mod set in the Shadow Phoenix world, with a planned single player version.
• Over The Top website - A World War I mod.
• Perfect Dark: Source website - A total conversion for the Source engine developed by an international team and based on the classic Nintendo 64 game Perfect Dark. It is currently in the internal alpha stage, but good progress is being made. A single player version is planned after the release of the multiplayer game.
• Pirates, Vikings and Knights II website - Three way action in various settings and game modes involving pirates, vikings and knights. The mod is a sequel to the original on HL1 and consists of mostly new team members as over 95% of the original team has gone missing for mostly personal reasons.
• Plastic Tactics website - Plastic Tactics is a multiplayer modification for the Half Life 2 engine which uses brick styled players, weapons, vehicles and environment to provide a truly unique gaming experience.
• Project Hull Breach website - A sci-fi mod focused on a war between two rival factions, The Alliance and the Senallin. Focuses on realistic weapons and technology with a heavy emphasis on Marine raids of spacefaring vessels as well as land battles. Gameplay includes semi-RPG elements and objective based scenarios.
• Project Oblivion website - A sci-fi mod inspired by the very popular RTS game, StarCraft.
• Realms of Valhallon: Age of Campaigns website - a professionally-made mod, designed to introduce the Realms of Valhallon setting and gameplay philosophy in advance of a retail MMORPG release.
• Resistance and Liberation website - A total conversion based on World War II which plans to incorporate class-based multiplayer. Total realism is being implemented.
• Rocket Crowbar: Source website - A source remake of the classic Rocket Crowbar. Featuring tranformations into rollermines and the scientist launcher. A beta is available at the forum (released 2006-01-02).
• Science & Industry 2 website - Science & Industry 2 is a fast paced FPS with original gameplay twist and the sequel to Science & Industry for Half-Life.
• Severed Nations website - A mod set into the distant future, where factions fight for control over the universe around them. Cyber Genetic Studios is creating this mod.
• Shattered Society website - Shattered Society is an over-the-top, fast paced, chaotic multiplayer mod for Half-Life 2. The sequel to Desert Crisis for Half-Life.
• Shores of Glory website - A World War II-based mod. Combat between Allies and Japanese soldiers in the Pacific Theatre.
• Snipa Wars website - A total conversion with the main focus on sniper warefare.
• SourceBall website - A futuristic first person team sports game.
• Team Zero website - Team Zero is a HL2 co-op mod. The player is on the rebel side against many NPCs. Teamwork is essential to complete the maps.
• Veama: The Last War website - Humans and monsters battle against each other in this medieval fantasy, RPG-FPS game. Some human classes of the game are amazon, necromancer, barbarian.
• Wanted: Outlaws & Lawmen website - A Wild West themed shooter.
• Weapons Factory 2 website - A class-based, team-oriented, multiplayer game which started life as a Quake 2 clone of Quake 1: Team Fortress, but soon evolved from there. Over the years, WF has been ported to many different game engines including HL2. An alpha is available (released 2005-04-06).
• Who Dares Wins website - Who Dares Wins is a mod of Half-Life 2 that is based on modern-day (post-1975) Special Forces units, with an emphasis on realism. The mod dev team released several versions for Battlefield:1942 before switching to the Source Engine in the fall of 2005.
• World at War website - A mod that takes place in an alternate history modern day setting in which the U.S.S.R. never disbanded and the Cold War did not end. This mod is being developed with support from Valve Software by a development team that includes many developers of the Firearms mod for Half-Life.
• Zelda: Source website - A multiplayer adaption of the popular Nintendo series.
• Zombie Master website - All of the players except one are civilians, while the remaining player is the Zombie Master - who can control zombies like an RTS.
• Zombie Panic: Source website - The Source engine version of the existing Half-Life mod which features Zombies vs Humans multiplayer. See Zombie Panic!.

External links

Official

• Valve Editing Resource Center (VERC)
• Valve Developer Community

Unofficial

• Half-Life 2 World Wiki - Comprehensive Half-Life 2 Wiki covering all aspects of the game and related Source mod development
• Mod Database: Half-Life 2 - Community site covering the latest news for all mods for all games. Includes a HL2 mods database and downloads.
• Mod HQ - The most active and up to date Half-Life 2 mods news resource
• PlanetPhillip - Commentary and Analysis of Sci-Fi Single Player First Person Shooters - Includes an extensive list of Half-Life 2 maps and mods.