Half-Life Decay: Solo Mission restores the series＆＃039; forgotten campaign, with a twist

Half-Life Decay: Solo Mission is a mod undertaking endeavoring to make one of Half-Life's least accessible campaigns all the more easily playable. Actually no, not Half-Life Alyx. The other least accessible Half-Life campaign.


Half-Life Decay was a community campaign created by Gearbox and included with the Playstation 2 port of the original Half-Life. In Decay, players take control of Black Mesa scientists Gina Cross and Collette Green, and experience another perspective of the Black Mesa episode in parallel to the stories of Gordon, Adrian, and Barney.

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Modders got around Decay's Sony exclusivity all the way back in 2008, however it remains a community campaign requiring two players playing over the web or LAN. Team Solo's goal with Solo Mission is to rebalance and remaster Decay with as light a touch as possible for, well, solo play. Solo's undertaking also stands in contrast to the mod, Peer Review, that PC Gamer has given an account of in the past. Solo Mission is an almost preservationist task to carry a cleaned-up Decay to a more extensive audience, while Peer Review is a Black Mesa-style full remake of the campaign on the Source motor.


Eliminating the community from a center driven encounter might sound antithetical, however in the task's FAQ Solo argues "I've had a close glance at each puzzle in Decay, and I accept that all of them can be easily converted to work with a single player without losing any of Decay's plot or gameplay. Regardless, being made into a single player experience will allow the player to encounter a greater amount of the game than they would on the off chance that they were playing the original community version."


With that in mind, this could be a "so crazy it works" idea as great as a Nintendo 3DS without stereoscopic 3D, or a Nintendo Switch without the ability to "switch." Of the two doctors featured in the original Half-Life decay, Floyd has chosen to focus on Cross and leave Greene by the wayside, given repeated references to Cross in other Half-Life stories.


What we're left with is new old stock Half-Life, a campaign by the makers of Opposing Force and Blue Shift that most fans of the series probably haven't attempted, cleaned up and presented by an industry professional. Half Life Decay: Solo Mission remains being developed, yet you can track its progress via Steam, ModDB, or Twitter, download its demo here, and look at some comparison images beneath.