New Half-Life Mod Adds High-Quality, 4K Textures

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At nearly a quarter of a century old, there will be some people reading this who weren't around when Half-Life first came into the gaming sphere. As one of the most influential and innovative FPS titles of the 1990s, if not all time, it helped usher in a new era for the genre, as well as make everyone sit up and pay attention to a little-known studio called Valve, despite it being their first release. As a result, there is a dedicated community of followers, and after all these years, there are still people making mods for it.

Uploading the file to ModDB recently, user y2keeth has created a visual add-on for the original Half-Life. Simply called «halflife hidef,» this mod updates the graphics of the game to give it, as the name suggests, more high-definition textures, with the description page saying that it implements 4K quality to the overall details as well as the models.

Modder Bringing Ray Tracing to Original Half-Life

Screenshots show the work that has gone into the mod, and while the general game still retains the look of the original, longtime players of the classic FPS will be able to see the difference. The creator has also uploaded a video which shows the mod off in the game's famous opening train ride sequence. While Half-Life 2's opening moments in City 17 are highly praised, the first game's first fifteen minutes are so were something of a landmark in PC gaming at the time.

Given how beloved Valve's first game was, and still is, it's not surprising that fans are still tweaking the game and putting out new content for it after nearly two and a half decades. Recently, another mod for Half-Life was released which took 13 years to make, and essentially adds a whole new campaign that fills in some of the story from