Half-Life: The Infected
Mod for Half-Life (1998) | Category: Custom Campaign
ModbadgerMod for Half-Life (1998) | Category: Custom Campaign
Half-Life: The Infected is a mod that adds a new 28-map campaign for Half-Life. In it, you play as an electrical intern named Gerald Backman, who finds himself at the epicenter of a resonance cascade and faces horrors from the Xen world, as well as the sinister Race X.
Localizations:
Localizations:
The mod is localized into 1 language
(You don’t need to download anything extra to play in these languages)
Half-Life: The Infected offers an exciting return to the world of Black Mesa, with carefully crafted maps that evoke nostalgia for the classic game. From the first minutes, you can feel the quality approach: the opening segment reminds of Blue Shift's atmosphere, while scripted episodes and original NPC voices add to the nostalgia.
The gameplay dynamics are structured so that at the beginning you have to conserve ammunition, and by the middle the campaign becomes more intense: there are more weapons and ammunition, but less health and armor, creating an acute sense of survival.
The level design deserves special praise: it's thought out down to the smallest details, atmospheric and logical. Black Mesa is perceived as a unified whole, where everything - from corridors to environmental details - looks functional and fits into the complex's story.
Nevertheless, the campaign's ending leaves a feeling of incompleteness: it seems abrupt and insufficiently developed. There are also minor flaws, like objects that can sometimes be destroyed and sometimes not, and the plot remains schematic and not always clearly presented.
Overall, Half-Life: The Infected is an ambitious and rich project for fans of classic Half-Life, offering about two and a half hours of engaging gameplay and strong atmosphere, despite some rough edges.
How to install a mod Half-Life: The Infected
Extract the Infected folder and place it into the root directory of the game.
Launch the game, go to the Change game menu, and select the mod.
Play!
To avoid entering the "Change game" menu every time you start the mod, you can:
Option 1: Launch via shortcut
Go to the properties of hl.exe and in the Target field (for example: "D:\Games\Half-Life\hl.exe") add a space and then write -game followed by the name of the mod folder in the game root directory. It should look like this: "D:\Games\Half-Life\hl.exe" -game mod_folder_name
Apply the changes.
Launch the mod using this shortcut.
Option 2: Launch via Steam
Open Steam, click on the "Games" menu > "Add a Non-Steam Game".
Browse to the game folder and select hl.exe.
A shortcut will appear in your library.
Right-click on it, select Properties, and in the "Launch Options" field write the full path to hl.exe (for example: "D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life\hl.exe") and add -game plus the mod folder name after a space. It should look like this: "D:\Games\Half-Life\hl.exe" -game mod_folder
