Certainly one of our favourite Half-Life 2 mods is getting a stealth sport prequel the place you are a Mix murderer preying on the human resistance

The cult basic Half-Life 2 mod collection Entropy: Zero has one other entry within the works, and talking as a fan of Thief, Deus Ex, and all issues immersive sim, Entropy: Zero 2 – Progenitors stands out as the most enjoyable one but.

Entropy: Zero has at all times introduced the unhealthy guys’ facet of issues in Half-Life, however Progenitors trades the primary two episodes’ normal Mix trooper for a brilliant sneaky murderer kind⁠—she strikes me as a riff on the black ops ninjas from Half-Life 1.

Progenitors takes place an indeterminate period of time after the Seven Hour Battle the place the Mix took over the Earth, and our murderer protagonist is charged with taking out the rogue Progenitor from which the Mix’s troopers had been first cloned or in any other case derived (or one thing). If Mr. P seems to be Adrian Shephard from Opposing Power, I am going to take into consideration consuming my shoe.

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It is a neat tackle the Half-Life lore bolstered by some nice visible route. The entire Entropies: Zero have carried out a terrific job of mixing and homaging numerous eras of Half-Life⁠—Zero 2 passed off in an Aperture Science facility and paired you with a snarky turret companion⁠—and Progenitors seems to be to be turning its gaze towards Opposing Power. I am notably keen on the evil Mix United Nations emblem⁠—it is giving the darkish Nazi future gags from MachineGames’ Wolfensteins.

As for gameplay, developer Blixibon has been sharing clips of latest weapons and mechanics on YouTube, and Progenitors seems to be extremely bold⁠—virtually an immersive sim, or a minimum of a shooter-immsim hybrid like Darkish Messiah or the aforementioned neo-Wolfensteins. Blixibon’s newest clip reveals a participant pickpocketing an enemy soldier then throwing a beer bottle to distract him. We’ve got Dishonored 3 at house, god bless it.

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Progenitors doesn’t have an estimated launch date, and the newest weblog publish on its ModDB web page alludes to improvement difficulties and artistic burnout on the a part of some staff members.

However it sounds just like the worst of it’s behind them, and that is an extremely thrilling undertaking. You may sustain with Entropy: Zero 2 – Progenitors by way of its ModDB web page and Blixibon’s YouTube channel.