Someone’s Released a Biohazard

Finally! Okay, let’s try this ‘posting about mods’ lark again – how about starting off small? Say with a nice little bit of mapping? Sometimes it can feel a bit self-serving writing something up that merely says ‘Hey, look at this guy! He can… build things! In Hammer! That look great!’ but hey, there’s enough rubbish around that good level design still stands out a mile. Take Biohazard. No, go on, take it. You’ll thank me.

Nothing to do with Resident Evil – this is an action-oriented map pack, it seems, sounding a little like Slums 2 with its terse description, [sic]: ‘You won’t find here much logic puzzles or a good story. My main goal’s to make movie-like battle scenes on pretty nice maps with a slightly stylized colors and awsum HDR’.

Not really anything wrong with someone saying that if he can deliver, and from the look of these early screens, it seems modder Dabu[PL] might just be able to.

Like Slums, it’s still very much a Half-Life 2 mod in that all manner of recognisable assets are immediately present and correct – but where Slums had a dark, grimy, Silent Hill aesthetic going on, Dabu seems to be going for cold and clean with ever so slightly blown-out lighting, a sort of vaguely sixties futurist look (check those two big white buildings, for example). Very impressive stuff, and this is definitely going in my bookmarks. (There. That wasn’t so hard, was it?)

The ModDB page for Biohazard can be found here.