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Half-Life: Echoes is a single player mod for Half-Life developed by MrGnang and was released on August 10, 2018. It is set in the Half-Life universe, taking place during the Black Mesa Incident.
Overview[]
The player takes control of a scientist simply known as "Candidate 12" and his perspective of the Black Mesa Incident. It ties into plot threads brought up in the later Half-Life games such as Half-Life 2: Episode Two, such as The G-Man being responsible for delivering the Xen crystal sample and starting the incident.
Characters[]
- "Candidate 12"
- The G-Man
- HEV Guard
- Black Mesa Science Team
- Black Mesa Security Force
- Gordon Freeman
- Eli Vance
- Alyx Vance
- Adrian Shephard
- Kingpin
- Judith Mossman
- The Combine
- Azian Vance (corpse)
Enemies[]
- Zombie(s)
- Headcrab
- Vortigaunt
- Alien Grunt
- Alien Controller
- Hazardous Environment Combat Unit
- [Female] Black Ops
- Gargantua
- Mr. Friendly
Trivia[]
- The climax features a recreation of the ending of Marc Laidlaw's fan-fiction "Epistle 3" (which featured a possible story outline for the unreleased Half-Life 2: Episode Three) with Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance on the Borealis heading for a dyson sphere, with the G-Man appearing and taking Alyx away from Freeman as depicted in the story.
- Half-Life: Echoes uses Half-Life 2 models from time to time, The models used were Eli, G-Man, and a low poly Alyx Vance.
- The Viewmodel arms are re-textured from Half-Life: Blue Shift's Viewmodels.
- Echoes forces the user to use the HD Models.
- Despite this, going into Third-Person using the Developer Console reveals the player-model is the 'Walter' scientist from the Low-Definition pack.
- A fan-remake of Half-Life: Echoes is being developed for Black Mesa under the title "Black Mesa: Candidate Twelve".
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