So I was trollin the vast expanse of the interweb the other day and stumbled across a nifty little gem with a huge amount of potential. The Black Mesa: Source project could very well entice me to revisit the doomed Black Mesa research facility and take another crack at saving the world… Gordon Freeman style.

Back when Half-Life 2 was released, Valve re-released the original Half-Life, but upgraded to run on the then new Source engine. Unfortunately, this only updated the physics of the game. All the image maps were left the same and the result was not much of a change from the original. Well, there were a few fans that thought it could have been a little better and so decided to rebuild the whole game on Source, including a new look.

Like all things Source, this mod looks to be pretty killer. Unfortunately, like many of the mods out there (cough… Goldeneye: Source… cough…), it’s been quite a long time in development. They don’t have a release date posted on the site, but they seem pretty optimistic that they’ll be finished “soon”. I’m not going to hold my breath until they actually get done, but I do plan to keep my eyes on this one. As long as it runs well, this could be one of the coolest mods to hit Valve’s Source engine since its release.