You can tell just by looking that the design team behind Black Mesa have poured a lot of love and effort into reimagining the original game into something larger and more detailed that still stays true to its source material. However, Black Mesa is not just a simple reskin of Half-Life with better graphics and Source’s physics engine. It’s almost an exact recreation of the original game, with a modern day overhaul. Let me start off by saying this isn’t going to be a your typical review, mostly because to review Black Mesa would be just about the same as reviewing Half-Life.
