This has just been released a few days ago, and it has to be one of the best cinematic mods I’ve seen. I think the screenshots will do all the explaining for me.

Features:

• Raise the quite outdated graphical appearance to a state-of-the-art level
• Give the HL2 trilogy a more stressed, darker and minatory look
• Complement the atmosphere with a emotional cinematic music soundtrack that fits the action on the screen
• Replace the low-resolution textures with high resolution counterparts and more detailed environments
• Complement the storyline with the unused content from the original games
• Refresh the look and feel with optional new HD models
• Add more replay-value to the game

Hardware Requirements:

- DX9 capable graphics hardware with minimum 256 MB VRAM. (512 MB recommended)
- 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)

Software Requirements:

- Fully installed STEAM Client; You can’t start the mod without STEAM running.
- Fully installed and unlocked HL2 / EP1 / EP2; Make sure, you have started those games in the past.

And in addition to this, 32-bit operating systems are not supported. That means you need to have either XP Pro x64 or a x64 version of Vista to play “without crashes”.

You can download it here.

Screenshots:

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