This fixed-camera survival horror mod is sort of a Half-Life and Resident Evil teleporter accident

On March 9, modder SellFace launched Misplaced and Damned, a single-player mod for Half-Life 2’s venerable Source engine. It is a cheeky, enjoyable homage to Resident Evil that jumbles the 2 video games up in a approach that gave me whiplash (in a great way), and perhaps probably the most shocking factor right here is SellFace’s pitch-perfect fastened digicam gameplay.

Are you even supposed to have the ability to do this within the Source engine? SellFace nails the flash minimize perspective shifts of an previous Resident Evil, together with your view of a scene drastically altering as you progress by way of a room. It is carried by a fairly strong implementation of tank controls as nicely, all mapped to keyboard and mouse.

SellFace achieves this actually jarring impact by combining the stockest of inventory Half-Life 2 belongings with some crazy-effective swings at Resident Evil particulars. The stock display is immaculate, only a full ship basic Resident Evil six-slot take care of these PS1-core bwum, breedledoo sound results, however you then use a health vial and it is straight up the sound impact of choosing one up in base Half-Life 2. There are additionally, after all, basic Resi door opening zoom-ins, however with these mundane, photograph-textured HL2 doorways that I’ve grow to be so aware of for the previous nineteen years. Misplaced and Damned form of prods two completely different nostalgic lizard sections of my mind on the similar time in approach that I positively take pleasure in.

I have not gotten significantly far within the mod, however it cuts to the chase fairly fast. I’ve already run right into a cheeky a kind of surreal, Resident Evil merchandise “riddles” to discover a hidden key, and whereas the primary few fights are fairly straightforward, I had my day ruined instantly the second there was multiple zombie onscreen. I scurried off to a aspect room and picked up a health vial solely to set off a bounce scare, with a nasty zombie coming out and making quick work of me within the shut quarters.

You will get Misplaced and Damned over on ModDB, and its set up is fairly easy. You will want to put in the Source SDK (I attempted grabbing it forward of time, however Steam will simply do it for you should you attempt to run the mod with out) and have it set to “upcoming” within the beta tab of its properties menu. Drop your recordsdata into steamapps/sourcemods, restart the consumer, and Misplaced and Damned will likely be ready for you in your library.