Vortal Storm has announced that its Half-Life 2 RTS Total Conversion Mod, Lambda Wars, has left its beta phase and has been officially released. Naturally, Lambda Wars – like most TC mods for HL2 – is a free standalone Source Engine modification.
This mod brings the war between mankind and their brutal Combine overlords to a traditional real-time strategy (RTS) setting. Players will lead the uprising as a commander of the Resistance or crush the rebellion as an overlord of the Combine. Both factions feature a full host of units, abilities, buildings, research and defenses. Furthermore, the mod features full-fledged RTS gameplay and a robust RTS interface.
You can download the mod from here. Below you can also find its key features.
- Classic real-time strategy (RTS) gameplay in the Half-Life 2 world
- Multiplayer support and game lobby including spectator mode
- Wide variety of maps for up to 8 human or AI players
- Play as either Combine or Resistance (and also Antlions in Sandbox mode)
- Full unit tech tree that allows you to command everything from Manhacks to Striders
- Full-fledged RTS interface and HUD with everything from minimap and fog of war to unit and production building groups
- Build production and research facilities to requisition better units and unlock abilities and upgrades
- Defensive structures, turrets and mines help defend your headquarters and vital resource points
- Multiple game modes
- Singleplayer missions, tutorial map and offline AI skirmish mode
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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