Play This Now: Research and Development

I had written a fairly lengthy introduction to this post consisting of my thoughts on the mod scene these days but reading it I realized it was just me yammering on like a deranged loony. So, instead, I'm just going to say that if you have Half-Life: Episode 2, you should really, really play Research and Development. It's a short but very clever "mod" (More like a level pack) that is much more focused on puzzles, more or less iterating on the style of puzzles found in the game already, with only a wee bit of gravity gun combat thrown in. It's very well-designed, very smart and very impressive, especially considering it was made by one guy. And it's free, go check it out.

Link, ModDB.

-K.