The Half-Life 2 human voice mod is either odd or sheer genius

Posted Sep 19th 2009 1:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Mods, FPS

Half-Life 2 may be approaching its 5th anniversary but the Valve created first person shooter can still inspire mod makers to create some . . . interesting and even original modifications for the game. The latest such mod that has generated buzz on the interwebs isn't your typical mod. It doesn't add content, really, and doesn't change Half-Life 2's gameplay.

What it does it replace nearly all of the game's audio effects with a person's voice.

Let that sink in.

The mod maker known only as "Trace" used his voice to replace the gun sounds, hit sounds, vehicles sounds, explosions sounds . . in all 1,327 of Half-Life 2's audio effects were replace with this guy's voice handling it all (the character voices are not replaced).. It's silly, it's sometimes dumb but it's certainly brilliant. We think this will start a new trend. Can you imagine replacing the sounds for, say, BioShock or Fallout 3 or . . .well, anything? The mind boggles.

Tags: half-life-2, valve, valve-software

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

He has too much time on his handsPosted at 2:49PM on Sep 19th 2009 by Alive

I wanna see this for TF2, but with voice acting also.Posted at 4:43PM on Sep 19th 2009 by Covarr

Someone needs to get that guy Michael Winslow to make sound effects, since he's so freaking good at it.Posted at 8:55PM on Sep 19th 2009 by Clyde Cash

Sorry but this is much better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkF4M-_3xJUPosted at 2:32PM on Sep 20th 2009 by mko

Not the first voicemod, but still good for the lol.Posted at 6:53PM on Sep 20th 2009 by bug frawg

This sort of thing was actually done before

http://www.moddb.com/mods/hammy-bob-modPosted at 2:23AM on Sep 27th 2009 by James Murff