Now if only it was a later version, it would have Call of Pripyat and would be the most complete compilation of games to play before you die in the world
Oops. It's on a different part of the glossary.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, 913
What does the page on Garry's Mod say? :o
Do I really have to type all of that stuff out?
"Of all the games in this book,
Garry's Mod is perhaps the one that strains the definition of the word "game" the most. When it started life in 2004, it was certainly nothing of the sort. It was a slightly kooky modification for
Half Life 2, which allowed you to place props from the game around an empty environment, tie them together with rope, and fire spinning aerial drones from the game's normal pistol. The subsequent twelve iterations have seen the mod gain support for any Source engine title that has a software development kit, and graduate from the mod section on Steam to a stand alone game.
In the form that it arrives to the new user, unextended by further downloads, it's still hard to say that it's a game. Without any goals, win conditions, or predetermined experiences to explore, it's really more of a toy or a tool.
Garry's Mod has a variety of functions, from a physics sandbox, in which you can experiment with welding propulsion systems onto melons or building tanks out of wheeled garbage bins, to a Valve-themed diorama creator, complete with photography kit. It's also communal, allowing players to come together on a single server and cooperate in building their elaborate contraptions, more often than not, spend the time firing melons at the back of one another's heads for amusement.
The title is also a springboard for other mods, like the team multiplayer game
Zombie Survival, in which one side survives six waves of increasingly powerful dead heads, or the extensive role-playing platform
DarkRP, or
Super Mario Boxes, a physics-based team game that locks play to the X axis and spoofs the chirpy, blocky graphics of the NES.
Garry's Mod is as versatile as it is sometimes inchoate. It's testament to it's creative potential that it is a game, but only if you want it to be.
MD"
