Enhance the soundtrack with a semi-dynamic new Hollywood-style music Give the HL2 trilogy a more stressed, darker and uncomfortable look Eliminate all blurry / Low-res textures with new Hi-res textures and/or Hi-res-Detail-Overlays Enhance the old HL2 maps with HDR, blooming, color-correction, new props, dynamic shadows Unified Engine play the game (HL2 / EP1 / EP2) with the latest Orangebox engine / Advanced HDR / Dynamic Shadows Foreign language users: Please reinitialize your preferred language with the configurator. If you are using HD characters, please re-initiate them with the new character pimper after updating the CM! You must enable HDR, when using the dynamic shadow enhanced maps. Especially the model setting must be at "High" or you'll get facial animation errors with HD models. Remember to activate "High Quality" graphic settings in the options dialog. To play this mod, you must own Half Life 2 + Episode 1 + Episode 2 fully installed and unlocked! (= started at least once) You cannot play without Episode 2 content! It's free, so don't complain: If you don't like the mod, you can delete it and play something else. It looks and sounds very different compared to vanilla HL2. This is a graphical / music total conversion. Cinematic Mod adds an emotional cinematic music soundtrack, optional HD models and unused content from the original games! All low-res textures are replaced by high-res counterparts. "Raises the outdated graphical appearance of the Half-Life 2 trilogy to a state-of-the-art level, while giving it a more stressed, darker and minatory look. Cinematic Mod 12.20 (full) für Half-Life 2 von FakeFactory mit HD-Charakteren