Garry's Mod

Garry's Mod is a sandbox video game. The game is a mod for the video game Half-Life 2 made by Garry Newman in 2004 and was sold in 2006. In the game, the player can use a spawn menu to spawn objects known as props, or it can be used to spawn Non-player characters like zombies or Combine soldiers, taken from Half-Life 2. The player can move these objects using the physics gun. The game is known because of it's modding, with popular mods for Garry's Mod like Trouble in Terrorist Town, DarkRP and Prop hunt. Prop hunt became a popular video game mode, being used in other video games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Fortnite Battle Royale, and Genshin Impact.

 Gameplay 
The game is an endless sandbox. Its base game mode, sandbox, has no goals. The player can spawn non-player characters, ragdolls, and props, and move and interact with the objects in many ways. The player can move these using the "physics gun", a ray-gun that lets the user move, freeze, and rotate the objects. The individual limbs of ragdolls can also be interacted with. The "tool gun" lets the player change an objects properties, like welding things together, and changing the facial expressions of ragdolls.

 Development 
Garry's Mod was made by Garry Newman. He created Facepunch Studios while making Garry's Mod.
 Successor 
Newman stated that a successor to Garry's Mod in 2015 was in early development called S&box.https://sbox.facepunch.com/news/new-engine

 Reception 

Garry's Mod is considered to be one of the best sandbox games.

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Category:2006 video games
Category:First-person shooters
Category:Linux games
Category:MacOS games
Category:Multiplayer and single-player video games
Category:Sandbox games
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