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By Nathan Davis on 24 March, 2009

Level dm_lolwut: Agreed.What happens when you mix nefarious internet memes with a first-person shooter? Wildly morbid shenanigans is what. Mod team Daft Robot has done the unthinkable and is creating just that – a whacky looking modification for Half-Life 2 that centres around the supremely bizarre memes that see a lot of air time on the infamous 4chan.

Called ‘Bisounours Party’, it’s basically an absurdist multiplayer first-person shooter where you play as a crack- and steroids-addicted Carebear who, in its delirium, kills other drugged up Carebears, along with anything else that moves. Pedobear even makes an appearance, although we’re not sure you can play as it. Or even if you’d want to.

“Everything was alright in the Rainbow realms,” explains the developer, “until the aggressive king Pedobear, ruling over Lulzhell, decided to spread drugs everywhere across the realm in order to own Carebear’s world.” As a result, the native instincts kicked in. “Carebears were immediately lured when they saw the first drug cargo, composed of crack pipes and steroids bottles, turning them into utter killing machines only thinking of one thing: shooting everything moving!”

You use weaponry such as ‘awesome smiley’ rockets and what I can only describe as ‘death by daisy’. Speaking of which, when your foes aren’t dying in a colourful, flowery explosion, they bleed out pretty petals when hit. The mod clearly doesn’t take itself too seriously, featuring level names like ‘dm_rapezone’ and ‘dm_lolwut’, but a good dollop of work has certainly gone into it as you can tell from the level design alone. And although it’s mostly a re-skin mod with a bunch of new maps, it actually does look like a bit of nonsensical, zany fun.

Carebear: And its flowery entrails.

Awesome projectile: Is awesome.

To help flesh it out, this deranged mod comes with four different game modes. Aside from deathmatch, in which you should “try to don’t [sic] get shot too many times,” other game modes include ‘forts’, which sounds much like capture the flag, ‘domination’, a team-based form of territorial control, and ‘cooperation’, where you forge alliances with other Carebears to kick “Lulzhell out of the Rainbow Realm by accomplishing various objectives.”

Unfortunately, it isn’t yet available, with ‘coming soon’ the expected release date. While you wait, check out the evidently awesome trailer the team has only just launched.