Enhanced HUD doesn't let you see all of your ammo, and you can't see items other than Uplink Chips or Defense Center Repairs at all (e.g. Alien Energy Converter, a minor but staying detail in M1). Use Basic HUD and you miss out on the cool interface looks, and if you're a perfectionist like me, you won't not notice the radar will always have a little border remaining. You might then just use the Standard HUD or the Unrestricted View one, but there is a catch. First of all, both of them take up more screen space than the Widescreen HUD, making the perspective look much more squashed, and secondly, you will eventually notice that on most resolutions, the health and oxygen bars will have a little gap between the initial and final portion. Both of those issues are fixed with this hud. I'm sure it will be initially off-putting to deal with those now comically long bars, but you get used to it. Very, very quick. Really, the only problems are that the inventory left/right keys now work rather unintuitively, and that it has to use custom images at all, but neither of those could be helped because of how the hud is fundamentally designed. Try it.
NOW UPDATED TO SUPPORT MARATHON 1 AND MOST CUSTOM SCENARIOS!
This plugin allows you to experience Marathon 2's original 1995 classic status bar HUD, but modified to better support today's widescreen displays. This plugin supports Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and many scenarios, and even provides an M2-like HUD for Marathon 1.
This widescreen HUD has 2 flavors, a 'lite' version and an 'enhanced' version:
CLASSIC M2 (UNRESTRICTED VIEW): The original HUD, uses original graphics, but removes the letterboxing on the 3D game view, allowing any widescreen aspect ratio, should be compatible with all scenarios
CLASSIC M2 (WIDESCREEN ENHANCED): Extends the status bar graphics to fill a 16:9 screen. To utilize the extra space, a second inventory page is displayed. In Netgames, this second page shows the scoreboard.
Due to the necessity of custom graphics, "Widescreen Enhanced" HUD is only guaranteed to work with the following scenarios:
See included Readme for installation instructions.
All Lua work is based on "M2 Default HUD" posted here by Hopper, as well as the scenarios' original art, with additions by me to support the enhanced widescreen features.
Widescreen Marathon 1 Classic HUD is available here