Having just checked the homepage of ModDB, I can say with assurance I will do so from now on in! I tend to find some good games/mods that interest me, but nothing that truly sticks out. Until now. And until now it has been predictable games or mods, but for the sake of loving that predictability, I keep watching. And waiting. I figured there had to be a gem in the midst of other precious stones. And I was right. CANVAS has caught my attention like nothing else has. And that's pretty good. The teaser was so well made that I almost went mad that I didn't actually see anything that would give part of the plot away. I browsed through all the images, concepts and screenshots that the Development Team (Bloom) had uploaded. They were astounding. The tag line merely states:
Canvas wrote: Follow the adventures of Milena and her psychic teddy bear totem in a world where psychics and normal humans coexist. In this adventure she enters into a mysterious realm inside a painting and must try to find her way back out into the real world amidst the labyrinth of intrigues and conspiracies inside the painting world.
That combined with the fact that no other game I know of includes a teddy bear with some psychic creepers combined with Mr. Crystal-head, lead me to believe this will be an extremely popular mod. In fact, it already is. I'd recommend checking it out and tracking even if you don't have Half-Life 2: Episode 2 simply for the fact that this mod will make you want to buy it. I have no doubt that once I have the time and money to get HL2:E2, that will be the first mod I will ever get for it.
