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Delta Particles

Mod review

Wow, playing through this mod was a really great time. Great enemy placement, never too much or too little health and ammo, and very fun map design overall. The whole mod was very pleasing to the eye, the attention to detail was excellent all the way to the after-credits scene. Each level felt like a great amount of time and effort was put into making it feel like a real, lived-in place. The Xen corruption throughout the facility, and especially the Xen levels themselves felt alive.

At first I was worried about the amount of weapons, since lots of mods have so many that aren't worth using once they're outmatched by something better. Delta Particles was able to not only make each weapon fun to use, but actually stay useful throughout the whole mod.

While not especially narratively-focused, the game managed to stay fun with great level design, and encouraged exploration through resource collection and beautiful map making. The music was always fitting and never dragged on for too long. The new textures and sound effects were especially impressive, managing to stay faithful to the original Half-Life style while also increasing texture resolution.

Really the only reason I wouldn't give this mod a 10/10 was because the story isn't that interesting. It serves to justify the gameplay and environment, but that's basically it. Regardless, it's not bad, there's just not much there.

It was really a good time playing through this mod, and I'm eager to see more from the people involved! Loved that shotgun.

10

Rexaura

Mod review

This mod was by far the best Portal mod I've ever played, and one of the best mods out of any game. Excellent dialogue, fluid maps, and all the new textures fit right in, and really seemed like they'd belong there. The *only* thing I'd criticize about this mod is the difficulty being to high, but that's just because I wasn't very good at Portal anyway, so 10/10!