Xari
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Similar to the gaming industry itself, the modding scene is a very large and intimidating pile of people's works to wade through and uncover a gem that will stick with you for a while. This mod is one of those titles.
The level design is quite something, on many occasions I bumped into environments and spotted details that made me question whether I was playing an official Valve product or a mod. It bears the same powerful feature of making a linear path feel so intuitive that you rarely ever feel like you're being restricted by a Source map's limits. The imposing final level, taking place in an appropriately intimidating, oppressive Combine depot (inspired by the old HL2 beta concept art!) left an impression on me similar to my first trip into the Combine Citadel in Half-Life 2.
The most amazing thing was the sheer amount of custom assets. The artistic direction is beautiful, offering an atmospheric autumn environment which makes a great twist on the original games and a large underground cavern decorated with awe-inspiring flora and minerals towards the end of the game took the cake.
I'm a great fan of single-player source mods, and I'm already pretty certain that this one takes my #1 spot. I struggle to find any flaws, thus a 10 is only appropriate.
The campaign was quite generic with obviously amateur voice-acting, but I went into it with the mindset of considering it a tech demo for what is to come and which matters most: the multiplayer. The game was surprisingly polished and felt very responsive and fluid to play, something where a lot of games, definitely including commercial ones, fail. Handling of weapons work great, at first I was concerned about the generic 2 weapon limit but then considered that you never used more on one class in Renegade anyway. There are clear imbalances though which I'm sure will be addressed.
Overall - I'm psyched. I remember the days of having to circumvent the default login server to be able to play Renegade, but damn was it a special game. C&C was my first game ever and this all adds to the fact that this project has a special place in my heart!
