Hollow Moon - Arrival
Apr 22, 2008 Music 0 commentsUnreal Tournament 2004 "Hollow Moon" mod. Soundtrack song. Song written by AHI (Arhythmic Heavy Industries)
You are Talos Davon, and you arrive to the moon research colony that was based many years ego in the time of the game. The game happens in the near future. You arrive in order to work as heavy machinery specialist. But no one come in contact with you and no one come to meet you. You enter an enormous, abandoned station which scale is unknown since its located mostly underground and has many restrict areas that you were forbidden even to ask about. But now when everyone is gone, who can stop you from trying to find out where is the crew and where the humanoid creatures that navigate trough this station like ghosts, came from. You cannot return since your shuttle won't reach earth by itself and the interplanetary space craft left to mars and next one wont arrive in next few months.
The game is a first person, single player shooter which main purpose is to provide Science-Fiction, but in very believable way. Strong mystery atmosphere and interest to find out what happened, how it happened and what's the source to the problems, are the main motivators to play it. The best feature is that you feel very strongly your presence inside this station, you feel very well the mass of the objects, structures, and the fact that you are on the moon, and almost alone.
Another feature of the game is that its entierly in black & white and contains no sound effects. The reason is mostly artistic, since gray scaled image provides better and more precise reception of the light/shadow balance and those are mot important elements to provide strong atmosphere and mood. The lack of sound effects plays not smaller role in creating the feeling some like to call "MUTE HORROR". feeling of being limited by some of your senses.
The mod is not available at mod database yet. It can be downloaded from the mod homepage.
Also no colored or sound effects version will be provided, sorry for the confusion.
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Hollow Moon Demo 2 is out. head over Planetunreal.com or Planetunreal.com to get all the download mirrors :)
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Unreal Tournament 2004 "Hollow Moon" mod. Soundtrack song. Song written by AHI (Arhythmic Heavy Industries)
Unreal Tournament 2004 "Hollow Moon" mod. Soundtrack song.
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I think this mod is perfectly fine being black and white and having no sound. It totally adds to the creepy atmosphere of the game. That video is awesome, I just about peed myself when the piano started playing at 2:16!
There needs to be some kind of sounds; even in a vaccuum surely you would hear something? Footsteps, gunfire, doors actuating and such...
Looks very cool so far! A dash of color would help too (colored light coronas on light sources for instance). Some striking colors against the darkness in the right places can be breathtaking.
Keep up the awesome work!
Did u once allowed a german magazine called PCAction to release a part of this mod cause I know I´ve played this once
We only remember giving permission to a PCZone magazine. If you have a snapshot or link. Can you pleace send us. Thanks.
you guys need to release this mod.
New songs from "Hollow moon" soundtrack avaliable to listen\download :)
Thanks guys, about the music- each map has different song now. lets say we got more songs then maps ;). CLassic music hh we had opra in space and few other places, but for now from legal reasons we cannot use any of it. fitting alternatives...
wow, very cool work.
Very, very awesome stuff. Almost a shame it's not able to utilize the materials and lighting system of UE3. But you can't start over everytime something shinier comes along or else you'll never finish. Right? ;)
And I was going to complain about a minor quibble. I thought, why wouldn't there be sounds if you're in an airlock. But then I realized, of course, the air has escaped that's why all the dead astronauts were lying around.
Also I kept expecting to hear the voice of HAL 9000 as I wandered deeper into the station. Hehehe.
Hopefully you guys add different soundtracks to each map. Perhaps take the Kubrick approach and add classical music. And as someone mentioned before, breathing or movement sounds would add so much more to the immersion.
Very surreal. Very cool.