Review by Hellsing4682 - Black Snow Coop mod for Half-Life 2

Black Snow Coop

Half-Life 2 mod | Released 2013

In Black Snow Coop you can encounter the same horrors that you went through in the single player mod! But this time together as four players! Choose your character with unique benefits: Fletcher, Ronnie, Craig & Paul!

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1/10 - Apr 8th, 2013 Agree (3) Disagree (1)

- Story & Character
The feeling of a story is non-existent. Your main task is finding John Matsuda, and that's all you're there for. If you've played the original Black Snow, then the ending is completely anti-climatic and guessable. Characters can be completely irrelevant to the game. The voice acting is horrendous to where it can goes mumbling to incoherency with no closed captions to assist you in understanding on what they are trying to say. The choice of characters are not thought out as the characters you play as are geared with military grade armor while they only wield flashlights. The playermodels are also stolen from other creators/rippers. It would make more sense if the characters were scavengers or the like.

- Gameplay & Optimization
The game would play as it would in Black Snow, but can be close to unplayable as bugs litter the mod. (Had to skip the beginning since the game broke after the intro.) As listed before, your only gear is the flashlight, no weapons. You have a choice of third person and first person, but third person mode is jumpy (Can constantly switch sides when near corners and walls). There are mini objectives (Like finding x to complete y), but it can lack info, leaving you to wander all over the game. Original tasks from Black Snow are left and have absolutely no purpose in the Coop mod for they were supposed to be done by the previous protagonist. Textures in rooms can also go awry (i.e. Full white floors). The shadow monster can navigate in rooms that contain full lighting whereas the original have them move in only dark areas. They are many cons to list in this section, but this is only a taste of what's inside.

- Overall
Black Snow Coop is something that shouldn't have been made. The original Black Snow is already a great mod and having 4 player coop added into it is superfluous; if you wanted to have a horror experience with your friends, it should be with another game. For the best experience, play the original Black Sn

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- Story & Character
The feeling of a story is non-existent. Your main task is finding John Matsuda, and that's all you're there for. If you've played the original Black Snow, then the ending is completely anti-climatic and guessable. Characters can be completely irrelevant to the game. The voice acting is horrendous to where it can goes mumbling to incoherency with no closed captions to assist you in understanding on what they are trying to say. The choice of characters are not thought out as the characters you play as are geared with military grade armor while they only wield flashlights. The playermodels are also stolen from other creators/rippers. It would make more sense if the characters were scavengers or the like.

- Gameplay & Optimization
The game would play as it would in Black Snow, but can be close to unplayable as bugs litter the mod. (Had to skip the beginning since the game broke after the intro.) As listed before, your only gear is the flashlight, no weapons. You have a choice of third person and first person, but third person mode is jumpy (Can constantly switch sides when near corners and walls). There are mini objectives (Like finding x to complete y), but it can lack info, leaving you to wander all over the game. Original tasks from Black Snow are left and have absolutely no purpose in the Coop mod for they were supposed to be done by the previous protagonist. Textures in rooms can also go awry (i.e. Full white floors). The shadow monster can navigate in rooms that contain full lighting whereas the original have them move in only dark areas. They are many cons to list in this section, but this is only a taste of what's inside.

- Overall
Black Snow Coop is something that shouldn't have been made. The original Black Snow is already a great mod and having 4 player coop added into it is superfluous; if you wanted to have a horror experience with your friends, it should be with another game. For the best experience, play the original Black Sn

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