Christmas-Life is a small fun mod for Half-Life. This mod should be a thank you to the community. A year has now passed since the release of Hazardous Materials Episode 1 and the community has given me helpful tips to improve my maps. With this mod I want to say thank you and wish each of you a Merry Christmas!

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I'll do my best to not be so harsh in this review. I understand that the mod is a little thank you to the community following the development of HL mod Hazardous Materials. However, even for a small mod, Christmas-Life Classic suffers from poor development. While it has a nice holiday theme, there are plenty of bugs and is inevitable to think that is incomplete. It also doesn't feel right that the mod's article section is used as a platform to comment on other developments.

For a Half Life mod, Christmas ambience is notable. Snow, pine and rock models, as well as snowy mountains and small towns are well designed. There are some parts that seem out of place, like the Christmas trees, but it's not too terrible since they still fit nicely with the theme. The music in the menu and maps is upbeat and soothing, but it's not well scripted as it tends to stop as soon as you load a saved game.

The premise of the mod is really simple, but it lacks any sort of basic guidance for the player. No GUI, no clues, no signs and only a few scripted lines of text wishing happy holidays, leaving the player at their own luck.

Gameplay of Christmas-Life is bad. Plain and simply put. The only decent aspect is the movement puzzles, so well known from original Half-Life. It is common for a map script to fail if you don't follow the exact expected path, and since physics are wrong in some areas, it is entirely possible to survive a fall and get stuck in a point that never triggers correctly. At the end part of the main 2012 release, a horrible motor sound is heard for the rest of the game, without possibility to skip it, so at that point you may as well close everything. Even with the mappacks, the mod is short and filled with errors. In one of the maps, the mod crashes as soon as you touch the tree. Mappacks' main "menu" is bugged as access to each part is blocked with a fence that cannot be passed without cheats. Even so, you may enter to a map that looks clearly incomplete, where mobile platforms freeze when you load a save game. Utter bug fest.

If you have time to waste and enjoy Christmas themes, it's guaranteed your time will be wasted with this mod. If it isn't your glass of milk, this is an insta-skip.

10

10/10 Good Feel to it

this is a cool mod

Not exactly anything groundbreaking, but it's nice to play a simple puzzle and jumping mod now and then :)

9

Somewhat i'm impressed by this mod

Fun, and simple.

9

It's a really fun and simple concept, got it at first to waste time, then I realized it was really fun XD.

I really did like how simple it was all together, I just really wish they would release more maps that were just challenge based like this pack.

The only real problem was the lag on the large town map, the snow was somehow causing it to lag intensely, (had to finish playing it on Cry of Fear.)

Other than that its really put together well, the music and level design is really cool.

Thanks man!

Meh

3

Feels more like 0.1alpha, not 1.0 release.

6

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