Some noise. Bryan, young cleaner, wakes up thinking "Again those old bastards..." When he comes out of his room something falls on his head and he blacks out... So that's how our mod starts. Our mod tells of a story of the unlikeliest hero... Not Calhoun... Not Freeman... Not Shepard... It's Bryan Anderson! Are you surprised? He's nothing unusual. You will feel how it is, to be a simple cleaner, not some scientist or soldier, to run, think, shoot, live, who doesn't have the expertise to deal with any extreme situations, who haven't known where he must go... But, as usual the most dire circumstances is a experience that will bring about the determination to succeed no matter what comes his way. Monsters, soldiers and even his friends will try to stop him. But he won't stop, bravery and determination is realized because his aim is freedom. Would he find this freedom or not? It's up to you. This is Half-Life: Cleaner's Adventures...
This mod provides a nice temporary comeback to Black Mesa and the events related to the catastrophe. This time we play as a maintenance worker, yet not looking exactly as other maintenance workers you meet in your adventures. This fact was a bit confusing, but not that much.
Several op4 models brought much warm reminiscence. The mapping was done fairly well, although I sometimes had a deja vu feeling while meeting some locations. The mod also proven to be quite challenging due to the certain lack of medications available, and a very limited amount of armor points collectable over the game. The big plus was a "new" Black Mesa area representing the old facilities of the scientific complex. It was amazing to meet an alive HEV scientist which was a part of the mod storyline and see HECU marines, Black Ops and Xen forces shooting at each other simultaneously, with all three factions being hostile to you. I was also amazed to see some "cutscenes" where I could see my character from the third person view.
The only disadvantage of this mod is definitely the voice acting which was done really poor. Although I'm Russian and I was able to understand clearly what the characters said, I am not very satisfied with the artistism and overall quality of the new recordings. Moreover, the mod was using old pirate localisation of Half-Life for some reason. Also, the intro stage and training were created considerably weak, not very dynamic and not giving a clear idea what's going on. The outro, however, was done pretty well and kept the atmosphere of the original game and addons.
In short, the mod is definitely worth its time. Thanks a real lot dudes! Спасибо!