What you would do, if everything seems to be over and you are still alive? We are pretty sure you'd like to come home. The story takes place in Half-Life universe, after being a lab rat and death of mental ai system, you should make your way in the wake of last alive members of "Aperture Transport Systems", subdivision of "Aperture Science". They're barricaded in Institute Campus, which is located on volcanic island. However, after a while the portal storm has begun, which brought Combines, Headcrabs and Antlions...
This mod was absolutely garbage. not only did it not have English voice acting, which isn't a terrible issue, it had bad voice acting in general, next to no comprehensible story, almost all the maps were broken, and the mod was far too punishing.
There were numerous issues with the maps and the difficulty of combat. None of the maps had a clear goal that was reachable by any means. The lack of health regen was pure pain as having low health would permanently tint your screen red.
the only upside were the visuals in SOME areas, which was too hard to appreciate when being flooded with antlions, which could only be killed using 1 weapon and kept coming back.
Low quality and bad all around. 1/10.
All of the objectives are very confusing, unintuitive, and unclear, with no indication with what to do or where to go. There's no English voice acting, which means the story is going nowhere in my POV. Hunters are somewhat difficult to kill if you don't understand that physics objects can kill Hunters. There are some areas that are eternally dark, and it makes it really difficult to navigate rooms with no light, especially with the flashlight disabled. Combined with the lack of instant health regeneration, it tints your screen red permanently if you have less than 100 HP, unless you find health items that restore your health (you'll need a lot of health items if you want to get rid of the red tint on your screen). Once you reach chapters "AGAIN UNDER THE GROUND" and "BEARING ROTOR", your Portal Gun's "battery" gets discharged and can only shoot blue portals, and there no sort of explanation for that. If you're going for the alternate route, there is a hunter-chopper that's gonna be shooting you over and over until you make it up the mountain and kill the hunter-chopper. Isn't that a huge difficulty spike in combat? There's also certain points in the mod where it uses dialogue from Half-Life 2 and Episode Two, which isn't very creative, and it doesn't advance the story in any way. Both of the paths lead to the same ending, even if you say "tHe AlTeRnAtE pAtH iS aNoThEr WaY tO tHe EnD", because it still plays the same Russian dialogue from G-Man and Father Grigori. Most of the cutscenes are rather boring and awful, either that they take forever to finish, or that they don't have any explanation.
The only things I like about this mod is the new airboat model and the new Portal Gun icon when selecting the weapons.
I even have a longer review in the comments section on why this mod is insanely trash in FULL DETAIL. I have also uploaded an archive version of this mod (because the developer of this mod was apparently too lazy to do that)
Some people are saying it's a good mod because they don't mind the bad level design and gameplay, or they just haven't even finished it, or they don't know what good and bad actually means. That's what they thought when they played this so-called "PoRtAl AnD hAlF-lIfE cRoSsOvEr MoD." Unless a fan of this mod says otherwise, you should go read my longer review in the comments.
This mod gets a 1/10 in my book.
Looking back at this mod now, I still think that the maps are unintuitive and broken.
And to the developer of this mod:
Even though this mod is garbage, at least you tried your best to make it look good, and that's what matters.
I'll just let my video speak for itself: Bitchute.com
TL;DW: This is a horrible mod, and giving it a one is too kind. I was stuck on every objective, because I had no clear indication where to go, or what to do. This game is really, really bad at continuity. Also, mine glitched, and wouldn't give me the Gravity gun or Portal gun, when it was supposed to; softlocking my game.
It's a good mod but I really think it needs english voice actors.
Really, I wasn't impressed. It wasn't as good as I thought it would be.
Really good and intricate. This mod doesn't hold your hand at all, I even found myself stuck a couple of times. Gotta think outside the box with this one! Compared to other mods I've played, this one is of great quality. Much effort went into this and it shows. Besides the abrupt ending, I enjoyed it very much.
This mod is flaw but has so many creative and new ideas I still really enjoyed it. Most Half-Life fans would appreciate the work put into this mod.
yeah
This mod has many interesting ideas, and it could have had a lot of potential. However, I couldn't give it a great score, due to the level design and lackluster gameplay.
Level design is weak, sometimes dry puzzles, shooting.
BUT
very
very-very many ideas and features, unique gameplay puzzles.
I like it