Eclipse - In Game Action by netrex
Aug 03, 2006 Movies 0 commentsThis is a 6 min long video in 720p (1280x720) to show how beautiful whis mod is and to show a little of its gameplay. There are two more mirrors if you...
Eclipse
Half-Life 2 mod | Released Aug 3, 2006
Around November, 2004, several students got together to brainstorm a concept for a total conversion of Valve's Half-Life 2 . After several days of brainstorming, the concept for Eclipse was born. In January of 2005, a group of Guildhall students composed of programmers, artists, and level designers were put together and formed what is now CelTech Studios. It was then that CelTech Studios made the commitment to produce the highest quality game possible in the short amount of time they had - five months. What emerged in late May was a game that is both stunningly beautiful and addictive to play.
Eclipse is a third-person total conversion of Valve's Half-Life 2 . It is an action adventure that features tactical, puzzle based combat, which forces the player to interact with the surrounding environment in order to survive. You play as a young Sorceress named Violet who has learned the secrets of Telekinesis. This allows Violet to easily find objects in the environment that she can pick up and throw. Once the player gets used to picking up objects and throwing them at targets, the movement of Violet becomes very important. Based on where an enemy is Violet might want to pick up one or more objects and then move about in order to get a good angle on her enemy before sending the objects flying in that direction.
As you journey through the different lands of Eclipse , you will uncover many secrets that will help you in defeating your enemies. You will also be able to unlock new abilities that Violet can use, such as Hellstorm - a powerful spell that allows Violet to summon up to three fiery orbs that explode upon impact and deal significant damage to nearby enemies.
Use Violet's power of Telekinesis to help protect you as you journey over distant lands in search of the ancient teleportation device near the Standing Stones. Battle your way through hordes of orc-like creatures known as Keepers as you make your way through the enchanted Blackmoor forest. Find Violet's ancestral burial grounds in the Barrow and unlock dark secrets that will aid you in your final stand at the Standing Stones.
After finishing the game you can unlock the Survival Mode mini-game. This allows you to test your skills with Hellstorm as you battle against wave after wave of enemies. Compare your stats with friends to see who really has what it takes to survive the Standing Stones - Survival Mode.
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Latest News: Eclipse 1.5 Hotfix Released
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A hotfix has just been released for Eclipse.
This hotfix corrects some critical crash bugs due to changes to the SDK since the Mod's release. The hotfix can be found on the guildhall servers at:
Students.guildhall.smu.edu
The hotfix contains code previously unreleased to support for older video cards. While in mod will run on a Geforce2 or another Dx6 card. There are known issues with the mod's content. For more information about these known issues and their current status please view this thread in our forums:
Eclipse.gmwalek.com
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Eclipse 1.01
Jan 22, 2006 Full Version 3 commentsThe files required to install and play this 3rd person single player puzzle shooter rpg mod for HL2.
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I went to download this mod and noticed that here on ModDB only v1.01 is hosted...but on the Eclipse website there is v1.02.
its hard to play third-person and no guns
It took me 2 hours to download this mod and it looks like an ok moderation of HL2, although...
BAD POINTS OF WHAT I HAVE SEEN
1) You need to have a pretty good graphics card to support this game and even to see the writing when you pick up itms like books and objects...
2) There is a lot of lagg in this game even with ok graphics
3) The objects look strange and it just doesn't feel like a HL2 mod in some ways
GOOD POINTS OF WHAT I HAVE SEEN
1) It is a good, fresh idea and it deservers a certain level of respect
2) The main charector has nice boobies
3) The choice in weapons is different and extremely daring for a HL2 mod
4) Its different not using guns!
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my opinion:
the gameplay and detail of this mod was great, and now you got that hard bit done, all ya have to do is spend a lil time making more levels, and ppl will keep on lapping it up.
is there going to be a follow up?
new powers?
the jumping was a little buggy looking
nice graphics!
Its so new, however the weapon kinda sucked.
Kind of dissappointed with how easy it was to die. Also how hard it was to kill those orc things in the beginning. Too much running from stuff for me. Try it and tell me if you liked it.
Its a shame its so short as this game is very impressive. The level design is really good, im not a fan of 3rd person games or medieval themes, but they pulled it off for this mod.
Understandable as to why the mod is so short, because it was a uni project, and from looking on the forums it seems that they are looking to get together a community map project so you should check it out if you really want to see more maps in the game! There have been plenty of posts this year on the forum so the project isnt dead or anything.
Bugwise I didnt really spot anything major, except they should have turned on backface culling with the player character because when you back her up into a corner the camera zooms inside her skull and you can see the inside of her face... although this isnt so bad because its the closest you can get to a proper look at her :)
A toggle for 3rd person mode would have been nice so i could have really gotten in there and examined the level design more closely.
Just out of curiousity if any of the creators are reading this was there originally supposed to be something on the other side of the broken bridge at the start or was it always planned like that. Oh and can you actually open the gate with the massive axe in ? I just boshed the wall down next to it in the end :P
Actually I do have two more bugs, both at the cottage with the tip in for killing the fairies. 1) I blasted the furniture around in there before reading the book and knocked the table flying but the book stayed floating (ok you could say its a magic book... :P) and if you face the cottage from the outside, and go down the left hand side, looking right over into the distance you can see some kind of z-buffer display glitch where a bit of mountain that should be hidden is visible over the top of another bit of mountain!
Thats it, A++ mod for the quality, and also for the tidbit that source engine will work on older gf cards ok... I thought my dads computer was too slow for it but now i will wow him with hl2 :) Inabit!
omfg what a piece of shit,,,cant belive that ppl are making this crap,talk about destroying hl2
this was something new... and i liked it :o
i hope to see another mod from the makers, but longer ;)