Mr Freeman has once again been “recruited” by the elusive and stone-faced G-man to handle a “situation’ that could prove catastrophic if not handled immediately. It seems that a rift in the space-time continuum has allowed the minions of Xen to establish a stronghold inside one of the main reactor cores in the Lambda Complex. Somehow they have figured out a way to tap directly into the complex’s nuclear power grid. They are using this energy to continually widen the rift to allow more and more of the Xen inhabitants into our world.
Love this mod. A classic in my eyes. Got a playthrough highlights reel here if you want to take a look. :D
A fantastic mappack, it doesn't need any explanation.
Gut Reaction was amazing for 1999, it's still just as good 20+ years later.
Man, I've never died so much in the first few seconds of a mod. Or maybe I'm just bad at this old school Half-Life platforming thing.
Ominous soundscapes introduce the world we're in. Eerie, yet intriguing. Clever use of parking lot arrows to draw my attention to the crowbar.
bruh HEV chargers look like a wall texture. I stumbled across one by pure chance. Oh nvm there's a unit on the other side of this wall.
Combat was tough, but fair. I had issues getting through a couple encounters, but even after cheesing them it didn't feel right, so I replayed until I was happy with the outcome. Usually that's a testament to how engaging the combat is. Never feels forced or overdone. Good pacing.
That one sequence where you're better off letting the HECU fight the grunts? Made even better if you sprint immediately to the turret to provide suppressing fire. It's like we're on the same side!
Rad music, but inappropriate timing.
Creative, varied environments. Detailed and constantly changing. Again, stellar pacing and a real sense of forward progression, even if I almost got stuck in a few spots.
Plot could've been revealed throughout by scientists and clues, rather than preloaded up front. I often forgot what I was doing.
Pretty great mod. Can't believe this is from 1999. God Bless the OG modders who paved the way. At this point, Half-Life was their only inspiration!
goofy aah mod
What a classic mod it is!
Puzzles, combat and enemy placement in the mod was pretty good.
Everything was just awesome. Remember, this mod was out in 1999 and it is definitely way better than many HL mods that were released after 2000.
duzo zgrzytow, nielogicznych mechanik, niedopracowan totalnych typu zrobiles cos co calkowicie blokuje ci przejscie dalej.
ale czuc fajny klimat, mapy sa fajnie wykonane czyli ->
napewno mod na '2 razy'
1szy zeby poznac o co chodzilo autorowi, i 2gi zeby przejsc jak juz sie zna cala trase. bo takto sa zgrzyty. imo
Another classic mod that just feels like HL through and through.
Super well done.
Not bad at all! Quite an enjoyable experience, no problems/bugs, great action and generally well made. Playing this was worth it!
A short mod with nice level design and about 20 minutes long.
The story is good, it's challenging but fair. pretty cool mod everyone should totally play it :P.
OK, so I can see now why some people say this mod is a HL1 classic. Because, back then in 1999 one year after HL1 was released, I guess this mod sure it was impressive. With a coherent story involving Gordon having to achieve an epic goal and the whole combat against grunts and xenians, and also some puzzles along the way, this mod sure blew the minds of many gamers whose desires for more HL1 maps were big.Now its been 13 years after and to me it doesn’t look great, actually I had terrible troubles to find the crowbar at first place, sure or maybe it was my mistake and I didn’t see it in the first maps at all, I just found a glock which it was practically useless due to the amount of enemies you have to deal with at the first steps.Also I believe the whole map design sometimes feels boxy, and some areas are just too narrow, so it felt that after some years of HL mapping some mods were definitely better than this one, compare “smart decoy” to this one and you see what I mean, the former is an almost perfect HL1 map, or kind of closest to the HL1 perfection in map development terms, also the celebrated Adam Foster’s “Some Place Else” a prequel to “Minerva” was also between the really well done maps for HL1.The previous doesn’t quit credit in this mod, because it was one of the first in HL1 mod universe back then when Planethalflife or Halflifefiles were the big and almost unique HL1 dedicated mod spaces. Also the coherent story tell of the mod and some clever combat parts make this mod worth to be played.