Alyx and Gordon head off for a subterrainien adventure to hunt down a suspected Combine Advisor lying hibernation in a local mine complex.
I really liked Deep Down, so good in fact that it can make a great sequel of Half-Life 2 episode 2 (Better than The Closure), the level design was creative and well developed. However, there are still many bugs, such as the lack of phonemes of the rebel in the beginning of the game, the musics sometime doesn't quite fit with the level or two musics are playing at the same time because the level was too short, there are some places on which you have no idea what you're supposed to do, etc. Other than those small bugs, I liked the idea and the level design
The level design is generally very minimalistic and conditional, with very little details - they're not enough to give you the feel of being in a real place. This makes you quickly run through these levels because there's not much to look at, but this is not possible due to puzzles.
Puzzles are about finding some item to use or some passage which is blended with the surrounding environment. This is annoying: you're forced to spend more time in an area than you'd like to - searching for the solution.
The combat offers very nice variety - from optional entertainment of throwing infinite grenades at infinitely spawning enemies to crushing everyone on your path with the car and throwing Magnusson devices at Striders.
When we finally reach the Combine Advisor, we just destroy it and the mod ends. Would be really nice to see some mod where the Advisor is a new enemy - formidable boss with customly programmed original AI and attacks.
Nice work
I loved this mod from the beginning to the end. The atmosphere, the gameplay, the battles, everything felt very professional. I can only highly recommend this mod to everybody!
Creative and fun
The level of detail in the map is valve like, the combat is awesome, the boss fights are great like the one that you have to fight two hunters and the one where you need to kill the advisor, the use of alyx voice was done greatly as they re-use the voice lines but make it seem they were done for the mod.
A very well done mod with good ai. 9/10
Almost perfect! Really felt like a solid set of HL2 maps. A few passages were a bit lengthy (just long walking distances without too much happening) but all in all very nice!
Minor note: had 3x graph nodes out of date.
Cool.
Fantastic mod. Love the atmosphere, gameplay and had a great time.