Heart of Evil: Napalm Edition (HOE: NE) is a remake of the old mod Heart of Evil, a Vietnam themed war/survival horror FPS. The HOE NE Team hopes to help you relive that experience, or for those of you who haven't played it, a chance to try something new. They put a lot of work into the original concept and we want to it endure, for that reason we have updated the mod as best we can with graphics and gameplay.
Terrible, just terrible. The unspeakable glitches and bugs in this game, especially with the patch, just makes this unplayable! What ****** me off the most, is the music! It's annoying, and the game refuses to turn it off, even if I do it manually in the options! I had to mute my speakers to even play this without going crazy! The controls are very clunky and bad. Bad default settings and strafing. Don't get me started on the strafing, it's insane and unbearable to become used too. Couldn't seem to disable it either, otherwise from using ALT, which is just too hard when trying to fight the enemies! The Graphics and Improvements are great though, i really liked them. But sadly, I don't play a game for the graphics, just the gameplay! This remake took out some of the most important rides in the game, such as truck rides, Huey ride, and some others. Hardly any of it there! I admire the courage to do many of the voices for the characters too, but in my opinion, I hated them! It was annoying, and would have been a lot better if they had stuck with the originals or at least tweaked it a little. So that's pretty much it, all of this is just new models, some improvements on level designs, and pretty much just graphical differences. I really don't see how this is any better from the original. I give it a 3/10 for all of the below... And i would advise newcomers to stay away from this and just play the original.
Heart of Evil: Napalm Edition, man what a missed opportunity here. This mod brings little improvements to the original and ruins the rest. The models are great and I do like how some of the maze areas were made slightly less difficult. Some improvements were made to the level design and new custom textures were made to replace some the stock half-life textures that the original mod used. But the improvements end there. First off, the new voice work for Barney, the two officers at the beginning, and Kilmore were just terrible. They tried so hard to be funny they became irritating and the original voice work for them was good, there was just no need to replace them. The original mod was rather dark, and kind of creepy, in spirit of Apocalypse now (the film the mod is based around). This version seeks to dismantle that with stupid gay and **** jokes that really felt out of place. Huge sections of the ending were cut out, including the confrontation with Kurts and the epilogue was heavily altered. The new epilogue is just bad, the original wasn't the greatest ending either but it was miles better than Napalm Edition.
Conclusion:
I'd only get this for the models, they are pretty nice looking. The V weapon models for the snark & tripmine however do not work right with the original so those can't be used. But the rest are fine. The models are the best part about this mod, except for the stupid cone heads that replace the aliens. This mod could have been a great revamping of a classic, but instead it just misses the mark.
An attempt at improving a good mod gone horribly, horribly wrong. Buggy as hell 1/10 would not play again.
Confusing level design, terrible puzzles, bad voice acting, and the annoying AI make Heat of Evil Napalm Edition a nightmare to play. Even though the gunplay is really solid, I cannot recommend this mod.
An unofficial remake of the classic "Heart of Evil", Napalm Edition sadly misses the mark.
The mod tries to be funny for some reason but almost always fails. The original HoE was ridiculous in a good way (remember carrying that roast moose from the beginning for hours and using it in a future level without any fanfare, like it was nothing?) and had weird / funny dialog but this took it to a whole different level.
The graphics are nice and the new map designs are decent but the tone is very different. I also noticed some bugs while playing too. If someone is wondering which one to play, my vote will always go to the original.
I was looking forward to something nice, however I was met with key rebinding slow action scenes and ****** voice acting.
I do have to give the credits for the devs for remaking this mod. The models are really good, especially the weapon viewmodels, really good than the original. The zombie models actually really good, its not headcrab model anymore. The animation is modified to look different than the original Half Life, which is A nice touch, Weapon viewmodels has this really smooth animations which makes me enjoy using it, though the M79 is still the same. The maps are now more detailed and has far more better textures than the original. The graphics are better than the original of course.
There is bug in this game, like when you open the door and close it again, and then the door is permanently closed, and sometimes you didnt notice you've occured this bug, and then you quick save in A bad spot, then you have to backtrack or even starts from the beginning, this is absolutely frustating, and make me quit the game. I suggest you keep the door open and dont close it.
Also another thing, The zombies are too overpowered, even invicible, only explosives can kill them, so I suggest you dont waste your explosives, if you do you have to fire loads of bullets to zombies only to stun him, there is very little chance of you killing the zombies without explosives.
Even worse is the bad voice acting... Heart of evil also has this, but never to the point where I want to kill myself. There is so much unecessary detail put into it, and sometimes ruins the immersion you have on looking the good graphics.
Also this mod removes the beatiful cutscene, for some reasons, Bugs could happen when you move too much and blocks the vehicle and just make the player dies sometimes. Or probably they just want to replace it with mdl files. In my opinion Its better not to be changed.
But eitherway I still enjoy this, not much as the original one.
Not A really good remake, but decent at least
7/10
Still great. But i prefer the original. Like the old saying good graphics doesn't make a better game.
Eh... could have been much better.
While the previous mod was superb, it had some confusing fetch-quests. I thought that Napalm edition would fix these issues.
It somehow made the mod even more confusing :/
Many elements from the first mod were removed (Such as the alien planet level) and other elements were heavily edited (The alien spacecraft is now an ancient temple).
While the graphics are great and the models are well done, it feels like a patch rather then a whole new mod with new bugs that won't ever be fixed.
However, it is still fun to play and those looking to play Heart of Evil once again should look no further... just don't believe this will be better then the previous mod :(
I remember playing the original Heart of Evil a while back and not being particularly fond of it. I avoided Napalm Edition because I assumed I wouldn't like it. I recently decided to give it a shot, and I must say that it is, in my opinion, slightly better than the original. It's not perfect; the music can be irritating at times, and you can get stuck running in circles. In addition, a few locations from the original were removed in Napalm Edition. In the end, I did enjoy it more than the original.