Hopeless Night is a horror Modification for the Source Engine.
The mod isn't bad, but it also isn't good. I bumped it up to a 6 because the good slightly outweighs the bad.
Good Parts
- There are actual characters that talk.
- The zombie models not ripped from NH2 are well-made.
- I generally knew where to go in the outside areas.
- Very, very, good level design.
Bad Parts
- Painfully short.
- Audio is tolerable, but still annoying.
- I had to try every door in sight to find out where I was supposed to go next.
- The sniper that shoots at you near the end is never mentioned or directly fought.
- Obvious ending, with a silly cliffhanger.
- Since the hordes need to be avoided by dashing to the next objective, there is very little time to enjoy the scenery.
- The indoor sections consist of running from one room to another to get the next room's key with maybe a zombie between rooms.
The mod is still worth a play, though.
no
I can see a lot of effort went into the level design, as the detail levels are quite eye-catching, and darting around hordes of zombies with little ammo is quite pulse pounding.
I just feel it relies too much on cliche, and it can be quite frustrating at times when you are forced to melee zombies with an infective pipe, as they do incredible damage in a short time.
Direction was also pretty crap, the constant key hunting and the jarring cutscenes sucked me out of the tension and gameplay very often.
Not to mention the ending comes out of nowhere, with characters that were never mentioned beforehand suddenly being the only reason for the main characters drive through the apocalypse.
It's well made, and I might play it again for sightseeing, it is just flawed :/
for those who would read the review section before playing this mod... SPOILER ALERT!!!
[+]nice custom data, no major bugs on skins, zombies, and weapons
[+]has a real "spooky" theme even though there are no "There's nothing you can do... BOO!" moments
[+]has no glitches(not that I'm aware of)
*[+]is ported to Source 2013 (I still dunno what good it has but you know... "new is always better" :P)
[=]audio and grammar are "meh", but I can't blame you because of the warning at the start of the game :D
[=]has an attempt to a good ending, you may either know if he committed suicide or maybe just killed the ******
[=]only has 3 weapons (3 weapons all around an URBAN city), but the realism is there because who can carry like 5 weapons or so without being totally exhausted (except those people with a HEV suit, HECU combat gear, or Black Mesa standard security outfit or so)
[-]has no final boss (oh Good Lord Almighty :/). I know it may be "cliche" but it is one of the things that makes us feel rewarded on finishing a game
[-]the maps are "too clean", some traces of blood over there, some dead zombies, I know it doesn't cope well with other pc's
but that's what zombie game addicts are looking for :D
[-]the story is short but that is to be expected from a mod. but the story itself... A recent zombie apocalypse with NO(and I mean NO!) instance of survivors running about in the streets, no sign of the human race about to be doomed, just you, some zombies, and some other zombies, some survivors (and one of them is a crazy *** mofo >:D) and a hell lot of zombies
[-]the characters on the story are like freakin' brainiacs because they know what the hell you've been through those past few minutes(in playtime of course) for example:
~(Le crazy Harry appeared) "oh, another survivor... [blah3x] ... I know you read the letter from the hospital" (he wasn't even in the hospital and the letter was written by an unknown dead guy)
~"My lock is a weak lock [blah3x]... He puts you inside an arena with zombies to fight" (even though she'd just arrived and there were nobody else) and the two cages really made that part "scripted" because there are exactly two cages(one for you and the other for the girl)
[-]like other reviews I've seen, you don't get to face the sniper guy :'( I really wanted to eliminate that guy from the face of the Source Engine xD
[-]the running past zombies part doesn't play well for source players because we tend to stay and fight(all those dead zombies [sob]) :''|
Anyway, it's a good mod :D if I were to summarize it:
Maps------------------------- (*)(*)
Story~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (*)(*)(*)
Customized Data---------- (*)(*)
Characters~~~~~~~~~~~~ (*)
Realism----------------------- (*)(*)
Simplicity~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (*)(*)(*)(*)
Weapons--------------------- (*)(*)
Effects~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (*)(*)
Distinctness(from HL2)--- (*)(*)(*)
Game play~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (*)(*)(*)(*)
Horror------------------------ (*)(*)(*)
Conclusion: A good mod (Y) :D nice to play so enjoy playing :D if there is a sequel... I'm gonna allow it ^_^ and just improve the effects and make it more "international" instead from "for our Mother Russia" (dude, I'm not racist -_-) and add some more maps before the ending (please add a "kill that sniper" part because I would really love that :D) and we have ourselves another contender for Steam Greenlight :) hehe
Good
Просто пострелять зайдёт.
I had fun playing it.
Because I had a great time.
Despite the recycled content, the mapping was good, the enemy placement was as well. The lack of a crosshair made things more realistic. Sure, there were cliches, but the part with Harry made it much more interesting. The protagonist's desire to return home should have been conveyed a bit better earlier on, though. Since, he had a lot at stake. The ending felt a little abrupt, but was very depressing! You fatalist you!