Paranoia - a critical review.

How about - to write more reviews about others mods? I guess then we will need another rating system with values from -1 to -10. :)

Sorry.. This was a not a good review. I see your points but many of them, well... Like the .bat thing? Could launch it through steam myself?

Anyways, you need to like.. Take things in perspective you know?
Really, you could do great as a reviewer, unorthodox approach and everything.. Just my style.. Lack of originality?
Oh well..

Uh, I could launch this through Steam like I do any other mod I have installed. You must not have done something right. The animated cribbed from CS I could care less about since pretty much every other SP HL1 mod (including Are You Afraid of monsters) has used reskinned HL1 content.

The only things that bugged me was the overuse of the metal music (save it for big encounters, mix it down so it's not so loud) and spotty hitboxes. Other than that it's a perfectly fine SP mod.

My only suggestions would be to allow taking ammunition from dead enemies that are carrying weapons, and to tighten up the hitboxes/spread of weaponfire a bit. Adding 2-3 more enemies to certain areas would help too.

Well you know what you and I don't agree on everything but still nice review, good to see a different perspective on the subject, it sometimes becomes a bit biast when people just keep praising something. It's not as if you have to like it!

ermm still haven't played this yet but where is the stolen content, im aware they use some anims etc from CS but max payne etc? is it textures coz anything other than that it would just be easier to remake stuff themselves than trying to export meshes etc :S....anyway i think its a little unfair to compare this mod to pro games like Stalker and CoD but your entitled to your opinion i guess. Nice review although a little scathing for my tastes i look forward to reading more of your work in the future.

I totally dissagree with this review & feel it very unfair, & feel that it is has been fueled by the fact that you couldn't get the mod working properly as it kept crashing on you which most players have not expierianced.

I'm sorry but this is the ass-crappiest review i have ever read...

This review is a load of cack.

If you dont go into the mod expecting the next Call of Duty (as clearly this reviewer was) you'll have a great time. The production values are top notch, the writing is really solid (he failed to mention all the bits of written info you can read around the game in Deus Ex style) and the AI isn't as bad as he says.

It's abit like STALKER, which can only be a good thing.

Thumbs down to this review. big time

For those who don't like looping rock music on action scenes, i have a good news: we'll work on better sound harmony in next patch. ;]

For reviewer: we all here are so silly to turn lower the volume in options, so music is so bad! :]

I feel that this is an aggressive critique, but he did state as much in the title.

Truth is, i had fun playing it, but despite some smart moves, I quite liked the slow start... but it could have done with being a touch faster.

AI, being half-life AI, was bad, but the maps should be designed around the AI to accommodate it (as they were in half-life) and it felt like the maps were trying to hard to be standard and broke into repetitive.

I will praise the game for saving some of its enemies for a small number of encounters, means they still carry value, even though only the appearance was really different.

That said, i recommend people try it, if you get bored? Just install and don't look back, there is no hidden treasure here.

Interesting to see totally opposite Reviews :P (from 9 to 1 ?)
Well it's clear this game doesn't suit your tastes.
What I don't understand is that even if you presented many negative points you still had positive points to give us but the overall score ended up being a 1.0 out of 10 ?
About stolen content : you claim that they stole content from other games, show us some evidences otherwise your point is not worth to be considered at all !
Keep in mind there's also a big difference between ripping off content and being inspired by it. You should know it's really hard being original nowadays, everything has already been made, even the game companies don't manage to be original. So it's especially tough to build an original mod featuring groundbreaking gamemechanics.
As of the graphics : on your scale any Half-Life mod would automaticaly become the 'ugly' negative point so I would rather congratulate the team on attempting to push the Goldsource engine to its limits than comparing it to Crysis or anything else !

Can't believe you gave this awesome mod an 1.0!
What ever the reasons, the mod definitely deserves more than a 1!

This review I think was a little bit too critical, I enjoyed Paranoia very much. My only problem was the hit-boxes, and for some reason paranoia lag on my machine, but besides that I think these guys did an excellent job with what they had. And as an FYI, I thought the music fit perfectly exactly where it was at.

Well, some of this post might be true, but when you start saying that there are lots of zombie games/mods this is where you take a dive.

Truth is there are very few zombie oriented games/mods. ( In all truth you can't count halflife due to they are alien parasites controlling humans, not zombies )

Besides that, considering the AI they are drawing from. ( Hl1's AI was not smart at all really )

In this review all you seem to do is attack attack attack. Some things you have said are not even true and thats what got to me.

I am sorry to say but this is one of the worst reviews on anything I ever seen. I think you should try looking and reading the reviews of others. ( Pros,or other people who do it a fair amount of time ) before doing another review on anything, and actually do a little research on things to broaden your view and not make as the same amount of half-truths. ( or being completely wrong about things for that matter )

Sorry it just gets to me when I see a review done thats not even that well done. You do have your right to your own opinion, but all I ask is do some research before you make a review like this.

wtf i'll get banned from Steam for just having that file in my Steam Folders? wtf wtf

I loved this mod, this reviewer must hate fun!

This game has a ton of flaws.

While the games instability didn't affect me, it's level design and Ai we're pretty horrible.

The one thing that bugged me the most was the fact that the first lab, which was closed down due to zombies, is not even that far away from the newer labs. Seems like a dumb idea, making the new labs right down the hall from the old labs.

The game was okay, hitboxes need fixing, the story needs to be told better, they need to make actual bosses, better level design.

This game did have me jump in many places though, but after the first encounter with zombies, it got very...very bland.

I'll look forward to an expansion.

I'd like to see some evidence of the stolen content, because that is some pretty hefty allegations you are making there.

Wow. That was the biggest load of crap I've ever read. Have you actually compared this mod's graphics to HL1's? Major improvement. Seriously though, for being built on an engine that's 9 years old, it's quite impressive.

As it has been stated by several other people, the game has never crashed. I'll just say what I normally say, your computer just sucks. Or you're a complete moron that doesn't know how to use Steam. One or the other.

And no, you won't get banned from Steam. I already played on a VAC server just fine. And considering HL1 isn't actually opening or using opengl32.dll, why would it effect the game?

Linear isn't exactly bad. There are quite a few linear games that are really good. Prey, for example, was very enjoyable.

In my opinion, the rock music wasn't that bad. I actually liked it. And, come on, it's only used like 3 times.

You know, modders can legally re-skin old HL1 assets to use in their mod. Since to actually play the game, players have to already own that content anyways. However, like many others have stated, they have seen nothing and you have offered no proof. Don't make accusations you can't provide evidence for. Otherwise you just end up looking like an ass.

As Undying_Zombie says, all this review is doing is attacking it. I mean, sure you didn't like the mod and it may have caused you frustration, but if you can't act with decency and offer up valid points and arguments for both pros and cons, then just shut up. Your attack your only pro by restating that the graphics are ass-crap. Not really a pro now is it?

That said, my only real peeves with the mod was the very slow beginning. You weren't really given any hints as to where to go. Also, driving certain events forward with your teammates saying, "Hey major, why don't you go first?" is kind of dumb. I mean, why would the exact same teammate open a door for you the room before, then have you do it one corridor down? Especially since he was already there before you. Just open the door! Hehe.

as stenchy said id like to see some evidence of this stolen content, as i previously stated i know they took some anims from CS:CZ etc but saying they took content from games like max payne is a bit of a stretch....for example HOW?!

Hey guys, some of you seem to be making your own inferences from what I've written. I didn't go into this expecting CoD - that would be a foolish expectation for an HL mod; the irregularities I experienced during gameplay were frustrating, yes, but I played on regardless - I just didn't find the mod fun to play.

I wish the Paranoia team all the best for the future, I hope they produce a 2nd mod, and that this review may offer some pointers for future work.

Just at the models with Half Life Model Viewer, and look at the respective models from those other games in something like MS3D or GMax. I have given a brief list of the models/content in a previous post.

I have worked with the assets of those games myself, the HL2 and CSS content is easy to spot.

SaxonSwine:
I really want to see what mod in your opinion deserves more then 1 out of 10.

I totally agree with you on many of the points. The largest frustration was the extreme lack of story-line. But I do have to disagree with you on having to open the bat, but perhaps, if i did, i would have had a lot less crashes... o the crashes