The game puts you once again in the shoes of Damien Reeves, now driven by his lust for revenge for all the suffering he had to go through in the original "Poke646". Experience exciting locations, a new weapon and surprising gameplay innovations...
The sequel to the successful mod Poke646...however, even though it's damn short...believe me, is very short if you play a lot of it.
Still, very enjoyable mod, the final boss might be a pain for some but I managed to finish him good.Unfortunately, you don't get to use the nail weaponry, but the bullpup with nade launcher is a nice weapon for you to use.
If you have player Poke646 first and didn't play this before, try it out.Not better than the original but still a good mod.
Excelent use of the engine! Not overloaded and yet is feels totally diferent to half-life, the ending was kind.. unespected? great mod
A great sequel to a great mod.
I'm still astounded at the maps and atmosphere poke646 has given, and in Vendetta you get an whole new location with whole new surroundings on a spaceship, it looked a bit like doom 3.
Excellent lighting and map layout and the graphics are great for a goldsrc game. The puzzles are fairly simple, you get easy direction on where to go and what to do, which I personally like.
To the already amazing weapons the game had to offer you now get an assault rifle, instead of the nail gun, a few other weapons have been removed.
The story picks up where it left, and wraps up very nicely, I'm still a bit confused though, but that was because of the original poke646.
Also this mod is extremely short, less then an hour for me. Not that it's bad, if you put it together with the original poke646 it's still a lengthy game.
Overall a great mod, fun to play and a beautiful thing to look at. Unfortunately it's not something that will go in my history book as one of the best mods ever, nor will I remember it as so. 9/10, good, but not perfect.
Short, yet it came with plenty of surprises and a great amount of detail.
It wraps up the cliffhanger from the previous game well enough and it is certainly not to be missed by those who played the first :)
Half as long but twice as good.
It does away with almost all of the disappointing aspects of the first Poke646.
Good
Well made as the previous one, but with an even better environment. Although maps contrast a lot between them, they are very related with the ones of the prequel. Gameplay was a bit less exciting than prequel, but I got enough fun. I almost didn't feel the lack of some weapons. The big bad problem about this episode is the length, because, in my opinion, it's extremely short. Also, though story comes to an end, felt a little bit rushed, and doesn't have lot of surprises as the prequel. In adition, puzzles are not that good as before.
Considering the previous reasons, I give this mod roughly an 8.
Overall I think what I thought of the previous mod, just to easy.. a few simple puzzles, messy storyline, badly done boss fight due to cramped area... but beautiful, new content everywhere, new environments galore and very long.
1 new weapon over the previous mod, but 3 others are missing.
Great sequel for a great mod, one of the best for HL1!
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Ugh, the name of this game belies its awesomeness.
Much more ammo and health this time around. Enemies are still tough as nails and I often feel powerless to avoid damage, but at least the game is playable without save scumming.
Same tired mechanic. Let me swing my crowbar. Just let me be free.
Finally, some real weapons that deal real damage. Although the annoying hitscan enemies from miles away still preclude any sort of aiming, having a grenade launcher with plentiful ammo a la HL1 really makes it easier to clear distant grunts or turrets and clear out HECU quickly before they pepper you alive. One bumbled encounter can sap 70 HP like nothing, assuming you're not outright killed. Very important to kill quickly and efficiently. In other words, don't suck.
Like the original, forward progression leans HEAVILY on find-the-keycode puzzles.
Plot has its ups and downs. What unwinds subtly and organically is much better done than heavy-handed exposition from cutscenes or lame plot elements out of a supervillain movie. Overall I loved the setting, but was not compelled by the story.
OMG. That Gonarch fight? Wow. It wasn't some long, drawn-out, confusing battle against something that Valve desperately wanted to be bigger and badder than it truly was. The Gonarch always would've worked better as an Antlion Guard type enemy, not a final boss. Take it down with a couple nades and a few shotty shells, maybe a magazine of SMG for good measure. Satisfying like taking down your first Hunter. Though I still think it's weird that it sounds like a dude sarcastically yelling "whoaaaa".
An elevator with no exterior button. How do you call it?
Outstanding vistas. Awesome. Like, awesome the original meaning of awesome, i.e. "invoking awe". Definitely slowed down the rail car to let it all sink in.
Poke646 is an amazing game hampered by a stupid name. Sounds like it's a meme game that I shouldn't expect to take seriously, but I'm suddenly finding myself pleasantly surprised at how professional and polished this experience is.