Resourceful Protagonist is a mod all about being smart and thinking before acting, you play as a regular citizen in a non-named city under combine control however things are about to take a turn for the worse and obviously you have to get out of dodge. The aim of the mod is to make an enjoyable experience that challenges me as a level designer to push myself to the edges of my experience and beyond!
I've now finished Resourceful Protagonist once more, and feel it's time i write a review.
One thing mentioned about this mod, is that it's based around the player analyzing a situation before acting.
This just does not seem to come true, more then once or twice. What i think is missing, is a better description of what "analyzing" means.
Will doing so benefit the player? Will he avoid difficult situations, or perhaps be rewarded? I guess everyone has their own way of viewing this, had you dropped someone into this mod without telling them this. I suspect they would never of thought of it. There are simply no situations where you are screwed if you don't think before you act.
However, the part about exploration is certainly true! What makes this mod very interesting, and worth playing, is the vast amount of areas to explore.
Traveling far off your set path, just to see whats on the top floor of this building. This is the simple reason i rated this mod so high.
Other then that, ammo actually feels very scares, and you'll be happy to have just 1 spare mag for your SMG. This is also why exploring is important, if you just rush through the level you will run out of health and ammo.
All in all, the maps are nice, the challenge is good, and the mod is fun.
If anything, we should view this as an experiment, or a prototype of how to make a very interesting, and certainly different kind of game/mod.