Your name is John White, an scientist who escaped from black mesa in a car. After 1 week of driving, you find yourself with almost no fuel, you enter in a warehouse but you doesn't find anything useful. In total desperation you use a crowbar to break a vent, only to find the beginning of your journey...
A neat little mod with a lot of potential but failure on deliverance.
While the mod itself is entertaining to a certain degree it lacks what might be expected of hl1 mods these days and that's "class". In many ways this mod is a straight forward 1999 hl1 mod experience. In the early days of hl1 modding people seen a lot of these mods. Walk your way through the maps with monsters waiting around each and every corner. The same principle applies here.
While that's not necessarily a bad thing: More is certainly possible with the hl1 engine. Be it monsters teleporting in and around you or friendly npcs presenting you with some goodies and story elements. Unfortunately none of this was used here. Even flickering lights appeared to be to much for the author of the mod.
Everything appeared almost normal. That is if it weren't for the grunts idling around every 2nd corner. It's funny seeing as the author did know how to conduct scripting in his mod.
That is as we get to see some c4 detonations and even few camera scenes which are certainly a nice thing to see in any mod. That plus a few riddles along the way. Basically pushing few boxes around or pressing buttons not bad.
Despite it's flaws it is indeed a bold classic mod like we've seen back in the early hl1 modding days. If you're fan of that go for it. If not avoid it as you will get disappointed by it.
Story wise the mod doesn't seem to make much sense. Apparently we're trying to escape the disaster caused by Gordon Freeman. Yet we begin in a totally isolated storage compartment. Hell we even got a jeep at our disposal and no enemies nearby all we would need to figure out would be how to get a gate open and then be on our way. But no instead we've got to fight our way through numerous blocky rooms and facilities before we're permitted our final escape.
mapping: With 3 exceptions that I found particular interesting and inspiring to me as a hl1 mapper myself the mapping is mostly bad in that aspect that you're running through boxy corridors just to enter even more blocky environments. So very linear and very blocky throughout the mod. Many rooms also appear massive or are simply empty looking.
Gameplay: As partially mentioned before. The mod contains some button riddles and box pushing stuff. Other than that it's just a basic plain combat experience with monsters and grunts hiding behind every door waiting for you to arrive. Surprises in any form are barely to none present in this one. A good mod for any longer on going coffee break and I estimate a playtime around 25 to 35 minutes.
the mapping isn't really good but other than that i think it's a great mod
it a good time killer and i had fun with it. as far as story goes it nice to have a prespective from an ordinary guy who just wants to get the hell out of black mesa. this is why i give it a 7 its a good mod which feels balanced for the most part. and it forces you to use the brain to solve problems wether if it is a puzzel or a combat senerio. overall if you like half life then im sure you will love senses in decay. btw i recomend to not mess with the fov on this one.
I really like this mod, it's simple, maybe rough around the edges, but still a nice lil labor of love/tribute for Half-Life.
Well, i can't find anything intresting with the mod, it looks like another generic Half-Life mod in the old days.
Its not bad... some areas are good to look at, and some are just blocky.
I see this is an improvement from the creator, since the previous mod that he made was A total failure and unplayable.
but this one is at least playable.
The pistol reload animation needs some improvement, because it looks weird. the grenade pinpull animation, well it looks fine from our viewpoint, but nothing wrong to improve it
Puzzles like C4 Detonations are A good touch for the mod
The camera as well.
So overall I give this mod an 8/10
Not bad, since my mapping skills are also terrible
I Like The Mod But Poor Map Design Weird Reload Animation Good Work Like it
Nice little mod.
Not great.
Just good.
awesome and fun!
Nice gameplay