Slums 2 is episode 2 engine`s mod. Nine maps, dark and creepy. Nothing innovative in gameplay, but still good regular shooter. Slums 2 was created by only two men, who were inspired by Silent Hill, Condemned, FEAR games. Mod does not provide new weapons or some special features.

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Slums 2 is a fairly short, yet incredibly detailed mod.

Gameplay mostly revolves around generic shooting. This may seem boring at first glance, but the general gunplay is from tried and proven Half-Life 2. AI placement is great, considering the cramped setting of the slums.

The lack of a story definitely hurt the mod. Adding a simple plot line to explain the strange intro dream, and why the character is fighting his way out of the slums, would greatly increase the immersion.

Atmosphere in this mod is absolutely fantastic. Crawling through grim, dark tunnels, just to climb out into the large, ruined cityscape shows the modder's attention to graphical detail and artistic design. The post-processing effects never felt too harsh, and largely influenced the shady art style.

The sounds and music quality is excellent. The new gunfire sounds are top-notch, sounding entirely natural with the default HL2 weapons.
The music was what caught my eye (or ear). Obviously designed to fit the retro style, the music is a fantastic mix of soundtrack and electronic. Timing of the music was impeccable, and usually ended perfectly after the firefights.

Sadly, the levels suffer from some rapid change of pace. One minute, you're fighting Combine in the apartments. A few minutes later, you're slowly heading through zombie-infested tunnels. Again, back to Combine. The style of play changes far too quickly, and I believe it would have been better to have two or three major play-style changes.

For strong atmosphere, solid and proven gameplay, beautiful sounds, and graphical excellence, I give Slums 2 a 9 out of 10.

Great

Excellent mod. It focuses on portraying a slums area very well. Battle is well paced and overall gameplay is fun.

I really like the feel of this mod. Mostly because it's so dark, and depressing but in a good way! I really love how it looks aswell! The graphics are amazing, and the gameplay is pretty much standard. All in all, if you're looking for a short but awesome campaing, then try this mod!

Top notch action in this, Loved how the shottie was the main powerhouse gun in this. Good stuff XD

I liked this. The color-correction isn't overused, and you always have barely enough ammo and health to survive. Some parts were a bit tacky, and a few parts weren't that well-optimized, but these flaws were largely overshadowed by the otherwise flawless state of the mod. A fantastic sense of atmosphere and a great little experience overall. Had a blast playing through on hard!

8

More of the same! Tight, winding environments and lot of boxes to smash. The upgrade to the HL2 engine is doing wonders for how this looks.

Combat was tense and exciting, but it often felt like enemies were just standing still, waiting for you to peek around the corner.

Welp, fixed the ammo pickup problem! Now I have full pistol ammo at all times lmao.

New custom music slaps.

Find the button to open the door was overdone just a wee bit.

This mod suffers from the door trim problem. You need to let me strafe freely on walls, especially in such tight quarters.

Still pretty linear like the first installment, excepting a slight expansion into world-building. Or, rather, "attempt" is probably a better word. Too many dead ends. Pretty, but still dead.

I gotta say, the author really knows how to use crawling zombies. Nicely done and gets me every time.

I love that there's just random, brand-new textures scattered about. They don't need to be there, but the fact that they are brings a smile to my face. It's the details that really matter, right?

That Antlion Guard battle was TENSE. Great use of explosive barrels without the gravity gun. Killed that ****** with my last barrel.

I liked it. A little rigid and rough around the edges, but it was exciting and engaging.

I played the first Slums mod so I got kind of spoiled, there is no real reason to play the first one as this includes it but makes it better. There is not any story, but it makes up for that in amazing graphics when it comes to source, I found myself taking screenshots like every two minutes because of how cool I thought some stuff looked. The enemy placement is a bit weird in some places, like it just feels a bit off sometimes, but the odd enemy placement is not too bad. The sound effect choice is great, the music choice is great, the lighting and settings are definitely the best part. If you like a little shooting mod you put some thought into but not too much, definitely give this one a try.

I love it I played slums and I remastered it myself a bit, but I love slums 2 extended, especially the shotgun sound, PERFECT. Graphic and level enhancements, Music, brilliant I must say. What talent. Thank you.

This is a short mod but it was entertaining. I like the pace of exploration and combat, there is no suit charge to make things hard but suit armor is weak in half life 2 compared to the first game so you shouldn't worry about that.