Reviews - The Stanley Parable Mod for Half-Life 2

May 21st, 2012 2 people agree 1 person doesn't

It has a great voice actor and decent story but other then that it is quite lacking. The level design wasn't really good, low detail and some floating props.

If you liked mods like Dear Ester and Radiator then you will probably like this.

Dec 20th, 2012 0 people agree 0 people don't
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Its all about the voice and the story and doing everything opposite the first time round.

Jun 24th, 2012 0 people agree 0 people don't

More of a tech demo than a complete game - I can image it to be very time consuming to create something like this.

Definitely worth a look, though.

Jan 19th, 2012 0 people agree 0 people don't

If you can make a full length game with this idea with multiple choices all interconecting would be MOTY in my books good mod the who ever did the writing knew what i was thinking it was scary

Sep 8th, 2011 0 people agree 0 people don't

Quite good game and unique from what I have played. Didn't expect all endings to end up as they did but still made the game fun.
Would be nice to see more levels tho :)

Aug 21st, 2011 0 people agree 0 people don't

Nice experience

Aug 17th, 2011 0 people agree 1 person doesn't

It was alright, I gave it a go. But it's nothing too special IMO.

Aug 8th, 2011 0 people agree 0 people don't
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Technically, it is quite bad. It is possible to get stuck early on (press "E" at the first door, before getting out: it will close and you will be stuck). At some doors, I could press "E" and it would "close" to the wrong side (i.e., it rotates to the wrong direction and places itself "inside" the wall, with only the handle sticking outside the wall). There is also bad lighting on many places, like behind a few doors that you pass by. Those catwalks are also quite badly modeled. And a clipping bug at one scene (see Steamcommunity.com and Steamcommunity.com )

But the idea is good, and the voice acting is good too.

And the file size seems quite large for the amount of the content.

Aug 6th, 2011 1 person agrees 1 person doesn't

An interesting game to say the least. Not very nice to look at, but that obviously wasn't the goal. The goal was to create a game that challenged the way that games are played, and maybe make a few people take a second to think about how they live their lives.

The problem, for me at least, is that there just isn't enough game. The five(maybe there are more, I've only found five) or so endings are all fun to play through in their own right but they take less than ten minutes each to play through. I hope there will be a sequel or spin-off.

Aug 3rd, 2011 4 people agree 4 people don't

Level design could have been done MUCH better it lets down what is a good 'narrative-based' mod.