Silent Escape: Induction is a first-person shooter, reimagined version of the original Silent Escape, released in 2012. The story starts during the events of Half-Life 2. You play as on of the rebels named Shawn participation in “Silent Escape”, a plan aimed to save people from the horrors of war and send them to a safe place. But, no matter for scientific accuracy in the making of the plan, things don’t go so well...
9/10 -
Great mod,
the mapping is really awesome and there are a lot of great areas where you stand still in awe. My favourite part got to the spooky forest, which was done really well and kept the atmosphere perfectly. The story is fast but still great considering how much they pack into such a short mod, it is suprising, the narration is done well, the npc animations fit (except that "let's do it" armswing ^^) and the presentation of it is really good.
The reason why I don't give 10 is because of the combine combat, the mapper didn't use the full potential of them, most of the time they are just rushing. 90% when there is a door you can be sure that combines will rush through it any second now. But this rushlike combat kinda gives the mod it's own feel, which was probably the intention of the author, I can't say, I can only say that I feel tactical combat against combines much better than getting rushed by 5 combines door after door.
The zombie chapters were absolutely fantastic though. It is strange, how the author makes them so well compared to the rather weak combine combat.
The puzzle are also really good, nothing big here but all of them are solid and logical. Also the item placement is quite good, and the last level (train) was pretty fun and gave you a good feeling. Though I hoped the end fight would have been a bit more challenging?
There are also some small bugs, translation problems and an overusage or bloom, but these are minor problems.
Great mod, perfect if you want some small fast half life action which still carries a good story line.