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This is a group for those of us that enjoy leaving comments and reviews for HL2 mods. We encourage you to leave comments, images, or even videos on how you feel about certain source mods, bad or good. We dont care if you lend a helping hand to the struggling mod or leave comments full of angry caps, we would love to have you take part. And so, whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown, welcome to the HL2 Mod Critics Group.

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Poke646 Mod Review [For Half-Life]

Feb 27 2016 Feature 1 comment

A journalistic review of Poke646 for Half-Life. (Old Mods deserve video reviews too!!)

Where Have We Been?

Apr 5 2013 News 2 comments

I wanted to post a quick article, reassuring you we're not going away. :D

Hazard Team - Final update

Dec 31 2012 Hazard Team (Decay: Source) 22 comments

Lets take a review of what happened and how we got here. Maybe you'll learn something, maybe you'll tl;dnr.

Grey Mod Review - Chimera Cast Reviews

Sep 30 2012 News 1 comment

In this disscusional review me and Luke talk over the mod Grey that came out about a month ago. Including story, game play, visuals, scares and more.

Modelling a Map

Aug 11 2012 Biohazard X: Source Mapping/Technical 4 comments

This is a tutorial/illustration about how to create a level out of prelighted models (it is NOT a general how-to-map&model-tutorial)

MapTap Video Interview with PlanetPhillip.Com

May 20 2012 News 3 comments

In this video, I interviewed Phillip and Alex from PlanetPhillip on their Map-Managing software: MapTap. MapTap makes it stupid easy to install maps and...

Nullen AKA Stacker's adventure in Long Way: Revenge of AXH (pt. 1)

Oct 30 2011 News 7 comments

Oh my goodness, gracious me. Okay, where to start...This mod was created by a guy who only has 2 or 3 months of experience on the source engine; and because...

Chimera Cast Episode 2 - Dear Esther Review

Oct 25 2011 News 4 comments

Discussional review on the award winning mod Dear Esther.

Sprucecape Map Pack

Oct 8 2011 News 5 comments

A mod that you'll likely to have never played, chiefly as it's technically not even a mod- yet it definitely has the quality of one.

Frontiers

Oct 4 2011 News 5 comments

A review of the Half-Life 2 modification "Frontiers", with crappy ladders and bribery!

Random 17

Aug 31 2011 News 2 comments

A short modification made by edvincent with the goal in mind of capturing the feel of Half Life 2's City 17.

Mr.Walrus' Top Ten Most Anticipated Half Life 2 Mods

Jun 27 2011 News 8 comments

Well, as summer has begun and the time of mod productivity has come, I thought I'd celebrate with a list of my personal top ten most anticipated Half...

Dissolution

Feb 12 2011 News 3 comments

After several months of excited anticipation, Dissolution is brought to us from the same creator of the HMS Definace series and Outpost Xen. But does...

Return

Jan 7 2011 News 1 comment

A newly released psychological-horror/sci-fi mod. While it has some flaws, it prevails in many, many other areas.

Gateways

Dec 8 2010 News 3 comments

A very rough HL2 mod from 2007. Some believe it to be a badly-mapped jumble of shooting, others feel it was a work of art from an earlier, simpiler age...

Mission Improbable Part I and II

Dec 8 2010 News

Using only default HL2 content and still managing to pull off absoloute win, Mission Improbable is one of the best mapped source mods out there.

Attempt to Survive

Dec 8 2010 News 4 comments

Attempt to Survive is a non-combat, post-acopalyptic mod created by a Russian developer. Does the lack of combat create an artistic and interesting mod...

Mistake of Pythagoras

Oct 13 2010 News 13 comments

Mistake of Pythagoras is a classic HL2 mod released all the way back in July 2006. Is it still one of the greatest HL2 mods out there, or is it not quite...

Final Project: A Mappers Diary

Oct 8 2010 News 9 comments

Leon, maker of Coastline to Atmosphere and Strider Mountain, releases what he claims to be his last source mod. The feelings over his last two mods are...

Nightmare House 2

Aug 23 2010 News 21 comments

Its been a bad summer in terms of releases. We've seen a few betas, and not much else. Well, I now present you with a mod that is going to do more than...

Random Quest

Aug 10 2010 News 11 comments

Random Quest is a short mod made by Chris Fox and Jose Ameyugo. It is my personal favorite as far as mods go; but thats just me. Lets dive right into...

Get a Life

Jul 25 2010 News 12 comments

Get a Life was released Apr 25, 2008 by a french development team. Its stock full of new weapons and enemies and is easily the longest source mod next...