Reviews - Chrisakapiefish

Good but needs work.

The best way to play Alyx is and always will be in VR. It was designed for it and only really fully works in VR.

That said, if you don't have a VR headset or just cba to set up VR (sometimes I cba either) this is a decent alternative.

It's a bit jank right now and definitely needs things like ammo counters to work and the animations to be a bit smoother but it works. I do feel a bit disappointed that a lot of the interactions basically just skip by pressing E, it would be nicer if interacting with objects was more like it is in SOMA.

The combat works, feels like a Half-Life game, guns feel nice and punchy and it doesn't feel too easy.

Ammo and resin need to be made a bit more visible somehow, when not in VR they are very hard to see. Maybe having them flash orange like they do in VR when you are targeting an object with the Grav Gloves would work.

Assuming hacking puzzles are missing just because not sure how to implement them yet. I really would like to see these in this mod.

Overall this is the best way to play this game without VR, it does lose a lot of what makes this game so special but again if you can't afford a VR headset and want to keep up with Half-Life until the next game releases in another century then this is the mod to use.

I seem to be in the minority here but I found this mod to be very underwhelming. The beginning is kind of strange, obviously Nova Prospekt blows up and then the uprising seems to happen instantly but you're never really told what's happening, you just have to kind of accept it? The story isn't that great in all honesty, it's a bit all over the place and not that cohesive.

The level design is very uninspired for like 90% of the game. It's just large open area after large open area. I felt like for most of this mod I was just walking through huge levels filled with nothing which in source is always kind of boring.

Gunplay is actually kind of off. MP5 doesn't feel as satisfying as EZ2, AR2 is burst fire now for some reason and every other gun just feels overpowered.

For what it's worth I liked the voice acting for the most part but this mod just doesn't really offer anything EZ1 & 2 haven't already done but better. The uprising seems like a good place to start another "playing as a CP" mod but it's just executed so poorly here.

Maybe in time it could be improved but as it is right now I can't say I'm really wanting to replay this.