Reviews - Cryptid.Hunter

A mod that feels like a natural extension and expansion of half-life 2. I particularly liked that it adds a breath of fresh air to the ossified gunplay of the original game, by adding enemies with force fields, an overdrive electric field for the player, combo pod support and rocket turrets. Really awesome stuff. Not to mention the immense amount of details put in the worldbuilding and the great atmosphere overall.

That's how Half-Life should've been.

One of the most interesting single player HL2 mods released in the last few years. Gameplay changes give a more immersive feeling and are pretty well implemented. Your hud is gone, you need to use iron-sights for a precise gunfight, your character needs to manually check how much ammo's left and health system resembles that one from FEAR. Pity you can only use three weapons in total. The mod provides more challenging gameplay than the stock game thanks to the more aggressive enemy AI and no display assistance which is neat.

Levels design, however, are a mix bag. They surely are atmospheric and puzzles & platforming sections are well done but at some moments they don't make any sense. For example, there are rooms with crates and stalker pods but the doors are too narrow you could with them there, cars wreckage on the dead-end street with no way the vehicles could drive in there.

Technical-wise there are some minor problems like disappearing foliage, weird fog/lighting artefacts in the Citadel level and not working lip-sync for one rebel NPC you interact with.

The sound design, on the other hand, is very solid, especially the music and the decent voice actors performance.

The story is nothing special but it blends with the established lore without any conflicts.

To sum up: The mod could use up some polishing but still I really recommend it and hopefully we'll get the Act 2 someday.

Redifined gunmodels and animations, gibable dead bodies, pseudo ragdoll physics, slowmo killcam, you can see your character legs, and much, much more - definitely the best way to play Quake in these days.

Works like a charm. I simply love these subtle gameplay changes. They make Doom 3 much more immersive.

It's a quality mod indeed but it has a one big problem at least for my taste: the Black Mesa section where you playthrough doesn't feel like the Black Mesa.

Amazing work!

My second favourite HL2 mod from now on(the first one ie Minerva).I especially enjoyed the fight with the Hunter-Boss. It was a really fresh and satysfing experience. Besides the map design is very clever and decent. Voice acting is also solid.

Building forts is really fun!