Reviews - HaraldQuake

This game is developed by a small development team in a relatively short time and offers a great experience to the player. The game runs on it's own game engine, which runs super smooth, the netcode works pretty well and all in all it offers many customization options. The game features classic fast paced movement (similar to Quake 3 CPMA or PQL movement), ranked matchmaking, ingame cooperative levelediting, steam workshop integration, multiple gamemodes, custom rulesets, mutators, cosmetics and an ingame addon-system. The game had much hype around it until Quake Champions got released. Too bad, because this game works really well and has all the features a good arena FPS game needs. The only downside I could think of is the visuals. The game looks good, but it mostly lacks any textures. The game mostly uses flat materials with basic reflections and environment models to achieve high visibility graphics. In my opinion this kind of artstyle works very good for this game and there are many very good looking and well designed maps in the game, but this kind of look might not be for everyone since it's mainly expedient and mostly looks simplistic. In my opinion this game is in many ways superior to Quake Champions. Too bad it doesn't have this big name. Also the developers stopped working on the game. But still.. With friends this game is worth a try. Also it's pretty easy to find other players on the game's Discord and to organize matches (mostly duel, CTF or Arena TDM).

I see how much work has been done.. Sure.. It is a lot of work to remake a game. I see that. The problem with Black Mesa is, that all this work was for nothing! The gameplay just doesn't work right.
It is a Half-Life remake and so it should play like Half-Life. In this Mod there are so many wrong things like false explosion-ranges and damage-values.. wrong ammo-limits (Don't tell me this should be better balancing.. It's plain bad.) wrong weapon-mechanics (CoD-style Grenade Launcher.. Worst RPG I've ever used and broken Tau-cannon, which can't even wallbang)... The movement feels like you have a sponge under your feet.. The jumphight is too low and the "improved" AI is just an improved aimbot. They don't act smart.. They just aimbot + wallhack you.
I played the original for years.. This remake is nothing like Half-Life.