Reviews - hecumarine

Due to the backslash the mod received lately, I thought I would finally share my appreciation for the work you've done. I played the mod twice and both gameplays were enjoyable. The level design in this one is exceptional, amazing. Anyone who don't see the work put into mapping in this mod is either blind or never touched hammer before. I loved the pacing of the mod and the fact that you stick to the lore of the Half Life franchise. Female security and maintenance workers was a good addition too.

There were however some slight mistakes like adding fast headcrabs for no reason and the optimisation on one map was very poor. I have GTX970 but I had low fps in this map. The map I'm talking about is the surface area where you fight some turrets and vorts at dusk.

Overall, I rate it 9. One point less for optimisation on one map and fast headcrabs. Excellent job guys, keep it up!

I always wanted to be hecumarine.

Why this mod is good:
1. Huge amount of content to play. BUT people reviewed it perfectly : quantity over quality. If you would focused more on beautiful level design instead of putting huge empty rooms it would be much more interesting to play.
2. Nice looking light effects and lens flares.
3. Some cool new models.

Now a long list of why this mod was bad:

1. Terrible sound design I mean TERRIBLE, completely out of place. Music sounds like you play some action movie or watch Jurrasic Park instead of Half Life, even cinematic mod had better song pieces. Music is good BUT NOT FOR HALF LIFE. I don't want to even mention ear raping gunshots. DO NOT PLAY THIS MOD IN HEADPHONES, YOUR POOR EARS WILL BE SEVERELY RAPED. As of music it should have consist of a mix of techno and horror themes. That is what made Half Life so special. Either author have never played any Half Life game before or he had terrible sound designer.

2. As mentioned above because of this terrible music choice this mod lacks solid atmosphere.

3. Cutscenes instead of scripted sequences. You watch those cutscenes and you have no idea what is this all about, you just don't give a ****. Besides the story is almost non existant, you just ....... shoot this and shoot that.

4. Terrible out of place introduction with barely hearable voice tutorial. They just shoot you in space to give you tutorial ??? What the hell ?

Summary : I'm not a hater, I was really hyped for this mod. It was a good mod to play and I know how much time author spent to make all of this that's why I rate this five. I won't give higher rating because it's called Half Life 2 Episode 3 which is a huge lie. It is a good mod but I have played EVERY Half Life game and I would never, ever call it a Half Life 2 Episode 3. Author could add more to the story and create better atmosphere, Black Mesa and Nightmare House 2 is the perfect example how to make good mods.

Leon should really learn from those mods.