Reviews - jefftheduck321

There's a difference between when a game is challenging and when it's so frustrating that it's unplayable. This, I'm afraid, is the latter. Granted, this is a wonderful concept and wonderful execution thereof, but this suffers from something I've seen a lot in mods that would be better than the vanilla, and that's the ridiculous amount of difficulty that, like a particularly bloodthirsty bully, allows you to think you'll come anywhere near enjoying yourself just so he can take everything you own and traumatize you more deeply. "Oh, look at your wonderful little army you spent the first few hours of the game working on," it says, "Let's see what happens when I throw a random group of bandits at it with three times the manpower." One needlessly complicated and ungodly frustrating fight scene later, your precious army with which you would convert the world to the love of Jesus Christ lies dead on the ground. MAYBE this is more realistic, and MAYBE the mod has wonderful features (everything about it, really, especially the naval batlles), but when it gets to this point, realism should be sacrificed just a bit and all those wonderful features will never see the light of day since you can't walk two steps outside a city before you're up to your neck in the corpses of everyone you love.
Bottom line: Recommended with extreme caution.

Let me start by saying I have no problems with this mod as far as monsters, puzzles, level design, et cetera goes. What I really love is how the levels are believable, meaning that there aren't bodies piled up in bedrooms and no complex machines in the dining room like so many other mods seem to include. My one and perhaps only quarrel with this mod was the crowbar. I know the scenario seems to call for it, but EVERY mod that features a crowbar references Gordon Freeman. It didn't do anything horrible to the experience other than make me groan, but I just couldn't get it out of my head as I continued through the game.