Reviews - JKuch

This is a copy from my review at RTSL.

Half-Rats is pretty good, it has some better than average Half-Life mods voice acting, and has a interesting writing, the characters are always talking in very weird old ways which keeps the dialogue, story and characters pretty interesting. Gameplay wise it is too simple and can be quite difficult at times, you better check every breakable box for items and you better save ammo, there are only two weapons throughout the mod, both of which you grab at the very start, the lack of weapons can be a little boring but I didn’t feel that the mod needed much more in that regard considering most of the interesting fights occur with some kind of gimmick and the focus being the story. The enemies received an interesting re-skin and had some very creepy audio to go with it, reminded me a lot of “They Hunger”, entering a dark room and hearing a pack of enemies screaming scared me more than a little bit. Some of the environmental puzzles can be a little confusing but nothing that would stop your progress for too long, and sometimes some objects like doors and such can be a little finicky to handle but those bugs aren’t frequent.
PS: There are NPCs that will need to be carried around to objectives to progress, I’m sure you know what to expect from Half-Life Scientists NPC AI.

The mod is pretty great, and I think the only things that hold it back is the lack of guns and more interesting fights, the boss fights are decent but show bugs and other gameplay problems, you should definitively give it a try.

Definitively looking forward for more story centered mods from the developer, more weird dialogue please!

An amazing revolutionary game, it doesn't hold up for someone that never played a game from that era, but for those who did, it's still amazing.