Reviews - nietzschesaurus

I loved this mod. The first half put me in total oh-god-zombies-are-eating-people, i've-got-to-try-to-survive mode. I gotta admit, I tried building a couple of barricades before I remembered Half-Life 2 zombies bat stuff around. I was quickly smashed in the face by a flying box.

a lot of people have been complaining because they didn't think the mapping was very good. I thought it was fine. It did the job it was supposed to do; create setting and atmosphere. I actually loved the big three-layer foyerish area with the cafeteria on the bottom. I put on sv_infinite_aux 1 which made the game super fun. I didn't have to worry about the 15 second flashlight or running out of breath like a smoker carrying a heavy backpack.

I loved that the zombies and soldiers dropped after a few shots. It made me feel like the pistol was actually doing something.

I thought the music was really well placed, and it definitely bolstered the atmosphere even those most of them were the same tired HL songs I've heard a hundred times. The voice for the guy on the radio that tries to help you was really well done. I liked him and was secretly hoping I'd get to meet up with him and kick zombie ***. The crazy scientist's voice was...... uninspired.

Over all I thought it was fantastic. I loved the attempt at realism, and the simplicity of the story. Here's to hoping for a sequel.

So I played through Mistake a couple of minutes ago. It's a short 15 minute mod that, if I remember correctly, was made in about a month. Not bad at all. I think I'll do a let's play of it.

It puts the player in the eyes of a mental patient as he hallucinates blood 'n guts all over everything. We're never told what mental disease he has, or where the doctors are through all of this, or anything. Apparently the developer is saving a storyline for his prequel. (I'm just being a twat, he probably planned on this being a one off when he banged it out, so it's okay).

I feel kinda bad because I couldn't stop joking to myself while playing it. For instance:

The medkits appear as a bottle of pills, a thing I didn't pay attention to, and.... a roll of toilet paper?
Falling through a metal chute into a laundry hamper, hearing a deafening crunch come from your tibial region, and taking a good 40-50 damage. I think they're using too much starch.
Making 3 stooges whooping noises while running a circle around the enemies, half of the time evading them completely and never needing to kill them at all.

God I act like a twelve year old.

Anyway, I had a lot of fun playing it. I hope I like Mistake -1 just as much, the developer shows promise and I think he could pull something really neat out of this.

Just between you and me........more fun than Korsakovia.

But that's a different story all together.

PARANOIA is my favorite mod by far. The developers are masters of the art of suspense. My favorite part of the game is definitely after the explosion, you're stumbling your way through a mangled underground laboratory, your only contact to what is unfolding around you being the soldier that is heading in the same direction as you, albeit a few rooms up, describing what he sees before the **** hits the fan.

I found myself sprinting down the corridors, frantically scanning the subtitles, seeing the murals and corridors he had described, trying to get to the hostiles.

No other game made my heart race like this one. The lighting effects and textures were amazing, the high-res models blew my mind. I would definitely pay for this game.

My only complaint was that the gasmask was only used once. I feel that it ended somewhat abruptly, but that doesn't detract from the game much, as the storyline was fantastic. The characters were quite realistic. 10/10

p.s. and if there was a paranoia 2, my life would be complete.