Reviews - Rockoman100

This is the most amazing thing I've ever had the privilege of discovering. I cannot, in good conscience, give this mod anything less than a 10/10.

In complete honesty I do not hesitate to say that Black Mesa is better than the original Half-Life. As far as I can tell, everything has been improved. While we are all still waiting on the release of Xen, I trust that it will also be greatly improved. If not, that is fine, because the best parts of the game take place before Xen anyway. And to be completely honest, I like first person platforming. I know it's and unpopular opinion, but I won't be disappointed if they remove it. Hopes are high.

This review does not contain Spoilers.

This campaign was absolutely outstanding. It's first big impression was the fine attention to detail. The graphics were fantastic and incredibly well optimized. Even in areas of high volumes of particles I still never dropped below 30 FPS on my mid-range machine.

This was one of the (if not THE) most creative, original, and overall memorable campaigns I have ever played in the entire L4D series. I wouldn't even hesitate to say that it is better than a good handful of Valve's own campaigns. There was a lot of variation in the environment so it never felt as if it was dragging on. There was never too much repetition, there was always something new and exciting after every turn.

While it is obvious that some of the puzzle elements were very experimental, I think it was executed pretty well, despite the game constantly having to point you in the right direction (which is pretty typical of L4D anyway). To top it all off, the end fight was very creative, entertaining, and unique. The campaign was much longer than I anticipated though, and took me almost 2 hours to finish.

I am a very critical judge when it comes to map work in Source, and even manage to find flaws in some of Valve's own works. I could not find anything - ANYTHING - flawed that is even worth mentioning in this campaign. The biggest flaw was probably a single bright cubemap in a dark area or something, but Source always does that.

That being said, 10/10. 3 years well spent, good job guys.

The most graphically stunning (and also intensive) Source mod I have ever seen. It also provided a solid experience, amazing job on this one. You managed to get my PC down to 30 FPS.

Best game of the century, hands down.

This blew me away. The story was vague but sortof interesting, however thats not what got me. The atmosphere and design of this game nails the Half Life 2 style on the head, and even in some cases IMPROVES it! This was great fun, brought back the Half Life 2 feeling both graphically and gameplay wise. 10/10, would play again.

I quite enjoyed this, it made me giggle. Although the map work could have been better, the experience was solid. Good work.