Reviews - theDoomMarine

Even in this early form (beta 0.1) Brutal Half-Life has what it says on the tin, it's an overhaul of Half-Life in the vein of Brutal DOOM, it adds "the mighty foot" attack which knocks down enemies and does some damage, and can do pretty much everything the crowbar can do. The mod adds tons of gibs, and pretty much anything (including the player and weapons) can be covered in alien goop or human blood. I really hope this mod is updated and eventually makes a full release, I would LOVE to see more DOOM weapons make it into the game, like the Chainsaw, the Super-Shotgun, and the Plasma Gun. I've been trying (unsuccessfully due to my very limited knowledge of half-life 1 modding) to get Brutal Half-Life to run with the maps from Opposing Force, because much in the same way that I hate going back to DOOM and DOOM II without the Brutal DOOM addons, I have trouble going back to half-Life without its Brutal Counter-part. I hope the full version has easy support for playing it with Opposing Force and Blue Shift.