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Half-Life : Echoes

Mod review

Works fine with HD textures\models mod and UltraWide screen. Everyone told about pros, and I'll say about few cons and explain why its 9\10 for me:
-Despite the fact that I installed it correctly, the game were crashing few times. Not a serious problem because there's savegame triggers and quicksaves.
-Few times I lost and spent about 10-15 mins to get where to go next.
-Music mutes when quickload after death (not a modder's fault I think)
-Backtracking. Sometimes I had to go back for a long time looking where's new way opened, but sometimes I came back just because didn't see a way further. Maybe you should add some cutscenes showing which door is opened by switching a lever\button?
-That stationary turret... Maybe you should put it closer to player or highlight it somehow, because my experience was killing all enemies before I even spot it...
-The difficult. Sometimes It's too easy, but there's about 2-3 arenas where I had to die tens times before could dodge all of this bullets, flies and rockets and do not die.

But anyway, pros are more weighty:
-Beautiful. Yes, this is one of (or the most) beautiful mods I've ever seen. Locations are awesome.
-New mechanics, such as useful NPC, new enemies.
-Secrets. Such as in SeriousSam, almost every weapon could be found a little before the plot gives it to you. Look aroud. (Psst, look at ceiling vent in the toilets~)
-Huge and interesting battles (excluding 2 arenas)
-3+ honest gameplay hours. The further - the more interesting gameplay.
-Anyways, awesome work! Wanna re-play it sometime later and share to friends.

(sry if bad English)