Reviews - Wortherax

Residual Point is, for much, the best Half-Life mod to play. It's a bit longer than Half-Life. It has large maps, some with epic battles between aliens of Xen, Black Operations and HECU grunts. First, you can be for the first time a new character, the Cleansuit Scientist (your name is W. Jack Sohn). It has also some new enemies, like the infected grunt (without crab), Elite Vortigaunt, Adult Headcrab, Zombie Barney and Soldier, Black Operations, Gonome, Pit Drone (these last five from Opposing Force) and Baby Ichtyosaur, and also, two types of Female Black Operations. Also, you can interact with Opposing Force NPCs, like Otis and other Cleansuit Scientists and see Opfor Grunts and Engineers (from other mods like Azure Sheep, Point of View, Cleaner's Adventures, Todesangst and the Xeno Project II) and Blue Shift NPCs, like the Civilian Scientist and Barney without kevlar. This mod is also a bit like Sweet Half-Life in one aspect (in the chapter Bombing Surface, after the crab fields). You can take two different paths (both lead you into the last part of the parking lot). Returning to the epic battles, if you take the path to the parking lot (full), you'll see areas filled with grunts, Black Ops and Xen Aliens. In some, they'll fight against each other. Xen Aliens also have the help of Infected Grunts. The worst part is when you have to rescue, protect and lead the scientists to open the blocked doors (Infected Grunts can teleport and Black Ops also appear). If you choose the other path, you'll find first large open areas with tentacles and crabs and too much satellite bombing (it's very dangerous and difficult). You have to protect the Cleansuit Scientist (he will help you to unlock some doors). Then, you'll go to the BM sewer system. Some Black Ops will stop your getaway (one female will be eaten by ickys if you make her jump into the pool) (also, a healthy dosage of Infected Grunts and Alien Grunts teleporting). And next, for the first time you'll see fun ( :') ) with turrets firing to some zombies and ickys into a giant pool, if you activate them without destroy (if you get close to the second truck and activate the turret to fire to the ickys on the left side, it will kill the sniper black op :) , you'll also see a bullsquid in the pool). You have to get inside and activate a valve to pass to the sencond part of the pool (kill two zombies). And in the second part of the pool you will see for the first time tentacles into the water (wtf!) and two Gonomes inside a submerged cabin (you kill them with crossbow and you activate the fan). No more details. I give this mod a 9/10 points, because one detail, you don't fight against Opposing Force Grunts, you don't have new weapons (yes, there is a hidden Desert Eagle, but it's impossible to take it), I would want to have the sniper rifle from Opposing Force and Otis' Desert Eagle (if you kill Otis you won't get this weapon). Also, it would appear the other aliens of Race X (Shock Trooper, Shock Roach and Voltigore). Togranigdo is a great modder. Good work!

This new version of Residual Life is better than the other version. Now, it has two different endings. I've done all achivements and I enjoyed playing all the secret levels. There are the same enemies that appeared on Residual Point, with the exception of the Ngrunt. Also, a new kind of Vortigaunt appeared. This one is faster than the Young Vortigaunt and Adult Vortigaunt, and its electric attack takes less time to charge and causes more damage. There was also added more Infected Grunts. The best part is when you kill the two Gargs in the storage at the beginning of "No Way Out". Then, it spawns two huge armies of Infected Grunts, one at the first part and the other spawns before the elevator. I've seen the UD model with Jed's Half-Life model viewer, and I wish that the other two variations of this enemy would also appear, also with shotgun instead of M16. In Residual Point, only appeared the one with no mask and M16 and the other with mask and shotgun. I wish that appear the unmasked one with shotgun variant, the balaclava one with shotgun, and the gasmask one with only M16, like the traditional human grunts' style, and also the Ngrunt, the Sniper Black Op, Big Momma, the Tentacle, and the Race X aliens. The mapping was also great, specially on the new epilogue part. I expect that the creator make more maps for this part on version 1.5, that I'll also play when it is over.