Experience Half-Life 2 like never before. Return to City 17, held within the iron grip of the Combine and the Consul. Reunite with old friends, and enemies. Traverse vicious canals, make new allies, and brave the horrors of the Quarrytown. Immerse yourself in a revitalised combat system featuring old arsenals made new again, with added features to raise the bar in gameplay. You've been waiting for quite some time, now. It's time to climb aboard.
This feels like a mod that released too soon. I hope everyone goes back to this chapter and really gives it a overhaul. Anyways, I'll bullet point my criticisms and praises for this mod to keep it simple:
-The model to map fidelity is really off. It feels like Half-Life 1 with super HD weapons that don't match the world they're in.
-The level design is lacking in areas with overly big areas to walk around in but with nothing to do so it just takes up your time.
-Some key areas are just out of order and feel weirdly stitched in, and don't serve a purpose anymore. The manhack arcade is a great example.
-The gun play isn't very diverse but it's satisfying. Dark Interval doesn't want you to have weapons which is lame so props for doing that.
-The overall journey is a bit boring. The maps really aren't eye candy so I'm not really enjoying the long walks.
-The voice acting is a mixed bag. Gman is great while Barney isn't. I'd work on that.
-Gordon has giant sleeves.
Anyways, I'm not about to attack this mod like everyone seems to be doing pretty ironically given their track records with mod release quality. Best of luck with future releases!
First of all, people are harsh, WAY too harsh to this mod. The comments I have read on various discord servers regarding this mod were pathetic most of the time. To everyone who is involved in this project, only listen to constructive criticism and do not be discouraged by the nitpickers' opinions. On to the review:
The demo was fine, but it lacks lots and lots of polish. I think this is why the mod has a mediocre rating as the date I am writing this review. It has things going for it for sure, but there are also some weird design choices, I think it would be best if I focused more on those alongside the things I enjoyed:
1- The maps are fine design-wise but not really fun to play. Sometimes the way you are supposed to go is a bit vague, sometimes they have questionable scripted sequences. Generally, there is too much walking around without purpose.
2- Some remodels are both unnecessary and bad. The headcrab looks especially bad, it should be called fatcrab. G-man is another unnecessary remodel, the suit just looks wrong. I don't see the reason behind these changes?
3- Viewmodels are pretty good, models, animations etc. but HEV arms are way too big.
4- I really loved the fact that the weapons pack a punch. It is a good change after HL2's peashooters. My only criticism is that there is no reason to have two melee weapons. As far as I know, the team is not planning to re-introduce the weapon dropping mechanic, it just makes the inventory more cluttered. I am fine with multiple weapons of the same type but it would be better if every weapon had a purpose. It is just a slower but more damaging crowbar and that doesn't sound too exciting. Will there be multiple SMGs similar to this as well?
I could go on with much more detail like how the APC doesn't have rotating wheels or Kleiner has his eyes open while he is injured or how the cremator doesn't have sounds etc. but, as I have said, the majority of this mod's problems are due to lack of polish.
Give it a good overhaul and I think it will be one of the better remembered leak / beta mods.
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this is only the demo version, however needs a ton of work at this point. the lightning feels obsolete, and has a lot of low poly models...you need to redux the redux a little bit :D
music and sounds (and voiceacting for the most part) are 10/10 tho. whoever making those dont let him go.
mod has defenetly huge potential, but cannot give more then 7 at the moment.
Solid gameplay but maps requires some polish
Неплохой мод однако, было интересно поиграть!
Not bad mod, interesting to play