HL1 Coop, -Singelplayer Modification - We wrote the year 2349, where only a few human beings live on earth. Since the great incidence, where a group of scientist have opened a portal to the fourth dimension, since then creatures threaten the earth and completely want to destroy our planet...
First things first: There is no "The Conspiracy in Shadow 1". The developer lost his work in an HDD crash while developing the mod. After that the work started again and because it was reborn in a way he added a two at the end. So, how is the actual mod?
It's hard. If you don't like hard mods this isn't for you. Even with the official patch the difficulty is brutal. The mod loves to spawn enemies infinitely and when they hit you they hit very hard. One vortigaunt lowered my 115 health / 15 armor to only 12 health with a single shock. Wait a minute though, 115 health? How so?
This is where the levelling system comes in. It's nothing groundbreaking but a welcome addition. All you have to do is kill enemies, kill a number of them and you'll level up which increases your health and health only. There are four levels, which shows up nicely as four blocks on your HUD. Speaking of HUD it's a pretty good design, fits the whole futuristic vibe of the mod. The maps themselves are also designed to be this way, very sci-fi. They're pretty nice to look at most of the time too, definitely among the prettiest of its release year.
There are tons of custom content too: New weapons, enemies (taken from Gunman Chronicles), models, sounds, textures, code changes like the aforementioned levelling system, a coop mode and more. The only thing I will criticize is the occasional unclear objectives. The cave map is the worst offender of this, the game isn't bugged if you're wondering, just look around carefully. One more thing to mention is the story, I couldn't understand much of it. I don't know why our character appears out of a portal all dizzy at the start, all I know is we are undercover and have to stop an experiment.
Despite its problems I enjoyed TCiS. If you're looking for sci-fi action or a difficult mod to test your skill, try it.
Stuck on first level. Damn mod.
8/10 for Cool maps - top! <3
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But many iritating problems with gameplay.
-To many things hamper the experience, first off the rope doesn't work in the area that is crucial to get through to the next part.
-Standard enemies can infinitely respawn in the early areas, meaning it forces you to use the explosives to get past those parts.
-Events that kill you for choosing wrongly (turning a valve when your not supposed to, or going the wrong way like in the early part of the second map, or towards the end after you teleport in to the beginning of the game just before things went to hell).
-Some weapons are to weak, like the new .45 handgun, the shotgun, and the AK47 seems hardly any better than the M4A1. You just end up using the sniper as soon as you get it (sharing the ammo with the ak47) it owns everything.
+Fairly long
+Interesting Hud and visual style
+Ending is quite odd, how you could have stopped everything heh
+- Can be pretty difficulty, the parts that require you to run around the place to figure out what to do next. But some may like this, I sort of did.
Good mapping and coding, but the mod is extremly hard. A lot of places with endlessly respawning enemies and same time with poor weapons' placement. Moreover cheats are not working, so you can easily stuck, if you out of ammo. Some puzzles are difficult also and only walkthrough can help you.
Horrible...The more i played it...the more i hated it because of it's insane hardness level
Confusing and hard to follow, but I found the level design attractive and the fighting, while hard and almost impossible in some places, was intense and fun.
Certainly not something to be overlooked C:
this mod is epic fail....
1:Co op my ***
2:WHY CAN I NOT SAVE?!
3:i could do a better plot that this mod's plot
and 4:NO SERVERS
Liked it a lot...