Very fun mod. Unfortunately some maps can be broken unintentionally. I remember one entry where there are three separate maps, last map is where you fight a helicopter. For some reason, I didn't destroy it and the game didn't progress anything. When I try to return, the triggers softlocked me from progressing the game. My personal favorite part was when you travel back in World War II and the best part is the immersion to that event. I love how the soldiers mentioned, "A man in orange armor," th...
It's okay, combat is a bit unfair. The custom models and textures do look good, map design is meh. There is one part of the map that crashes my game so I had no choice but to do some prop climbing....
Good level design, fair combat, I have nothing more to say other than a good recommendation....
Nightmare House. The reason why this is one of my personal favorite is because this is a great classic and it's one of the best at their time....
Idk about you guys. Regardless of what difficulty you're in, I wouldn't call it a "Very Hard Mod." This is more of a "Trial and Error Mod" because you end up getting killed in every unexpected traps. It's impossible to know what's coming right at you in your first play. I'm giving this a maybe because some of you might enjoy these kinds of mods....
Combat is a bit unbalanced at the end but still beatable. The level design is quite bad as well. It got to the point where I ended up softlocking myself after jumping down the pit....
No gameplay, no story, nothing....
Wow, I'm a little surprised at how many of the reviews here are mixed/negative, i had a BLAST playing this one. In terms of mapping it's probably not the best, but I think the gimmicks the mod offers is a large part of what makes it so fun.
The content of the mod is mostly combat oriented, but there's a couple of puzzles and a stealth section here and there. I don't know if the mod was made easier when I played it but I really didn't think it was hard at all, playing on medium difficulty. The...
Eh ain't done play it that much but I can say its quite the good mod from what i've seen so far. Probably will finish it sometime, probably will not...
I haven't played Half-Life mods in awhile. This is a good mod with various custom textures, nice setting but terrible balance which is making this mod very hard on hard mode....
Another one of those old defense maps.
Level design was average, this is the only positive point of the map.
Everything else is bad:
Bad balancing.
Bad defense point.
No events, music, ambience just waves of combine soldiers coming from closed areas.
Though I was surprised by APC attack and that was the only special event of the map.
Also you don't have to kill all the combines, it just ended midfight....
The link the download is broken, you can still access it by changing the URL but it would be helpful if this was fixed on the page....
Before I go to the review, please fix the broken background map. I had to remove it just so I could play this mod. Now onto the mod, it's pretty challenging tbh. The combat is all time fair so nothing wrong with that. My concern here is the poor level design. First off is the large body of water. How am I supposed to know that you're not supposed to go there other than swimming right into it? There are no hints like lambda logo or a warning sign that it is leech infested. The next problem is the...
Changed the link, thanks....
When I try to download the patch my PC alerts me of a possible security hazard. Apparently the patch only has http and not https connection for download....
The intro does not run right. The headcrab at the beginning gets ran over by the car. That should not happen. Also when the car falls off the road you cannot see the lightning. The camera does not turn fast enough....
There's a lot of unique Moddb only mods that I need to check out...
Half-Life: Trials is an HL1 mod in early access with a demo that was updated on May 11th. It has an interesting theme of "one Half-Life weapon per level." It looks quite different visually with a robot protagonist theme and great reviews so I'll make sure to check out that demo sometime.
The Big Boned and the Curious is an HL1 mod out with a demo from March and is the next mod by the Hazard team of Half-Life Induction and ...
I just beat Titan XCIX and gave up on Atrophy XCIX and just skimmed a playthrough for the rest.
Okay... so Titan XCIX is an adventure game in its own fictional spacefaring setting, The environmental design was strong and it felt quite navigable overall though with some oddness where at one point it just gives up and uses glowing arrows to point to where to go and that just felt unnecessary. It also has room direction within the ship written along the walls, but that actually felt integrated int...
I found Thunder's Leaves to be one of the most enjoyable and at the same time frustrating mods, because of some of the trigger points misplaced, new mechanics that sometimes work but not always, and to me anyway, confusing design logic. Yet I rate it as high as possible, have already replayed it and intend to again.
Titan is a 2011 mod for HL2. Thanks for pointing out the current year update, I'm downloading it now....
I found a few more Moddb only Half-Life universe mods that look pretty great: Thunder's Leaves, Titan: XCIX, and Atrophy: XCIX, all of which seem to be set in the far flung future of the Half-Life universe, with the first being about repurposed technology in this new verdant wild world and the latter two being set in a space faring future. Of these I've only played Thunder's Leaves so far.
Thunder's Leaves: There was a lot of awkwardness in this as a production from the rough tutorialization ...
Fantastic mod, It covers the Black Mesa incident from the time the military is brought in, till the end of it, after Adrian is put into stasis. As Oldfield you experience the beginning of killing scientists, and eventually the futility of all of it. Near the end it conveys the pointlessness of fighting anymore, it becomes a fight for your own survival. You're one of the few survivors left at Black Mesa before the Nuke goes off. Everyone around you is dead, it gives off a distinct feeling of lone...
Challenging puzzle, no combat...
Looks like I forgot to rate the map. Here you go....
In addition: Cutscenes somehow become annoying as well because some of them prevents me from fighting off enemies. How am I supposed to defend myself while the cutscene is playing? I know I get invincibility during cutscenes but once it ends, all enemies swarm in. Easter eggs, why put a gnome in the map and say, "Hey, there is an easter egg in this map. Find it." It kinda defeats the purpose of easter eggs. And don't even bother finding them because they're just a bunch of random comic book stri...
This mod pulls so many red flags. I know the mappers admitted that this was obviously fanmade but for god sake, keep it faithful to Half-Life 2 standards.
Let's start off with level design. It's completely random and inconsistent. I have no idea where I'm going because of how random the designs are. Hear this, first I'm in some kind of an antlion cave and the next door, I end up in the USS Enterprise corridor. Yes, I recognized it immediately as soon as I walked in (I've watched Star Trek fo...
Short map, a very decent level design, as for the combat, it's pretty much non-existent. I wouldn't call it easy because first, sure I killed two shotgunners first. But the moment I get out and take cover, the grunts keep throwing grenades and end up killing themselves. In other words, I didn't do anything the entire time. I just waited for all of them to kill themselves before progressing the game....
I followed the instructions, changed the dll files both in the hl.exe folder and the mod folder, the mod starts well, we pass the loading screen, get to the part of the intro, then a flash appears after the train departs and the game crashes....
I have now beaten Entropy Zero 2 and Uprising; I still have to do replays for other endings on the latter. Dang those were just some excellent writing; Uprising did more work for showing how the Resistance fought the Combine than HL2 ever even tried to do! I did not expect that both of them would bring whole new themes to the franchise that just begged to be told, exploring what value humanity and memory has to an uncaring cosmic empire. They're just flat out essential stories, moreso than any o...
This isn't the first time I've played Map Labs, but I don't remember which one I played, so this will be my first review. Let me just say that I didn't like it. Only one map was very good.
Winter Intrusion by cambreaKer
[recimage id=4]
Playtime: 10 minutes
Very Good and beautiful experience.
A Dire Emergency in Space by ArctixSnowPup
[recimage id=2]
Playtime: 2 minutes
It was okay, but lacks...
Very Good...
Good...
Very Good, after the lost third installment of the saga of the Ispitatel, the fourth become one of the greatest sequels ever, with silly dialogue and fun gameplay....
Very Good...
Very Good...
Very Good, look at leaked materials that have been somewhat repaired to work properly...
Very Good...
Very Good continuation of original Ispitatel 1...
Very Good...
Very Good...
Good joke mod...
Good, had some difficulty problem...
Very Good...
Very Good continuation of continuation to a good puzzle game...
Very Good and silly mod...
Very Good continuation to a puzzle game...
Very Good start to a very good sequel...
Never finished it, bad gunplay...
Very good horror mod...
Very Good puzzle inside Half-Life engine...
Very Good, an interesting take on events if we turned down the mystery man's offer...
Good...
Very Good and goofy mod...
Very Good...
Very Good...
Very Good experience...
Very Good and sadly very short, but fun experience...
Good, sometimes I didn't know where to go...
Very Good, there are some problems, but it was definitely a lot of fun to play and see what happens....
Very Good puzzle inside Half-Life engine...
Good, there were moments when I did not know where to go...
Team Psykskallar already had experience creating a horror mod for Half-Life in the form of Afraid of Monsters and most of it was shooting monsters, but with the release of Cry of Fear they reduced the shooting moments and increased the horror component along with immersion in the mind of the protagonist who is going crazy (or already gone). Very Good...
Very Good...
Very Good for a one of earliest mods to Half-Life...
Very Good...
Very Good...
Good...
There are several missing textures and models. Does anyone know how to fix this?...
There were so many - no, TOO many enemies for the game. Almost always, when a cutscene loads, your character gets stuck (but you can use noclip) to something. Honestly, just could've been better. AVOID IT!...
This game isn't worth your time.. the game crashes at one certain point, and I'm not sure how to get past it. Crash and crash again. This game would've been a THINK TWICE if it weren't for this, and assets being ripped from Counter-Strike (although I'm not 100% sure.) AVOID IT!...
I have yet to play Minerva, but got this since I heard it's like it's precursor or something.
This is an example of how a short mod can be great! Every battle I had with Xenians was fun and challenging, mapping was GREAT, like one of the best I have ever seen. Story was top notch, and concept of whole another universe hiding from our 5 senses in plain sight is awesome and identified with my thougts.
Overall, short, yet great experience, definitely good at bein...
Was there an ending to this game? If that explosion was supposed to be the ending, then this is just really lazy. And the fact that there was no HEV Suit, made the game much more harder. Either way, AVOID IT....
i forgot to put a ranking, but just avoid it...
Didn't even take me a while to realize this game was bad. The intro sucked, because being stuck in the dark with barely any light sources are just horrible ways to start a game. and then the vortigaunts after you get out of that section? That's just too overpowered. AVOID IT!...
Well, I can't say that I didn't enjoy it. Especially since it had some funny moments, but I find it overall lacking. Maps weren't that bad, but also weren't the best I have seen either. Gameplay wise, it had a couple of fun moments with the Marines, but nothing more than that.
Also I CAN'T GET OVER IT HOW SOME OF THE VENDING MACHINES WORKED AND HOW SOME DIDN'T. I HATE THAT SO MUCH! Like damn, that's just maybe my OCD, I don't know, but I just can't get over that kind of inconsistency. It does...
This was BORING., but the humor wasn't that bad. Levels were poorly designed, and almost felt rushed.
And I don't know how to get past the third level....
The best Timeline of the trilogy. Unfortunately, you still repeated the annoying parts of the game which is primarily spamming enemies and fetch quest (finding keycards). Talk about level design, I wasn't aware that the entire game is full of backtracking. I love how this game features different time periods, just like the first one. Speaking of story, I am glad it has a very satisfying ending as if Timeline deserves a closure. Come to think of it, Timeline has "3" in it but not Half-Life itself...
You need Opposing Force installed to use the mod version downloaded here. If you don't own Op4, you can go to ModDB and grab the original Focalpoint download, which bundled a ton of files into the folders....
I really enjoyed this mod. Well designed, great atmosphere and fun to play. Recommend it heavily....
Now this entry has its own uniqueness as well, which is better because it is completely different from the first one. Rather than time travelling, it's going to a parallel universe. I love the dystopian vibe of the campaign, just a simple Ice Age and Xen won. No need for the combine to invade that universe. Unfortunately some combat is unfair and unbalanced imo such as infinite waves of enemies. Please don't pull off something like that, it's cheap and annoying af....
Love the story, love the content, and this is probably the best gruntfest I've ever played so far. Although what I hate in this map is the hazards, especially when you're going to blow up the generators. It takes up the whole room and it leaves me almost no time to escape. I had to bhop my way out to avoid heavy damage from a large explosion....
It's somewhat good to me. The combat sure is challenging because you only have a handgun the entire map. Its ammunition is scarce so it's not recommended to kill everyone you see. What I hate here is the level design and layout. I don't mean the maps are bad but they're frustrating for me to go past them. It nearly got to the point where I almost noclipped because of one obstacle I can't get past....
The gameplay is very balanced to say the least. The difficult ones are usually close quarters combat. Otherwise, I would've sniped everyone down with a handgun....
The gameplay is very balanced to say the least. The difficult ones are usually close quarters combat. Otherwise, I would've sniped everyone down with a handgun....
The mod is easy, the best part is that most of the chapters don't take place in Black Mesa anymore. Thank God, I wanna get out of that in this game. Level design looks creative from the respective chapters, and the combat is kinda easy. I know human grunts have terrible accuracy but wow, what have you done to them? They shoot like stormtroopers now, they barely even hit me. I kinda feel bad for nerfing them. The story kinda makes a little sense except for the ending. The only concerns I have is ...
Other than puzzles being great, it also doesn't forget that it's a shooter and implements those shooting mechanics pretty well. While I do like Portal games, I always wished to be able to shoot at something while thinking of a way to solve the puzzle, and this mod made that wish come true!
Also I shouldn't forget great map design, which puts this mod somewhere near the top of all the mods I have played so far in that field.
If you like puzzle games like Portal and FPS games like Half-Life...
Definitely my Top 1 Half- Life 1 mod ever. Absolute must play!...
Amazing campaign right there. I didn't pay attention to the level designs at first. It took me 2 playthroughs to realize I was backtracking the entire time. I love the details of those areas as you progress the game, great way to immerse the player to the Black Mesa incident....
Finally something new and it's the best of the DAV series. New cinematics, unique level design although some are blocky. The best part is at the submarine part. Although you won't stay in the sub for too long so it kinda defeats the title "Dav Sub"...
The easiest map among all 3 DAV series. Obviously a gruntfest, same old combat like the last one, level design is more like I have nothing much to say. At least it's still a nice mod....
Gosh there's a lot of fun ways to read into how to fit Poke646 and its writing into canon. Like the note at the end blames the portal storm on Poke646's scientists doing something stupid, but what if it was instead, just a 13 month delayed aftershock from the Resonance Cascade, maybe even one that kept going for as long as the original went or longer. That could explain why the "Portal Storms continue" paper from HL2 and Alyx doesn't mention Black Mesa at all, when it seems...
Definitely best sequel to any mod EVER! Map design was INCREDIBLE, some part were pretty beautiful, peak GoldSrc (especially for the time mod was released)!
Gameplay wise few things have changed compared to the original, it even has fewer weapons, but no deficiencies can be felt during the playtrough!
This is A MUST! I would more recommend playing the original for the sequel than vice versa. Poke646 and Vendetta should definitely be treated as top goals for any modder out there to reach!...
Hands down one of the best HL mods ever! Definitely one of the first things you should try after finishing Half-Life with it's expansions, I would even say the first thing, as it's great in introducing newcomers into HL modding community. Yeah, this mod is what playes should base their expectations on regarding HL mods.
Level design was GREAT! Levels were really fun to go through, map quality was pretty consistent, although I must say outdoor areas of Library chapter felt kinda bland, but int...
Only reason I gave it 4 stars is because it was way too short for my taste. Another half an hour of the experience would be enough, but this was just way too short.
Textures and map design were nice, joke-ish feel of the mod, I must say, felt nicely refreshing comaperd to other things Half-Life community has brought us, so I consider it a plus. Gameplay was your average Half-Life gameplay, which is okay.
Overall, good mod if you want something to play while waiting for something else to do...
What the hell did I just play? It's... abstract at best. Boring at worst.
I got lost many times. Not much to say other than too many doors and the weirdest collaboration of themes mashed together....
You're very welcome! I'm still running on hyper-fixation energy, so I keep looking through mod pages under various orders and categories for HL1 and Entropy Zero Uprising's release was announced on the Entropy Zero 2 Steam page. I basically look at them like hunting for new Half-Life games since fans can deliver on consistent polish, paying off old ideas, and just doing their own things in a way that values what came before like Valve never really did compared to chasing new tech and doing somet...
Thanks! I played the two Report One: mods and enjoyed them. I found the page(s) on Moddb confusing (yes there are two separate mods, not the 2nd as an add-on to the 1rst one). Entropy Zero – Uprising was also very good and lots of gameplay. IMO, the quality isn't quite Entropy Zero 2 standard, but well worth playing.
I really don't know how you find all these. But glad you do!...
A smallish, overall enjoyable pack. Many thanks to everyone who contributed! My favourite maps were the ones that focused on the theme and made sure we had cool stuff to look at.
Winter Intrusion by cambreaKer
[recimage id=2]
Short, straightforward map. I really liked the snow effects, I could walk around a snow-covered city all day! The second half of the map felt a bit tacked on and didn't really do anything to further the theme.
...
I almost forgot, puzzles are almost non-existent. Only annoying fetch quest and your own tactics to beat DAV Pack....
Of course, another gruntfest entry but it's a decent one. The first map is easy but the second one comes all the tough battles. Turrets, manned turrets, and missile turrets, they're everywhere. It may look unbalanced but I've managed to destroy them all....
I didn't know the crowbar was replaced with a different model. It got to the point where I missed it. The ammo is scarce which I kinda liked the combat here, I got some survival horror vibes when I fight or flight against enemies. After awhile, it becomes a gruntfest which it's somewhat kinda difficult yet beatable. The ending somewhow has no ending, quite disappointing....
