7 Comments

1. piledriver

   11th May 2007 at 5:06 pm

   V. short. couple of noclips needed. Unfinished.

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2. Mel

   2nd April 2008 at 11:47 pm

   

   OK plenty of cambat but nothing new and without a structured ending.

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3. Technic

   12th March 2012 at 11:07 pm

   

   Hum..this must be old. It’s not amusing or fun at all. You just wander around, hitting weird switches, try to find a door that opens and shoot down an Apache at last. A typical incident minimod if you ask me, but with many, many flaws.

   Pro’s:
   -Sort of interesting beginning
   -Tough combat
   -Balancing is ok – much health in 2nd half
   -A few scripts or.. was it just one?

   Con’s:
   -Poor, ugly and basic level design except a few exceptions
   -Odd story and gameplay
   -Many closed doors
   -Short playtime
   -Weird feeling, also confusing what to do
   -Sudden end, making it look unfinished

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4. monster_urby

   10th October 2021 at 4:34 pm

   

   This short little map pack appears to have some great ideas and is pretty intent on telling a story. However, the delivery is a little rough and the fact that the map pack is unfinished means it’s tricky to tell when you’re done. I assume when I wound up trapped in a concrete hallway that I had reached the end of everything there is to do.

   This is another map pack that seems to be going for an almost non-linear approach, with multiple means of accessing the various locations in the lab complex. The downside is that most areas look the same, with the dark gray/blue featureless corridors and rooms containing a handful of vanilla game prefabs.

   Sadly, there isn’t really much here to recommend. The story beats that are included seem to go on for far too long and even then it’s not entirely clear what you’re supposed to be doing. But above all else, it’s not finished so the whole thing comes to a really dissatisfying and abrupt end.

   Installed:
   Manually

   Difficulty Played At:
   Hard

   Playtime:
   20 Minutes

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5. PsyWarVeteran

   1st November 2021 at 11:31 pm

   A very nice but sadly unfinished mod.

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6. Dmitry

   5th May 2024 at 9:22 am

   

   If you want to talk to any spec ops, play this, find him and talk to him. It’s like talking to Sam Fisher. He will invite to take the jeep down below and you with your partner will be clearely detonated by explosives thrown by the chopper. Supposedly you shouldn’t survive all this anyway, that’s why the next area is cut off because chopper should be the winner not you.

   Installed:
   Manually

   Difficulty Played At:
   Hard

   Playtime:
   20 Minutes

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7. reaction

   13th July 2025 at 1:57 am

   

   I quite enjoyed my time with Qortez. I especially liked the effort put into the narrative – seeing a scientist try to sedate a vort before being blasted and having a conversation with an assassin were standouts for me.

   The gameplay both in terms of progression and combat worked for me too. I liked the semi-non-linearity of the progression and each of the fights were enjoyable. The initial assault on the compound felt great to nail – shooting the grunts with the crossbow through small slits was satisfying.

   I always appreciate seeing lab facilities in action and I cracked a smile when I noticed that the frozen storage area had cryogenically frozen aliens.

   I do wish there were more maps and it didn’t abruptly end in a tunnel (leading me to think I was missing something until I noclipped).

   This was an enjoyable, albeit short, mapset which I would recommend to most anyone who enjoys classic HL maps. It won’t blow your mind but there’s definitely some meat on these bones.

   Installed:
   Manually

   Difficulty Played At:
   Hard

   Playtime:
   22 Minutes

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