It's so ambitious and full of vision and obviously a technical marvel for getting all this on the Goldsrc engine, and I loved this so much back in the day, but man. A lot of this really doesn't hold up, especially the designers tendency to just spam tons of enemies at you in all scenarios.
The co-op campaign in particular, is hilariously against the tone of the whole thing to the point where it wraps around to being absurd. All the weaknesses of the main game exacerbated into a linear series of combat challenge maps with questionable ammo drops (the scenario of which gets only more ridiculous as you will find plenty of "Donator Only" TMPs placed throughout the campaign).
I played it with a friend in what I thought was a private server but then a random stranger named <rotate=180>amogus joined through bizarre means, who clearly had played the campaign many many times and was just waiting for someone to start it up again, and all of a sudden the vintage Goldsrc experience of playing with a mysterious stranger re-emerged for us, and while those 2 hours weren't necessarily good, it felt like revisiting an old hometown. God bless you, <rotate=180>amogus.
The co-op campaign in particular, is hilariously against the tone of the whole thing to the point where it wraps around to being absurd. All the weaknesses of the main game exacerbated into a linear series of combat challenge maps with questionable ammo drops (the scenario of which gets only more ridiculous as you will find plenty of "Donator Only" TMPs placed throughout the campaign).
I played it with a friend in what I thought was a private server but then a random stranger named <rotate=180>amogus joined through bizarre means, who clearly had played the campaign many many times and was just waiting for someone to start it up again, and all of a sudden the vintage Goldsrc experience of playing with a mysterious stranger re-emerged for us, and while those 2 hours weren't necessarily good, it felt like revisiting an old hometown. God bless you, <rotate=180>amogus.