a perfectly fun add-on to HL1 that has a motley bundle of minor issues that add-up
OpFor saws-off most of the original Half-Life's calmer and more puzzle-focused elements, leaving it feeling like a roadtrip through combat encounters big and small with little to break up the pace.
The new additions to the arsenal range from being kinda over-powered to being kinda whatever. The crossbow's been replaced with a #Tacticool #Realistic #Epic sniper rifle, the revolver is now a desert eagle that can be spammed, the Spore Launcher is essentially an infinite-ammo grenade launcher, and there's the Barnacle, which sounds cool in concept but completely impractical and is delegated to being a grappling hook.
The new enemies are neat lookin, but are just glorified reskins of ones from HL1. (Pit Drone is the Bullsquid, Shock Trooper is a reskinned HECU etc.)
There's probably a lot more I could say about this expansion :P
also i always deck that one guy you see kill that one scientist in that storage closet thingy. I ain't gonna sugarcoat it, SPAS-12 + MOUSE2.
OpFor saws-off most of the original Half-Life's calmer and more puzzle-focused elements, leaving it feeling like a roadtrip through combat encounters big and small with little to break up the pace.
The new additions to the arsenal range from being kinda over-powered to being kinda whatever. The crossbow's been replaced with a #Tacticool #Realistic #Epic sniper rifle, the revolver is now a desert eagle that can be spammed, the Spore Launcher is essentially an infinite-ammo grenade launcher, and there's the Barnacle, which sounds cool in concept but completely impractical and is delegated to being a grappling hook.
The new enemies are neat lookin, but are just glorified reskins of ones from HL1. (Pit Drone is the Bullsquid, Shock Trooper is a reskinned HECU etc.)
There's probably a lot more I could say about this expansion :P
also i always deck that one guy you see kill that one scientist in that storage closet thingy. I ain't gonna sugarcoat it, SPAS-12 + MOUSE2.