Archive for April 2006

Museum Lockdown

for Half-Life

Author’s Note The strategically positioned grunts will make you fight for your life, but there is some puzzle-solving involved. So if it’s not your style of gameplay, don’t accept the mission. The scenario is that you are trapped inside a museum in Paris after all the artworks have been stolen. The armed guards are convinced… Read More

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Total Downloads: 83316th April 2006
4 Comments and 4 recommendations, 2 say "Maybe?"

Personalising Games

Introduction In the Switching Weapons post, Darth Marsden asked “Would you buy a game that didn’t have a machine gun?” And a clever question it is because it goes to the root of a particular issue that has been on my mind for a while, which we will return to in a moment. Although the… Read More

16th April 2006 1 Comment

Jail Escape

for Half-Life 2

About Author’s Note: “This mod was based off of a television show, I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say the name of it. It somewhat follows the environments of the show. You get informed by this woman that she has taken your brother and that you have to get into jail to kill a… Read More

Total Downloads: 016th April 2006
45 Comments

Half-Life Emergency

for Half-Life

About Half-life: Emergency is a Latvian-Russian mod.   You are playing characters are two real people. There is a detailed storyline but it’s only available in Russian.   (Please contact me if you speak Russian and are willing and able to translate it for our English readers!)   The mod is by “MEGASIS TEAM”, they are: Eif aka Arthur Feoklistov, Nod… Read More

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Total Downloads: 2,0387th April 2006
19 Comments and 4 recommendations, most say "Maybe?"

Scientist Slaughterhouse

for Half-Life

Basic Details Title: Scientist Slaughterhouse File Name: hl1-sp-scientist-slaughterhouse.7z Original File Name: ssh10.exe Size : 15.1Mb Author: Denix Linelli Date Released: 01 January 1998 PlanetPhillip Download Servers PlanetPhillip.Com (includes tfc.wad and tfc2.wad) Reader Recommendations Avoid It! Think Twice Maybe Play It Later Play It Now! 9 recommendations, average score: 3.89 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.43… Read More

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Total Downloads: 2,3007th April 2006
36 Comments and 9 recommendations, 3 say "Personal Favourite"

Point of View

for Half-Life

About You have been Gordon Freeman, Adrian Shepard and Barney. And what did you did during all that time? You killed all those poor Xen aliens! Have you ever thought about their Point of View? POV-Point of View is a new single player Half-Life MOD where you will play as a Alien Slave named Xonxt.… Read More

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Total Downloads: 14,9797th April 2006
57 Comments and 16 recommendations, most really enjoyed it!

War

for Half-Life

Basic Details Title: War Mod File Name: hl1-sp-war.7z Original File Name: war-install.zip Size : 18.6Mb Author: Adama Magiery Date Released: 01 June 2003 PlanetPhillip Download Servers PlanetPhillip.Com Reader Recommendations Avoid It! Think Twice Maybe Play It Later Play It Now! 3 recommendations, average score: 4.33 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.22 (what's that?)

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Total Downloads: 9197th April 2006
16 Comments and 3 recommendations, 1 say "Play It Now!"

Retribution 2

for Half-Life

Update Retribution was never released but a demo level was. You can download it here: Retribution 2 demo. (It’s 5.01Mb) The reason it was never released was because XaeroX (the author of Retribution) was focusing on his other upcoming releases. “Also the Retribution 2 project is now “Option Implicit” – it will be a totally… Read More

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Total Downloads: 1,3157th April 2006
5 Comments and 2 recommendations, say ""

Single Player Competitions

Introduction In a previous post entitled Define a Great SP Player I discussed what skill set a good SP player needed. I didn’t provide the definitive answer but I at least started the discussion. As with many other posts the idea kept bouncing around in my head until another thought popped up. Multiplayer I don’t… Read More

6th April 2006 1 Comment