A short single player map, where Gordon is separated from his rebel teammates and has to fight his way through a Combine controlled apartment complex.
You encounter a variety of enemies and have to be careful of any open areas.
Basic Details
- Title: A Brief Detour
- File Name: hl2-ep2-sp-a-brief-detour.7z
- Size : 1.17Mb
- Author: Uncle Sam
- Date Released: 20 February 2010
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Installation Instructions
- Copy detour.bsp into your Half-Life 2: Episode Two Maps folder.
- Copy detour.ain into your Half-Life 2: Episode Two Maps/Graphs folder.
- Launch Half-Life 2: Episode Two
- Open the console and type map detour.
- Press enter/return or click the Submit button.
- Play and Enjoy.
Screenshots
Click on the thumbnails below to open a 800 pixel wide image.
WARNING: The screenshots contain spoilers.
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Beta Playthrough by stoopdapoop
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Meta Review Data
Statistics based on 3 comment(s) with meta review data.
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Using Gauge: Users
Manually: 3 Users
Time Taken:
Average: 0 Hours, 26 Mins
Shortest: 0 Hours, 8 Mins by JellyBeanDude27
Longest: 1 Hours by Avantgarde95
Total Time Played: 1 Hours, 18 Mins
Using Gauge: Users
Manually: 3 Users
Time Taken:
Average: 0 Hours, 26 Mins
Shortest: 0 Hours, 8 Mins by JellyBeanDude27
Longest: 1 Hours by Avantgarde95
Total Time Played: 1 Hours, 18 Mins
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This is a nice little map. As bland as that statement sounds, it’s not meant to be. The design and layout is good, the lighting fine and the action fun.
Even though I prefer shorter mods, this one was just a little too short for me.
My only criticism was that the turrets were too easy to circumvent but that’s not a big deal.
All in all great fun for 5 minutes, so let’s hope Uncle Sam makes more and bigger maps.
5 Words Or Less Review
I wish it were longer
can’t believe you didn’t foresee the dirty joke in those 5 words or less haha
Absolutely my kind of map. Play it now. Really.
Nothing new, no whizzbangs. Just a top notch EP2 combat map.
We can but hope that Uncle Sam extends this great map into something bigger or releases something similar – but longer, please.
Worth ten minutes of your time. Reasonably challenging on normal. As Phillip says the turrets were a bit pointless, but you get a hunter to fight at the end, which makes up for that. If you like hunters, that is, and I do. 🙂
Good short map for 10-15 minutes of well balanced gameplay but I will add my sent lightning source wasn’t that good in someplace (to bright) but it was perhaps intended, the metal/base part was a little out of context but if this one was made to give some direction to the author future
in 5 words:
We want more from you…
good fun, but it took longer to download than it took to finish.
I created a video playthrough.
Thanks, I’ve added it to the post.
A delightful little map, I wish it carried on for much longer. “Play It Now” for sure in my book.
Left me with a smile at the end. Hopefully more of this to come!
What there was of this map was ok and played without any problems, but it’s a bit short and shallow, apart from a few sharp exchanges with Combine there is not much to this map and it’s rightly named A Brief Detour.
Ok to kill 5 minutes or so, if it’s a first time effort by someone, then it’s well done.
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A really enjoyable piece ! Well designed and polished with nice overall game-play balance throughout. A short and satisfying map. Give it a shot.
AWESOME map. I really can’t find anything bad to say about this.
This short map is definitely worth playing. Why am I not giving it a PIN? I don’t know.
As already stated: more, please.
This really worths the effort, but as many gamers, I also think this one was too short, I don’t know the end felt like a really hard cut off, but despite of that, this was a very cool sam’s map, tough the last one he realized was better I mean to the recent station 51.
Tough I think sam’s maps are special because they have this old missed classic HL combat touch, and I use the “missed” word because now it seems that fo many mappers if they don’t add puzzles they don’t feel their maps are “complete”, I don’t know i’ll always will like combat mods and maps and pure combat maps and mods are ok for me, I mean sometimes we need to go back to the basics and stop adding puzzles every time!!
OK so this is Sam Comb’s first ep2 map 🙂 How interesting, I love seeing people grow.
The intro was scary as the lady screamed in my headset, but the rest of the insertion of the player into this short level felt a lot more natural than in other mods.
I found the shotgun ammo in the storage room, should I be worried? From the playthrough, yes, apparently I missed the gun; I mean I went back to look for it and I still missed it. But all is sorted, as later on I picked up another one from a combine.
I, too, must complain about the turrets, as they don’t shoot when I go around and approach them from the side. Also, the next combine drops on an invisible rope.
Other than that, map plays really well. Same as Gonefshn, I was left with a smile after giggling at the funny and smart ending. Could’ve had more map details and the combine base felt a lil out of place for me, too. But all in all it’s a fun short map.
Maybe too short, so its OK, you can Play It Later!
This is a fun first release. It’s another short map but it’s good. There’s zombies, Combine and even a Hunter. The atmosphere is pretty nice, I like C17 levels a lot. There’s really only one puzzle and it’s just pressing a button but that’s alright. I like this map and recommend it.
Manually
Medium
8 Minutes
What an excellent map, but like Phil says.. I wish i was longer. Loved it!!
Manually
Medium
10 Minutes
Short and fun map!
Manually
Medium
1 Hour
Looks good. Plays good. Good little map. I like the “scare?” at the end.