About
Story: A piece of space high above the sky once suddenly disappeared, and on its place strange floating islands appeared along with many colourful dudes walking around on them.
Your mission: Learn how THOSE RETARDED STOCKJOBBERS make such huge stakes.
Secondary task: Find the eye OF SHAITAN and steal it.
Other tasks (if possible): Kill as much as possible.
As whom do you play in this map: As Father Grigori.
What do you need to do in this map: Fight the corruption.
Basic Details
- Title: A dog Was Hit In The Head With An Axe
- File Name:
a_dog_was_hit_in_the_head_with_an_axe.zip - Size : 834Kb
- Author: Tom Kranis
- Date Released: 01 June 2006
- Download: PlanetPhillip Filecloud Server
- Possible Sequel Download: Supposed Sequel – Combine Fate
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Reader Recommendations
8 recommendations, average score: 2.88 (out of 5), standard deviation: 3.11
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29 June 2006 at 1:19 pm
OK, Not one of my favourite levels but there may be some PP readers who like this type of level. I played for about te minutes and got so frustrated I stopped. It took a very long time to load and as you can see from the console screenshot there seems to be quite a lot of problems. This could be due to engine upgrade changes, I don’t know.
29 June 2006 at 1:31 pm
Please allow me to explain. The images of the cats and the floating island, all destroy any sense of realism. It’s not that I hate jumping puzzles, but I hate jumping puzzles where you die EVERY time you miss a ledge. IF you have to go back and start again all the time it becomes very frustrating and boring. Personally I think this is poor level design. This type of level is a perfect example of the designer ignoring most players and designing something only a handfull of players will enjoy.
I’m not saying that all levels have to be the same but there has to be a balance between creativity and playability.
Perhaps the designer will say “If you can’t accomplish the jumps then don’t play my levels”.
He would be right, I won’t bother even testing any of his levels if they are like this.
Please feel free to disagree with me.
29 June 2006 at 3:06 pm
I trust your judgement, so will not even attempt it. Not too fond of jumping.
03 July 2006 at 2:00 pm
Likewise. I try most HL2 mods and make my own mind up about it, but to misjudge a jump, die, then wait while the level reloads is a pain. If that’s all the game consist of I shan’t bother. Pity, cos I think there is a lot of room for ‘mods with a difference’.
07 July 2006 at 9:19 pm
Well Wacko!
and what a title for a map lol:)
I just could not be bothered even downloading it
13 July 2006 at 8:30 am
You know, I think the author of this level was smoking “something” when he made it…
It’s certainly a weird level.
26 July 2006 at 4:24 am
HAHAHAHA this is funny, Im downloading it. Jeez im dumb aint I.
26 July 2006 at 4:26 am
Ya im asking for trouble
28 August 2006 at 2:04 am
This map crashes your game when you try to load a save from it.
28 August 2006 at 9:52 am
I never got far enough to save! I kept dying on the first set of jumps.
30 August 2006 at 1:12 am
Freak, I forgot my username and/or password.
anyway. this game wasnt THAT bad. I kinda enjoyed it. LOL.
25 December 2006 at 11:33 am
if this was made for half life 1 then even if you die after jumping you can reload your quick save fast…
but on hl2, reloading the game is a pain.
25 December 2006 at 12:00 pm
True, but let us hope that nobody wastes their time on making it for HL1!
28 December 2006 at 11:56 pm
that last pic there was a “Murzik”m typed at that cat wat was with green eyes and big smiiiile
29 December 2006 at 12:04 am
This was a very unprofessional looking mod with poor map design and no ending (that I could find) not really worth your time to download unless your trying to have a title like “”Played Every HL2 MOD EVER”" lol.
2/5 stars.
Nope not 1/5 i gave it an extra point because i liked the custom textures of the pretty cats
02 January 2007 at 8:53 am
either somethingawful’s FYAD or 4chan’s /b/ is responsible for this.
04 January 2007 at 12:37 pm
Nope, it’s a russian mod btw
05 January 2007 at 5:56 am
I have added a link to a possible sequal to this mod but have no way to check at the moment.If it can be verified please post so we can add to the list.Link was left here.
09 January 2007 at 2:50 pm
Great fun – very original. I encourage you to play this one through as there are interesting parts after the initial jumping.
I imagine the title is a reference to the graphic novel “Watchmen.” The character Rorscach sees a dog with it’s head split in half by an axe during his psych test.
09 January 2007 at 3:03 pm
Forget to add a few things-
http://www.tomkranis.com for more from him. Combine Fate is by the same guy and you play as the same character with a similar mod description.
Jumping is short and only at the beginning really. If you have trouble loading quick saves, shorten the map title.
14 January 2008 at 11:26 pm
well this is really weirdo. its very god damned difficult to get into places and its pretty bad placed. well i suck into platform jumping… i didnt liked this one too
14 February 2008 at 3:32 pm
Unplayable because of the crashes during reload. It can depend on your system, but i also had to reboot my computer after such a crash.