Most people who don’t like a mod stop playing after a few minutes and don’t leave a review… well I’m turning the tide.

Anyway I can only gripe about the graphic problems since I find that only software steam can play it. Well spirit 2008 is kinda buggy so hopefully no one else uses it in the near future.

After restarting and watching that infernal cutscene over and over I quit. No point making a map if people are simply going to swear at it during gameplay. I’m convinced the ratings are like people having wandered the desert looking for water, and seeing a mirage, ie; absence of maps makes the heart grow stronger for…..just about anything!

Oh well, it was “something to do” and parts of the lead up to the end were pretty good.

I’m used to better then this, and you should be as well.

But check the graphic settings. In WON hl one graphic setting doesn’t work.

‘Cos when I run the Install App it wants to create a new Half-Life folder in C: root–

Here’s the lowdown, before I begin there’s quite a few things that where nicking from counterstrike deleted scenes, and that’s normally a No No due to copyright problems, they also took some music from system shock 2 and didn’t give proper credits for it.

** THIS PART MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS **
Anyway, You start on a ship with barely any supplys and a head crab right next to you saying HAI, so you scramble to get a crowbar and get knocked down to 80 or 90 health already. lucky for you there’s a black hawk nearby.. with the smallest gun window ever.
Making you way to the front of the ship to quiz the captain on what the bloody hell is going on you run into the obvious “Hey, lets push boxes to get up there.. puzzle” then some more running in to a very very badly lit hallway that I had to noclip past to get up the shaft (Sorry, I was pressed for time) To meet a bunch of freaked out soldiers who shoot anything that says the word “boo” Finally you meet some dude who says “Our thing has escaped, go kill it” you run back to the start jump down a hole and meet the most annoying end boss… ever. It’s basically that fetus thing at the end of half life that I can’t remember the name of at the moment with a barnacle mouth. How do you kill him? I have no idea. He eats some sort of Xen crystal that’s like.. I don’t know.. rock cocaine or meth that makes him so dam fast that I can’t keep running around in ciricals trying to kill this guy without any proper ammo or weapon! There’s an unlimited supply of ammo in a container on the side but you think you can hide in there but no, the dam container falls apart when he gets near the bloody thing! So he grabs you, rapes you in the ear and you need to start over again.. So I tried and tried and said sod this and put on notarget.. Here’s where things got werid, he’s not affected by it! but his ailen controllers above him are! I got so scared I put on noclip to escape him for a breather, Next thing I know I pick up my soda can for a drink only to hear me getting grabbed OUTSIDE THE LEVEL, *Insert Pepsi Spit take here* So after screaming the F bomb so many times I do impulse 101, Gluon gun his ass back to the stone age and that’s it.

In short, Nice level desgining, but do you really need to make the boss that fast or immune to console commands, really? IF you guys are so smart to do that why aren’t you really game devs who could be giggling to themselves to those sobs who cheat to get achievements or awards so the play the game fairly!

The boss fight was interesting but way too easy.

Unfortunately this mod has some problems with the game graphics so if it doesn’t run in one graphic mode then change to the other in the game settings. Open GL or Direct 3D one thing will work.

As for the gameplay it was short with maybe 20 minutes but one of the best mods hl1 in a very long time.

More screenshots and my review to follow when I get time.