Burgundy On The Rocks – Half-Life 2: Ep2

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

Starting out with the Jalopy and Alyx, you progress through the mountain terrain, be careful, the road is not exactly smooth.

Unfortunately, your way is block (did you expect otherwise?) and you must open the gate.

Don’t relax too soon as the Combine and its friends appear to do their best to stop you.

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Title: Burgundy On The Rocks
File Name: hl2-ep2-sp-burgundy-otr.rar
Size : 11.3Mb
Author: Svea Eppler
Date Released: 22 September 2009

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Installation Instructions

Copy sp-eppler-burgundy.bsp into your Half-Life 2: Episode Two Maps folder.
Launch Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Open the console and type map sp-eppler-burgundy.
Press enter/return or click the Submit button.
Play and Enjoy.

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Screenshots

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Reader Recommendations

6 recommendations, average score: 3.33 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.22

Post Details

Posted: 28th November 2009

Category: Half-Life 2: Ep2, Single Player Mods and Maps

Tags: Alyx, Combine Soldiers, Hunters, Jalopy, Outdoors, Phillip says Maybe, Short

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planetphillip Says:
28 November 2009 at 5:25 pm

I quite enjoyed Svea’s other release, called Above the Downtrodden, but this suffers from the same issue: not enough gameplay. A lot of Guildhall releases have the same problem and to be honest I don’t understand why they don’t sit down at the beginning of the term and make a larger mod, with each student making a small section – sure it would be quite hard to organize but the presentation would be so much better. Anyway, onto this map.

Visuals
It’s too dark. An Episode Two map should show its beauty from the beginning. I should be able to see that it’s EP2 just from the screenshot – not including recognizing Hunters etc.

Gameplay
Driving the Jalopy should be fun but this was like having dental surgery with rusty pliers. Where was the open road to cruise with my girl, Alyx, with the wind in my hair and a Hunter chasing me. Arh, the good old days.

Layout and Design
Pretty good, I certainly don’t have any complaints about it, except it could have been bigger.

Summary
Short but kinda fun. The problem is that if this were released in the middle of lots of other good maps, we would be happy but since it’s almost on its own it’s not so exciting.

5 Words Or Less Review
Hardly worth the effort.

- Kyouryuu Says:
  29 November 2009 at 12:32 am
  
  I agree with that sentiment, mainly because in a professional context, we’re long past the days where one designer did everything in a map.
  
  While I think it’s a great introductory assignment to get students to create individual maps, they must be exposed to the teamwork involved in cooperatively producing a larger cohesive product.
  
  Back in college, we had a class in software development. Unfortunately, most of my professors did not have much “real world” experience, being mostly limited to academic pursuits. So they shrewdly brought in this fellow who did software engineering and planning for a living at a local firm and we had to work together using C# and Visual Studio to build a program. Different people were responsible for different parts and when things either fell behind or ran ahead of schedule, the project would need to compensate.
  
  To me, that’s practical and very useful real-life experience. The bottom line is that generally speaking, individuals don’t make games. Teams make games. And if you’re angling for a career in game development, as I figure most Guildhall students are, I think the institution would be doing them a disservice to not put them through such an assignment. For all I know, maybe they do, but I haven’t heard of it.
  
Phil Says:
28 November 2009 at 9:18 pm

what there is, is pretty good – just disappointingly short

Mel Says:
29 November 2009 at 3:14 am

Too short to bother with, what we have is well done if a bit dark and it would have made a good intro to something more ambitious. I can only agree with the above sentiment map like this are a bit pointless from a general release point of view. The gamplay content is next to zero and just when you think progress is being made the map ends.
I am sure such exercises serve a purpose for the author but they are little merit in them from a general playing point of view. Clearly the author has talent and with or without a team is capable of better things.

Download if you have nothing else to do.

Jasper Says:
30 November 2009 at 2:00 pm

I quite enjoyed the Jalopy drive. I’ll own up and admit I drove off the cliff; worth it though for Alyx’s chuckle and retort.
A great pity that there was not more combat. The map provided ample opportunity for combat but this was not exploited.
The map is short but with brighter lighting and more combat I’d have given it a PIN.

Darkstranger Says:
30 November 2009 at 5:52 pm

There was actually no “combat” and maps were quite empty , with so much barrels in one place i was able to kill hunter very easy.

Grey Acumen Says:
02 December 2009 at 10:40 pm

There’s nothing bad about it, there’s just not much to impress either. It was dark, and for some reason the car didn’t have any lights, and I’m almost certain it was supposed to either have headlights that you turned on with the same button as your flashlight, or it just had its headlight on constantly.
there were all of 3 combine which barely did me any damage as I shot at them from around a tree that they didn’t quite seem to be aware was between them and me, there were headcrabs in the usual “pop out just as your starting to rush through without being careful” places, the two hunters you deal with were easily run over, I just straight out flattened the first one and then clipped the second one, only getting out to finish him off with a quick shot from the magnum. To put simply, you were utterly overarmed for the given situation. You could have easily run through the entire thing with ONLY the gravity gun and it might have been a little more interesting.

andyb Says:
06 December 2009 at 5:20 pm

I really dont know if I liked it or not.It needs/missing something?