About
Genetic Research Facility is a single player map, which has you fighting your way through a facility intended to create and research life forms that could prove useful in military action.
Author’s Notes
Sorry about my over-addiction to rappel marines. This was mainly a map designed to familiarize myself with Half-Life’s entities.
I think for my next map, I might make an urban environment (deathmatch map, of course) with two or three houses constructed entirely out of func_breakable brushes linked to fire in sequence (so when you blow out a wall with a grenade, for instance, the ceiling disintegrates, but not vice-versa). It might lead to some interesting breaches. If I do, I’ll use custom textures so that they don’t come out as stretched as this one did (sorry).
Installation
Extract the file to a folder of your choice and copy the facility.bsp into your maps folder of your Half-Life installation. Open the console and type without the quites “map facility”, press enter and the map should load.
Basic Details
- Title: Genetic Research Facility
- File Name: hl1-sp-genetic-research-facility.rar
- Size : 218.45Kb
- Author: freyyr890
- Date Released: 24 August 2007
Files
Screenshots
Click on the thumbnails below to open a medium size image. WARNING: The screenshots contain spoilers.
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05 September 2007 at 2:48 pm
It’s not bad little map but it suffers from the same points that many first time maps do; strange combinations of environments.As the author said he built it to learn and as such you should expect too much.
As always, I respect anybody who has made and released a map, so the least I can do is play it.
The gameplay was very simple but not boring. There was only one technical problem and that can be seen in image 15.
There was something that I enjoyed:
SPOILER ALERT!
When you are in the corridor leading to the outdoor section, it is possible to walk behind a number of crates. They move forward and provide some protection. It seems to me that this idea should be expanded and put to better use.
SPOILER ALERT OVER!
Overall I say:
If you have 5-10 minutes free and you want to play a linear little Half-Life map then this is for you.
If you are looking for something more then you best avoid it.
05 September 2007 at 8:15 pm
Is really the thing i judge after playing this one, for a first effort and 10 min of gameplay it doesn’t add any eyes candy or memorable facts but like most of the people who want’s to play everything including good and bad things this one is certainly not the worth…
07 September 2007 at 3:07 am
wow almost as much install time as playtime,i think you got a screen shot of every moment of the game lol. not a bad little map for some kill testing , should have a timer built in for competition,i’m gonna say play it now it’s 5 min download to finish then on to the next mod or map. not sure if this is a recent made map if so keep going i need more hl to play:}
23 November 2007 at 4:41 pm
when i play half life i don’t have console what sold i do so i can have console
23 November 2007 at 5:16 pm
If your using steam right click the half life section and select properties.Under launch options type in -console
In game use the ~ key to open the console
30 January 2008 at 10:13 pm
Not bad for a beginner. A bit short, and pretty standard half-life gameplay. Sort of easy.
11 April 2008 at 5:23 am
Ok for a few minutes of fun shooting-up Grunts although you may not beat the end scene first time of asking. Surprised to see a release date of 2007 the map had the feel of much earlier HL1 custom releases, tight corridor sets with Grunts everywhere, if this is a first map for the author then he has done well to give us a playable if short encounter, but please structure your ending better in future.