Heart Of Evil - Half-Life

Heart of Evil is an extensive Half-Life mod set during the Vietnam War. You play Captain Percy Freeman, assigned the task of tracking down and ‘taking out’ the renegade Colonel Kurtz. Kurtz, however, isn’t too keen on the idea, and so beings a long and epic trek throughout the jungle, towns and beyond.

If you’ve played anything by Nathan Ruck before (he made two previous Half-Life mods - The Evil Thing and Little Skyscraper of Horrors for OpForce) then you’ll know that he has a wicked sense of humour, and this is evident throughout the mod. From little jokes to a hilarious plot twist at the end, you’ll have a smile on your face while blasting away the VietCong and those pesky zombies.

Yes, zombies. They’re back. And this time they’re tougher then ever. Seriously, they take a full clip to down. Thankfully you’ve also got a whole load of weapons to take them down with. My persoanl favourite? The chainsaw. Big, beefy and powerful. You’ve also got pistols, M4s and the works. Good thing too with all those enemies.

Another thing to point out is that you now have to use the ‘Use’ key. You pick up keys, planks of wood and other various bits and pieces, as well as open doors, by facing them and pressing the use key. And just so you don’t end up running around trying to use everything, you’ll get a little message everytime something you look at something interesting. It may seem odd at first, but you’ll soon get used to it.

The maps? Excellent, thanks for asking. They feel very much like most ‘proper’ Vietnam games, which is a huge achievement for a mod. And apart from a few visits to… OTHER… places, it draws you in and doesn’t want to let go. They’re all very well designed, although there’s one or two moments where you’ll be a little frustated as your companion gets caught in the scenery again. Nothing you’re not used to though.

In short, this is one of the best mods available for Half-Life, and is highly recommended. It’s also one of the few mods out there that has additional maps being made for it by fans, so there’s another good point for it. It’s been highly praised across the internet, so here’s another glowing recommendation for it

Play it. You won’t regret it.

Probably one of my favorite mods.
Read the license agreement carefully

I played it 4 times. 5/5

Enough? =D

I found it to be an ok mod,although it did seem very difficult since alot of times there was no clear path to go and some entances seemed a little hard to find.

3.5/5

for the brain dean people like me there is a walkthrough available here
http://hosted.planethalflife.gamespy.com/heartofevil/walkthrougha.asp

Mod Resource Syndicated Review

Rating: 5/5 + Excellence Award

Good: Vietnam is the locale; new everything; cool story

Bad: Annoying NPC sounds; tough to fight through.

Review:
“I love the smell of Napalm in the morning. The smell, you know that gasoline smell. Smells like victory.” This mod is awesome! That quote is from Apocalypse Now, and it fits this mod well. You play in the role of Captain Percy Freeman, a Special Forces officer who is assigned the task of tracking down and assassinating the renegade Colonel Kurtz. Things take a turn for the worse when, having set off on your mission, the higher-ups in the chain of command decide they want you dead! Plus, there is a surprise enemy in this that I wont tell you about. Anyway, you start out the mission flying to your drop zone, listening to some excellent music. You get there, and it is hell, after all, it is war. So you fight through the jungle, killing villagers, Viet-Cong, the NVA, just about everything.

There are numerous secret places and alternate paths, so that should keep the replay value decently high, plus, everything is NEW! New NPCs, weapons, sprites, everything. The only bad things about this mod are the NPC sounds, as whenever you ‘use’ them, it is a stereotypical ‘OOO me love you long time’ type of saying. The other minus on this one is that it might be hard, but then you can just use cheats to get through. But don’t do that. Its really not that bad. Since all these quibbles are minor, I am awarding it an Excellence Award. Go get this mod!

Copyright:
This review was written by Kyle Johnston and first appeared on Mod Resource and is republished by permission.

There is an “expansion” for this map called Heart of evil: Alamo. Should be just as good since it adds extra stuff. Not sure if it works for steam ver. though.

Have to agree, Johnny. I’ve run into the kind of bugs you mentioned, then there’s a necessary key that never materialized… I’ve just never underestood why someone would put this much effort into a mod and then not go the last 5% and thoroughly play test it.

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Any walktroughs for this mod?

I have played more of this mod and find it to be pretty fun but I hate the voices for the citezens, they are unbaribly anoying, If you couldn’t find agood voice actor then you should have made the citezens just not talk at all. Now to play the rest of the mod

I just started this mod and I can say that it is pritty good but the zombies are pain in the ***
they have to mach energy (you need to spend
whole arsenal to kill them and when they are more then one lets we don`t talk about that)