About
It’s a comical adventure about a Russian scientist – Ravil Unisovich, who unwittingly unleashes a plague of monsters after an unsuccessful experiment. The story takes place between 1986 – 2007 with lots of new locations to visit and new characters to meet.
Basic Details
- Title: Ispitatel 4
- File Name: hl1-sp-ispitatel-4.rar
- Size : 98.52Mb
- Author: Twenty One
- Date Released: 20 March 2007
- Download: PlanetPhillip Filecloud Server
Features
- Exciting new adventure gameplay
- 21 new maps with new textures and objects
- New voice acting and music scores created by Scheidenbach band
- English and Russian subtitles
- Can be run on “classic” (WON) Half-Life version 1110, on default non-steam version (for example on every non-steam Counter-Strike 1.6) and on steam version Half-Life (1120)
Walkthrough
A walkthrough for this mod is available. It is in PDF format. You may be able to open this directly in your browser, depending on which one you use and its version or alternatively you can download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Ispitatel 4 Walkthrough PDF (228Kb)
Screenshots
Click on the thumbnails below to open a medium size image. Screenshots kindly supplied by Rob.
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Reader Recommendations
21 recommendations, average score: 4.14 (out of 5), standard deviation: 1.07
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24 January 2007 at 12:47 pm
I’ve broken my self-imposed rule of not adding In-Dev maps or mods because this one is so close to release. I have asked the author for an FSO PP, so we will see what happens.
24 January 2007 at 1:34 pm
What? Only a steam version? Great since I can’t get hl to work properly under Steam. So incredibly unfair!
24 January 2007 at 3:09 pm
I suspect there’ll be a way of getting it to work under a non-steamed HL. Wait for it to be released, then give it a couple of hours/days for folks like me to have a play around.
You’re not alone – I don’t have Steam either.
24 January 2007 at 3:34 pm
I have Steam, I just can’t get Half Life to work “properly” in it.
24 January 2007 at 5:51 pm
strange there is a demo of ispitatel 3 unfinished and now there is already the ispitatel 4…
24 January 2007 at 6:34 pm
The PlanetPhillip reviewing team is standing by.
24 January 2007 at 8:57 pm
I’ll definitely try it out when its ready.
The pictures look great. I know it will run great also since half-life runs smooth.
24 January 2007 at 9:32 pm
How do you know? Maybe it runs at 2 frames per second! Maybe the man put 300 vortigaunts in one area with a huge, RAM sucking particle in the middle.
27 January 2007 at 2:32 pm
Someone needs to lay off the caffine…
We’ll know when we know.
01 February 2007 at 4:49 am
usually you can get steam mods to run just fine of WON versons. For example on my computer steam lags too much to run Poke646: Vendetta, so I installed it to my WON and it worked fine, despite theri claims it wouldn’t. You should be fine
01 February 2007 at 11:49 am
They never said it wouldn’t work, they said it ‘tsupported.
19 February 2007 at 2:02 am
Haha
07 March 2007 at 5:58 pm
News on moddb front page today.
“If anyone wants the chance to play it a little earlier, I recommend visiting http://www.planetphillip.com on 20th of March. It will be released here exclusively, one day early! ”
It will be very busy here that day I’d imagine
19 March 2007 at 7:02 am
Great thanks to the developers.
I very very like Ispitatel 1 and Ispitatel 2. And now – all four Ispitatel’s in one mod! Great.
20 March 2007 at 10:28 am
As Quagmire says, “Giggety giggety!”
20 March 2007 at 10:48 am
Lots of screenshots required, along with reader reviews. Get playing!!
20 March 2007 at 3:16 pm
Can someone please tell me the filesize of the ‘ispitatel4_classic_english’ folder when fully extracted and in the HL1 directory?
Just a few problems with copy/extraction is all. (The program I use, ICEOWS, seems to always crash windows explorer when extracting or copying out of .rar files. I just need to make sure I’ve got everything. Currently it’s about 169 MB.)
Thanks!
20 March 2007 at 3:29 pm
Size : 251 MB (263 762 735 bytes)
Size on disk : 254 MB (267 157 504 bytes)
It is on NTFS file system.
20 March 2007 at 4:17 pm
Size: 251 MB (263,634,223 bytes)
Size on Disk: 254 MB (267,026,432 bytes)
Contains: 1,446 Files, 116 Folders
20 March 2007 at 8:14 pm
In opposite to what I said, I won’t be reviewing this on the case of it’s large size. Downloading on a low speed from the other side of america doesn’t do wonders for a large file on an internet which doesn’t like straight downloading for more then 10 minutes.
20 March 2007 at 8:34 pm
Those security guards sound familiar….
Passerbywhosecookiesareprollystillb*ggered
20 March 2007 at 10:47 pm
Just finished it.
THIS MOD DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE LOL
6/5
20 March 2007 at 11:02 pm
Why, who do you think they sound like?
20 March 2007 at 11:37 pm
Help!
I extracted it into my steam/steamapps/username/halflife as it said but still wont work.
It appears on my steam games list and loads but when I click newgame/medium nothing happens.
21 March 2007 at 12:23 am
Well, I could finally get my Half-Life to run on Steam… Right now I’m pretty much into Death-Match, but I might give this a try (I love to see SP maps coming out for Half-Life).
21 March 2007 at 12:52 am
Why, who do you think they sound like?[/quote]
http://planetphillip.filecloud.com/files/file.php?user_file_id=333546
Passerby
21 March 2007 at 1:07 am
Ah, I see what you mean (I think) but it’s not the same person.. in fact it’s me.. they’ve just credited it wrong for now
21 March 2007 at 3:57 am
Well, as I said, I started playing the mod as soon as I finished downloading, and finished after 1 hour and a hlaf (I think, it was really short, but you don’t notice)
And you don’t really notice because of the variety of the content, this mod, is funny, very funny at a Peanut Houndeye M&M rate, yes, hilarious!
The story is somewhat simple, I coulnd’t follow because, I was laughing almost all the way through it, and I couldn’t concentrate on the subititles with Russian voices (by the way, very good job phillip!).
The level design is far superior than the half-life average, the texture work is beautiful, but the sky boxes lack quality (but that doesn’t matter, you won’t be looking at the sky the whole time
) Incredible architecture. the models are a little outdated though.
The gameplay, oh boy, the gameplay is so, well, you should play it that’s all I’m saying. Also, dont expect brutal firefights, although you have a little variety of weapons, there aren’t any marines to shoot at, and believe me, you don’t need them
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Very cool mod, lots of innovations, and a funny robot.
4.5/5
21 March 2007 at 7:08 am
Cheers! I better go play this now!
21 March 2007 at 2:13 pm
This mod is so freaking crazy. I don’t know If I’m missing things or most of the time He’s on drugs.. I can’t help thinking the mod author is covering up some serious plotholes.. Or not trying at all..
21 March 2007 at 2:34 pm
whats the diff between rar and other file types?,cant get most rar types to run on steam hl1 or hl2.
21 March 2007 at 4:13 pm
The best thing to use is winrar from http://www.rarlabs.com as other unpackers sometimes dont update properly.
21 March 2007 at 7:10 pm
well thank you,now to get those mods,more games:)
21 March 2007 at 8:59 pm
.rar files are just another compression format. Most people agree that they have a better compression ratio, meaning the files sizes are smaller. Winrar is probably the best (As andyb say) but it is Shareware, meaning you should pay after its trial period is over. I usually use 7zip for my compression work, it supports many different file formats including .rar
21 March 2007 at 9:32 pm
I’ve added another 35 screenshots, kindly sent to me by Rob.
21 March 2007 at 9:46 pm
I have as main winzip and use 7zip (i think it’s free) for all those rar files. Why because actually the two biggest archiver are winrar and winzip but both are not compatible at least you can’t open rar file with winzip and both cannot be installed without acting against each other but with 7 zip it doesn’t interfere with winzip and it’s easily accessing through right clicking on the file
22 March 2007 at 12:50 am
This is possibly the most insane mod I’ve ever played for Half-Life, or any game, for that matter. I couldn’t follow the plot at all – the fact that the speach was in Russian wasn’t helpful, and although the subtitles were funny, they didn’t convey a whole lot of backstory. Not that it mattered though. This is definately a mod where plot really isn’t important.
What was important was gameplay, and that was pretty damned good, if short. Although the only enemies you face are modified houndeyes that explode when they die (!), you’ll still find a fair amount to do. One thing trhat did slightly irritate me was the inexplicable loss of my weapons on more than one occasion, but given the style of the mod, it’s not as if they were needed.
This was certainly an entertaining use of 2 hours, and although I probably won’t play this again in the near future, I will keep it on my hard-drive for when I’m feeling in need of a Half-Life pick-me-up. Recommended.
22 March 2007 at 1:18 am
MAGIC TAMBORINE FTW!!!!
It’s like playing an episode of Monty Python.. Giant monkeys, jazz singing silver Houndeyes, MnM snarks, Siberian black market DVD salesmen, random explosions, car crashes, time travel, a scientist stored in a glass tube… It’s mad.
The bonus ways of increasing your maximum health were genius (I wont spoil it for you if you haven’t found them yet) and the whole drugs trip section was really innovative.
It’s weird, clever and funny as well as being very original. The mapping is solid and the scripting works very well. The extra features, like the subtitles and the mission indicators (Hud sprites?) were good too.
I didn’t understand it, but I did enjoy it.
22 March 2007 at 10:28 pm
Top-notch. A few minor bugs, but the whole thing has been done with such great enthusiasm, humor and sheer mischievous glee that you just have to love it. Gets my vote hands down for the best “alternative concept mod” out there.
Passerby
23 March 2007 at 8:20 am
I love funny, but this was just plain silly. Enjoyed for a once play and that’s about it.
23 March 2007 at 8:36 am
when i try to climb a ladder it seems like its changing levels but this error comes up
ERROR: env_model poedatel_mdl: unknown sequence “poedatel_sq”
using hl1 with op4 non steam on a winxp sp2.
anyone else with this problem?
23 March 2007 at 9:57 am
I’ve never seen that before kd4tkm. Perhaps one of these fine gentleman here that like to help people could be of assistance.
23 March 2007 at 10:01 am
kd4tkm, if nobody does seem to help, might I suggest emailing the author himself. His email can be found on his website.
PP EDIT:
I removed the email address because It can be harvested for spam. (On his website it is an image not text.)
23 March 2007 at 9:21 pm
Oops: thanks Phillip. I didn’t even think about that. Sorry!
24 March 2007 at 1:26 am
Talking rats, mad trippy bits and absolutely no idea what the story was, but hey what an entertaining and well put together mod!
One question though, which I suppose I’ll have to find out the answer to myself…but, someone (sorry didn’t spot who) said this was all 4 Ispitatels together….is that true?I haven’t tried the others, or I probably have but can’t remember……If not then on the strength of this one alone then I’ll have to look them up….
Well done to “Twenty One” keep up the good work!
24 March 2007 at 2:19 am
may be close to the end.
it’s the ladder at the cabbage storage area
on map pc4
24 March 2007 at 3:05 am
there never was a #3 only a demo.I’m not even sure these are the same people.
25 March 2007 at 6:06 pm
I use Zip Genius which seems to “unzip” many formats but still am having difficulties on “transferring” the files to Steam….Any suggestions-please.
druidhealer
26 March 2007 at 1:01 am
7-Zip does more or less all of them…..and is free.
Unless I’m much mistaken you need to cut & paste the unzipped folder to your Half-Life folder, it really is as simple as that. If you’re on Steam then next time you open Steam it simply shows up in your “My Games”, at least it did with mine….
26 March 2007 at 3:27 am
If you read the readme files it usually tells you how it goes.If you don’t read them then its your problem.It’s also your problem if your choice of unzipper does not work properly.Once and once only did I have a problem with winrar and thats because I didnt update it to do the new zip files..
Also a mod folder cannot be in another folder ie:name a folder something and put it into it.It wont work.The mod folder must be as it was packed ie: ispitatel4_classic_english and that folder goes into the Half life folder not the source mods folder.