Comments on: Mars 002 – Half-Life 2: Ep2

By: stonewalljack

stonewalljack — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:47:28 +0000

I liked the feeling of being alone in a big base, but too little action for all the walking around I did. I was expecting all hell to break loose between the storage room and space ship. Disappointed. I did enjoy the visuals though.

By: dougjp

dougjp — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:34:56 +0000

Well said!

By: Chuwis720

Chuwis720 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:56:15 +0000

I found this map rather boring. It was very difficult to understand what to do.

By: C:15257 » Podcast 17

C:15257 » Podcast 17 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:00:57 +0000

[...] Mars 002 (HL2:Ep2) [...]

By: planetphillip

planetphillip — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:17:53 +0000

The links have been updated to link to the new English version released 18 July 2009.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:06:20 +0000

A pretty good map, but I got lonely before finding something to shoot at… and that was a crate! After all that walking, I need to take a nap.

By: MikeS

MikeS — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:04:42 +0000

Give me some weapons and something to do, dammit! The layouts and lighting bordered on interesting, but as a playable map it’s poor fare.

By: Bluncheonmeat

Bluncheonmeat — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:01:17 +0000

Was alright, I guess. It’s more of an exploration map, but there wasn’t really too much to explore. For some reason, you get more weapons at the end after defeating all the enemies (at least I think you were supposed to defeat the enemies first). The only part I liked was the lighting and atmosphere. Play it if you really want to.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:51:06 +0000

Huge rooms, huge long corridors. Of the 10 minutes you might spend on this map, if you don’t get bored to death first, you will spend 9.1/2 minutes just getting from door to door – I kid you not.
Gameplay, er what game play.
SPOILER.
One room with the denizens of Ravenholm and you get to blast a few speed zombies as all the rest get blown up – dunno why, they just did.

By: planetphillip

planetphillip — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:43:22 +0000

I enjoyed this but it certainly needed more testing; I got stuck behind some containers and I am sure there are other minor issues. The order of which door opened after what event was never clear, at least to me In fact I had killed everything before I found the weapons room, so that was a little frustrating! That said it's a nice little map, almost BM in style but not quite, because of the Combine textures and general layout. Visuals I thought the ligthing was okay, although I am interested to hear from the mappers about this. I particularly liked the central area of the corridor cross. There was perhaps a little too much coloured areas; reds, blues greens etc. Gameplay Lacking. Sorry to be so blunt but there really was only one large are that was interesting, the rest of the map was 95% exploration, which is great if you enjoy exploring. Layout/Design As with many maps made for competitions the feel is for something small, in this case it's simply a few large areas joined with corridors and a lift shaft. Most of the areas don't really make sense and their use is not clear. Summary It's close to being a cool map but falls short, because of the amount and placement of enemies.

5 Words Or Less Review

Too empty for me.