Whether you play games for the story, the atmosphere, solving puzzles, or just shooting things Minerva Metastasis will not disappoint
PS: If you want a real challenge, play it on hard.

I’ll give it 4 stars

A Masterpiece for Adam Foster

There should be no difference between my file and any other because it’s exactly the same file, I just renamed it to fit my naming structure.

This was the first hl2 mod to make me think, O.o.

Need to play the whole thing through again.

Thanks Philip

My experience four months ago was that I only needed HL2episode1 to play Minerva Metastasis. I didn’t need HL2.

Edit:I removed your other post as I think 1 is more than enough to get your opinion across.2 in the space of 4 minutes is a bit to much.Phillip will decide when he comes on wether both are allowed,as I think it’s spamming. – andyb

I have played 1 and 3 and loved them both, but I can’t find 2 for dowload anywhere? Any suggestions?

I think you have misunderstood. The link at the top of this page is for ALL 3 parts. If you have played around the island, enter down inside the Combine structure and made your way back to the top then you’ve played everything.

BTW, please don’t put false URLs in your details, just leave it blank if you don’t have a page you want to link to. Thanks.

I’m sure somebody will help with being stuck though.

“The true method of knowledge is experiment. So, strapped to the underside of a stolen Combine helicopter, you’re part of my latest scientific investigation. Objective: To infiltrate and observe this peculiar little island a few miles off shore, its heart burrowed out by our ever-loving benefactors…”

This is essentially what purpose the unknown neutralagonist has in store for you, the protagonist of MINERVA: Metastasis.

MIVERVA: Metastasis is a singleplayer mod for HL2 and HL2: Ep1 that focuses on a type of storytelling similar to System Shock and Portal, with an unknown, neutral-sided, individual instructing you to do it’s every bidding as though you are part of it’s property. Without giving too much away, the author of the mod, Adam Foster, succeeds doing this type of narrative extraordinarily well, and delivers a story so compelling that you won’t be able to wait until the end. Well, you’ll kind of have to. Originally released as an episodic map pack, Adam Foster later released a package with the mod in it’s entirety.On to the review.

Pros: A captivating style of storytelling similar to Portal and System Shock combined, eye-popping scripted sequences, puzzles that require not only logic, but the ability to use logic under fire. A pretty well-balanced difficulty that is still challenges you even on the easiest setting, exhilarating firefights in different imaginative settings, first playthrough will take about two and a half hours, loading times that occur about once every thirty minutes, smooth pacing.

Cons: The addition of some voice acting would’ve made the overall package come alive even more, but I suppose that it wasn’t really needed. The bottom line: The greatest singleplayer map-pack/mod ever created. The author took three painstaking years to bring this package to perfection and he has indeed done just that. Kudos to Adam Foster.

Mod Graphics: 10/10 Mod Sound: 10/10 Mod Gameplay: 10/10 Mod Stability: 10/10 Mod Story: 10/10 Overall: 10/10

N O T E : Mr. Adam Foster has joined Valve Software, congrats to him!

~sauerfreak

It’s not without a few minor annoyances, but then what mod isn’t? First, having the roller mines on the beach when you start off was annoying. Because you have no clear way of destroying them without a Gravity Gun, you’re constantly doing a little dance around the rocks to get them away from you. By corollary, it can be further argued that the mod in general relies a bit too heavily on “automated” defenses, like sentry turrets. Again, without a Gravity Gun and often a limited supply of grenades, some of these encounters can be frustrating. When there is one turret, you can walk up with an oil drum for a shield. When there are three triangulated around the room, it doesn’t seem fair.

Second, some of the time based switches are a little awkward. As an example, take the part where you need to ram the hanging beams into the door. The trick is that you have to do the whole thing not once, but twice. I can’t think of many instances in Half-Life 2 proper where that is ever done; it’s usually push the button and move on. Here you push the button, and the button looks like it’s finished, so you move on, not realizing that the button re-enables itself a few moments later. There was another part deeper in where a door takes its sweet time opening for some reason.

Third and last, the second puzzle that involved turning a valve was frustrating. There are actually two valves, which is a tad difficult to ascertain when you have an endless stream of Fast Zombies and Zombine hounding you. The Zombine, especially. When you have tight little corridors, and the Zombine pulls out his grenade, you’re going to get hurt real bad. Again, another thing that could be mitigated with a Gravity Gun. It should be noted that this is not indicative of other puzzles in the mod, where you are allowed to move around and consider the puzzle without duress.

In conclusion, this is still the best HL2 mod ever. This is the one everyone else is compared against. It’s going to be a long time before any mod even comes close.

Not sure what to do next :-/

Look up and see what you can shoot.