I had played through this on co-op when I was beta testing Zhouy’s NW co-op mod for Opposing Force a few years ago, and although I must have played it at least 10 times I never got around to playing it in single player until now. It is certainly worth a play through both SP and co-op so I would recommend both of them. This was also made by the guy that did “The Xeno Project”, another classic in mods and it does show how skilled he was/is.

This mod starts off pretty easy but becomes harder and harder until things get very tough towards the end. I thought the difficulty was near perfect and was easy enough to complete but hard enough to keep me interested. The gameplay was near enough all combat, with the occasional puzzle here and there, and was based around fighting the black ops with a few Xen Aliens towards the end of the game. There was some new textures in this game and I enjoyed them, although they were dull they certainly captured the setting well and were nice to look at anyway. There was also a story which was well done but I feel it could have been excecuted better with probably a little bit more information. There are also two endings to choose from at the end, a good one and a bad one.

Certainly worth a play.

Now, the rest. There’s some good mapping in here, and lots of the simply functional (traffic lights may be big, but are they THAT big?) I appreciated that the game directs you to a city and from there you go on to a third act – a disappointing one, unfortunately. It was amazing to hear the special operations ninjas called “gooks.” Huh? The game tries to hold out against the inevitable zombie / alien bomb, unsuccessfully, and I felt things started to slip back downhill when you catch sight of the (spoiler!) zoo.

There’s an amusing ongoing joke related to one of the images that found its way into Half-Life’s image WADs – you’ll have to play the game to see and hear it…oh, what the hell, it’s the Xena references.

There’s two rail sections in the game – one a tram (blagh) as in the Half-Life intro; the other’s a user-controlled cart (ungh!) like On A Rail from Half-Life. Neither is especially amazing or wonderful, and the first tram section is followed by a pitch-black section that requires use of nightvision goggles, and as there’s tons of zombies, headcrabs, and barnacles about, you’re constantly ducking and swinging away with the knife to survive but not really feeling that it’s a fair fight. Surprisingly, the tracks won’t hurt you.

I didn’t like the mod’s interspersing OpFor’s Osprey Ride chatter with new stuff – we’ve all played OpFor, and I still don’t get that “so far this all looks familiar” punchline. That said, the new lines blended into this conversation weren’t as obvious as they might have.

There’s two endings for this game in a (I guess) clever use of the mission failure screen text. I didn’t really care for it, but it was there anyway.

In closing: I like city sequences, and the rooftop scene is pretty decent. Any game that tries to pull off a good cityscape while having Otis and plenty of guitar riffs can’t be all that bad. Even so, the game is really only for HL1 style map maniacs.

However, the mod suffers from the same shortcomings than the second opus of The Xeno Project. The voice acting is utterly atrocious, and this is almost an euphemism. I might as well mention that not only are the constant references to Xena anything but humorous, but they are also quite bothersome.

The storyline is quite weak, but this shouldn’t stop anyone from enjoying the quality level design or the well balanced combat. If you enjoyed Loki’s previous work, I don’t see any reason of not trying this one.

Thanks for your help with this btw.

My md5 is different to yours I guess that must mean my computer isnt dl all of the file?

Well, it’s definitely different. Did you downoad it from my Filecloud server? If you did, I’ll upload it to another location and send you the direct link.

I used an application called HashClac, which is from from here:
http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/index.htm

The MD5 Sum very accurately records the contents of files. If your file has exactly the same MD5 as mine, it’s more than likely something to do with your system.

That’s all I can suggest at this stage.

Does anyone know where I can find a copy of this game that isnt corrupted?

What’s wrong with the one linked to above? It just downloaded, installed it and started playing it and there were no problems.

PS i did enjoy the xeno project