I prefer largely “zombies maps” like that, with new content, than another Ravenholm-like… It gets pretty boring, those ghost villages…

The labyrinth was a good challenge. And the ending was a good laugh

I think this should be developed with other parallel things like Chtulhu environments, Lovecraft-like…

At first I was confused in the monolith room, until I figured out what to do.

After all these mods with antlion guards I no longer have the fear of them I once had. Just give me a shotgun, enough ammo and room to run (though the RPG or crossbow from a distance is fine, too).

The only “problem” with the map I had was in the monolith room–when I was figuring out what to do I bashed the large crates you can’t pick up (I always leave the movable ones in case I need them). The crates on top of them stayed floating in the air.

I do not consider with all of the realism of video games today for it to be chalenging to get into a vent I just use noclip when it seems broken.

Phil

Crawling through the air ducts gave me a great Black Mesa vibe. I never really felt like I was on Mars though.. When I think of Mars I think of the stereotypical metal Doom corridors. HL2′s textures don’t really fit a Mars-ish environment in my opinion. Everything’s ruinous with garbage everywhere.

Eli looked very robotic right before collapsing on the floor. I actually laughed out loud when i saw it. I can’t decide if this was supposed to be a humorous map (the ending kind of supports that) but the Eli thing just looked awful.

Now let’s get to the room with the monolith. I couldn’t figure out what to do at first. “Ohh, shooting that large black rectangle makes a doorway show up? Why didn’t I think of that before?” The gravity gun part was fun at first, but got repetative, and by the end, I was ready to get back to the map. Well not quite, because after that I had to go through another doorway that took me to a long line that I had to follow without falling off. The purpose of walking this line is to make sure Gordon is sober before taking on EVIL BOSS ANT LION GUARD. He lives in the beautiful land of a ground texture and some floating crates. This was kind of the last straw for me before deciding that the mod wasn’t very good. The second half of the map just seems really lazy, which is a shame because I was impressed with the mapping thus far.

Okay, beat him. finally, back to the map. DOCTOR FREEEEMAN. Okay, I admit I got a chuckle out of this, but I really wanted to continue the awesomeness of the map, and then it ended.

My verdict? Play it. But only play up to the room with the helicopter in it, then imagine the rest was more like Deserted Countdown.

There’s a lot of great and varied gameplay stuffed into this one little map, and while there are more zombies that I’d like to normally see in a map, there’s a plentiful supply of ammo and deadly objects. Health? not so much. I suppose it’s possible to defeat an ant lion guard with 2 health, but I’m not quite that good.

The ending will send chills down your spine, guaranteed!

I don’t think this worth to be in Hall of Fame, but still very good.

Visuals
You move around to a few different locations but the laboratory section seems to be fairly well built, the weird area is not so cool, the Antlion Guard just very plain and the tiled corridors fun but visually boring.

Gameplay
There probably could have been more actual action but I thoroughly enjoyed what there was, except for the white-line-walking (You’ll know what I mean after you play it).

Basically you try to destroy the monolith and move to different areas after each attempt.

Layout/Design
The lab was really well done and I almost wish that I had just stayed instead that area because it has a Black Mesa feel about it, and that is without doubt my favourite location.

Summary
You”l enjoy it but won’t agree with the HOF. SO what, as long as you actually enjoy playing what there is that’s fine. This was created in ten days from scratch and imagine 3 of these connected into one mod and having one mod to play every month – that would be great.