I can’t get past the first guy in the game. He just stands there, not talking at all. The fixes that were pointed out earlier don’t work either.

As Jasper so kindly placed in his comment above you do need to go to the link he posted for the “fix” since the valve update, its a simple dload. Overall i would recommend this older mod to anyone who has yet to play it

First off, this scientist you’re supposed to be rescuing seems like a self-insert Gary Stu. I mean, why is he free to run around the whole prison without so much as a slap on the wrist? When he meets Gordon in his jail cell, the Metrocop tells him to get out of there instead of getting the ass-beating he richly deserves. Another time, he tells Gordon to stay put while he goes rescue a rebel woman (played by his girlfriend!). Gee, thanks for playing the game for me. I mean, seriously, why bother getting Gordon to rescue this guy when he can clearly take care of himself? Heck, why is Gordon in this game? Why not make the scientist the main character?

Also, what was with the Vortigaunts doing their Vortessence ritual in the middle of the prison (and just disappearing after that)? It had nothing to do with the story, and seemed like they were there simply for the cool factor.

About the voice acting; the scientist and the first rebel you meet on the boat were decent, if a little flat. However, the others… not so much. The Metrocop sounded particularly dorky, which didn’t help with the lines he was given (“Don’t mess us around!”). The woman you rescued was also obviously reading off a script. The end rebel is also guilty of this, but had the double whammy of having bad sound quality (the microphone crackles as he speaks).

As mentioned, the camera grabs were distracting, and ruined the immersion.

Anyway, I’d play this just to have a look at the level design (the huge hangar door was one of the highlights). Otherwise, it wasn’t a very fun game to go through, and I’d reserve it for when you have nothing better to do.

As soon as you hit the elevator button, climb out onto the roof on the considerately placed crates; then ride to the top, where you must jump to the other elevator car before the one you’re on falls.

I can’t get past the elevator part. I get in, press the button, the doors close, then i go up. Then i Fall. I always die. Then, I put buddha on to see what to do, but im just stuck in the elevator. I cant get out.

Any help?

Your rescuee was annoying at times, and the occasional cameragrabs were intensely annoying and disorienting. At one point, the solution was to let this mad scientist rescue the girl, while Gordon watched from the shadows. What’s up with that!?!

Overall, ham-handed storytelling techniques occasionally got in the way of an otherwise excellently executed story.

But back to the mod, people have already said what they thought was good about it and I mostly echo it. The mod did a pretty good job of setting up the scenario and establishing Newell as a recurring character. The architecture is… different. Not in a bad way, but it’s not what you’d expect coming from the Half-Life universe. Though I never quite understood where Rock 24 was situated, the scripted sequences with rocks crashing through windows and such really gave the impression that the place was falling apart.

I’ll focus on the parts that I thought were odd. SPOILERS ahead.

- The sniper confrontation is just awkward. You sneak your way over to the hut with the rocket launcher and, where is the sniper coming from? That sci-fi looking building on the horizon? That guy has some aim! Trying to return fire is difficult since your movements are controlling the rocket and you are invariably trying to get out of the sniper’s line of fire.

- The fact that Newell can die. In the “chain room,” after the Combine invade, I wasn’t aware of the mounted guns in the hallway, so I tried to actually defeat the Combine on my own and Newell died in the process and without warning. Using the mounted gun, it was pretty trivial however. The chains themselves confused me a bit. As a general rule of thumb, if you’re going to have an NPC bark orders at the player, you ought to have a couple variants on the line and make them repeat it every 20-30 seconds as appropriate. Some of us just don’t get it the first time.

- The ending confrontation with the rebels versus the Combine Soldiers… something just felt broken about it. The Combine kept spawning from an unseen location, leaping down the platforms, and immediately die at the hands of the rebels. I didn’t even have to intervene as I watched some 20-30 Combine jump to their deaths. Very odd.

But minor issues aside, it’s still a fairly enjoyable experience and well worth playing. There is some unique stuff going on here that’s worth checking out.

This is a final version. They released it on the Valve Dev Wiki.

I believe the version I have is the latest version.

@phillip: This is a final version. They released it on the Valve Dev Wiki.