Sweet - Half-Life

GREATEST
MOD
EVER

And it needs fixed. It goes to a 1979, 1986 download page.
Another good MOD, but hardly a suitable substitution. XD

The best HL1 sp-mod along with Timeline 2 & 3.

The author’s name is Koumei Satou - he’s Japanese and made Peaces Like Us (HL) and Mistake of Pythagoras (HL2 - the best single-player HL2 mod).

A must play with (as usual) with cool scenes.
5/5

Like the HL story? this is your mod.

Mod Resource Syndicated Review

Rating: 5/5
Good: Great length; lots of new content; scripted scenes are movie-like.
Bad: Old textures.

Review:
I first heard about Sweet Half-Life from an email, and I have to admit, I thought it was a kinda cheesy name. It doesn’t give any clues as to what the plot is of the mod, nor does it sound mysterious or anything, or instill a sense of awe in the player. But I decided to give it a go (after waiting in line forever at Fileplanet), and I am very glad I did. This is easily one of the best mods based off of the stock Half-Life textures and content by far.

Quick overview: You are a Black Mesa employee who also happens to be named Gordon, though Freeman is not your surname, and you do not posses a degree in Theoretical Physics from M.I.T. Instead, you are a mid-level manager appointed to a storage section of Black Mesa. Sweet Half-Life takes place over the same time period as Half-Life 1, in case you were wondering.

Okay, where to begin? I’ll start with the content. There are new models in the form of friends and enemies, from this world and the next. You finally have some scientist buddies in HEV suits to help you in Xen against the Gargs! There are new weapons for you to use, and they look great. The arms look great, nothing out of proportion, animations are fine, and the new weapons use their own ammo (except for MP5 grenades - they are shared). Next, we have the sheer size and length of Sweet Half-Life. It is nearly a third as long as Half-Life 1, and all of the maps are LARGE. You won’t see the ‘loading’ screen very much, its great. All of the levels are well laid out, the architecture is impressive, and textures line up accordingly and accurately. Moving on, are the scripted scenes. Wow. These are very, very good. Valve themselves would have a tough time doing better.

I hate to make the review short, but I can’t devote a whole paragraph to something that doesn’t exist. If you want me to really find something that I didn’t like, it would be that there weren’t many new textures. There were some, but not as many compared to Poke646 or They Hunger. That’s about it.

Compatibility: Sweet Half-Life was built for the non-Steam version of Half-Life, meaning most of its content is contained in a .pak file. So if you have the non-Steam version of Half-Life, then you should be fine. However, I’m not one to play on outdated technology! So I did a little experiment. Using GCFScape, I was able to unpack everything from the .pak file into their correct folders in the \half-life\ folder in my Steam directory, and everything played fine. So, those with Steam are still able to play Sweet Half-Life!

Summing up, this mod rocks, and I whole-heartedly recommend it to everyone.

Copyright:
This review was written by Kyle Johnston and first appeared on Mod Resource and is republished by permission

Is the vvideo setup for open GL ? Are you using the steam version or original?

Ah, in the readme file, it says not to play if you have the HD pack. I had read somewhere at some time that you could modify this without uninstalling everything. Is this correct & if so, how do you do that?

p.s. after loading in the patches use open gl.

i would think a goddess would be able to read any language. but then the simple minds of we mear mortals. i am stuck downloading the newest patch for the offical army game but will do what i can to see if i can give a a good link. stay tuned it might not take that long. i think i have it in my favorites.
and in another note, do you like anami? the author has put some in the mod. very neat. also this guy also made the half life 2 mod mistake of phythagorious, a outstanding mod. will update ya…

Just disregard my above comments. Found the english version of the site with the patches. I just like to play the games, not get too overly technical about it. After installing the patches, it still does the same thing. Does it have to do with the HD pack (which I have)? How do I correct that problem?

Uninstall it.Or use it with steam.Mine works fine in steam.

Install steam.It will then search your pc for any other compatible games and install them for you.Then it will ask you to enter your key.If,like me you had a stand alone half life disk it will will also give you opposing force and blue shift.If it does not ask for a key you can activate it by clicking the games tab in the toolbar.

EDIT:I like cookies too.Peanut butter is my favorite (wink wink)

Fudge?Yummy! If you have steam installed click the games tab in the toolbar and select “activate a game”

Too late. Oh well, to be continued …

Hehe.Sounds fun!!

As I said above,select the games tab (beside store tab) and select activate a game.

Edit: I had a custom GUI so I reverted back to default.The toolbar goes File, View, GAMES, Help - select Games

Finally! I finally uninstalled my HL & re-installed it without the HD pack. Mine came as the platinum collection, so I did it as a stand alone. Works perfectly fine now. Although, I SWEAR, I read somewhere that there is a way to disable the High Definition by renaming a file. I wish I could remember where I saw that at.

Thanks John.

A good mod this with some groovy Sci-fi references, Brazil and 2001 to name the easy ones. Nice branching story and ‘impenetrable’ B-movie plot. Really good maps and set peices. BTW use Explorer or look in either HalfLife of Valve folders for Pak1.pak, rename it to say PakOff.pak and you have disabled the HD content.

Arque Said:

BTW, I beleive ‘Sweet Half Life’ is a play on the title of ‘Suite d’HL Invasion’ the (in)famous french mod.

I don’t think so because at was release two year before

BTW Update author and release date

Where or what do I do after turning on the reactor and killing the 2 gren monsters?If you jump in you just float around

All set figured it out thanks

Find a went in the roof somewhere

More info would be helpfull.Are you using steam or the original release.What do you mean by first level cant see.I no follow.Do you have half life or half life 2?

Hi!

I have Half-Life 1 and I installed High-Def Pack. Black Screen is in first mission, after intro…

Uninstall the high definition pack and update half life to 1.1.1.0

This mod is HUGELY flawed, I was at it for a couple of hours and ran into at least four sequences of play where if things don’t happen in a certain, obscure order, you can’t progress through the game.

SPOILER COMING:
I’ll describe one example. At one point a marine is fleeing an alien. Both are coming toward you. You, of course, shoot the marine before he can kill you. The problem is, if you do that, the alien then doesn’t perform an unlikely action that allows you to proceed through the mod. There’s no reason for you to think the marine has to live (only to be killed by the alien) for the mod to continue. So you wind up running around for 15 minutes trying to figure out how to get to the next section.

As I noted, this happens way too often. Also, the AI is poor by HL standards. Several times enemies stand around waiting to be shot; even the sniper babes will wait to be taken down.

I appreciate the effort the designers put into this–they obviously worked hard. It’s too bad (as with so many mods) they didn’t do just a little more testing and tweaking.

This is so cool and in this mod you have scientist with HEV on them and they can carry a weapon the best part is that they can’t be killed so easy

A top quality game with lots of unique and new stuff plus a good balance of gameplay, however, it lacked a buzz for me . It’s still one that you should go download and play it may buzz better for you.

Definitely worth playing for the story and “different-ness” of it. I found it very puzzling and frustrating at times… and I’m actually still playing it.. Right now I’m stuck in the part with the tall pedestal and the ship that flies around blasting you with blue/red scanning lights. I’m sure I’ll figure it out eventually. The hints page is nice, but it would be cool to have a walkthrough, not all things are covered by the hints. e.g. the hints say to get the “long jump” thing, but what is it, how is it used, etc? If anyone has any hints for that red/blue blasting ship, I’m all ears.