Reviews - hardhead970

I admit that I had no idea about the stolen assets until after I had played the game. Had I known that I would just avoided it all together. However, that not being the case I'll give a quick review as if I had not known about the stolen assets or the Youtubers as voice actors. Lastly, I'm an old dude (still young at heart) in his mid-sixties and I still love to game. Online multiplayer's are a problem because I don't have the insect-like twitch responses that you youngsters still have. So be it.

Cons:
1- L.O.N.G. load up times between levels. One might think the game stalled...
2- I had to God-Mode through a few areas i.e., the underground garage with the big aliens + killer man-hacks and protecting the escape train against the Combine Gunships with the pathetic short-range Gatling gun with no cross-hair!
3- No cross-hair! Yes I know this is supposed to make Half Life more realistic but Half Life's gun ballistics and game-play do NOT lend themselves to this style.
4- WEAK *** weapons... W.E.A.K. The bullets are all made of tin. I admit to you all I cheated and pumped up their punch in skill cfg. Much more satisfying.
5- No navigation help. This is a particularly nagging problem in some of the larger levels. This is unforgivable.
6- Mr. Mustache! LOL...

Pros:
1- Voice acting was not as bad as many of you make it seem. No, it was not PRO-level but it wasn't bad. The guy who did the G-Man, all he had to do was put in more sibilance. He had the pitch and timbre closest to the original voice actor of ANY mod I have ever played. I'm willing to be corrected.
2- Story-line, non-canon. So what? It was still in the Half Life universe and it had some charm to it at times.
3- Being able to go prone and seeing your hands as you go up a pipe or grasp the edge of a ledge (a la Tomb Raider) was interesting to see in a Half Life game.
4- For all its faults (many many) this took some hard labor to produce. I kind of enjoyed it only because it was "some kind of" Half Life long mod. Worst game mod ever? Not even close...

OK, so I played the game up to finding door #27 (I think). You know, code 777. Anyway, although yes there is "some" English incorporated, the size of the base and the running around you have to do I decided I'll leave it alone until a more thorough English translation is incorporated. I decided to keep the Zip file and the English titles on a USB storage for later use.

When going to uninstall Area51 I was given the not-very-pleasant surprise that it does not show up on the Uninstall option. It also does not show up on IObit nor Revo uninstallers! This is not good. What are they hiding? I dumped everything associated with the game. I even looked through the Registry and could find no mention of Area51... Am I being paranoid? Maybe, but this is unacceptable in this day and age. Yes, it's a beautifully rendered game but the "secret" install is B.S...