Reviews - HLWATCHER

I have this complete review on the proper Steam page of HDF. So this is a really short summary.

Overall What I think is great about HDF is that the developers faced the challenge of tell the story as they planed with all the ups and downs invoved on it.

I loved we can actually fight and be part of the 7hr war. I think this is the only mod in which you play inside the 7hr war.

I loved that the mod is developed into the HL2 universe.

Cutscenes were geatly done despite some variable quality in the dubbing recordings. I don't see the whole drama about some mods of hl releasing cutscenes.

The technical part some times were a mess and buggy, so they have to correct that, please check the part of new alaska which is so unfairly donein the gameplay and full of bugs.

Overall despite the controversial about HDF, I enjoyed it, so if you try everything related to HL2 universe then you must try this one.

Well. Overall I enjoyed the mod. although it's quite hard if you play it with outdated hardware (2010 pc's have rough time loading the graphs and stutter as hell), my pc is from 2016 and I also have some stutter issues specially loading the maps.

I really don't know why this TC is not available vie the steam green light program, I hope they launch it there on Steam as its a quite fun enjoyable mod.

The whole graphic style was really nice, and I could say the modified gold source engine, in this game is at the level of the Cry of Fear graphics, which is the main Hl1 horror mod. The custom weapons were a delight to combat with, and the enemies were perfectly manageable, but challenging enough.

I like the work on the story, though I never expected the end came so soon immediately you reach the surface. I felt I want to know more about the story because i felt it so cut off!! So I hope developers are plan to work in paranoia 3, because the whole feeling is that I have more questions than answers into the story plot. So yeah be able to play one day in near future "Paranoia 3 apocalypse" would simply be great.

In the horror sense I think the game has a great eerie, and scary environment. And the whole feeling of those infected-hell laboratories were present all the time. The monster models are impressive, though i miss some monsters from Paranoia 1, and maybe had some surface battle.

I also liked how the bots work perfectly well and they don't break down. I felt the "boss" battle really cool, but quite easy and bland. As you can win it almost immediately by pressing a button.

The battle firefights against the zombie soldiers were really lovely, and pretty challenging at some points too, that makes you think strategically almost all of the time when you have to battle your way out from the KROT complex. This kind of machine gun enemy reminded me to the infected zombie soldier we fight in the Heart of Evil, which is also my favorite HL1 mod of all times, so it was a sweet taste to remember that in here.

Overall I am pleased with the mod, as has a perfect medium game play length, I guess I completed it all in less than 3 hours. The game fulfill its scary goals by being really scary at times and having some great fights.

I only hope the developers work on the well deserved sequel.

This is a really good appreciated mod, because it's build with a simple but precise layout, the locations are great and transmit one powerful environment when we playing it, as when we found ourselves in Dark forest, thats a very inmersive part.

I loved to start in City 17, and proceed outside of there.

Overall this mod has great scenarios and the combat is allways entretaining, maybe the puzzles are not too much hectic or difficult but is great for me to have those simple but nice puzzles.

The last part is well done but i feel the devlopers wanted to depend quite a lot on the cutscenes to transmit the context, in my opinion that's better if the player actually makes those situations happen and doesn't depend that much on the cutscenes...,

This is a mod you definitely try, as i think we found less and less mods of this kind, so go on and try it!

This seems to have an open possibilty to continue, so i hope if there's another part would be great and entretaining as this one.