I certainly recommend it, and I hope you get clicking and downloading so you can start whipping and skull blowing.Headcrabs are fairly small creatures, about two feet long from front leg to back and a foot wide. But its the price you pay for having quick load times.Īll things considered, The Island does not disappoint.
#HALF LIFE HEADCRAB MOD MOD#
Finally, a negative by-product of the quick loading maps is the fact that the maps are somewhat small compared to other Half-Life 2 mod maps. But then again, it is free, so I can’t compain too much. I understand that its difficult to make a mod, but The Island is relatively short. Another problem that seems to be affecting many of these early mods, is the length. The skybox might be custom, but I’m not sure. One, there isn’t any real new content (textures, models, etc…) that I could tell. Oh, and make sure you have the Quick Load key within reach, because you will be pressing it often enough.Īll that being said, I do have some gripes. Like I mentioned earlier in the review, you will be killing all sorts of headcrabs and zombies, so make sure you have plenty of ammo and grenades and health, because you’ll need it. Speaking of fighting, you will be doing a lot of it. You will fight mostly outside (about 90% of the time), but there are some indoor conflicts that you must slog through. The way Stalk3r manipulated the land, water, and skyboxes make it look realistic, adding a lot of depth and character to the maps. Since you are on an island, it can be tough to get the horizon to look decent. Moving on to the maps, this is where I think you’ll really admire the work put in. No Combine assault rifle or gravity gun for you. All of the human weapons used in Half-Life 2 are available to you in The Island, that is, the crowbar, HK pistol, Magnum revolver, shotgun, HK MP7, grenades, and the rocket launcher. If you look around some more, you can find the Magnum revolver in the first map too. You start out with the standard crowbar and HK pistol. You’ll come across a few courageous humans with whom you can fight with, but for the most part, you are on your own. While not overwhelmingly difficult, you will be tested, as there are not only the standard zombies and headcrabs, but plenty of fast zombies, fast headcrabs, poisonous headcrabs, and everyone’s favorite hulking creature, the poisonous headcrab host zombie. Better find some guns and ammo cause you’re in for a helluva fight. Here’s the idea: you’re stuck on an island infested with zombies and headcrabs. The Island, by Stalk3r, was a nice surprise. Good: Lots of action great map architecture quick load times.īad: No new content short relatively small maps. Some tiresome zombie action but with some good design throughout. Most of these places use props to detail them but still some fine structure and texturing to help make it look better. Other locations that have a big industrial feel to them such as some sort of cargo place, a garage and a dock where the ending it. Some light could have helped, even if there would have been a little. However, the corridors are all the same, look flat and need a major usage of the flash light which affects gameplay too much. Outside areas are well lit with some good structure to the rocks, ground and other small details such as vents. Your main objective is to escape the island, but other than that it’s just fighting and no puzzles. You’ll also come across many corridors that cut through the cliffs which make some of the action tedious and again, boring.
There is plenty of supplies, however the fights can get boring and eventually tiresome with the fast zombies. Everywhere you go will be zombies, no other enemy is used but you do get some allies to help in your battles.