In all, a great warehouse assault followed by a bit of a letdown finale. A couple things I really did like about the final battle: 1) the nifty pulsating portal and the way the geneworm arrives, and 2) the way the environment starts to change as the battle goes on – I like how it becomes more difficult for you to get around the place as he starts taking out the catwalks and stuff. As mentioned above it is kind of out of the blue and it ends up being more of a puzzle than a boss fight. I don’t feel the geneworm boss battle is a worthy finale to what is otherwise a fantastic expansion. The rest of the chapter, however, was a letdown. A combination of playing on Hard, the great enemy placement, their damn grenades, gravity, and the female assassins” invisibility all combined to make this nearly too frustrating for me to get through. I found the opening battles through the warehouse to be some of the toughest parts so far including all of Half-Life and Opposing Force. But Opposing Force couldn’t stand up as a game in its own right. There is a wealth of great gameplay and ideas throughout, it would definitely get a Play It Now rating. Having replayed the whole game I think that sums up my opinion. In Opposing Force, what were we trying to achieve? Getting out I suppose, but then what are we doing down here in the basement with Jabba the Hutt’s ugly relative? It seems as if the whole time we have just been going through the motions, exploring the range of different locations just to give Shephard something to do. In Half-Life we always had a definite goal, be it reaching the surface or getting to the Lambda complex, with various obstacles placed in our way. Whilst playing I was thinking about this and decided it was actually one of the problems with the game as a whole.
All we get is a random guard pointing us in its direction and saying “Monster bad. As players we have no idea what this creature is, where it came from or why we have to kill it. I would say however that the biggest problem is how completely out of the blue this battle is. Hopefully, Shepard’s return will happen sometime in the future. The G-Man finally meets us and puts Shepard in stasis. The boss sometimes teleports creature X in to stop us.įinally, there’s a spectacular sequence where the boss is retreating back to portal. The boss’s weak points are obvious, so we hit it where it hurts, using nearby healing puddle and laser guns. The place is infested with Xen growth, and then we encounter a portal with big monster coming out of it. We take weapons and ammo, and get even deeper underground on the next elevator. The door opens, and Barney warns us about something coming through. Then there’s a nice fight when we jump on top of crates and destroy the enemies which are below. I died a lot there due to lack of medkits and batteries. The sound of their movement is way too loud. Then we have to go through moving crates. Lucky RPG shot – and there’s no chaingunner anymore. We get below to underground storage and there’s a very intense fight with black ops soldiers and ninjas. Why a so noisy conveyor ? And that rope ? The same described in the poll, isn’t it? Get inside the airlock below the wind shaft. OK it’s too short and have no real novelties, but it’s more close to HL1 gameplay. It is also more difficult and, in my opinion, I prefer entertaining aspect of a game than pure challenge. You have no clear objective but survive, others always changing, but it must be the identity of that game. Not that the game is bad but is weird, seems experimental in some way. Because he have respect for Shephard he keep him alive but prisoner.ĭoes anyone heard about Shephard since that ? In Portal maybe…ĭefinitely Opposing Force is the HL episode I most dislike. No matter you must defeat it with providential lasers guns.Īfter your victory, the G-Man meets you and reveal that Black-Mesa was a little thing in a bigger plan. First you don’t know what is the Gene Worm, Race X master? A guardian ? The only thing I notice is that nose reminding Tentacles. Then Barney shows you your next objective: go down a deadly place in hope to return alive!
Add some jumping/moving sequences and a final battles between humans and aliens. You must get across a warehouse and fight Black Ops. This chapter start in a purely BM like style.
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