This mod is outright terrible. Simple as that, I decide to start my review by pointing out how terrible it is. Its plot seems uninspired, and not for trying to be a prequel to Half-Life (honestly, there's potential there, being one of the early scientists to venture into Xen), but rather because it takes that idea in the most nonsensical way possible.

First of all, this mod's main premise seems to be that you're the guy who got the crystal that caused the Resonance Cascade, and that's the first problem there, since we already know that crystal was delivered by the G-Man himself. Ok, we can still go with that premise, maybe we ended up giving the G-Man the crystal, but at least we get some adventures in Xen, right? Wrong. Why, despite Half-Life (and Blue Shift in particular) establishing that the crystals used for teleportation experiments were from Xen, this mod takes your character to an alternate universe, where, instead of Black Mesa, you have Black Rock. Just pure nonsense, to set the mod on a cargo ship.

Ok, at least the gameplay is gonna be interesting, right? Wrong again. Other than a few reskinned H.E.C.U., you'll be facing regular Half-Life enemies, with regular Half-Life weapons, and while I can enjoy that, over here it's just... I dunno, I guess it's because it's rather easy, as the cargo ship setting gives plenty of big, open spaces to snipe enemies from a distance. Then there's the final boss, which is just the Nihilanth turned on his side, so he's facing down, with a barnacle's tongue sticking out of its mouth. What this is supposed to mean in the context, I dunno, as dialogue from the single friendly NPC you encounter says they created it.

Honestly, as I said above, it's an outright terrible mod. Even the soundtrack, which is half decent, gets annoying as it seems to play on a loop. If I have to say a positive thing of this mod, is that at least they were able to implement subtitles for that friendly NPC.

This mod is outright terrible. Simple as that, I decide to start my review by pointing out how terrible it is. Its plot seems uninspired, and not for trying to be a prequel to Half-Life (honestly, there's potential there, being one of the early scientists to venture into Xen), but rather because it takes that idea in the most nonsensical way possible. First of all, this mod's main premise seems to be that you're the guy who got the crystal that caused the Resonance Cascade, and that's the first problem there, since we already know that crystal was delivered by the G-Man himself. Ok, we can still go with that premise, maybe we ended up giving the G-Man the crystal, but at least we get some adventures in Xen, right? Wrong. Why, despite Half-Life (and Blue Shift in particular) establishing that the crystals used for teleportation experiments were from Xen, this mod takes your character to an alternate universe, where, instead of Black Mesa, you have Black Rock. Just pure nonsense, to set the mod on a cargo ship. Ok, at least the gameplay is gonna be interesting, right? Wrong again. Other than a few reskinned H.E.C.U., you'll be facing regular Half-Life enemies, with regular Half-Life weapons, and while I can enjoy that, over here it's just... I dunno, I guess it's because it's rather easy, as the cargo ship setting gives plenty of big, open spaces to snipe enemies from a distance. Then there's the final boss, which is just the Nihilanth turned on his side, so he's facing down, with a barnacle's tongue sticking out of its mouth. What this is supposed to mean in the context, I dunno, as dialogue from the single friendly NPC you encounter says they created it. Honestly, as I said above, it's an outright terrible mod. Even the soundtrack, which is half decent, gets annoying as it seems to play on a loop. If I have to say a positive thing of this mod, is that at least they were able to implement subtitles for that friendly NPC.