Day Hard (Half-life 2 modification)
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| DayHard | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Carlo Piscicelli and Manuele Simionato |
| Engine | Source engine |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Media | Download |
| System requirements | Half-Life 2, however some models are included from “Counter-Strike: Source” |
| Input methods | Keyboard, Mouse |
Day Hard is a mod for the video game Half-Life 2 made by Carlo Piscicelli and Manuele Simionato for the First-Person-Shooter, Half-life 2. Unlike most Half-life 2 mods, the focus of Day Hard was not on graphically visual elements as it was on humor, featuring parodies of multiple things, including the Half-life 2 commentary system, bad horror movies, and the last level of Doom 2.
Day Hard features 6 levels, over 150 new textures, 16 models, and many custom sounds (including voice-overs). [1]
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[edit] Storyline
The plot starts before the Half-life 2 storyline with you playing as Morgan Freeman, brother to Gordon Freeman. After the Combine begin to invade your hometown, they break in to your apartment. Quickly finding a katana inside the apartment, you set off to escape the and ultimately defeat the evil Dr. Breen and his Combine Army with the assistance of your friend, Jack.
[edit] GamePlay
The gameplay is broken up into several areas including an apartment complex, a city filled with combine forces, a haunted house, an airport, an evil base, and a final boss arena. Within these areas are multiple scripted scenes for humorous effect, mini-games (including a small race through the city), secret areas, power-ups, and commentary nodes (parodies of the ones found in Half-Life 2: Lost Coast).
More notably, during some of the gun battles, the enemy forces will often go flying in random directions, as opposed to following realistic rag doll physics offered by the Half-life 2 engine. Often, characters will have overly exaggerated facial expressions.
The game-play also features enemy citizens, who look like the normal citizens within Day Hard, except they wear white combine masks like the one worn by Barney in Half-life 2.
[edit] Characters
Day Hard features a multitude of characters, including the main characters featured on the splash screen at the beginning of the game. Although many of these characters go unnamed and are only shown for brief scenes within the whole game, they have distinguishable features from which they can be defined, including two twin citizens both wearing baseball caps with the word 'Idiot' written on each one.
Some characters come directly from the Half-life 2 storyline, including Father Grigori and a younger, eye-patched version of Dr. Breen, and Captain Odessa who “ate something bad”. One character is a re-skinned evil version of Barney from Half-life 2 wearing a blue hat and a goatee, speaking with a British accent.
[edit] References
- ^ PlanetPhillip mod review. Retrieved on 2008-05-14.
