Journal #6167

In an attempt to prove that this website can crank out new maps instead of just new forum topics, I am to post another map with around the same calibre as the first map I had.

Aside from that it's time to discuss another Half Life 1 mod. I am looking at Operation AMOD today. You might have come across this, but good for you if you didn't. The creators admit in their readme that the mod is "crap", so I won't be bashing the authors, only the mod itself.

This mod begins with what is possibly the coolest action cutscene in the history of HL mods. You are an assassin standing on a roof of an apartment trying to nail this doctor in the head. He steps out of the car with his bodyguards, who faithfully take your shots to save his life. The doctor escapes into a building and is never seen again.

At this point the USMC (not the police) is called in to secure the apartment you shot from. Apparently you are that much of a threat with your noclipping and godmodding powers. So, they send in this helicopter full of troops into your building, and you have to escape through the car park and give chase to the doctor on foot. You make it out of the apartment only because of your godmode powers.

You enter the building that doctor went through, seeing beautiful reflecting floors (as you might have seen before in Poke646 and Escape from the Darkness) Two bodyguards rush towards you with handguns. You dispatch them easily with impulse 101.

You enter a stargate-ish portal and end up in the weirdest of places... a temple full of houndeyes...a bar filled with bodyguards...a poorly-lit subway...among others. The temple in particular has the power to strip you of your weapons. Eventually, though, you enter a large airship and end up at a large complex chocked full of bodyguards. No aliens. No weapons. No health. No chargers. Only bodyguards who have 20-20 vision and aim.

After walking through endless corridors and surviving off godmode and impulse you arrive at a ship of some sort, which you pilot and go to the moon with. At the moon the sky is red and you maneuver through another complex filled with bodyguards. When you finally make it outside the game ends in that satisfying "fade to black" manner.

You wonder what could happen if you didn't impulse and godmod. Well, then there are many ways for you to snuff it in this mod. You can get killed by USMC corps because you ran out of handgun clips. You can get killed by the bodyguards because you ran out of handgun clips. You can get killed by the houndeyes, even, all because you ran out of handgun clips. Or you could just have fallen into a large chasm and died without handgun clips. Either way, you have no ammo. And waiting up ahead are 20 barneys who want you dead. They definitely have handgun clips.