I think it's a good idea, to have a thread, with mod reviews. This way, you can promote your mod or simply tell about others. I like to tryout all kinds of mods, but I cba browsing moddb clicking every mod in beta/released, finding out, that most are just a bunch of shit. Heh, I find it hard to explain my idea tbh, but i'll start myself, and hopefully, because of my review, someone decides to tryout that mod. ;)

I've been into the HL1 MP community for quite some time now, but it's getting rather dead, all the mods I used to play, kinda lost their popularity. I'm talking about TFC, Vampire Slayer, Firearms and many more. So recently I tried out some HL2 MP mods.

HL2 - Zombie Master. Status: Beta. Type: Multiplayer.

Suprise suprise, in this mod, it's all about teh zombies!!
You got 2 teams, the human survivors and the zombie master. The Zombie Master is 1 person, randomly picked every round. The rest, play the survivors. The survivors gotta complete the map objectives to win the round. The Zombie Master controls everything from above, spawning 4 types of zombies at the spawn points in the map. He generates resources, of which he spawns the zombies. He can also activate traps, also bought by resources. The Zombie Masters goal is simple, he has to kill teh humies! It requires some well-thought thinking to kill all the survivors. But then again, with a good Zombie Master, it's quite the challange to complete the map objectives as a survivor, when you got Zombies all around the map trying to kill you.

The zombie models are 'meh'. The normal ones, the slow walking ones, look nice. But the other zombies, just look wrong. The survivors mostly use the HL2DM player models, despite 2 custom ones. The official maps look decent. The ZM community is pretty active, 70 servers, of which 20 are always played. This mod has some bugs, and begs for some more maps and models, but in the end, it's quite fun, and I really recommand it. It's a nice combo of RTS and FPS. 7.5/10.

HL2 - Jailbreak! Status: Beta. Type: Multiplayer.

I haven't played this with other people yet, simple because nobody seems to play it! 3 servers in total. I tried it alone, and I must say, this looks exactly like HL2TDM... this mod just begs for more custom stuff. The point of Jailbreak is to kill the enemy team, sending them all in prison and then exucuting them. But it has a twist, your teammates can free you. The new maps and weapons for the next version seem pretty nice, so this mod has potential, for now, 5/10.

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Well, I hope you people start writing some reviews yourself, aslong as it's a HL1 or HL2 mod, SP or MP. I hope anyone enjoyed mine, despite the crappy grammar. :P