This is one of those rare video games that are so bad that it's funny.
It's like watching a train wreck. Don't just watch this video. You can hunt down (No pun intended) even more.
Most of the cast are YouTubers. I Hate Everything, Pyrocynical, Sky Williams, Rice Pirate, Keemstar, Cyr, and Colossal is Crazy are all in it for some reason.
It's an understatement to call the game buggy. It's buggier than a box full of beetles. You know that infamous "It's not a bug, it's a feature." saying? In this case it'd be more accurate to say "It's not a bug, it's the game." It was literally impossible to beat at launch without using the Source Engine's "noclip" command which temporarily disables collision and lets you fly around the map. You
had to cheat to win.
The game features parkour, going prone, and cutscenes, which are fine most of the time, but don't fit in a Half-Life game.
The cutscenes, not only lack decent voice talent but the writing is absolutely awful. It's worth noting that white, British YouTuber Alex (I Hate Everything), played an Asian American soldier. They realized that Alex's American accent was pretty bad and had him re-record his lines in a natural voice. However for whatever reason they ended up putting the old takes in the final product. They had Sky Williams, a black YouTuber, play a white guy named Larry. The best voice actor in the game is whoever played the G-Man. He was actually really good. Too bad he pronounces "Mesa" as "Messa". They had him correct his lines but used the old ones anyway for some reason.
The developers are also mixed up in quite a bit of controversy with accusations of stolen assets. Mind you the game doesn't always have assets. Some objects have pink and black patterns on them, which only happens in the Source engine if it can't find the texture that's supposed to go there. But even funnier is when entire objects are missing. If that happens it'll show a massive, red, blinking
ERROR instead of what's actually supposed to be there.
The level design is very poor with enemies often just being left in a conga line in hallways so big that you can just run around them. There's a war scene with infinitely spawning allies an enemies, where it never tells you that you're just supposed to run away and find something else to do. The enemies use models that were scrapped from HL2 and don't fit the same ascetic as the Combine. It just didn't cross their mind that they may have been scrapped for good reason. The game will crash during loading screens and corrupt all of your data if you try to save in a vehicle.
There's so much wrong that everything I typed doesn't even cover half of the all the flaws it has. Watch the video and look up other "Hunt Down The Freeman" related content on YouTube. This game is so abysmal you can get just as much entertainment out of it as a bad movie. It's definitely worth a laugh. But it's definitely not worth the $17.99 it costs on Steam (It used to be $25, dropped to $20, now it's $18). But the YouTube videos are free.
1/10
By the way. If you want a good Half-Life fan game, then go get the HL1 remake, Black
Messa Mesa. It's $19.99 but worth every single penny. It's actually pretty amazing.
But if you have no money, don't worry. There's plenty of 100% free Half-Life 2 mods.
