Jan20
Empires Mod - HL2 Mod
post a commentPosted by krnpimperX at 4:24am
Empires is a team based fps mod for Half Life 2. It’s actually easier to think of this game as a Battlefield type game. The reason being, there are different classes and unlockable weapons(for just one round). This game adopts the ticket system made famous by Battlefield and adds vehicles to the fray. Vehicles are pretty dull though with all of them being tanks and jeeps. There are currently no planes implemented yet but the Empires Mod Team is in the works for planes. Empires Mod uses Source SDK to its best potential. The team’s maps are big as Source SDK will allow and it is rumored that the Empires Mod Team is in the works to make the maps even larger by shrinking the model size. If they pull this off, they could possibly become one of the best mods ever.
Now, Empires Mod is far from perfect. Even though most of the gameplay is good, and the map sizes are huge, the game still lacks the graphical quality that most HL2 mods have. Their textures and models look like they would’ve been in a Call of Duty game.
One other thing that wasn’t mentioned. The game has a seperate gameplay mode: the commander mode. Basically at the beginning of the round, a commander is elected and he plays the game in an RTS perspective. He can tell the other players where to move, where to build, where to defend, so on so forth.
Empires Mod is in its second beta. Download the game here: http://www.empiresmod.com/
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Would love to play an upscale map size that feels large on a source engine. Some mods in the past have incorporated vehcles but fell flat on thier face for being nothing more then a “foward. backward” control style. As a BF2142 player myself i enjoy playing on a map large enough to make sniping more realistic, but like many others i feel the BF engine is less up to date as Sonic the Hedgehog on the MegaDrive(SEGA Genesis). With the combination of the source engine + large maps this could be one to watch. Commander-RTS-mode sounds tasty, but as we all know unless your in a clan, people won’t follow some guys tactics that lives 2,000 miles across the world. they want to play their game how THEY want to. teamwork dies yet again =(