Hunt Down The Freeman

The people reviewing this game positively are right in celebrating the developers achievements in making this game playable. But that's it, this game is now just playable. It's not really enjoyable in the slightest. The story is one of the worst I've ever seen in fanfiction, the gameplay is clunky, level design in spite of changes is needlessly long and suits Half-Life combat like a glove on a foot, and bugs are so apparent even to this day. I had several game-breaking bugs while playing, such as getting stuck or having my night vision staying turned on for entire levels no matter how much I tried to turn it off. Congrats devs for continuing to work on this mess and actually making the best of the terrible situation that was forced onto you. Screw the guy who didn't pay you, I hope by buying this it at least returns some of that profit to you all. The work to make this piece of junk function is legendary, but you can't really save something that wasn't worth making in the first place.

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. Last night, I experienced something new, an extra-ordinary game from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the game and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about game design is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for hunt down the freeman's famous line "you fucked up my face" but I realize - only now do i understand what he truly meant. not every face is fucked up, but a fucked up face can come from anywhere. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the genius now working with valves source engine, who is, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest chef in France. I will be returning to hunt down the freeman soon, to 100% the achievments.

For clarification I played the OWF Build of Hunt Down the Freeman so this is a review of the latest development build and not the release build of HDTF. I have to say the story in this game is impressively bad, HDTF makes every mistake a writer can possibly make. However much like the Room it reaches a point of hilarity due to the insane cringe involved with the writing in voice acting. The cinematic's are actually well animated with great lighting and decent facial expressions, some of the voice acting is also really good but the audio mixing is pretty bad. Some voices are too quiet while others are very loud and no matter how much you tweak the audio it's never just right, however the voice acting for the protagonist Mitchell is professional and with better writing could be compelling. On the positive side the level design and game-play is really good especially in Act One and the other acts are decent. The first act does a great job with environmental storytelling, lots of cover in arenas and quality sound design. The game doesn't reach the same highs in the last two acts and the environments look worse but for a Source engine game it's acceptable. If you are looking for a fun experience then you might enjoy this and laugh at the crazy story. Fully recommenced for people who enjoy cringe and good gun-play.

I commend the devs sticking by this game for over 8 years and actually improving the game's presentation, performance and shifting level design but thats about it The game still has a crappy story, stinky voice acting, inconsistent tone and awful AI path finding and I think the levels go for longer than needed and are unbearably large leading to " Where the hell do I go" moments The game is a chore to play but the devs made it at least function withought crashing or improved levels enough to the point where I dont get soft locked having to turn on "no clip" on the console to progress. However one of the achievments is turning it on and I found that amusing, Basically the game is a polished turd but if you find it for less than 3 euros/bucks, it makes for a fun game to stream to friends on discord calls and poke fun of it. If you lack friends or no cheap deal for it, look elsewhere. It's better to watch paint dry.

You know a game is fucked when I didn't get the achievement for the game crashing on the first couple of crashes

The OWF Team is doing amazing work trying to make Hunt Down The Freeman bearable to play. There are still many design decisions that are thoroughly questionable in my eyes, but compared to the review videos from years ago we're probably all familiar with, the game is improved beyond recognition. That said, Hunt Down The Freeman's story and design are fundamentally flawed, and I believe the OWF Team has stated they do not intend on reworking it. The game may be playable now, but unless they tackle repairing this game's story and flow (an extreme task, but one with potential, I feel), it will never amount to anything more than a gag game. As it stands, Half-Life fans will absolutely suffer while playing this. I would suggest waiting until it goes on sale and then carefully considering whether you think $5 or however much is worth 5 hours of laughing at a bad game and witnessing the efforts to mend it. If the answer is yes then godspeed my friend, enjoy it.

this is just a joke but not bad but one level had missing textures every thing was gray

its actually pretty okay now im surprised i lwk goon to mitchell every single hour of every single week no joke

OWF build is the better than the previous build.

The new Dev team is cooking making this game great

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE THIS GAME SINCE I BOUGHT IT ON STEAM. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUNT DOWN THE FREEMAN AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. FOR THIS GAME. HATE. HATE.

Bitch ass game

mw2 if it was based

Don’t buy it here

yo this shit sucks

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