Recent reviews by Melnik

If you're a fan of the Source Engine and want more Half-Like, this is just the thing for you. It took me about 20 hours to play through. The difficulty level is just right for me, it's a bit harder than HL2, there are a number of physics puzzles, you can tell it's based on HL2, the weapons and enemy types seem to be modeled on the frame of the familiar HL2 assets, and the AI is probably the same too. The art style and worldcrafting of the game are crazy, it's a beautiful portrait of humanity at the end, a polluted world, a corrupt society where everything is sexualized and religion has been abandoned.

...and by the way, it kind of reminds me of HL2 Beta. It has that unpolished style, “dark and gritty”.

This game is hard to describe, its another case of a abandoned mod (actually not abandoned, my fault), cant really rate it for being super unfinished and unpolished, the core idea isnt bad, and in a finished state i would absolutely rate this mod good!
I will just make a list of pros and cons:

Pros:
+ own source engine interpretation of Half-Life without using any "Black Mesa" assets, everything is their own design
+ firearms choices are nice with having a MP5 and a M4, and a G36 for Black Ops
+ bullet impact effects look really good during combat, weapons feel powerful
+ interesting first level in the characters home and the drive to work
+ cool HUD design which looks like a helmet display

Cons:
- very short playtime, it took me ~100 minutes
- difficulty is laughable, you need to switch to hard to even lose health
- the pacing is super fast, far too fast, the game changes far too quickly,
- the maps/areas need to be enlarged a lot. to gain playtime and cut into clearly distinguishable levels with their own plotpoints
- you get a new gun every 5 minutes, so fast that I didnt even use some of them through the entire game...
- gun models look very outdated
- there is basically no story, no objectives... apart from moving on
- there is no voiceacting at all, all friendly NPCs are just silent or use some very minor HL2 taunts
- there is a minor level changing bug, where i had to move a room back and forth to load the next map
- the shotgun sound is delayed and not synchronised with the actual shot
- there are light reflection errors which appear in pink

I would still say, play it... work went into this mod and its for free, its a separate Half-Life remake experience which has no connection to Crowbar Collectives "Black Mesa" in any way, it was actually kinda fun for the short time i was able to spend with it!