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Prospekt begins in the Nova Prospekt prison in the Half-Life universe. Gordon Freeman is slowly being overrun by soldiers in the prison, however unknown to him, his Vortigaunt allies manage to find some help from a forgotten hero.
Prospekt is a action, fps and singleplayer game
developed and published by SCT.
Released on February 18th 2016 is available only on Windows
in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain and Russian.
It has received 1,629 reviews of which 1,009 were positive and 620 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.1 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows XP or higher
- Processor: 3.0 GHz Pentium 4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or Athlon 64 X2 (or higher)
- Memory: 1 GB XP / 2 GB Vista & 7 MB RAM
- Graphics: Video card must be 128 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 12 GB available space
- Sound Card: N/A
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This recommendation comes with serious caveats. There are 2 ways to look at Prospekt: how the game plays as-is, and what it could have been. If you take it at face value, you'll get a fairly fun Half-Life 2 fan campaign that takes 2-3 hours to beat. If you go in hoping for something like Swelter, Entropy Zero, or even Hunt Down The Freeman, you'll be sorely disappointed. It's a mostly vanilla mission set with some entertaining setpieces and good action, which could make or break how you see it. Prospekt is a non-canon Half-Life fangame set during the events of Half-Life 2. You play as Adrian Shephard, the protagonist of Opposing Force, after Vortigaunts break him free from stasis. Gordon Freeman is storming the hellish prison of Nova Prospekt, and they want Shephard to carry out his own mission of sabotage to aid him. Shephard relives past memories of his military experience while fighting against Combine Soldiers and alien wildlife alike, taking him from the titular prison to locations far removed from Earth. Did you like Half-Life 2: Episode 2? If the answer is "yes," then you'll mostly get the same experience from Prospekt. Aside from some retextures, there are no new enemies or weapons to set it apart from the base game. The HUD is green, and Shephard's combat vest AI has a male voice, but you're playing as Gordon Freeman in all but name. The guns of Half-Life 2 return, aside from the Gravity Gun, Bugbait, and Crossbow. You mostly fight against Combine Soldiers and Elites, though you'll occasionally go up against Antlions, Headcrabs, Barnacles, Hunters, and Zombies as well. Prospekt's level design is typically more open than vanilla Half-Life 2, featuring several combat sections in wide-open environments. Coupled with the slight health boost to Combine Soldiers, this results in the Combine AI actually being able to use HL2's squad tactics and maneuvering without immediately dying. Enemies feel smarter and more aggressive despite not having any AI improvements. It's a strange phenomenon, but I honestly couldn't complain. It was thrilling to have the Combine enemies act more like ruthless fighters than slow-witted bullet magnets. The story of Prospekt is pretty middling. It ultimately goes nowhere despite offering some good plotlines. The intro narration goes on far too long. The audio flashbacks to Shephard's military days are well-acted, but they contribute nothing to the overarching story. Shephard's mission lacks a core goal or objective to strive for, outside of causing problems for the Combine. The ending is also very anticlimactic and disappointing. In fact, a glitch caused one of the Vortigaunts to survive the scripted sequence for me, causing him to stand around awkwardly while the scene played out. If you're hoping for new content and updates for Prospekt, you should just move on. The developer hasn't updated it in years, and all signs point to the game being abandoned. The Developer Commentary feature is broken and requires you to rename files to fix it. Much-requested changes and additions, like the Crowbar being replaced with a Wrench, won't happen outside of community mods. Prospekt could have been turned from a decent game to a great experience, like what happened to Hunt Down The Freeman, but that doesn't seem like it will happen. It isn't all bad, though! Prospekt has a great soundtrack. The levels are pretty well-designed, and the puzzles were nice when they arrived. The action is exciting and mostly plays well, aside from the confusing final gunfight. The voice work is great, from the new Combine voices to the flashback audios. It might not stray far from vanilla Episode 2, but it does well with the content it utilizes. Like I said at the start, this review comes with serious caveats. If you want to play a fun vanilla-esque Half-Life 2 fan campaign, then Prospekt might be worth a try. I would only recommend buying it with a deep discount, though. It is absolutely not worth the full price. Other free mods do more without a cash incentive, like The Burton Equation, Dark Interval, or Raising the Bar: Redux. Prospekt ranges from "okay" to "pretty good" in a playthrough, but it could have been great. It's a shame that it didn't get more updates to reach its full potential.
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Not bad. In fact I kind of like it. If you have ever played any early 00s FPS games like Serious Sam this should be in your line-up. Maps are designed with little detail yet they are spacious and full of targets. While the script they are reading is at times a bit asinine voice actors have done a great job. If you enjoy pointing and shooting lots and lots of enemies while listening to an audiobook this is a game for you.
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maybe , someone like this game, and it have for what people can like this. But for me it's just another one boring free game from steam, but which is cost money. And if we are talking about money, this game have big problems first, this game have no story. Yeah, it have a dialogues, but I don't think there was a scenario. This is just a bunch of dialogues. the second problem is gameplay. Like, it's just a shooter, boring shooter without any puzzles like HL. We are just going somewhere, meeting enemies, killing them, healing in next room. Repeat for the rest of the game. It's not DOOM, it's not HL, and this is boring I spent not so much money, and maybe for this price the game is better, than any free steam game but it's better, than HDTF anymore (I haven't played HDTF) the game is playable, and maybe i'm gonna recomend this to you (sad that steam doesn't give a neutral rating option) this game was developed by a single person, and with this information it's good
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This game is a solid 6.5/10. Fighting the combine here is more fun than ever, but that is really all this feels like to me. Just a bunch of sections fighting combine. They don't really do a good job explaining the story, its kinda just go and plow through combine. Although- the flashbacks that Adrian has are nice. It also feels like they put more attention to detail in some things than others. Like this game looks amazing graphically (except for the HUD numbers, they are out of place) but then they didn't/ and or barely changed the c_hands, making it a simple black reskin of Gordon's hands. And there are no unique weapons. Like, none at all return, and you get the crowbar instead of the wrench or a knife? It didn't require much effort to due a crowbar reskin, so that's when you know the devs were lazy as hell. But that also doesn't make sense, because they made cool combine models? And they included a xen section which WAS cool but its so DANG SHORT. All in all, if you are looking for a Half-life 2 mod to play, and you have already played mods like Swelter, Entropy Zero 1 & 2, and Amalgam (since those are all free and this game IS FIVE DOLLARS!) and you really like scenarios with killing combine, this game is for you.
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Sadly Steam doesn't offer a neutral review button, because this is one of the games where neutral fits the best. So Prospekt, or as it is also often referred to, the other Hunt down the Freeman. But is it really that bad though? The quick answer is no. But that doesn't directly mean it's good either. Story: Prospekt really wants to be a sequel to opposing force. During the events of nova prime in half life 2, the vortigaunts and the G-Man decide to get old Adrian Shephard out of stasis to help him support Gordan Freeman against the never ending armies of the combine. I wish there was more to say to it, but there really isn't. The end of the game is that Shephard is being thrown back into stasis, which means that everything that happens in this game doesn't have the slightest effect on the Half Life timeline at all. So there is basically no story in the 1-3 hours of playtime (comes down to playstyle and amounts of confusion). There is not really any story so let's talk about the gameplay, shall we? The gameplay is basically Half Life 2. No new weapons or enemy types. You mostly play against the combine with a few exceptions when a few headcrabs an antilons show up. Nothing crazy is changing. There is only a handful of weapons, which we've all seen in Half-Life 2 already. No new weapons and also not all weapons that we've seen in Half Life 2 or other mods. The game is using mainly setpieces and level structure form the original half life 2. The leveldesign can be also confusing sometimes, though it's mostly quiet linear. One thing that annoyed me in particular are the bulletsponging enemies. They swallow half, partly even up to one mag of the smg and plasma rifle. Quiet annoying. There is plenty of ammo and healthpacks, so you never struggle at any point. Also the short visit to Xen was quiet nice, since they put low gravity instead of giving you another long jump module, which to be honest, it was quiet good in black mesa but in Half Life it was the biggest piece of dogsh*t (quote Dwayne the Rock Johnson). So that's a nice fresh idea for once, inside this mess of copy and paste Half-Life 2 assets. I also like it that it focusses more on Adrian Shephard and the G-Man instead of Gordan or any other characters. Though there is no real story anyways here. Another thing I want to mention, there is barely any bugs at all, and that really means something, if the only other paid Half-Life fan game "Hunt down the Freeman" counts as possible the buggiest mess ever created. They did quiet fine here. So to sum it up, Prospekt is really not as bad as Hunt down the Freeman, but is it any good though? Ehh, not really. You don't miss anything here, if you don't play it. Even as hardcore half life fan you'll be probably pretty disappointed. I just feel like that this is a wasted opportunity. This could've become the sequel to Opposing Force and instead, well instead it ended up being Prospekt. Even if it's better, as it is being held, it's just still not really good. And though it's understandable, that the developers want to earn some money, this just really should'nt cost anything. I think it's actually against the Valve copyright, same with Hunt Down the Freeman, since they earn money from assets that valve produced. Well, f*ck it. There is plenty of free mods out there for Half Life. Also you can play though portal, which is also connected with the half life lore. I just don't get why something like this costs 5€ (2,50€ in sale), but entropy zero 1 & 2, which built a complete story with new animations, weapons, and a story which takes 4 hours to finish (the second part at least double of that if not even more) etc. is a free mod. So, in the case you really really really have played through all half life games, Black Mesa, Portal, Entropy Zero and all the other great free mods for half life 1 and 2, then and only then it might make sense to think about picking this up on sale for 2,50€. And honestly, even then it's not really worth it. The only reason I recommend this is, because it's not downright unplayable dogsh*t. Doesn't mean you should play it though. Farewell
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Prospekt is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.
Prospekt is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.
Prospekt received 1,009 positive votes out of a total of 1,629 achieving a rating of 6.07.
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Prospekt was developed and published by SCT.
Prospekt is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Prospekt is not playable on MacOS.
Prospekt is not playable on Linux.
Prospekt is a single-player game.
Prospekt does not currently offer any DLC.
Prospekt does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Prospekt does not support Steam Remote Play.
Prospekt is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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