CUBE (Full Mod, No Commentary)

"There is no sound at 1:03:57 through 1:16:30 due to copyright. If the sound for the whole video sounds weird in general, that is also due to copyright. If I had known there would be copyright protected music everywhere I would've just deleted the music.
I saw great potential in this mod. I had a bad feeling that continued development for this mod got canceled. Alongside the other projects the developer was working on. Hopefully they haven't died and simply lost interest. I probably should've played this first before making a video about it...Whoops.
Let's start off with the good things. If you liked the game Portal, you will like this. The art design is based off of the movie CUBE which uses abstract architecture as it's setting. Each room is a copy of each other. A white hollow cube. A neat cheap tactic to use the same scene over and over again. This mod does not do that. It actually uses different rooms.
Now the story does not follow the plot of the movie CUBE. It follows it's own story. Watch the video or play the mod if you want to know more.
Now onto the criticism:
The gravity gun. I had a bad feeling that the only reason why that is there is so that the player can carry the cubes. In the game Portal, the player can carry the cubes without the gravity gun just fine but if you port the Portal maps into Half-Life 2, the player won't be able to pick them up for some reason. I would've made the mod using Portal and not Half-Life 2: Episode 2.
I should also note, this mod is mildly unstable. If you watched the video, you may have noticed that I switched to Garry's Mod before switching back to the original mod. That one level is apparently so sensitive to crashing, it would be easier to port the mod to Garry's Mod than play it all by itself. Now you would say 'Jeriah, why didn't you port the mod into GMod?', I wanted to play the mod as is player movent is different in Half-Life 2. So I needed to play the game as intended otherwise I would be tempted to cheat.
Speaking of, those times where you caught me cheating is due to the fact that I simply did not have the energy to handle the instability. I would highly recommend you play this in Garry's Mod and not all by itself. I'm sorry. I'm sure it worked fine back then but around the time of making this video, the Half-Life series were poorly maintained. Credit where it's due they were made to last but now things are starting to crack.
As for the additional content, again I did see potential. Hatch 18 was a bit too difficult for me. I had to once again use Garry's Mod to find a solution since I wasn't sure there were walkthroughs about Hatch 18. Not even sure if it's in development at the moment.
Overall, assume you're metaphorically handling a box of dynamite when playing this. I would recommend using a third party application to run this and not Half-Life 2: Episode 2. It does have potential, but it metaphorically exploded in a bad way."
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