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A Game Review from 3 Different Modifications for Half-Life 2 Multiplaying actions. Each of these modifications are completely different and each of them contains + and - points. Though Most of them has + for sure.

Let's start with the 3 I've personally tested and played.
The list what will be reported:

Empires
The Hidden
Insurgency


Let's start with the Empires

The Empires time is Future in planet Earth where two Empires fights against each others. As the Game Info in the Website (will be mentionated in the end) the game is a Combination of both First Person Shooter and Real Time Strategy. If you play as a Commander, you can construct constructions to aid your Army of FPS players, order them to attack on the enemy and as well research better weapons and vehicles. As a First Person Shooter aka Soldier you're duty is to capture Resource points to aid income and kill enemy forces. You can buy vehicles and upgrade them with stuff the Commander has researched.

As A Commander.

As a commander you have a free view ability and you can construct constructions such like Barracks and Armory construct Resource pods to secure resource fields etc. This game has no harvesters, only factories that looks alike like a oil pump. You can command soldiers just like in Command & Conquer to attack targets and capture places etc. Your duty is to construct and Research, leave the fighting for the men.

As a Soldier

You have few Classes to choose from. Recon, Soldier, Engineer, Grenadier. Each of these classes has their own specialities.

Recon: Basically a Sniper and a Assaulter, can sabotage enemy constructions and snipe soldiers from a distance and spot targets for ground troops.
Soldier: You know your duty soldier, shoot, kill and win the day. Machinegunner and a Assaulter
Grenadier: Stop enemy vehicles and use Mortar to blow enemy Infantry
Engineer: Repair, construct defence material, walls, heal vehicles and team mates and revive dead people.

Vehicles

There are basic vehicles that locates in every game.

Recon Car Unarmed fast vehicle, squeeze infantry if they get on your way will ya?
APC Works as a Spawn beacon for infantry and reheals and resupplies them. Weaponry, basic machine gun
Light Tank Everyone knows a light tank, its fast with weak armor, armed with a light gun and can be armed with a missile launcher too, machine gun as well.
Main Battle tank Medium tank, both sides have these, can be armed with several different weapons after all has been researched. Railgun, Chain guns, missiles, 2 main cannons etc.
Heavy Tank All huge and heavy slow in speed and maxium defence A huge lot of weaponry suits for this tank, its a moveing fortress.
Artillery Spot Targets for it as a Recon and support is available.

The +

+The game is geniously made and very well finished excelent game
+Combine of FPS and RTS was a very awsome pull for a orginally designed FPS game
+Vehicles are fun to use
+Game is awsome if Commander is talented

The -
- You start with lack of ammo
- Lack of team play most of the times
- Vehicles are hard to drive
- Small bugs here and there
- Sniper Scope doesn't zoom far

More information from http://www.empiresmod.com
This Review was my own experience and vision of it.
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Insurgency

People who likes to play the nowadays fashionate HIT US Marines against Terrorist organization called Insurgency. Wish to hide and shoot Yankees on the head to drive them off from your land? Or do you wish to kick desert rats and chase them in streets? Now its your time to work with the fashionate realistic mod called Insurgency. Fight through cities and clean them from the enemy and capture every flag just like in Day of Defeat but in the modern era.

The game is basically like Battlefield 2 expect with better graphics and more realistic.
Both sides has 2 Squadrons up to 4-5 soldiers. Leader, two rifleman, support and the second squad, Leader, two Rifleman and a Sniper.
The point in this game is to capture every flag and beat the enemy. But the main thing is, work as a squad otherwise since lone wolf, is a dead wolf.

Both sides has their own arsenal, from Aim dotted M4 to M16 Assault Rifle and from that to M60 or RPG-7. M14 Sniper Rifle, and SDV Dragonov are also available. Choose your soldiers skin color, clothes and then head to the battlefield. Note: You don't have the aim cross to assist your shots so use the Iron rail.

The +
+For a modification it looks awsome
+City maps are huge
+Realistic damage, one shot can be one kill
+No aim dots makes game more challengeful

The -
-The thema tends to get boring there are already BF2
-FPS might run pretty low in this game
-Sniping can tends to be annoying at times
-Maps are huge and with few players its very annoying

To put it this way. Nice Iraq vs. USA game with some realism and with a fun team based game.
Review is only my personal view.

More on web http://www.insmod.net/
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The Hidden

"Suspect has been spotted in this area move out men! Keep your eyes open..."
"Iiiii ssssseeeeeee yyyyyouuuuu"
"Suspect spotted!"
"Agent down!"

Basic radio Convo in The Hidden, game that makes a shiver run down your spine anytime you play alone in the dark. For a Multiplayer game- this surely can be scary and exciting!
This game is based on 1990 where a Test subject 617 has escaped from its prison. This subject is a Project... a deadly one. Fast and invisible...and very powerful armed with couple of HE Grenades and has a deadly pounce.

This game has two sides. IRIS an unknown Agency who hunts after the creature only known as "Hidden". This IRIS company brings to my mind The Umbrella coporation, its world wide as well.
Then comes "The Hidden" a deadly, fast, and invisible human like- thingy who has to terminate its hunters, The IRIS.

This game is like Cat-Mouse game though without a mouse, both sides are Cat and the mouse. IRIS with heavy and effective weaponry, The hidden with invisible tactics, pounce and deadly knife and HE grenades. Both are armed very well and equally balanced, if you don't know how to spot Hidden or play as a Hidden, don't cry and call the game bad. Practise little more and good comes.
The maps in The Hidden are awsome some are huge and some are smaller, a lot of stuff to destroy with weaponry and good corners to hide as a Hidden.

The Hidden

Unknown creature, this thingy is a human experiment and obviously a deadly one, its almost impossible to see it and with hits Scary voice that will scare a solid thing even on good player's pants. The one who wants to be The Hidden, has to kill it. When there are lots of players every IRIS Agent who dies, turns to a Hidden, HAPPY HUNTIN' Boys!

The IRIS

Lock' load. Kill The thing or survive through spesific time line
Armed with either Shotgun, Assault Rifle, Lethal Poison or a Submachineguns + Secondary fire arm these Special Commandos duty is to seek and destroy the project. There are different skins in the IRIS Squad. You can select to be one of them etc. Then choose Primary Weapon, Secondary weapon and then at last some kind of speciality. LAM aim dot is often choosed to aim from different thingies. Stay alive, you know, one shot can kill you and grenade will temporally blind you!

The +
+Game is scary
+Good actions
+Good maps
+Nice Skins
+Nice weaponry

The -
-Hidden makes as loud footsteps even if he has no shoes D:
-Once a while players tend to see The hidden too well (its quite + and - thing)
-Very little ammo for IRIS soldiers
-No Medics
-Some maps too easy for Hidden players Some too easy.

This is my own personal view
More stuff from this game
http://www.hidden-source.com/

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