Hunt Down The Freeman

I played the OWF version for this review.

Honestly, the game isn't as bad as everyone says, but that may be because I'm playing on a version on the game that actually had people work on it as opposed to a completely buggy mess. Another thing, the videos on this game make the game seem REALLY long when it's at least a 6 to 8 hour game. I'm not planning to 100% this game. I think it should be obvious as to why.

With that said, there are a LOT of things that I believe to be wrong with this game:
- The voice acting is nice, but it relies too much on popular Youtubers to take seriously. Although, Mitchell's VA did a great job. I just can't believe he may have to put this on his resume. Oh, and also president Keemstar and child solider Pyrocynical.
- The combat of the game is held back by the inventory and sprint system. Although with the sprint system, it's worth noting that the combat is slower in this game as opposed to the original Half-Life. Moreover, the game has an insta-kill headshot system. The sound design of the guns and their animations are really polished though.
- The story of this game is all over the place. The most memorable aspect of this was when Mitchell tried to justify to Boris's actions of managing a child labour factory. I saw memes of this game crediting Hideo Kojima, so maybe that's why I don't get it. Don't even get me started on Freeman. This game has no Freeman.

With that being said, I really liked OWF's finale. It's just a generic turret section, but it beats waiting 15 minutes like in the original versions of the game. It fulfils the powerfantasy finale that HL2 had.

Although the team behind this game has put in work to redeem this game, I cannot recommend it to anyone unless it's on sale. The combat is nice, but is weighed down by inventory and speed. The story is just... interesting. And the voice acting is too jarring for me to recommend wholeheartedly. In fact, I'd only recommend this game to someone who has played or never played Half-Life as a shitpost.

Genuinely good now that its been patched up

I think i would rather be water boarded than play this game ever again

used sv_cheats in the tutorial cause the triggers broke

The level design of this is actually awful, if anything I recommend that people who want to make games play this so they know what NOT to do!11!!!

The only fun bit is that there's apparently shotgun shells mounted on the melee weapons because how else would they launch enemies flying?

I hunted down a guy who fucked up my face, not freeman

w for team is left working on the game and making owf_staging_prep beta. L for berkan he gets 5 big booms

Hunt down the freeman is.... hmm i don't know if i can aptly describe my feelings for this game. If you play the current dev build its actually kind of alright. However buying this game just sends the money to two assholes who and i quote "have my permission to die".

In its current updated state id say its okay. You should absolutely pick it up to experience both the recent dev build and the 2018 version.

Just please if you buy it throw some money to the devs on patreon they deserve it for the work they have done.

Fuck you Berkan

just watch pyrocynical's video i'm not gonna repeat what he said.

My honest review of this game is that it is a cringey MSGV story set in Half-Life universe, my main problem of the game is that no matter how many times the dev changes the levels or story you can’t fix this game, a lot of the changes don’t fix the main issue which is this awful fan fiction they call the story. The gameplay lacks what any half-life or metal gear solid game has. Lack of player direction is the biggest problem as the game fails to guide the player using any basic level design techniques or has any dialogue or characters to guide you on what you do. Look at the first half-life or even the sequel very different games but have great techniques to guide the player with npc dialogue or subtle hints by the level design. Those games are very linear and does sometimes feel like the direction of a Nintendo platformer but they provide a very fun atmosphere and use the importance of dialogue to guide the player. This game feels like you are guiding a lost soul in a world of nothing. The story makes no sense and feels like one big nothing burger. Nothing ever happens.

Im struggling to think of a reason why the current developer team is even working on HDtF now. No matter how much they fix the game it's never losing its disaster meme status and apparently they're not even getting paid for their work.
I gotta give it to them a lot of the new weapons look and sound very good and the difference between the normal game and owf_staging_prep beta is night and day.
Can't say it's enough though because the story, voice acting, level design, rest of the sound design, game balance, gunplay are all still laughably bad.
As the story progresses you'll probably wonder "Did i accidentally skip a cutscene or something?" No. You did not. That's just how disjointed and nonsensical the story is.

I'd say the game is almost so bad it's good. It's close.
The stupid cutscenes are its saving grace but spaced between them are long parts of generic and sleep inducing gameplay.

Is it worth playing it? Absolutely!
I honestly had fun takin the cone thru the whole game and trying to do it in 2 hours at the same time.
Keep up the good work devs!

dr pepper

the new updates that are happending are makeing it a good game

Amazing

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE THIS SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. 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 THIS GAME AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR IT. HATE. HATE.

i watched videos about this game and saw how bad it was but i wanted to try it myself and i don't regret doing so i will admit that some cut-scenes were good and some were in-between but it was a lot of fun playing the game now then from what i saw in the videos back then so i truly hope for a continuation of the game plus the weapons looked and felt right the ability to look down sights and the animations were AMAZING on the guns i would definitely recommend it to people who would like the perspective of seeing someone going through the event's of half life as someone else and for general play.

Laughably bad.
Makes for the perfect gag gift.

President Keem and Captain Colossal lmfao.

you fucked up my face

no

You should get this game, because it has Gordon Freeman, and that model for Gordon Freeman is better than the grey half life 1 Gordon Freeman model! :D

Peak cinema. Paid 0.47$

owf_staging_prep build is awesome, i recommend trying out

"Go ahead, Mitch, fire .357 rounds at my guts. Nothing you can do to unfuck up your face" -Adam

to be honest, that game is REALLY good. I know people say that its terrible. but it not at all. theres so many features
you can bend your torso in two directions, theres even entire parkour feature. and a normal aim on guns. Gameplay is really fun. Cutscenes are REALLY good, and i love that sad background music during cutscenes. Lore of this game is REALLY good too, im even sad that is not official part of hl game series. I recommend you to buy this game.

one good mission. id rather shit myself in a new york subway than play the rest of the game

This game is mostly fun. Need to use a sometimes buggy beta for all the achievements. Overwriting a save fairly often causes a crash - maybe I have too many saves though.

Peak Metal Gear Solid experience, if a Metal Gear Solid was a shooter on Source engine, like a Half-Life 2 clone, but without any qualities of a good Half-Life game.
Also it's pretty hard.

truly a game of all times. play the 2018 version for the true experience

good game

TL;DR : ONCE INSTALLED, RIGHT-CLICK, PROPERTIES, BETAS, "OWF Development Build", Then play it.

It's pretty dumb story wise, and mechanic wise. Once you get to Act 3 where you actually "Hunt Down" Gordon, It starts to become okay. The Intro-sequence is still dumb, the characters are idiotic, voice-acting is cringe, and Berkan is still an asshole who works for Blizzard or Activision or whatever, it doesn't matter. The games' still kinda better then it was in 2018 if you play the default version, but it still lacks. However the OWF Build makes it somewhat enjoyable, at least to me. So... Yeah. Refer to the TL;DR at the beginning of this "review"

there is a suprising lack of freeman

It's not even fun bad.

Writing so bad it's funny (fuck you Berkan you retard) but getting all the achievements (and continually coming back to earn the new ones added) is def one of the funniest things I've ever done. If you've got time to waste and friends to stream this game to, it can be stupidly fun. Cheers to the OWF team for making this game even more of a $h!tpost!

You f*cked up my face / 10

I bought this on sale a few years back for a dollar, and never played too far into because it was really bad. Given a few years, they managed to fix a lot of the levels to a playable state and made the gameplay line up with the cut-scenes better. The voice acting is rough, the story is stupid, but I found myself enjoying the new content.

I would consider this "The Room" of videogames

Hunt Down The Freeman is more of a fan fiction if you take the story from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, replace all the characters with original characters and add them to the Half-Life universe.

Is there any point in talking about this game, there are already a lot of videos on YouTube talking about how terrible this game is. Of course, the game now isn't as horrible as it was at launch, but it still doesn't fix the fact that they made more of a terrible game into one that's dumb and functional.

I still can't believe that the director of this game immediately got a job at Activision Blizzard.

In conclusion, better play Entropy: Zero 2 than this game!

An honest and serious opinion: in its current state (owf_developer build specifically) the jank is almost cleaned out and the gameplay loop is surprisingly fun. There's still of course the infamous writing, dialogue and voice acting, but at this point all of that became so much of a meme that you'd probably want to play HDTF just for that.

I love this game i don't get how people hate, the plot is great, the levels are fun, and the weapons are fun. I love how they take abit from MGSV's page because i like that game too

Incredible

You hunt down the Freeman, what else needs to be said.

i got HDTF when it was 50 cents on sale, and it's not worth even that. After years of fixes, the game is still a chore to get through, even if you're playing it ironically.

this game is overhated ngl i rate it a 8.5/10

You have my permission to cry.

even when drunk this game still stinks. feels like a cringey fanfic of mgs (particulary 5) set in the half-life continuity.

Please, im begging you don't buy this game it's worse than i thought...

What a waste of time and money to play this for any reason. Such unscrupulous design in levels and content and more, the indisputable worst game I've ever played.

LITERALLY, THIS IS

THE

BEST GAME EVER
THANK YOU ROYAL RUDIUS ENTERTAINMENT.

Refund

horrifying theory: this game is cannon

one of the best games from 2018

It’s fine.

Cheesy af storyline/voice acting, disjointed levels that make no sense and do not connect to each other in any way. Very flat plane level design with no real lasting rememberable locations. The desert level. The city 17 level. Easy AF on all difficulties. (Except for the final rebel levels and epilogue survival)

But otherwise, it’s fine.

Also Berkan pay your devs

6/10