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Toronto: Now a place in a video game
City 7: Toronto Conflict is a single player Half-Life 2 mod that’s been making the blog rounds lately. So, I figured I’d chip in, this being the Internet and all. Like Narbacular Drop (the inspiration for Portal), City 7 is the thesis project for a group of game design majors, this time from, of all places, George Town University in Toronto. The game is inserted cleverly into the narrative of Half-Life 2, sandwiched snuggly between the bookends of Dr. Kleiner’s teleporter mishap early in the game.
Gordon Freeman finds himself in Toronto, which has been reappropriated by the Combine as City 7. What follows is a decent enough, 2-3 hour romp through the city with plenty of action set pieces to keep you entertained; though I imagine those of you who have actually been to Toronto will be significantly more impressed than the rest of us. The mod’s pretty terribly balanced and aside from a spectacular finale, doesn’t do anything we haven’t already seen in Half-Life 2 or its following episodes. Still, single player Half-Life 2 mods that aren’t complete garbage are few and far between, and Toronto Conflict joins the short list of those that are actually playable. It’s no MINERVA: Metastasis, but not everyone can be Adam Foster.
The professor’s all like GROUP PROJECT and this one guy in the back’s all like “half life sucks.”
Comment by vector_black — November 26 [2007] @ 10:32 AM
And the name of that one guy… WAS GABE NEWELL!
Comment by wedge55 — November 26 [2007] @ 11:27 AM
He reads every internet post that contains his name.
Comment by vector_black — November 26 [2007] @ 12:17 PM
just got assassin’s
creed and live free or die hard on blu-ray so yeah just thought you should know and btw they both make my dick hard
Comment by hahndog — November 26 [2007] @ 8:32 PM
I ate free food that jeremy gave me at his place of work and then whilst he was working I went to his house and played assassin’s creed while he was working it was cool.
Comment by Leadpipe — November 26 [2007] @ 8:43 PM
Obviously Wedge55 isn’t a member of the Mr. Waz school of writing that is omit all “that”’s. Which shows he has no class or style or grace. Or maybe the last part is about me.
Comment by Piyonugget — November 27 [2007] @ 6:50 AM
Be honest. You only wrote about this cause I’m a Torontonian ;)
Comment by LadyGuardian — November 27 [2007] @ 7:04 AM
I’ve been found out.
Comment by wedge55 — November 27 [2007] @ 8:07 AM
I await the return of ladyguardian.com
Comment by vector_black — November 27 [2007] @ 11:39 AM
I saw it on boingboing.net first
Comment by Leadpipe — November 27 [2007] @ 9:04 PM
So did I.
Comment by wedge55 — November 28 [2007] @ 9:43 PM
I still fantasize about LadyGuardian, and quite often at that.
Comment by Piyonugget — November 29 [2007] @ 6:40 AM
i still fantasize about you will
Comment by hahndog — November 29 [2007] @ 1:32 PM
wedge55 held his annual Naked Day today.
Comment by vector_black — November 29 [2007] @ 2:17 PM
how is that different from every other day?
Comment by LadyGuardian — November 30 [2007] @ 8:37 AM
This one was official.
Comment by vector_black — November 30 [2007] @ 9:33 AM
There was downtown business that needed resolving.
Comment by wedge55 — November 30 [2007] @ 12:29 PM
It’s not polite to talk about downtown business.
Comment by vector_black — November 30 [2007] @ 4:44 PM
I always celebrate naked day.
Comment by Piyonugget — December 2 [2007] @ 12:42 AM