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Posted by Vaalbara on Mon Jan 14th at 10:51pm 2008

I've been making RC for two years now. The mod has gone through a lot of changes, but it has only reached it's top about this time. The mod itself is set in the Half-Life universe, two years before the Black Mesa Incident. I'll explain the _basic_ story shortly. This isn't the whole thing, it's really just the most basic part of it. Behind the curtains is something much more complex, evil and miserable.

When Black Mesa begins teleportations to Xen, they sign a contract with the Prodigy Biotechnology Corporation, who are assigned to study Xen specimens that are bought back. The corporation's main interest is in the Vortigaunts, who are showing human-like intelligence. The vortigaunts had their collars and wrist bands removed, after wich they became friendly with the humans.

These Vortigaunts soon learned how to speak english, and warned the humans about the Combine threat, wich plans to enslave humanity. The corporation sends a research team to Xen, wich confirms the Combine presence.

After this, the corporation draws a plan, wich they hope to save humanity with from the Combine. This plan contains the creation of a massive clone army. The project gets set on one of their islands near Greenland, in a city called Raven City.

Harrison Mathers is appointed the leader of the project, with the programmer Boris Grishenko just below him. The project goes on for ten years, until the cloning process is over, and the replica army is ready to drift off. This is when the corporation loses contact with the island, and sends the HECU in to investigate.


I'll show a few pictures of my main characters ingame right now, together with some locations from the game's completed levels. The models weren't made by me, and I don't use them just because I'm a lazy stealer. I have a special emotional bond with these models. If they were changed, Raven City would lose it's feel, and I couldn't continue with it anymore. They are there because I like them in there, obsessively.


There are a lot of people who I need to thank for their invaluable help. Without them, I wouldn't be as far with RC as I am, they are: PlayBus, SysOp, Aaron, Pieter, Ryokeen, Team Silent, Remedy Entertainment, Valve and Gearbox Software.


http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9996/rccity020016pf2.jpg
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http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/1545/rctrainyard030003eg1.jpg

Raven City's crucial parts are story and gameplay. The story is deep, and getting deeper. Gameplay is fast-paced, and well recieved by current beta testers.

Thanks for all the comments.



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Posted by Le Chief on Mon Jan 14th at 11:49pm 2008

Wow, sounds quite interesting. I like the pictures aswell. Whats up with the lady's face in the first picture? Looks like shes been abused or something. Hmmm the guy in the fourth screen shot looks real familiar, I wonder what movie I have seen him from before. In the last picture, it looks ummm kinda weird. You should change that wooden wall texture, it looks so repetitive, I can also imagine a better texture for the supports aswell, if you want, I have a couple of good wood textures from hl2, I can give em to you if you want.

Oh yeah, nice explosion in the last shot <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">.


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Posted by GraNd3 BuRR!t0 on Mon May 12th at 1:29am 2008

Ya Killa that guy does look familiar. Its looks like Boris form that James Bond movie Goldeneye. lol




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Posted by Le Chief on Mon May 12th at 5:00am 2008

It is, but he is quite different in this mod.


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Posted by tnkqwe on Sat Jul 26th at 9:35pm 2008

OP4 on SP!I'm making the same thing too(OP4 on SP)The second part of "walking"


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