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.
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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.
