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In the world of video games, having a good product isn't a guarantee of success. Sometimes it's like lottery. You may offer an interesting concept mixed with a good story and backed up by a decent technical aspect, but if it doesn't click with the audience, years later you'll read "it was critically acclaimed, but it ended up underperforming commercially, though it gained a cult following" in your Wikipedia article. Yeah, as if a bunch of die-hard nerd fans were gonna help you pay the bills.
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More a Half-Life map pack than a mod, it could easily go unnoticed were it not for the fact that it was made by Maverick Developments, a team led by author Phil Daniels that also gifted us Redemption (which this one is a prequel of) and Wanted!. They even struck a deal with Valve to develop a few projects, so clearly the guys had some talent.
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You could say I'm a big fan of first-person shooters. It's easily the genre I've devoted more time to, though I dislike being told so as I take pride in having tried all types of games without reservations (even sports, and I'd rather attend church than play FIFA). I completed the entire id Software lineage (Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Quake, etc) on the highest difficulty. I never tried Rise of the Triad though, so I was naturally curious about this experiment that was once meant to be released as Wolfenstein 3D II: Rise of the Triad before having to reinvent itself. And it's sad to say it didn't meet my expectations.
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Those of you who have modded, or created content for the video game Half-Life (the original 1998 installment) know how picky its GoldSrc engine can get when it comes to file formats. Certain limitations must be strictly enforced lest you want to get a long list of errors. This extends to the images that will be used as world or model textures.
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An interesting concept, this small total conversion offers a slightly cliché story about a Mafia enforcer in the 1930s, with an even more accented noir setting than in the original game.