Garry's Mod 10 (Unofficially known as Garry's Mod 11 and more commonly Gmod) Developer: Facepunch Stuidos Publisher: N/A (Independent modification of HL2) Review by Deathbreak I'm going to go ahead and get this out of the way. I love this game, and if my review is in any way biased because of that I apologize. START REVIEW: Remember that unparalleled freedom you had with legos that lead you to do and make anything you want with them and no one could tell you your car wasn't a car cause you made it with it's seven wheels and you made it like that from scratch? Of course you do. Nothing comes closer than the 10$ wonder Garry's Mod which is a sandbox modification of the game Half Life 2. As soon as you buy it, I admit, there isn't much to do. However, the game wasn't made with the intention of standing alone. The game has a massive army of mods beside it to fight back boredom! Oh... to biased? Let's lay down the facts then... Straight out of the box (er... download), you are given the general weapons of Half Life, the ability to spawn any item from Half Life wherever you want, the ability to weld two items togeather, make restrants, ropes, thrusters, henges, and more between them. Straight out the box/download thinggy you can create catapults and launch cars through the air at the combine you spawn or simply spawn 100 combine and 100 humans and watch them duke it out (with you in the center, you're a player not omni potent). Other popular contraptions built when the game is first received are cars, spaceships, various death weapons, forts, and tanks. This starts to get boring, and unlike Lego's when you want more parts to play with you arn't running out and spending more money, but instead thousands of add-on's are created by everyday modders than can do everything from make space explorable (with air tanks, space weaponry, and all that stuff) to nuclear weapons of mass destruction to just more NPC's and weapons to use. Absolutely nothing in the game can't be modified in some way or another. What Gmod does right: > The ability to do/kill/build whatever you like. > Thousands of add-on's to add everything from Master Cheif to roller coasters to your game. > A focus on online gamemodes as well as offline game modes, online ranging from hoverboard parks to battle bot arenas to RP's What Gmod wasn't so hot on: > There is no built in story mode that you can optionally turn on or off > It required you to have a game that runs on the Half Life 2 Engine on your computer > Sometimes consumes more than it's fair share of computer power in large space/ship battles and massive NPC wars > Not all mods are guaranteed to be bug free, of course. Rating: Story 7/10 There is no story, which should give it an N/A until you consider the fact that it has no plot because you can do anything in it. Graphics 9/10 Half Life 2 graphics are amazing, but it takes an unholy amount of power to run full specs. Gameplay 10/10 You can do anything. A few glitches are annoying at times, but the content to replace any errors makes them almost unnoticable. Sound 9.0/10 You can play your own music, the voice acting (where applicable) is great, and the music from Half Life 2 is good. Replay Value 10/10 Once you start you just can't stop. OVERALL RATING: 45/50 8.5 Other games you might like if you enjoyed this one: Crayon Physics Blockland Yay for first review.... Next I intend to do Puzzle Quest if people don't tell me this one sucked too much.
Great review! One of my favorite games, and the developer is Team Garry, not Valve. Valve made the source engine which it runs on.
