Rock Paper Shotgun expressed that the game's ideas "seem nice on paper but are executed poorly", citing several haphazard gameplay functions and storyline moments. Hunt Down the Freeman garnered a poor critical reception. Following the game's full release in 2018, achievements were added a year later. Despite this, development on Hunt Down the Freeman commenced, and a demo of the game was released in 2016. The game was initially pitched for crowdfunding through Indiegogo with a goal of US$100,000, though only US$12 was raised. Hunt Down the Freeman began as a modification for Half-Life 2. Discovering that Adam has attempted to assume control over his army, Shephard confronts and kills him before directing the ship to set sail for a stranded research vessel named the Borealis. Shephard then proceeds towards a factory overseen by Boris, who mistakenly believes that he killed Sasha and orders a Combine force to kill him however, Shephard defeats it and returns to the Avalon Vale. The G-Man goes on to explain that Shephard's actions have weakened the Combine, allowing Freeman to defeat them. After escaping the Resistance, Shephard confronts the G-Man, who reveals that Adam was the one who attacked him at Black Mesa as part of a deal between the two. Adam suddenly appears and kills Sasha, urging Shephard to run. After the attack, he is captured by the Resistance before being rescued by Boris' daughter Sasha (Eli Walker). Together with Adam, Shephard allies with the Combine and attacks the Resistance base at Black Mesa East. Seventeen years later, the G-Man instructs Shephard to travel to City 17 and kill Freeman. After negotiating with the factory's administrator, Boris (Vincent Fallow), Shephard rescues the children and brings them back to his outposts. Shephard travels to City 9 in Alaska and discovers a Combine factory operated with child slavery. Three years later, the Combine has seized total control over Earth. When Roosevelt is killed in a Combine attack, Shephard takes control of the survivors and forms his own private army operating out of a series of oil platforms. Coming across a port, Shephard finds the container ship Avalon Vale and its captain, Roosevelt (Oliver Colton). In Nevada, they link up with another Rangers unit led by Lieutenant Harvey (Jonathan Benlolo) and escape with them to the Pacific Northwest. The group decides to flee to Nevada however, their train is attacked by the Combine, and only Shephard, Alex, and Adam survive. In a transit station, they meet an Army Rangers unit led by Colonel Cue (Michael Green) and learn from a radio broadcast that the United States and the world have surrendered to the Combine only seven hours into the invasion. Shephard fights his way out of the hospital and through the city, linking up with National Guardsman Alex (Alexander Beltman) and Black Ops agent Adam (Vincent Cyr) along the way. When Shephard comes to, he finds the hospital abandoned and learns Earth is being invaded by the Combine. Shephard is recovered and rushed to a hospital in nearby Albuquerque, New Mexico before he blacks out, Shephard is approached by the G-Man (Rick), who cryptically promises him an unspecified reward for killing Freeman "when the time comes". Suddenly, a person in an HEV suit, implied to be Freeman, ambushes and kills Shephard's squad members and severely wounds him. Plot ĭuring the Black Mesa incident, United States Marine Corps Sergeant Mitchell Shephard (Mick Lauer), part of the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit (HECU), is deployed with his squad to the Black Mesa Research Facility to cover up the incident and kill Gordon Freeman, a Black Mesa researcher resisting the HECU cover-up operation. Uniquely, it uses a parkour mechanic, which the player can use to scale pipes, crates, and other large objects. The game features several mechanics from the Half-Life series, but also includes several elements unusual to the series, such as the ability to aim a weapon's sight, different running mechanics, and cutscenes, making it closer in design to typical first-person shooters. Hunt Down the Freeman is a single-player first-person shooter in which players take control of Mitchell Shephard. The game was released to a negative reception, receiving criticism for its numerous bugs, perceived poor design, and allegations of copyright infringement. Marine Mitchell Shephard through several major events in the series canon as he attempts to find and kill Gordon Freeman. It is a fangame of the Half-Life series by Valve Corporation, and follows U.S. Hunt Down the Freeman is a 2018 first-person shooter video game developed and published by indie developer Royal Rudius Entertainment exclusively through the Steam distribution platform.
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