{"id":5499,"date":"2022-08-21T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T19:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/21\/be-a-remarkably-bad-cop-in-remarkably-good-half-life-2-mod-entropy-zero-2\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T19:16:16","slug":"be-a-remarkably-bad-cop-in-remarkably-good-half-life-2-mod-entropy-zero-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/21\/be-a-remarkably-bad-cop-in-remarkably-good-half-life-2-mod-entropy-zero-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Be a remarkably bad cop in remarkably good Half-Life 2 mod Entropy: Zero 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\">\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Outrageously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/wildly-ambitious-half-life-2-mod-sees-you-play-as-a-combine-soldier-with-a-portal-turret-companion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ambitious<\/a> Half-Life 2 megamod Entropy: Zero 2 is out, letting you experience a campaign in the boots of the Combine bad guys. You&#8217;re the Bad Cop, protagonist and alien overlord collaborator, and your job is to tail Gordon Freeman through Nova Prospekt prison before taking a journey to track down resistance fighter Dr. Judith Mossman in a snowy northern facility.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a Half-Life 2 player I&#8217;m sure you know how that goes. Either way, you&#8217;ll play through a shockingly detailed campaign, fully voiced, fully choreographed, that takes something like 7-10 hours to beat. Frankly, it&#8217;s on the quality of many games we considered big to mid-budget 20-some years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and there&#8217;s Portal shenanigans afoot and an Aperture science facility involved. You get a turret buddy. Naturally, the Portal turret buddy is named Wilson, because everyone who watched Tom Hanks in Castaway has had that indelible concept scratched upon their brain.<\/p>\n<p>Entropy: Zero 2&#8217;s most impressive aspect is definitely its overhauls and new additions to the tried-and-true Half-Life 2 combat formula. There are new enemies, weapons, and effects. There&#8217;s a grenade that sends everything caught in it to Xen and spits out weird Xen monsters in exchange. You can command teams of Combine, deploy manhack drones, and generally act like a person who sold their entire species out for some alien overlord perks.<\/p>\n<p>Entropy: Zero 2 is a sequel, technically, to Breadman&#8217;s solo mod Entropy: Zero, one of the best-received and better HL2 mods of all time. This one&#8217;s on a whole other scale compared to that first one, with a bigger team and a much bigger scope. I mean they made it so you could drive those APCs from Half-Life 2. I love it.<\/p>\n<p>You can find <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1583720\/Entropy__Zero_2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entropy: Zero 2 on Steam<\/a>, and you can find Bad Cop origin story <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/714070\/Entropy__Zero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entropy : Zero on Steam<\/a> as well.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Be a remarkably bad cop in remarkably good Half-Life 2 mod Entropy: Zero 2<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\">\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Outrageously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/wildly-ambitious-half-life-2-mod-sees-you-play-as-a-combine-soldier-with-a-portal-turret-companion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ambitious<\/a> Half-Life 2 megamod Entropy: Zero 2 is out, letting you experience a campaign in the boots of the Combine bad guys. You&#8217;re the Bad Cop, protagonist and alien overlord collaborator, and your job is to tail Gordon Freeman through Nova Prospekt prison before taking a journey to track down resistance fighter Dr. Judith Mossman in a snowy northern facility.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a Half-Life 2 player I&#8217;m sure you know how that goes. Either way, you&#8217;ll play through a shockingly detailed campaign, fully voiced, fully choreographed, that takes something like 7-10 hours to beat. Frankly, it&#8217;s on the quality of many games we considered big to mid-budget 20-some years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and there&#8217;s Portal shenanigans afoot and an Aperture science facility involved. You get a turret buddy. Naturally, the Portal turret buddy is named Wilson, because everyone who watched Tom Hanks in Castaway has had that indelible concept scratched upon their brain.<\/p>\n<p>Entropy: Zero 2&#8217;s most impressive aspect is definitely its overhauls and new additions to the tried-and-true Half-Life 2 combat formula. There are new enemies, weapons, and effects. There&#8217;s a grenade that sends everything caught in it to Xen and spits out weird Xen monsters in exchange. You can command teams of Combine, deploy manhack drones, and generally act like a person who sold their entire species out for some alien overlord perks.<\/p>\n<p>Entropy: Zero 2 is a sequel, technically, to Breadman&#8217;s solo mod Entropy: Zero, one of the best-received and better HL2 mods of all time. This one&#8217;s on a whole other scale compared to that first one, with a bigger team and a much bigger scope. I mean they made it so you could drive those APCs from Half-Life 2. I love it.<\/p>\n<p>You can find <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1583720\/Entropy__Zero_2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entropy: Zero 2 on Steam<\/a>, and you can find Bad Cop origin story <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/714070\/Entropy__Zero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entropy : Zero on Steam<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}