Half - Life 2 : Substance GOLD gives the HL2 single player campaign harder challenges and hectic action

Half - Life 2 : Substance GOLD gives the HL2 single player campaign harder challenges and hectic action: 4 gamemodes to test your skills with, a wide array of weapons and 5 different player classes to best suit your gaming style. Welcome to the real Substance, what action is made of! Can you make it?

Here are some key features of "Half Life 2 Substance Gold":

New single player campaign gamemodes:
· the European Extreme mode is a nightmare/legendary difficulty with all the Substance features but no extra encounters - best for low-level hardwares;
· the Gordon Tales are an alternate take on Freeman's arrival to City 17 which start with a new intro and follow his steps in the Seventeen Years War, in an universe where umanity never surrendered: think of the chaos of the "Follow Freeman!" chapter, from the very beginning;
· while Survivor mode is based on health management and trades Halo shields for medikits, so you must save and leech health or an error too many in the canals could prove fatal only in the citadel!
Many new gameplay additions:
· Bullet Time slows time while draining your aux power reserve. Different HEV Forms have different amounts of BT. Reloading a weapon in BT makes it reload at high speed as featured in Max Payne 2;
· Gruesome new gibbing system to tear apart the bodies of your enemies. A small tweak is available in Downloads to disable dismembering FXs;
· Friendly fire with retailation system makes friendly npcs turn against you if you wound them or they see you wounding one of their friends;
· Open wounds make you bleed if you are severely wounded, you can regenerate the health back by crouching for a few seconds as in Metal Gear Solid 2 or Max Payne 2;
· the Critical Hit System from Shogo: scoring skilled headshots and melee kills grants you health and armor bonuses;
· Weapon weight affects run speed: running is by default ON and aux free in Substance but holding heavy weapons slows down your speed, as in Counter Strike. Different HEV Forms have different stamina values;
· Fast-Punch and Throw-Grenade buttons to quickly recall your punch/melee weapon or instantly throw a grenade at the enemy like in Call of Duty or Halo;
· Crosshair disappears if you don't slow down as in Counter Strike;
· Alternate firemodes to equip your weapons with different kinds of ammunitions or trigger special attacks;
· Solid Snake's special moves include Double jumping (jump jump), Xen long jumping (crouch jump, fast!), Leap Attack (attack with the knife when long jumping), Gliding (hold jump when falling);
· Allies spawning: you can now create antlions at any times with Gordon's bugbait, build turrets with Gordon's Jackhammer and deploy manhacks with the stunstick
· Convert enemies to your cause thanks to Solid Snake's CHAFF grenade;
· Easy incendiary & energy attacks with the new i-rifle, flaregun and cluster grenade;
· Kill striders with any weapon, best choices are vulcan minicannon and AWP;
· Meet bullsquids, houndeyes, assassins and stalkers in the Gordon Tales and VR Training;