What is Sven-Coop?
It's this co-op mod for Half-Life. Since everybody (who matters anyway) now owns Half-Life due to the sale, we can all play together. It's a great way to flesh out your fledgling mod collection.
Basically you wander through maps designed with tools that haven't been updated since 1999 shooting aliens and pushing buttons to accomplish some kind of "goal" to advance the "plot." In reality, you shoot stuff until it dies and if you kill enough stuff and push enough buttons you win. It's pretty simple, but sometimes they mix it up a bit by giving you a friendly alien grunt ally and making all the Barney clones your enemy.
You can play through the Half Life story line, the Opposing Force story line and a large variety of fan made maps and campaigns ranging from escaping from cities to escaping from factories to escaping from World War II. There is a full arsenal of half-life/opposing force weapons as well as some custom ones. If you donate $5 to the developer you get a gold uzi or something like that, which lets you show off how awesome you are to all your friends. They will be so jealous with their less powerful and not gold uzis.
I realize my tone has probably sounded somewhat sarcastic, but these traits are what make it endearing and so much fun. For all of it's flaws, you will forget any gripes you have the moment you try playing the On a Rail chapter with a couple of your friends. There's nothing more fun then racing the trams around, pushing your friends off the tram and then running them over or leaving them behind so they get electrocuted on the third rail.
If you need screenshots for some reason (who needs screenshots) check the following links:
http://www.svencoop.com/maps.phphttp://www.svencoop.com/weapons.phphttp://www.svencoop.com/monsters.phpIf this sounds like fun to you, then you should download it here:
Download:
http://www.svencoop.com/files.phpDon't forget to shut down steam while installing.
If you're the kind of person who loves reading manuals in their free time, here is the manual:
http://www.svencoop.com/manual/
Also:
http://www.ironoak.ch/BB/
