Comments on: City 7

City 7

chunking express — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:55:34 -0800

City 7 is a Half-Life 2 mod of Toronto.

Be sure to check out their media page for some screen shots. My fiancee informs me that the North York City Centre is as dimly lit and post-apocalyptic as the screen shot suggests.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:59:56 -0800

God, we don't talk too often, but I have a big important favor to ask of you. Please let Half-Life 2 posts be the next overwhelming trend on MeFi. Thank you. Oh, wait, that's not god. It's a waffle stuck to the ceiling.

By: jquinby

jquinby — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:00:30 -0800

Cool! Total coversions and giant level designs always impress the hell out of me. This makes me want to dig up HL2 and start playing it again, all over from the beginning.

By: chunking express

chunking express — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:04:40 -0800

They are looking for more people to help them finish the project. They look to have done a whole lot. I haven't booted up into windows to try it out just yet. The screen shots look wicked.

By: Krrrlson

Krrrlson — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:05:23 -0800

LOLTTC

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:14:18 -0800

This is exactly what always appealed to me about 3D gaming. I wonder if they'd do Crewe rail yards and environs if I begged abjectly?

By: the dief

the dief — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:19:38 -0800

Bah, Toronto this, Toronto that. Where're my Hamilton mods?

By: patr1ck

patr1ck — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:31:07 -0800

It's like Jane and Finch, but all of Toronto!

By: mrballistic

mrballistic — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:37:38 -0800

ha! instead of TOR being a standin for NYC, it's actually being used as itself. is this a first?

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:42:11 -0800

Woah. Some things should never be reproduced. Dundas Station's tiles foremost among them.

By: bicyclefish

bicyclefish — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:46:57 -0800

Hey, "Vomit Yellow" isn't an easy shade to match.

By: TheWhiteSkull

TheWhiteSkull — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:59:12 -0800

Bah, Toronto this, Toronto that. Where're my Hamilton mods? I have a feeling it wouldn't look that different from the actual Hamilton.

By: LordSludge

LordSludge — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:03:32 -0800

So, Toronto Mefites... How's that little head crab problem going?

By: SassHat

SassHat — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:23:11 -0800

There's nothing more thrilling than seeing the most mundane things one encounters on a daily basis recreated with alarming accuracy. I hope they update the token machines to reflect the new price increase.

By: greycap

greycap — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:41:39 -0800

I wonder if they'd do Crewe rail yards and environs if I begged abjectly? Your objective would be to wait for 43 minutes in the Lemon Tree cafe for the connecting train to Colwyn Bay.

By: Tenuki

Tenuki — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:07:51 -0800

This is exactly what always appealed to me about 3D gaming. Agreed, once upon a time I used to use BSP to build capture the flag levels for Quake based on Central Washington University. Of course they were nothing compared to projects like this. It's amazing what can be done with the current generation of games. If only I had the time to play with this kind of stuff again.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:47:20 -0800

I used to use BSP to build capture the flag levels for Quake based on Central Washington University. I once made a Doom II map based on the album cover for Dark Side of the Moon. I, uh—that's it, really. Anecdote over.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:09:15 -0800

I would like this even more if they'd set it up so that the subway station didn't say DUNDAS. It should be set up so that it very obviously used to say DUNDAS but our benefactors renamed it STREET 14. And there should be a bunch of Civil Protection hanging out at a Timmy's. Sorry... Dr. Breen's House Of Coffee And Also Donuts.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:03:28 -0800

Wow, I skipped this over earlier and ... wow. This is so impressively awesome. Maybe I'll have to pick up HL2 after all.

By: Neale

Neale — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:04:37 -0800

I made one based on Homer Simpson's head! And... yeah.

By: Neale

Neale — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:05:00 -0800

Wow. I fail at metafilter.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:48:04 -0800

Sweet. I'm all over this when I get home tonight!

By: Extopalopaketle

Extopalopaketle — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:12:31 -0800

Back in the old days, I once surreptitiously measured my friend's house and built a Doom II map of it and brought it to a LAN party (BNC cables!). It was great when it took him a while to figure out just where he was -- I think the realization occurred when he was in his own kitchen and his mom was a Baron of Hell and there was an Arch Vile in the fridge. Good times.

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:14:18 -0800

This is exactly what always appealed to me about 3D gaming. It can be weirdly disconcerting when done in reverse: I once lead my wife around Alcatraz and the warf in San Fransisco based solely on my time there in Tony Hawk 4. It took me like 5 minutes to be ok with the sensation.

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:14:46 -0800

led, not lead. It was spatial, not time-displacement.

By: chunking express

chunking express — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:36:51 -0800

My friend recreated are high school as a Marathon Infinity map for a grade 12 computer science class project. It was awesome. I'm not sure how well a project like that would go over now.

By: damn dirty ape

damn dirty ape — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:01:09 -0800

Wow. I'm sure this is a natural instinct for any fps gamer. Half the time I ride the El in Chicago I just think how amazing of a BF2 level the loop would be. The Merchandise Mart would be a humongous fort, the bridges could all be raised and only fixable by engineers, snipers can take positions up at Marina City, etc.

By: poweredbybeard

poweredbybeard — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:03:53 -0800

Laggy, buggy, and when a soldier drops a shotgun it disappears. They got 2 out of 3 right.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:55:45 -0800

OK, I've finally tried this and it's really really not very good at all. Unless you know Toronto, I guess, and want to see what they've done (which is make the Source engine look like Quake 2 circa 10 years ago) with the city, I find it impossible to recommend. If you're looking for some sweet single player mod action, get Riot Act (where the voice acting is bad not not as laughably inept as this) or Minerva (which is all-around excellent, despite some moments where it's hard to know where you're meant to go next).