While some praise Vierheilig's work, many argue that his new HD character models are poorly made, lewd, unrealistic, and out of place in the Half-Life 2 universe, that the new music is inappropriate for the Half-Life 2 universe, or that some textures are inappropriate. Criticism Ĭinematic Mod is not without criticism from the community. He merely shares what he created as a practice exercise while he was learning modeling, texturing and coding. Vierheilig states that his mod was never planned as a community project. The 'Character Pimper' was introduced in Version 5 when players were complaining about not being able to play with the real look of the original characters. The new music and HD models are optional, allowing to play a simply 'improved' game. The more recent versions make the maps richer in terms of atmosphere, and features many new models (such as more vegetation, or many more shipwrecks along the Coast).
The new Alyx model, introduced in Version 5, is based on Brazilian model Adriana Lima. Comparison of the original and the updated versions of the destroyed City 17 in Version 10.Ĭinematic Mod adds cinematic effects, new music (mostly consisting of several tracks from the Batman Begins trailers), new sounds, new physics effects, HD textures, custom HD models, jiggle bone effects to Alyx, modifies weapon strength, etc.
