Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
We're reviewing Hunt Down the Freeman, a game wearing Half Life's coat and jumping brazenly onto steam. It's bad, very, very bad, and join me as I take you through, analyzing and picking apart each and every little bit of this terrible, terrible title. I review it's cutscenes, story, and particularly gameplay to demonstrate how it fails to do what Half Life 2 did flawlessly, while also failing on it's own merits, it's rife with glitches, bad acting, and it's just shit.
It also has Keemstar playing the US president, while IHE and Pyrocynical play US marines, it's fucking wild.
Patreon: patreon.com/tehsnakerer
Twitter: twitter.com/TehSnakerer
LINKS:
Compiled stolen assets
steamcommunity.com/app/723390/discussions/0/1692662484246530833
Stolen assets
twitter.com/LambdaGen/status/955260385900355584
Reddit thread from map designer
http://archive.is/IyoeS
The controversial story behind HDTF
gearburn.com/2018/03/the-controversial-story-behind-
hunt-down-the-freeman/
Video interview with Berkan Deniszaryan
youtu.be/hPlbbGFnUhI
I Hate Hunt Down the Freeman
youtube.com/watch?v=VMw5XohHkPs
Hunt Down the Freeman (SFM) (video from one of the animators)
youtu.be/NaLP3ETBxsw
CommentaryComms HDTF playlist
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGty1HfVsokAsixdVtcrkAsLaZDMBLPWz
INDEX
1. Introduction: Development Brief 00:00
2. Black Mesa: Subtitles & Gameplay Intro 03:53
3. The Hospital: Teaching the Player & Accented Actors 06:12
4. Albuquerque Streets: Cause and Effect 13:28
5. The Hotel: Poor Combat with Poorer Enemies 16:30
6. Flood Control: Adam & The Seven Hour War 21:09
7. Parkour 25:58
8. The Subway: Two Bad Puzzles 27:01
9. Colonel Cue and his Comedy Crew 30:26
10. The Train Upon the Great Planes 35:17
11. Convoy! 36:33
12. The Factory, the docks, and Hugeness 37:45
13. The Captain of Contrivance 42:15
14. Black Screen of Storytelling 44:38
15. Alaska: Saving and Gimmickry 45:48
16. 20 Years Later 50:45
17. City 17: A Stupid Plan 53:33
18. Black Mesa: The First Success & Mitchell’s Mind 57:34
19. Antlion Caves and Highway 17: Broken recollections 01:01:15
20. The Twenty Year Hustle 01:06:10
21. 15 Minutes of Infamy 01:12:53
22. The End 01:17:38
We're reviewing Hunt Down the Freeman, a game wearing Half Life's coat and jumping brazenly onto steam. It's bad, very, very bad, and join me as I take you through, analyzing and picking apart each and every little bit of this terrible, terrible title. I review it's cutscenes, story, and particularly gameplay to demonstrate how it fails to do what Half Life 2 did flawlessly, while also failing on it's own merits, it's rife with glitches, bad acting, and it's just shit.
It also has Keemstar playing the US president, while IHE and Pyrocynical play US marines, it's fucking wild.
Patreon: patreon.com/tehsnakerer
Twitter: twitter.com/TehSnakerer
LINKS:
Compiled stolen assets
steamcommunity.com/app/723390/discussions/0/1692662484246530833
Stolen assets
twitter.com/LambdaGen/status/955260385900355584
Reddit thread from map designer
http://archive.is/IyoeS
The controversial story behind HDTF
gearburn.com/2018/03/the-controversial-story-behind-
hunt-down-the-freeman/
Video interview with Berkan Deniszaryan
youtu.be/hPlbbGFnUhI
I Hate Hunt Down the Freeman
youtube.com/watch?v=VMw5XohHkPs
Hunt Down the Freeman (SFM) (video from one of the animators)
youtu.be/NaLP3ETBxsw
CommentaryComms HDTF playlist
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGty1HfVsokAsixdVtcrkAsLaZDMBLPWz
INDEX
1. Introduction: Development Brief 00:00
2. Black Mesa: Subtitles & Gameplay Intro 03:53
3. The Hospital: Teaching the Player & Accented Actors 06:12
4. Albuquerque Streets: Cause and Effect 13:28
5. The Hotel: Poor Combat with Poorer Enemies 16:30
6. Flood Control: Adam & The Seven Hour War 21:09
7. Parkour 25:58
8. The Subway: Two Bad Puzzles 27:01
9. Colonel Cue and his Comedy Crew 30:26
10. The Train Upon the Great Planes 35:17
11. Convoy! 36:33
12. The Factory, the docks, and Hugeness 37:45
13. The Captain of Contrivance 42:15
14. Black Screen of Storytelling 44:38
15. Alaska: Saving and Gimmickry 45:48
16. 20 Years Later 50:45
17. City 17: A Stupid Plan 53:33
18. Black Mesa: The First Success & Mitchell’s Mind 57:34
19. Antlion Caves and Highway 17: Broken recollections 01:01:15
20. The Twenty Year Hustle 01:06:10
21. 15 Minutes of Infamy 01:12:53
22. The End 01:17:38
