I should have known better. The
dark room, yet with lights in the ceiling, which you start in plastered with
writing in blood "Steps sucks" should have be warning enough. And
the Supershotgun right in front of you and the two lonely Imps right around
the corner should have made me "Exit Game" right away. But, I'm an
optimist of nature, and I can't very well review a level I haven't played.
So there I was, just waiting to see what foul errors would come next.
The first thing I noticed was the
total lack of detail. The author hasn't bothered or gone through any effort whatsoever
to make this level a beauty: Its plain ugly with its numerous and extremely
long hallways filled with grave errors such as ceiling lights (tlite6_6)
that move into the surrounding walls or simply the ton of misaligned walls
in the big staircases in extension of the hallways leading you around the
map. And running through them isn't always easy since bumping your head into
the ceilings is inevitable. There's also a constant shift in texture choice
right from gray cement to green slimy brick and from tech to the very
hellish screaming heads wall texture. You can't possibly tell what style
this map has or where it takes place. The only positive aspect of this is
the fact that it helps you distinguish the halls from each other letting you
know where you've already been. It should be mentioned that all these
hallways lead into the middle of the map where a huge lift keeps moving up
and down lifting you high up the map. Maybe the writing in first room refers
to this feature, or maybe it's just general. A fact is it, that nothing in
this map is particularly memorable or worth anything but a negative thought.
The monsters are off course present
too. And for your killing pleasure you have the choice of almost all of the
Doom II weapons. The only thing is that the Shotgun, Plasmagun and Rocket
launcher have been blessed with some notorious and ill sounding replacement
sounds. Now, unless you've found something really good, my advice is, NOT to
replace any weapon sounds, especially if they are as distorted and bad as
these.
