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It's go time! by Hell_Bender - 28 Feb 2002

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Game type:	DM, 4-8 players
Weapons:	x4 x4 x4 x4
Items:	x3 x4 x20 x28 x2 x2
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Theme:	No theme keywords yet
Textures:	No texture keywords yet

Rate release: Currently 3.13 / 10 (4 votes)

3.13

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A dark level consisting of some kind of warehouse or production plant. The level's theme visually is very weak with a poor choice of textures, lighting and details. Unless you have the mapmedia.pk3 you will even experience a few missing textures.

The gameplay is mostly very tight, leading to the 4 Rocket Launchers being very powerful weapons due to splash damage. There are also 3 Red Armours, 2 Regens and an Invisibility to be found in the darkness. A number of simple mazes of creates make up a chunk of the level, which will force the player to twist through to reach an item or to simply find their way out of in order to find someone to shoot at. There are a few very poor areas of construction. A prime example is a group of steps which require you to jump up the first one. Level design features like these lead to a very poor gameflow and gameplay experience.

Interestingly, due to the darkness of the level, the Invisibility can make a player easier to spot, not harder!

Bots play the level without issue but fail to navigate the maze areas to reach a few items. Also, because of the tightness of the arena, they are very easy to predict.

Best to skip this level.

Tigs notes: The original review contained two lines. While these two lines where in fact accurate, they where also not very informative or constructive. Because of this, the review was replaced with the one above. (14th May, 2011)

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Posted comments:

#12 SW12
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15 May 2011, 03:39 EST

I think those two lines were probably just the only thing Tig could let people see without showing a swear-fest. Is that wahy it was heavily edited?

#11 Tig

14 May 2011, 16:50 EST

From memory, I cut about 90% of the review, so I am to blame for this one not Brad ‘notime’ Kiefer.

The review has been updated.

#10 FistMarine

14 May 2011, 15:57 EST

This is the worst review I've ever seen

#9 Troll patrol
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14 May 2011, 12:51 EST

I REALLY hate Brad 'notime' Kiefer's reviews. He writes these reviews that just spew out hate but doesn't even help with how things could have been done better. He should be prevented from doing any more reviews if its going to be like Ones you find on Cranky Steve's website.

#8 StormShadow
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10 Mar 2002, 20:00 EST

What a poor excuse for a review. No offense, but im sure the mapper put time and effort into this map and he deserved a bit more of a review. A negative review usually at least gives the mapper some idea of what he did wrong, and maybe even helps him improve his skills. But not reviewing the map at all is a shitty thing to do.

#7 *papri-K*
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01 Mar 2002, 00:50 EST

hmmm, how annoying can a map be?

#6 Pure Imaginary
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28 Feb 2002, 23:39 EST

"Reviewed by Brad ‘notime’ Kiefer, heavily edited by Tig"

is code for

"this author had an unpleasent experience playing this arena, but you will be spared the details." :)

#5 Scampie
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28 Feb 2002, 22:18 EST

Quite possibly the greatest review ever fom LvL.

#4 pjw
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28 Feb 2002, 18:17 EST

Heh. I had to d/l and check it out after that "review", and it's not as bad as you might be led to believe. Yes it has a lot of problems (e.g. way too dark, tight spots and clumsy gameflow, some bad item placement, really basic kinda clunky construction, texture misalignments, and so forth), but I've played worse maps.

It's probably wise to not release first maps for review (or,in my case, the first few), but it is a first map, and it just shows that the author has a lot to learn. *shrug* Welcome to the human race.

#3 rechtschrei-ber
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28 Feb 2002, 18:16 EST

That should be

"It's dark. It's got crates."

short for

"It is dark. It has got crates."

Or even

"It is a dark level. The author has put many crates into it."

Right?

Even then, /me does not call this a review.

I'll probably download it, just to annoy Brad.

*teeheehe*

@hannibal: