Custom Map Reviews - 100 Part 4 Reviews

Devil's Chapel
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/4236
From the very beginning… The mediocrity is palpable… Long ass intro (still funny tho), the barest of details… boring and long corridors everywhere… The white fog… It does have an interesting concept with the witch spirit… whatever the purpose behind it may be…

As far as gameplay goes… Ridiculously long chapters… Trigger brush hordes everywhere… Forced spawned witches everywhere… The gimmick on the third chapter is pretty neat… Though I can confirm having to do it more than once, It loses the novelty pretty quickly…

(To clarify what I meant at the end… I just noclipped at the end…)
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Hospital Nightmares
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/2815
2019 before 2019… This is an example of how not to do many things… Horror… Tension… More or less anything and everything… This simply has nothing it can offer that, ironic as it might be, 2019 II does do better… Mark this day on your calendars… I am actually saying that 2019 II is just better than this at being a walking simulator…

Also this is close to a 1 for 1 rip of their previous work… Cursed City… Or it might be the other way around…
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Condition: Critical
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/2851
A very well made map… Visually speaking, it is fantastic… The gameplay is far on the difficult side… What with having so many events in quick succession… The path can be a bit unclear at times as well… Atleast it gets easy when the zombies are actually zombies… :3 (The references!)

I have no true reason why I like it so much… I just do…
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GTA2 MP BETA
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/9137
A novel concept… and really nothing more… Tis just a bunch of flat, orange, city-like areas… (One of them is textured at least…)
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Quarantine
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/4165
IT is a really ugly box with never ending hordes… tanks… and a team that will abandon you at without a moments notice…

Just avoid this one…
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Ravine
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/6180
The second of two maps abandoned by the creator of Precident 84… ( I “might” be spelling that wrong…)
This one felt like it was taken a bit more seriously… Great visuals, decent gameplay… Looks like it had great potential…
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Wheel of Misfortune - BETA
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/2294
The original abandoned map… If I recall correctly, this was “One” map back when it was a L4D1 map… Making it one of the oldest abandoned maps to still be around…

Visuals are fantastic… Gameplay is great… And there is a bit of “Sweet Revenge” in finding YET ANOTHER map speedb00st stole… If I look hard enough, I can probably find the finale he used for Beginning Hours… :\

I wonder where the name was going come into play if this was to ever be completed?...
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Slam's sacrifice
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/7775
Surely the worst map alteration to exist… The path is inane, and so is just about every modification made… Not to mention how he managed to break everything… If this was meant to be an “open world” map, then I might have been solid on the idea… but I knew him once upon a time… This is just sheer incompetency at its finest…

Even if I sugar coat it… All I can still say is that it is just bad…
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Up in Flames
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/6261
It has a very nice Aesthetic to it… A burning city isn’t done very often… Visuals and gameplay are decent… though it does have a nasty habit of having the path be very awkward to get through…
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Zombies from Planet X!!1!
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/2493
A very interesting setting… with a not so interesting gameplay… It is obvious that most of the work went into the custom assets...
And the gameplay can be anything between fine, to frustrating, to down right boring…

Where this maps shine (quite literally) is the amount of custom assets… take it as you will…

Also yes, this is more or less a complete map… but it is technically listed as Beta… and honestly, this is where it deserves to be…
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the dark floor
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/8662
And while Shooting range held the trophy high above its head after de-throning Quakeville… Another opponent swoops in… and steals it…

There are NO redeeming qualities here… It has all the problems of Shooting Range and more… Pointless, ugly, pitch black… I feel safe in saying that this is one of the worst maps currently on Gamemaps…