Custom Map Reviews - 100 Part 1 Reviews

Amsterdamn
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/4041
Amsterdamn doesn’t have much going for it. Bare and somewhat empty areas, no player leading of any description… abandoned of courses… However, I would go and say it is terrible… just “painfully somewhat below average”…

The campaign had some potential, though not a lot from what is shown… Can’t recommend, but as far as quality goes, there is much worse on this list… trust me…
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Blue Sky Hotel (Beta)
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/2642
Not a particularly brilliant map… nor is its collection of idea…Whether it was done better in a map before or after this one… it is guaranteed that someone did it better…

Even ignoring that, you have a ludicrously long map with several horde events and mandatory tank fights… all in one chapter…

Not really fun or rewarding…
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Cursed City
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/3921
While it is true that Cursed City is technically a complete campaign with a working finale… It is also bare bones, riddled with nav issues, and doesn’t even load the next chapter from Chapter 1… despite there being 2 other chapters…

Technically completable… but abandoned in a time of need never the less…
This is another case of “Has nothing going for it”… Boring, dark as shit for no good reason, some rather large difficulty curves for also no good reason…
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Dat Dev ((DONE))
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/6421
In trying to make fun of something… It became not only the very thing it was poking fun at… but is a bad version of said thing as well…

Orange maps are a style that not everyone loves… but even Orange maps can still be fun… The first one I did a review of ways back is a prime example…

This however?... It is just a long gauntlet where it spawns all the zombies infront of you in a narrow corridor… the worst kind of bad gauntlet… IN the most boring orange map we have on the site as well?... What a combination…
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kwestern
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/2777
From the maker of Precident 84… comes one of two rocks that could have been gems…

It is not a bad looker… I’ll readily admit that… but I’ve said it a thousand times before, I’ll say it a thousand times again… Your map can be the most beautiful thing ever created, but it is plays like shit, it is a shit map…

Here we have a reasonable gauntlet… short, with enough room for zombies to choose different routes (which helps the zombies flanks, and thins out the crowd for survivors…  win win)… but it committed one of my most hated mapping sins… having your fucking saferoom be the spawn point for the infected onslaught… That alone kills this one off map for me… That alone…
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integron ((DONE))
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/4341
Looks awful… Plays awful… Can’t even finish it…
Congratulations Quakeville… You have been de-throned… you are no longer “Worst Map”
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High in the Sky
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/2560
Mediocre at best… pretty damn fugly at worst…
It has an interesting theme that it did jack all with, and despite lacking all TLC in the aesthetics department… The pacing and general layout wsa half bad…

Not good enough to save itself from itself… but good enough to make the experience halfway decent…
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Final Salvation [Demo]
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/7206
A really well made map… The Parish-like aesthetics and overall gameplay are very well done… It had great potential… which is the unfortunate part…

Tis a shame that this is one of the abandoned maps…
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Origin
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/2399
One of the first maps on the site to be abandoned… Origin holds a unique role…
While it is no longer true… back in the day, this was a gold standard for aesthetics… Not much competition back then…

Of course now we have so many more maps that trump this… So what is left is about an average experience… Gameplay and flow is average, and so are the aesthetics in all honesty…
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Flood Center
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/5391
It is my map… and the one map under my name I hate… So let me say this…

Flood Center is dead for a reason… Sure the files got corrupted and I lost months of work, but if it was a map I truly cared for… I would have redone it all…
No… Flood Center was a cheap map I made for a contest… It holds nothing special in my eyes… and I despise that I went to such low levels to enter a contest…
Never… again…

I know I keep saying I want to come back to it… but if and when that happens… It will be its own map, and not a cheap reskin…