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"Vertical Death"
Review by ShredPrince
April 2, 2007
DM-UCMP4-Elucidation
by Axeman
Unreal Tournament 2004 Deathmatch for 4-8 players
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9.35
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| Gameplay (45%) |
9
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| Construction (35%) |
10
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| Computer AI (20%) |
9
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A great, extremly high quality deathmatch map for Unreal Tournament 2004.I personally am exclusivly a deathmatch player.So I tend to be VERY brutal on DM mapping.Most maps of this visual caliber,fail to deliver in the fun factor category.Many of the maps from Community Bouns Pack 2 come to mind when I say this.Very few of those maps play well.
I also persoanlly feel the UCMP packs suffer from much of this same problem.The maps are stunning visually, but lack a certain spark when you play them.In the end, and great map provides a fun experience, and looks good after the fact.
DM-Elucidation is a testament to this line of thinking, and confirms my personal mapping ideals.
I would venture to guess that gameplay was thought about before the look/theme of the map, and I belive it to show through and through.Now call me stoopid if I am wrong, but hey I can be a presumtive reviewer right.
This map, is alot of fun to play, almost so much that it might soon suffer over exposure like DM_Rankin, or DM-Deck.It's still got alot of time until that day comes, but I have many chances to play it on MAMIMUM CARNAGE!!! server.Whenever I vote for, others are sure to join me.
Do yourself a favor and download far and away one of the best maps for UT2004.
Gameplay
Pretty much fantastic.
I find a few areas to be bottleneck-ish.I don't like the sense that I am trapped, and this map does have a few of those area, but not many, and this is some REAL nit-picking.
The Z axis gameplay of this map is fantasic.I've seen some Z axis ambitous maps, epecially in UCMP, but none of them really deliver the pure organic flow of this map.
It feels pretty natural, and not like it was built on another planet, which is why it's great where so many other have failed.
Construction
Axeman and BIOS get mucho respect from me, and I'm a fairly decent mapper myself.The meticulious attention to detail on the lighting is great.The brush work is staggeringly detailed, and must have been very tedious to create.
Lots of emmiters, and ambient sounds really puts the icing on this cake.
Computer AI
Great, except I did'nt notice too many bots doing elevator jumps.May have been I just was'nt looking very hard though.I find this a toguh area to rate cause even godlike bots are pretty stoopid most of the time.Besides that, who cares about stoopis bots anyways.Though you must have your bot support..lol.
I see this map as one of the "best of the best" of UT2004 user maps.It's quite possible that teh UCMP team will be living up to this work for a long time, or until it is TRULY topped.
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