Icearena - GrandmasterJ

 


    Ice arena is a simple map that attempts to recreate a hockey rink. Due to limitations of the game engine and the author's modus operandi you can not actually play hockey in this map.

SCMapDB page

Author: Robootto

Date of final release: 2002

Maps in package: 1

Map review of Icearena

(originally posted on SCMapDB)

by GrandmasterJ | January 8, 2022 | 1204 characters

    This whole map is a simple attempt at recreating a hockey arena. There are draggable pucks that my teammate and I dragged into a goal, nothing happened. There is a hall off to the side that leads to an elevator and a really awful ladder going up to another hallway. At the end of this hallway is a last puck and a hole that will drop a player to their death.

    Also there is a spawn point inside a goal, when the map first loaded my teammate was stuck in the net and had to suicide to get free, only to spawn in there again.

    If you've read the description you would probably notice I didn't mention an outside area. That's because there is none. The more maps made by Robootto that I play the more convinced I am that these maps are intentionally designed induce confusion, so I feel like this blatant lie on the scmapdb page is part of the experience.

Pros:

  • Fun idea

Cons:

  • Spawn point inside a goal, causing players that spawn there to be stuck
  • overall not executed well

Score: 1.5 / 10

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