Black Mesa Defense - Dunkelschwamm

    The map description states that this map is a test only, and it definitely feels like it. It's fullbright, filled with standard prefabs, and it all looks and feels thrown together.

SCMapDB page

Author: Tuntis

Date of release: 2005

Maps in package: 2

Map review of Black Mesa Defense

(originally posted on SCMapDB)

by dunkelschwamm | April 1, 2023 | 1455 characters

    Black Mesa Defense is two maps. You start on one, and bafflingly end up on another, and then the experience ends.

    The maps are full bright. The first is a collection of prefabs and a haphazard smattering of enemies, with a ladder to a button, then a big yellow brush. The second map has a ladder to the exit after a brief skirmish with a gaggle of grunts. The map equipped us with M16 with grenade launchers, so what was thrown at us was quickly reduced to jelly. I was excited to be equipped with HEV when I saw charges in the second map, but those were lies and dispensed only disappointment.

    The proportions on this map were grotesque, and the fullbright made its perspective a nightmare. This truly feels like somebody uploaded their n00bmaps.

    The length of the maps is microscopic. We finished very, very fast.

    I don't recommend.

Pros:

  • Gibbing the enemies with M16 grenades was fun in the way it would be on any map
  • The maps do end, and don't overstay their welcome
  • Lots of weapons

Cons:

  • Both maps are big nothings
  • Both maps are the kind of ugly that only a map with no effort put into it has
  • Very few enemies compared to weapons given
  • There were non-functional HEV chargers in the second map which was atrocious
Score: 1.7 / 10

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