City - Dunkelschwamm

 

    Fight a neverending horde of enemies in a small city block. The slice of city is very simple with nothing much else to see, although the tallest building is almost entirely destructible and will fall apart.

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Author: Killer99

Date of release: 1999

Maps in package: 1

Map review of City

(originally posted on SCMapDB)

by dunkelschwamm | April 29, 2023 | 2198 characters

    City is a horde map wherein soldiers and xenian military (vortigaunts and alien grunts, specifically) are teleported onto a small block with one destroyed building full of soldiers, one strangely shaped building with a sideways vending machine in front of it full of aliens, one near-fully destructible building with lots of soldiers, and one tall building that vortigaunts are always on top of.

    Players are given a few boilerplate weapons to deal with this, but most notable get grenades and a tau gun. Their power really helps prevent any of the enemies from being far too spongey.

    I died quite a bit in this map. There's few places to take adequate cover, and the combination of zaps and bullets and hivehand bees adds up fast. This is likely why I wasn't finding any ammo for the our weapons in the map- it's just presumed you have enough for however long you'll live.

    The mapping here is all adequate for the time. The fully destructible building is actually quite a novelty for the time. There's some really nicely detailed sewage pipes and holes in the ground, though the buildings themselves are a bit plain. The building with sideways vending machine is not very well brushed, and makes very little sense as a structure.

    Overall, I think this map gets boring much faster than its time limit gives it. But, if you're looking for horde maps for a server list, might be able to pad with this.

Pros:

  • Destructible building is cool
  • Good weapons, especially the tau and explosives
  • Really nice brush work on some pipes and water
  • Definitely is a horde map with lots of fighting to be done

Cons:

  • Banks maybe a little too much on players passively dying, with no ammo drops and little cover
  • One of the buildings is really weird looking and odd to travel around on top of and in front of
  • Xen and Military working together where their being in combat with eachother would have been exquisite chaos
  • Some of the map is not great lookinig
  • Sorta boring loop before long
Score: 6.2 / 10

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