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Breakout Extended - Dunkelschwamm

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      The extended version of Breakout, which can be found on the same page as this map on the database, feels more like a revised and finished version. It's a lot of standard looking Black Mesa architecture with tons of buttons to open doors and spawn monsters.  SCMapDB page Author: Chris Silcock Date of release: 2004 Maps in package: 1 Map review of Breakout Extended (originally posted on SCMapDB) by dunkelschwamm | May 13, 2023 | 3211 characters      Breakout Extended is a linear walkthrough map for Sven Co-op. Blast your way through default-flavored corridors and enemies. Spend most of the map with boilerplate weapons, and occasionally keep them between checkpoints! Fight all sorts of infantry-style enemies across the Earth military, Xenians, and Race X.      The combat is mostly corridor shooting which can easily feel bland. What keeps things interesting most of the time is small details in the visuals and cycling through different enemy types to lump into the corr

Breakout Extended - GrandmasterJ

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      The extended version of Breakout, which can be found on the same page as this map on the database, feels more like a revised and finished version. It's a lot of standard looking Black Mesa architecture with tons of buttons to open doors and spawn monsters.  SCMapDB page Author: Chris Silcock Date of release: 2004 Maps in package: 1 Map review of Breakout Extended (originally posted on SCMapDB) by GrandmasterJ | May 13, 2023 | 4766 characters      So this is the extended version of Breakout, which is also available for download on the Breakout Extended page but doesn't have it's own page. We didn't realize we could play the original until right before writing our reviews so we just noclipped through it to see the difference. The difference is a whole new section, almost half the map added after the dead end in the original. We didn't play for realsies but we did try to end the map to no avail, so I'm guessing this is more like a finished version r