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Title:	Callisto Anomaly
Filename:	levels/doom/a-c/callisto.zip
Size:	321.8 KB
Date:	02/03/06
Author:	Vince Russett
Description:	A five-level mini-episode with a time-travel element. One of the maps is based on actual plans of the Romans baths in the city of Bath, England.
Credits:	Id Software, Raphael Quinet, Colin Reed, Bill Neisius
Base:	New from scratch
Build time:
Editor(s) used:	DEU 5.21, BSP 1.1x, DMMUSIC 1.00
Bugs:	Nothing critical; see the individual text-files
Rating:	(10 votes)

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Reviews:

Anonymous	The crappy prequel to the amazing ALLEYS.wad. These levels are reminiscent of Scott McNutt's maps with terrible hallways and hidden doors. The muzak makes me want to bang my head against one of the thousands of invisible walls in this wad. E1M5 was actually good, though, up until I ran low on ammo, couldn't find any health, and was expected to run though a dark, vine maze with imps. Fuck that '94 shit. 2/5	x
Memfis	Anomaly indeed. This is a strange strange wad. The author didn't copy anyone, instead he developed his own very unique style. It's full of things that are almost universally considered bad: invisible walls, unmarked doors, dark mazes, etc, but due to the overall weirdness they actually kind of work... "Kind of". After two maps I got annoyed anyway and only briefly looked at the rest of the wad. Definitely don't download this if you just want to relax.	x
Anonymous	I think this is a nice level set, featuring an original theme (dark corridors, poisonous water, nice use of architecture at times). There are some problems anyway, like some graphical glitches and the unpassable exit on E1M2. 4/5!	x
Anonymous	Blegh. I didn't like these levels. They were pretty ugly.	x
Anonymous	ive been a mod player since 2000, and by expirience i can say this is the worst wad i have ever played!!! i noticed missinf textures, lack of lighting, hard to find keys, and on one level they were too easy to find- do not get thid piece of crap!!!	x
Anonymous	To the above reviewer: all the maps are playable. Not sure which bit you mean, but there should be some way to make progress.	x
Anonymous	Well, I tried the second map because it's based on some Roman baths at Bath. I have been to Bath. But there was a bit that either had a bug, or was smarter than me; a window with a step that looked as if I should have been able to run through it, but I couldn't and the level ground to a halt.	x

View callisto.txt

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Uploaded by             : Graham Burgess (gkburgess-at_compuserve_dot-com)
Update to               : New to the archive; the uploader has assembled 
                          the five separate maps in the series into a 
                          single wad. The maps are unmodified.
Advanced engine needed  : None
Primary purpose         : Single play
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Title                   : Callisto Anomaly
Filename                : callisto.wad
Release date            : 
Author                  : Vince Russett
Email Address           : 100652.3047@compuserve.com
Other Files By Author   :
Misc. Author Info       : Archaeologist

Description             : A five-level mini-episode with a time-travel 
                          element. One of the maps is based on actual plans 
                          of the Romans baths in the city of Bath, England.

Additional Credits to   : Id Software, Raphael Quinet, Colin Reed, Bill Neisius

===========================================================================
* What is included *

New levels              : 5
Sounds                  : Yes
Music                   : Yes (for four of the levels)
Graphics                : Yes (titlepic)
Dehacked/BEX Patch      : No
Demos                   : No
Other                   : No
Other files required    : None

* Play Information *

Game                    : DOOM
Map #                   : E1M1-E1M5
Single Player           : Designed for
Cooperative 2-4 Player  : No
Deathmatch 2-4 Player   : No
Other game styles       : No
Difficulty Settings     : Not implemented

* Construction *

Base                    : New from scratch
Build Time              :  
Editor(s) used          : DEU 5.21, BSP 1.1x, DMMUSIC 1.00
Known Bugs              : Nothing critical; see the individual text-files
May Not Run With...     :

* Copyright / Permissions *

Authors MAY use the contents of this file as a base for
modification or reuse.

You MAY distribute this file.

* Where to get the file that this text file describes *

The Usual: ftp://archives.3dgamers.com/pub/idgames/ and mirrors
Web sites:
FTP sites: ftp://ftp.mayn.de/pub/really_old_stuff/incubus/UDBase/game/indiz/doom/

===========================================================================
The author's original text-file for the series now follows. The text-files 
for the individual maps are included in the zip.
===========================================================================

CALLISTO ANOMALY: the story and how-to file

This is a new series of .WAD files for DOOM, v1.2 or higher. The individual
levels are introduced separately.

The time is five years after the events in DOOM. Your work in eliminating
the hell spawn on Deimos, Phobos and in an unspecified locale that you 
believed to be Hell itself, as well as the events that unfolded on your return
to earth, have won you promotion. From the position of a lowly grunt, you have
become a colonel in the Special UAC Corps.

A program of thorough exploration of the moons of the outer planets has
been underway for some time, as more than one scientist believes that the alien 
race that left the space anomalies on Deimos and Phobos may have also been
there.

On Callisto, the search is rewarded. UAC mounts a guard on the anomaly with
ultra-heavy weapons, to prevent any recurrence of the events of five years before.
The anomaly seems to be in quiet mode, with no sign of any arrival of the
hell-spawn. The, literally out of the blue, one day the familiar green and yellow 
flashes announce the arrival of something from the anomaly...it turns out to
be two very dazed, and very dirty, human figures. They cannot communicate with 
your men, and it is a while until the history programs in the base computer
recognise their speech as 10th century Saxon, and on its questioning them, they
tell of how they found a shining globe in the field as they made their way to the
plough early one winters morning. As soon as they approached it, the transporter
functioned, and they found themselves on Callisto, inside the base.

Clearly, this anomaly warps time as well as space and inter-dimensional pathways.
The powers that be in UAC decide to investigate it, and in view of your unrivalled
service record against the hell-spawn, they ask you to go, and they're paying
well.

You cannot take heavy weapons into the past, for fear of altering history with 
their effects, but you smuggle your service pistol and basic armor along...and
in the end, its just as well...

Use callisto.bat to launch these .WADs. Just unload all the files in the directory
that holds your DOOM files and go callisto

Files in this .ZIP are

CALLISTO.TXT		This file
CALLISTO.BAT		The file to launch the mission
BEACH.TXT		|
BATHS.TXT		|
CORRIDOR.TXT		| Wad_author files for the levels
MURDERUS.TXT		|
VAULT.TXT		|
BEACH.WAD		Level E1M1
BATHS.WAD		Level E1M2
CORRIDOR.WAD		Level E1M3
MURDERUS.WAD		Level E1M4
VAULT.WAD		Level E1M5

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