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Title:	Sparta
Filename:	levels/doom2/Ports/s-u/sparta.zip
Size:	861 KB
Date:	08/17/12
Author:	Matt "cannonball" Powell
E-mail:	cannonballmp@yahoo.co.uk
Description:	A new warrior must be found to lead the SPartan army to victory, his selection will be done by using Hade's evil forces to create the ultimate test to find this new general.
Credits:	ID Games for doom, Gwyn Williams for Vile Flesh which inspired some of the mapping style, and all those who commented during the development of this mapset.
Base:	New from scratch
Build time:	2 and a half weeks
Editor(s) used:	Doom builder 2 and Slade 3
Bugs:	Not any I have found. There are likely to be visplane overflows in Vanilla.
Rating:	(7 votes) Spambot check: 1 + 6 = Commenting as: Anonymous

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Reviews:

Worth five, cbspeed1 was 4 and these levels are only better.	x
Note from Author, for recording demos complevel 9 is advised as a boomism has been found (Map20, yellow key trap does not work. There might be more, sorry.	x
A lot of fun, but I gave up trying to kill every monster in the third map because I ran out of ammo too easily - I had to do a lot of running towards the end. Good WAD though!	x
quite tough but i liked it	x

View sparta.txt

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Archive Maintainer      : None
Update to               : 
Advanced engine needed  : Limit removing (boom or zdoom advised)
Primary purpose         : Single Player
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Title                   : Sparta
Filename                : Sparta.wad
Release date            : 17/08/2012
Author                  : Matt "cannonball" Powell
Email Address           : cannonballmp@yahoo.co.uk
Other Files By Author   : Cbspeed.wad + various maps in other projects
Misc. Author Info       : Is doom mapping really using my chemistry degree???

Description             : A new warrior must be found to lead the SPartan army to victory, his selection will be done by using Hade's evil forces to create the ultimate test to find this new general.

Additional Credits to   : ID Games for doom, Gwyn Williams for Vile Flesh which inspired some of the mapping style, and all those who commented during the development of this mapset.

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* What is included *

New levels              : 3
Sounds                  : No
Music                   : No
Graphics                : No
Dehacked/BEX Patch      : Yes
Demos                   : No
Other                   : No
Other files required    : No

* Play Information *

Game                    : DOOM
Map #                   : Maps 19-21
Single Player           : Designed for
Cooperative 2-4 Player  : No
Deathmatch 2-4 Player   : No
Other game styles       : None
Difficulty Settings     : Yes

* Construction *

Base                    : New from scratch
Build Time              : 2 and a half weeks 
Editor(s) used          : Doom builder 2 and Slade 3
Known Bugs              : Not any I have found. There are likely to be visplane overflows in Vanilla.
May Not Run With        : Vanilla
Tested With             : Pr-boom plus V2.5.1.3

* Copyright / Permissions *

Authors may use the contents of this file as a base for
modification or reuse, but hey at least credit me for doing some work to get the maps this far.			  Permissions have been obtained from original 
authors for any of their resources modified or included in this file.

You MAY distribute this file, provided you include this text file, with
no modifications.  You may distribute this file in any electronic
format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this file 
intact.  I have received permission from the original authors of any
modified or included content in this file to allow further distribution.

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

The Usual: ftp://archives.3dgamers.com/pub/idgames/ and mirrors
Web sites: http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/
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Story

Yet again another evil nation wants to invade the great Greek city of Sparta, as skirmishes break out, the residents of the city are evacuated to neighbouring towns and villages. The city is left deserted waiting for the imminent invasion. 
The Greek Gods comprise a plan to bring forward a new and worthy general. To test the very skills required to defeat a force of overwhelming numbers, to find a man capable of taking down thousands upon thousands of enemies. They team up with Hades himselfs to design a test using the evil forces of the underworld to created a challenge so great that only the best would survive.
You are just one man of many taking this test today which has an undetermined lenght, you must proceed through the city streets and clear the city of all hellspawn. Goodluck.
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Maplist

Map 19 - Battle For Sparta
Inspiration - Map 24 From Vile Flesh
Music - Taken from the very same map so credits to Gwyn Williams For composing the track and making such an epic level.
Large cityscape map, using a mixture of brick and tech, shouldn't be too difficult to navigate as there are plenty of weapons and health to find and plenty of space to move, especially outside.

Map 20 - Citadel Of Champions
Inspiration - Maps 19 and 20 from Doom 2
Music - Taken from Epic 2 (Map27) - not sure of it's precise origin sorry.
This takes place in a fortress in a large lagoon, huge structure composed of metal, stone and wood, with some hellish bits thrown in. This map gets brutal toward the end. It was hard to construct a level with such a high degree of non-linearity and could be a bit intimidating. The secrets are plentiful and will help you hugely, some contain teleporters to other sections of the map, these can be used to speed up completion of the map.

Map 21 - Into The Supernova
Inspiration - Many Hell themed maps, Quake E2M5 (Wizards Mance) - LAyout is broadly based on this quake map.
Music - Hells Bells by Tom Mustaine
This map was made for the NOVA project but withdrawn as I thought supplying one map was enough. This is more linear but certain areas need to be covered a few times, more monsters are thrown at you each time.Yet again the gameplay is likely to be hard going.

Map 22 - Fin
Music used - "Highway Surfing" From Sam and Max hit the road
Not much to say, an inescapable room with the words "The End" cut out of the floor.

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