HARTFORD 3

very poor gameplay...crude design and mechanics..some efforts are there but not impressively executed

Lol, huge open spaces indeed. Maybe a bit too huge? The faraway walls look funny with low resolution and the difficulty is obviously very low with so much space for maneuvers (beware of the arch-vile though). Kinda crappy but at least unique I guess and it was sort of entertaining to look for the keys.

This map is the devil.

This is from March 1995. It's Map01. It's basically a single giant enclosed room with a ledge around the outside. There's a moat, some lifts, and a courtyard in the middle. 38 baddies. It's mind-numbingly tedious to walk around (it takes a couple of minutes to go from one end of the level to the other, and it's designed so that you have to walk around and around the perimeter) and it's less fun to play than fighting 38 random monsters in a blank bare room.