Doomworld Speedmapping Compilation #12

on the eleventh, wait what, there is no dwspd011!? uh oh, maybe it was rejected from the archives or something. so let's go ahead and see what the twelfth installment of dwspd has to offer. the theme? build a factory. it almost seems trite considering that MAP12 of Doom 2 does indeed have you in "The Factory" but let's see what we have come up with for this wad. oh, only four maps, and by playing this, the only one that's worth any time at all is the final map. the first map is a linear gauntlet run through small corridors, where you have an imp right in front of you and a shotgun in between two cacodemons, which is insanely difficult to fight there. MAP02 is fundamentally broken as far as I can tell. MAP03 is insanely lackluster. not a single one of these maps comes close to the factory theme. what saves it is MAP04. this is a map that of course is made by Fredrik, but adheres wholly to the theme while offering crates, a conveyor, a bit of outside area, and some rather tough combat which isn't abnormal considering who the author is. they should have just made this a Fredrik map only considering how shit the other three were.

Map 4 is my pick out of all these. I think the rest are not worth playing. 4/4/07

MAP01 is short and cramped. MAP02 is unplayable because of bugs. MAP03 looks like 1994 map. MAP04 is the best of these.

MAP01 welcomes you with an imp RIGHT IN YOUR FACE, and WHO the hell doesn't like to fight two cacos with just a pistol? MAP02 gives you the BFG right from the start; and it doesn't look like a factory at all, anyway, the MIDI replacement sounds good. MAP03 dangerously looks like a SLIGE map and it has a very bad item placing, however MAP04 rocks right from the start, and the BFG comes to handy at last; tricky, but entertaining map