Dystopia3: Re-Birth of Anarchy

Car crash, plane crash, crazy race for your life, mystery mines, mad doctor's lab. These maps have a lot of memorable moments. Indoor tech-bases mixed with interesting mountain exteriors. A theme throughout the map progression.
The beautiful starting place in each one and curious finale... 

This wad start slowly, and even silly at some point. The first map is not a good seller, but when you reach map03 you will start to found some neat and interesting ideas.
Then this gradually unfolds in a excellent detailed and awesome looking mapset, with a lot of amazing textures and really good monsters encounters.

And the ending is the most hilariously serious of all the time!

 

Love it completely!

Cool and interesting wad, I've never gotten stuck

A pretty fun mapset, worth seeing for the imaginative visual design and layout alone, as well as the tough, challenging fights. Only gripe is that Iikka's maps tend to be very cramped and have uninspiring enemy placement, but they aren't terrible by any means.

 

Still fun after 20 years.

in this day and age you really think this isn't that good, as it's rather cramped a lot. but for its time Dystopia 3 is a kick-ass set that shows off lots of techniques. the ideas that Keranen and Czerwonka have are quite wonky and directly contrast each other very often. look at Keranen's style, you'll be seeing vanilla Doom tricks that were awe-inspiring at the time, particularly the bridges as well as the mineshaft, reminiscent of similar levels in Requiem MAP08 and MAP13. but his gameplay ideals involve mostly linear progression and usage of high-tier monsters in claustrophobic spaces. meanwhile, Czerwonka does provide well-designed levels with new textures and such, not so snazzy progression however is a hallmark against his design though. there's quite a bit of backtracking, although since his levels are usually small in size it's a bit better off. MAP04 and MAP10 in particular standout because these same levels were in STRAIN as MAP09 and MAP23 respectively, with a few changes to both. then you have the race level MAP03 which can throw newer players for a loop.

 

Dystopia 3 really stands out as a historic testament to vanilla design and it shows easily here. if you're a gameplay kind of person this may not actually be for you though due to how thing placement and such is designed. it doesn't mean this is unplayable though. it's worth at least one whirl

For 96's its simply Awsome!!!!Map 3 marathon FTW....

Let's get serious for a sec here - Considering the tools they had back in 96, this is awesome. For something so old, a suprising attention to detail is shown throughout. Some of the monster encounters are dickish, and I can just tell this would be a bit painful in cooperative, but it makes for an excellent SP megawad that is worth beating once.

These levels contains most irritating and wrong balanced item placement I have ever seen in "classicaly" acclaimed wads. Died zillion times trying complete this in fda-style.

5/5

This would be great if it actually WORKED

Deffinitive 5 stars. Great imagination in design displayed (something that modern maps sorely lack). Maps 6 & 9 were my favorites. Map 9 has a trully "dystopian" atmosphere. The only complant was the retarded endings for maps 7 and 8 (cyberdemon abuse)...

Awesome work for 1996; of course that is expected from two of the early kings of wad designing. Nice blue sky goes well for the awesome city levels by Iikka (his style is VERY recognizable and consistent, but I didn't find it repetitious anyway). Only complaint is that 3 maps were used or modified in Requiem or Strain.

Way supreme to other releases from its time, this mapset features two of the best level authors who graced the game. One should take ones hat of to the various special effects we've seen included tons of times since this releas. Real creativity and a good sense of scale, detailing and texture combinations is a rare talent in the doom scene, but this puts it on display. These guys also made the best of Requiem. 4/5 stars, make it a 4.5 tho. -Johnsen

This wad is a classic, fine example of good solid level design.

Absolutely fucking SUBLIME. I did a double take when I noticed it was released in 1996. A true classic.

GOOD

5 stars, but can't play map03. i keep dying to some invisible crushing.

This is by far one of the greatest mods EVER in the history of Doom II, for just having 11 levels, this mod kicks all ass. I first played it back in 97 and lost it ever since a HD crash wiped out my mod collection. but since having it back i can say that it still provides all the action and suspense that it did seven years ago.

fucking vomit

5 stars, even by 2011 standards.

yep 5/5

So amazing yet released in 1996 5/5

Pretty good mapset, though a bit rough in multiplayer: 4/5.

5 stars just for blowing up microsoft.