Mir

Sequel to Pleiades. Beautiful spaceship but going through it is a headache. Add random monsters to it. To see but not to have fun.

A level taking place inside a Russian space station, and the moment the TITLEPIC appears it would look like you're in for something that stands out. In terms of visuals and level architecture, Mir does deliver on that, featuring solid atmosphere with a great skybox and attention to detail on what would be inside a space station. However, gameplay is set to the side where instead of having fixed enemy placement, instead monster spawns are "randomized" and you'll encounter different monsters scattered around the map, meaning that no two playthroughs of the map will be the same, at least in theory. While this may sound beneficial to the map, this makes the map rather annoying to play since in cases you'll find a Baron near a door and immediately scratch off a good chunk of your health, or in other cases an Imp who would just be a pushover.

The map is also pretty cryptic, such as there being five switches to press on a wall that would appear as a map for the space station, of which two switches would require Keycards and the other three are switches that open locked doors to make traveling the level faster. And while the map is great in visuals, the actual level design is cramped and the actual layout isn't good for gameplay. Add this to the problems just mentioned and Mir is a level that can be defined as style over substance, and personally the lack of substance made the map not really fun to play for me.