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Citadel of Sorrow (CITDOOM2.WAD) (For Doom ][)

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Tired of those abstract Wads where you have more difficulty fighting against sleep caused by the plain boredom of the environment than battling your numerous adversaries?

*Then this PWad might just be something you need*

Can you escape from the Citadel Of Sorrow? Blast your way through dozens of enemies against the sinister setting of a Medieval Castle. Experience agony in one of the biggest levels ever-675k of death defying violence! Gaze in awe at the highly detailed and atmospheric rooms!(Well,as far as the Doom-engine makes it possible) And if just killing the monsters isn't enough to satisfy your sadistic needs,there's always the interactive torture chamber!


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Walter confetti

  

A pretty intricate and fun to explore map sets in a semi-realistic castle with lots of secret passages, doomcute "realistic" furniture that even include a library made out of sector art stuff. The fact that this is a Retextured Doom map is shown greatly here. Pretty neat map, the only real breaker is that this map have a unused red skull key and other keys for the locked doors (blue and yellow keys)? At least i didn't find them. I had to noclip trough them for complete the map. If it could not be for this bug, it will be a great map. But overall, is pretty good. The baroque music is fabulous. Make me think of women in dress and huge wigs dancing in the marble throne room! Or demons in this case.

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whirledtsar

  

Not too shabby. Very intricate level with halls & rooms to explore taking up almost every square inch of the castle. You do have to look through pretty much the whole place to find the necessary keys, but you'll have fun in the process. Most of the gameplay is pretty simple run & gunning of mooks but there are a couple neat traps, like the teleporting/telefragging area and the exit. Despite the large and labyrinthine design of the level, it doesn't get boring or easy to get lost in due to the abundance of landmarks (mainly sector furniture) and high interconnectedness. Texture alignment is quite bad, but oh well. There are some replaced sounds which are a bit odd but not bad, which kind of encapsulates the whole wad.

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Summer Deep

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This is one of the best early single map wads I've played. Set in a castle, it's well laid out, atmospheric and quite tough in places on UV level. It benefits also from new sound effects (eg echoing, booming gun sounds and a haunting new imp death shriek)  plus stirring music, which won't necessarily be to everyone's taste though.

 

The version I originally played (2.2)  was from the 1995 'Maximum Doom' compilation (with just under 200 monsters), but if you download the one on this page, you'll get an expanded later edition (3.0) which introduces Mancubuses and at least one Archvile, with closer to 250 monsters. I'm not entirely convinced that the latter version is better, but it's still well worth playing.

 

This wad merits more than the bare 4 stars, so I'm giving it 4.5 out of 5.

 

 

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Not a bad castle at all. 3.5 stars would be about right.

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This is dated September 1995. It's one of those old-fashioned large-scale castle maps packed with secret passageways and nooks etc that you absolutely have to scour because the keys are hidden in them. There's a tonne of action although it's very mazey and I found myself becoming bored; the design is very simple and the mass of hitscan baddies is often frustrating. Overall it's very much of its time.

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    • By erzboesewicht · Posted
      Really good puzzle map in a big dark metal/stone building. It catches the atmosphere of Bob Evans' Eternal Doom stuff, and I think there are even some homages to some other Eternal Doom maps as well (for example, the big two-layered outdoor area looks a bit like the "amusement park" in MAP26).   In my experience the puzzles were a bit easier than in "Silures" or "Excalibur", but it's possible that having played a lot of puzzle map stuff since I played Eternal Doom, having played through the whole canon of Bob Evans and Jim Flynn, and liking to search for Doom secrets in every map has made me recognize certain tropes better. The puzzles I liked most were (the spoilers only give minor hints):
          Gameplay is good too, at the start ammo is scarce so the chainsaw and berserk are your friend, and midtiers say hello from the start on, but hitscanners are the biggest threat. Rockets should be saved for archviles until you find the first larger cache.   9,5/10
    • By Somniac · Posted
      Fun, challenging set of maps that looks much better than you might expect for the time it was made. These maps will still slap you around a bit on HMP if you're not staying sharp. The author is fond of Chaingunner ambushes which keep you on your toes. I didn't find the SSG until around MAP05, which was cool, I like when its not given out too early. Pistol-starting the last two maps is pretty tough, but doable.   The map designs do a really good job of letting the player see crucial areas from different angles through progression and the layouts are really tidy overall, and feel a bit more modern than a lot of other 94/95 maps I've played. There are some really nice large-scale vistas (like the start of MAP06), nice uses of verticality and a good mixture of tight and more open combat.   Recommended!
    • By Darman Macray · Posted
      Spectacular visuals and engaging combat make this an absolute must play. There's a puzzle with a "Shoot the thing" answer that kind of comes out of left field and can be an easy place to get stuck if you're not on your toes, but that hardly stops the map from being a thrilling masterpiece.
    • By Darman Macray · Posted
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    • By JKWAD · Posted
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