FATAL
June 18th, 2007, 11:46 AM
11th Hour Stauf Wad by Mitch Feldman.
STAUF2.WAD
59kb
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/idgames/levels/doom2/s-u/stauf2.zip
Port: Doom2.exe
Made For Deathmatch, Singleplayer and Cooperative enabled.
1 map.
AlysiumX using Zdoom 2.0.96
Score: 5
STAUF2 is a mansion style deathmatch for doom 2 made by Mitch Feldman. The level focuses very deeply on secrets for ambush in deathmatch, but isn't much of a play for single player. The music is very nicely chosen and gives the mansion that lobby ambience. Gameplay was obiously reservered for deathmatch as playing in single player leaves the player confused and fustrated. Overall, i believe this level will be play a couple times to discover all the secrets.
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Layout - 4
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Confusing. The layout of this level is like a mansion, leading to some very confusing pathways around to different rooms. Most of the rooms are simple in themselves, alot have a fireplace which you can run through, and those that don't have fireplaces have painting of which a couple you can run through. Playing single player wasn't too much fun, being in one room and teleporting unexpectedly to a room you were just in 2 minutes ago, leaves the level draging on and on. However, I can see how this level would be very fun during deathmatch. Having hiding place behind several painting, STAUF2 would definately have players on edge. It doesn't seem to be to friendly for new players though, the layout takes some getting used to and learning may take some time leaving plunty of opportunies for player that knows the layout to kill you. Learning the layout of the mansion was quite fun (with exception of the teleports) in that every time you play you will seem to find something new. There is a room I got too the first time i played it and I still can't seem to get back to it. Downstairs in the mansion is pretty small, leaving most of the action on the second floor.
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Music - 8
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I was quite fond of the music, I found it fits the theme nicely and doesn't trail off to something that sounds like a fairy tale. It kind of has that lobby music feel to it.
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GamePlay - 4
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Gameplay was not very good playing in single player. The constent retracing your steps got annoying after about the third time and the teleport destinations make little to no since in there locations.
Very little monsters will be found amoung the mansion, having an average of two per room. Deathmatch would be a different story for this wad, as there are tons of places to hide as well as ambush your opponets. The mansion shows great connectivity with all other rooms in the mansion, giving at least 2 ways out of most rooms. The layout suggest a search and distroy type of map that can have a player searching for hours if an opponet dicided to hide. I believe gameplay would have been much better if the teleports were better defined in where they went to.
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Originality - 4
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This wad made use of the sky texture as paintings, a technique that doesn't get used very often but
still brings taste to the level. It's layout is pretty original, you don't see many mansion maps out
there.
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OverAll - 5 - Secrets make this level a nice replay, but i wouldn't expect it to be played more than 3 times.
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+ Gives one heck of a deathmatch game.
+ Has very fitting music.
+ Secrets, secrets, and more secrets.
- Low monster count per room.
- Teleports are pretty much slung around the mansion.
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Glitch Report
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- Near the final room, if you press the use button right before the door, the exit closes forever.
Screenshot #1 : <a href="http://img487.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stauf2010vq.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/7127/stauf2010vq.th.png" border="0" alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" /></a>
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STAUF2.WAD
59kb
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/idgames/levels/doom2/s-u/stauf2.zip
Port: Doom2.exe
Made For Deathmatch, Singleplayer and Cooperative enabled.
1 map.
AlysiumX using Zdoom 2.0.96
Score: 5
STAUF2 is a mansion style deathmatch for doom 2 made by Mitch Feldman. The level focuses very deeply on secrets for ambush in deathmatch, but isn't much of a play for single player. The music is very nicely chosen and gives the mansion that lobby ambience. Gameplay was obiously reservered for deathmatch as playing in single player leaves the player confused and fustrated. Overall, i believe this level will be play a couple times to discover all the secrets.
===========
Layout - 4
===========
Confusing. The layout of this level is like a mansion, leading to some very confusing pathways around to different rooms. Most of the rooms are simple in themselves, alot have a fireplace which you can run through, and those that don't have fireplaces have painting of which a couple you can run through. Playing single player wasn't too much fun, being in one room and teleporting unexpectedly to a room you were just in 2 minutes ago, leaves the level draging on and on. However, I can see how this level would be very fun during deathmatch. Having hiding place behind several painting, STAUF2 would definately have players on edge. It doesn't seem to be to friendly for new players though, the layout takes some getting used to and learning may take some time leaving plunty of opportunies for player that knows the layout to kill you. Learning the layout of the mansion was quite fun (with exception of the teleports) in that every time you play you will seem to find something new. There is a room I got too the first time i played it and I still can't seem to get back to it. Downstairs in the mansion is pretty small, leaving most of the action on the second floor.
===========
Music - 8
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I was quite fond of the music, I found it fits the theme nicely and doesn't trail off to something that sounds like a fairy tale. It kind of has that lobby music feel to it.
============
GamePlay - 4
============
Gameplay was not very good playing in single player. The constent retracing your steps got annoying after about the third time and the teleport destinations make little to no since in there locations.
Very little monsters will be found amoung the mansion, having an average of two per room. Deathmatch would be a different story for this wad, as there are tons of places to hide as well as ambush your opponets. The mansion shows great connectivity with all other rooms in the mansion, giving at least 2 ways out of most rooms. The layout suggest a search and distroy type of map that can have a player searching for hours if an opponet dicided to hide. I believe gameplay would have been much better if the teleports were better defined in where they went to.
===============
Originality - 4
===============
This wad made use of the sky texture as paintings, a technique that doesn't get used very often but
still brings taste to the level. It's layout is pretty original, you don't see many mansion maps out
there.
==============
OverAll - 5 - Secrets make this level a nice replay, but i wouldn't expect it to be played more than 3 times.
==============
+ Gives one heck of a deathmatch game.
+ Has very fitting music.
+ Secrets, secrets, and more secrets.
- Low monster count per room.
- Teleports are pretty much slung around the mansion.
=============
Glitch Report
=============
- Near the final room, if you press the use button right before the door, the exit closes forever.
Screenshot #1 : <a href="http://img487.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stauf2010vq.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/7127/stauf2010vq.th.png" border="0" alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" /></a>
Screenshot #2 : <a href="http://img466.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stauf2027af.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/7650/stauf2027af.th.png" border="0" alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" /></a>
Screenshot #3 : <a href="http://img395.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stauf2034ke.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/4594/stauf2034ke.th.png" border="0" alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" /></a>