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Map 21
"Loops of Fury"

Rating: (Votes: 178)

Author: Cybershark

Music: The Chemical Brothers - "Loops of Fury"

Another great 'concept' map. I wanted to make a map based on the figure eight with graduations of height in. Firstly it was just steps all around then I sloped it and thought of having a gap in the middle to jump over but the gap was too big as the map stood. So I went in at the deep end and made my first attempt at using Hexen's 'bridge' feature to span the gap. Result!
Duelling on this structure is real tricky. Rockets are worth getting but pretty damn hard to use on the slopes! Just wish I could stop getting owned here...
This map contains my first custom sky which I'm very pleased with!
It was originally titled 'Pieces of Eight' but I didn't really like that title so I named it after the Chemical Brothers MIDI which is the soundtrack to the map. And yes, I have since been informed, that tune is also used in Wipeout XL although I've still never even heard the original version, lol.

Comments:

2005-01-09, Milian wrote:

This map is impressive.
Its structure is so simple, the details are quite low. But this monumental form of the Eight is like a field of enormous gravity. While you're running along this neverending path, you feel gravity and centrifugal forces pulling and tugging you in all directions.
This is the most "physical" map I ever played.

Good work, Shark!

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2005-02-10, Oddity wrote:

Running down those steps can be rather funny, even if it does make for squirrelly control. The sky's great too...but the map seems to be rather laggy. :(

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2005-02-14, Blackfleet wrote:

This is one of the funniest maps I have ever seen! Reminds me of one of those nascar races. Some players are just flying around the track while others are flying OFF it. You can chase people down and just blow them right off the track. Once a player knocked me off and then jumped down to finish me off.

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2005-03-22, danhen wrote:

nice map, but i suck here....:( ssg rulez!

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