"SargeBaldy Speedmapping Compilation #13"

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Author(s):

Various

Year of release:

2004

Map(s):

01 - 14

Engine:

Doom2

Date of review:

03/23/2007

Overall rating:

14 maps... and I'm glad it's over! It's a collection of 14 maps which were done on a 100-minute-speedmapping contest.
The maps are all very short, of course, and kept simple, though some are quite good looking. But there are also bugs in some of them (traps, missing textures, wrong tagging, etc.). The last map is even unplayable, or, well, it has three imps, a whole crushing room and no exit.
As to gameplay, this is a mixed bag. Some maps are ok, but other mappers have put emphasize on frustration über alles rather than on fun. Or how else would you call a BFG under a deadly crusher? You need 3 trials to know, that you really can't get that BFG. This can only be done out of spite.
And some maps are made by mappers who think that a map is the more fun, the more monsters you're confronted with at once.
Conclusion: a lot of annoyance, some bad errors and a few ok-maps. I don't think, that speedmapping is a good conception after all.