"Star City"

starcity.wad

Author(s):

Roger Ritenour

Year of release:

1997

Map(s):

01

Engine:

Doom2

Date of review:

08/04/2005

Overall rating:

This is map 3 of 4 from the "Pleiades"-series by Roger Ritenour. Part 4, "Galaxia", has already been reviewed and I liked it very much.
This map is playing in a nocturnal city, so it's very (very!) dark. The effect of brightly lit windows and towers is looking really nice and impressive, but due to the overall darkness, the map is hard to play. All the more as ammo and health are really scarce, so the map is a hard challenge though there are not too many monsters in it.
This map is an optical masterpiece without any doubt, though as for the gameplay, I enjoyed "Galaxia" more than this one.