"Xaser's Shitwads!"

swads_x.wad

Author(s):

Masters of Insanity

Year of release:

2004

Map(s):

01 - 10 + 1 secret

Engine:

ZDoom

Date of review:

06/14/2005

Overall rating:

-unrated-

Ooooooookay...
I give this one 0 impsballs. This doesn't mean, it's bad, it's simply unrateble. The reason is simple: this is a joke wad, and all these maps (or almost all) are unplayable for various reasons. In most of them you have no chance at all. In another map you'll meet like 600 Troopers in one small room. Entering this room is like playing Deathmatch with a ping of 20,000 or something ->LAG!
So, zero stars for gameplay, and 2 stars at most for optical workout.
What makes this wad worth a look is its stupidity. This wad is a Nutty wad for Single Player. 10 (plus one secret) highly stupid maps with really inventive and creative ideas.
There's a maze of teleporters, a spiral tower with hundreds of monsters, or this:
"You accidentally got eated by an earthworm and now your in its stomach you have to find a way out befor you get digested and dead and sloppy and digested you have to find a way out befor you can eat lunch because the stomach is sick and makes you puke and vomit and throw up and you are hungry but you cant eat because the stomach is sick and makes you puke and vomit and throw up so you need to get out of the stomach." (from the textfile)
The secret map, however (which you can start as Map 00), is really, really cool. There are no monsters, no weapons, no ammo, no health. None? Well, press a switch and the chosen will appear. If you wanna have a Cybie, press the Cybie-switch and He will appear in the center. Really nice. All you really have to do is find all keys and exit. However, I had the impression that this map has a bug. At least, I found no blue key (only a blue particle fountain...). I'm damn sure, you'll find something like this in Nutty" very soon *g*.
The wad as a whole is very inspiring. So, 5 stars for originality and ideas.