"Xenus: Lost base"

xenus.wad

Author(s):

alterworldruler

Year of release:

2006

Map(s):

01

Engine:

ZDoom/ Boom

Date of review:

02/07/2007

Overall rating:

If this was really a map from 2006, I'd guess it must have been the second one by this author (not the first one, because the doortracks are unpegged).
However, the map seems to be from an earlier time and somehow it has survived until its release in 2006, which surely isn't a highlight of this year. And maybe, it's already a bad sign when you're thinking you've played this map before while you're knowing for sure that you haven't.
The fights are so simple that you don't even care that most of the time you're limited to your pistol. Detail is non-existant and the layout is blocky and primitive.
The only interesting scene is the final battle, when suddenly you're confronted with a Baron of Hell in a narrow room and your shotgun only.
Meh.