"Xorg 1"

xorg01.wad

Author(s):

Stian Skjondal

Year of release:

1999

Map(s):

01

Engine:

ZDoom

Date of review:

08/02/2005

Overall rating:

This is one of the first ZDoom wads, built for version 1.18 or higher.
And indeed, this map shows everything ZDoom has to offer: deep water, bridges, stealth monsters, translucency, hudmessages, scripting, etc. So if you're new to mapping for ZDoom and want to make out how to do certain tricks, this map may be very helpful.
However, gameplay sucks. There's way too little ammo and health for too hard monsters. You are captured with two stealth (!) Archviles in complete darkness with 26 shotgun shells and no way out of the room! Or you have to fight against two Cacos in deep water with your fists only (there's shells lying around, but you can't get them due to the odd deep water behaviour of ZDoom).
The ambience has some atmosphere but very little detail.
You got it: there's no fun in this map.