"Badgers DooM house (ZDoom edition)"

badgerze.wad

Author(s):

VMOS

Year of release:

2004

Map(s):

01

Engine:

ZDoom

Date of review:

06/30/2005

Overall rating:

This map is quite nice and original. It's playing in the author's house, and it's not like so many other "my house"-maps with kitchen, sleeping and living room; it's a 3-dimensional layout from the loft to the cellar. But it also contains some nice, surprising areas.
ZDoom special effects are used cleverly, like cameras, coloured lightning, hudmessages and really cool ambient sounds.
A weak point is the detailing and texturing. Though he has definitely put some effort in it, it looks quite bare in some places, and though there are some custom textures, there are still some unfitting Doom textures, too.
So overall, it's a very original map with many good ideas and I definitely recommend it, but the gameplay and the optical work would have deserved some more effort.