"The Prison"

prison.wad

Author(s):

Nigel Dear

Year of release:

2003

Map(s):

E1M1 - M9

Engine:

Doom1

Date of review:

06/14/2005

Overall rating:

This set of 9 small maps is quite nice. The first maps are rather bare and way too simple, but they're getting better with progression. Accounting for the time of its release (2003), it's surely not the state of the art, but has this "classic" feeling of the early wads, like the better ones from around 1995.
The "prison" theme is axed quite soon, which is no bad thing, cause 9 prison maps would probably be quite... narrowing.
The challenges are very weak throughout all maps. And I really can't understand why you would make a wad for Doom1 in 2003! I assume, it's way older and the author found it on one of his diskettes years later and uploaded it.
It's one of the better works, optically and gameplay-wise, but, then again, not outstanding.