"Aftershock Industrial"

afterind.wad

Author(s):

Marc J.S.

Year of release:

1996

Map(s):

01

Engine:

Doom2

Date of review:

10/09/2006

Overall rating:

This maps seems incomplete in all respects. The layout is large with large rooms and long hallways, but show only a little work in detailing, though the beginnings are there. Plus, there are also some minor texture errors.
There's a good amount of monsters, but they're all very weak and scattered on the whole map, so gameplay is very easy. But it's also very tedious, because there's hardly any room with less than 3 doors or lifts, which makes you run in circles and loose orientation easily. And the game is missing a flow. You're collecting keys and don't know why you need them, the exit is a random switch somewhere on a wall.
This looks and plays like the first draft of a good map. However, after 10 years, I doubt that the author is still working on a final version ;-)