quake/articles/1997/art-970

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From: Riffster <"riffster@goaway"@run'n'hide.org>

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Subject: A word to the wise - Single Player Levels

Date: 20 Jan 1997 19:52:36 -0000

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As a dedicated single player of Quake I am forever searching for

new and better levels. I usually find what I need from Compuserve

and Internet posts, but I broke down recently and bought two CD's

that promised good levels.

Unfortunately I wasted my money.

DARKHOUR - by Microforum - a few poorly designed maps with little

thought

to atmosphere, consistency of design or even quality.

Q2 - by Cystalvision - more levels than above and more consistent

design,

but absolutely no variety as all levels look very much alike.

I am posting this to warn you that there are people out there who want

your money and care little for quality level design. I find the free

levels like 'Liquid Despair", "Mini" and "Village" to be far superior

to the crap I paid for listed above.

I don't know about Crystalvision, but Microforum's offering really

disappointed me as they have good non-gaming offerings. What a bunch

of junk. Save your money and don't buy the above.