Well its all change here at MPQ when it comes to Quake 2 reviews. My evil plan to banish them for good has not quite worked though. The situation for Quake 2 reviews stands as follows. I was originally going to bin them altogether, and I may still do so. Monsto however came up with a suggestion which may involve some new reviewers for Quake 2 maps. Now this is being discussed at the moment. If it works out the Quake 2 reviews will continue, otherwise I will stop doing them here.

Whilst on the subject of Quake 2, Rush has now gone over to Inspection to do Quake 2 reviews. So expect an in-depth review of Pain Elemental in the next week or so.

Now I'm somewhat busy in the next week and a bit. I have a job interview, an exam to resit and some software to write for a deadline so I'm going to occupied with all that. Once thats over though, I'm going to sort out this damn site. Its become a big mess and I'm going to try and sort things out. I might even go about doing a bit of face lift and improve how things look.

News.. well not much is going on. I must however mention that Odd has opened a page for his Quake maps. So make sure you pop over and take a look at those. SmallPileofGibs has released a Quake 2 SP map called Small Pile of Gibs.(2,076Kb). Its meant to be pretty amazing, and it should be, its taken ages to make. These prefectionists =).
 

Also Iikka has released a couple of Quake 2 maps. IKDM7 - An Angular Atrium.(178Kb) and IKDM8 - Return of the Elder God.(860Kb). The first is a compact duel map which is pretty good. Personally I think the coloured lighting is a bit OTT but other than that its cool. The gel lava effect is also worth mentioning. IKDM8 on the other hand, is a huge map which is meant for 16 to 24 peeps. I do like Ikka's comment next to map : "I don't know if there are enough Quake2 players left in the world to make use for this map, though" Hehe. I think I can disagree, with amount of new Quake 2 maps coming out there is easily enough people still out there. Anyway, I had ago with some Eraser bots and its not bad. There isn't much detail though. Its also very grey looking. There is a very interesting piece of architecture though, its very similar to the huge pulsating tree I've seen in the Q3A screen shots.

Its good to see the Shambler is keeping the old SP site going. I mean, I'd be devastated if I saw his email signature go under 10 lines =P.

Dammit. I had something really good to moan about and I've forgotten what it was. That annoys me...