I played a
beta of this a map a while ago. At the time the map was much smaller than
it is now. I was impressed. My first thought was that it was similar to
a Half-Life kind of map. I don't think it would be out of place as DM for
Half-Life. It certainly better the majority of the DM maps for Half-Life.
The setting
for it, is as the map name suggestions, a secluded warehouse. Built in
the middle of a canyon. All exits from here are blocked. The majority of
the playing surface is inside the warehouse. Made up of a few double layered
rooms.I don't like the spikes on the roof of building in the right hand
screenshot below, I preferred them not being there. They do serve a purpose
though, it stops you from touching the sky =).
Sound is pretty
good. Theres the buzzing electric noise mixed in with the rushing wind.
Lighting was good. I found it a little odd the top of building in the second
shot was a little too dark. I can't see any reason why it would be dark.
Whilst on things that bugged me, I was a little annoyed about having to
jump up some boxes to get to the upper level. The fourth shot shows an
example of this.
Most of the
fragging took place in the two areas shown in the second and fourth screenshots.
Funny really since they are both connected together by a short corridor.
The rest of map seemed a little quiet. I put that down to the bots being
thick though, it could also be though that the majority of main items are
in these two sections. I know from the beta which bits were added and feel
that they were added just to enlarge the map.
The Quad came
into play quite a bit. You can spot it on the far side of room show in
the third shot. Its placing meant a Quad endowed player could rain rockets
and grenades down on the fighting masses and rack up a rather big score.
The pentagram was hardly used. Its encased behind some metal bars in the
water area shown in first screenie. I little bit of thinking will let you
grab it. Unfortunately I couldn't work it out, so Pingu told me.
Even though
the map is a little unbalanced, I had a real blast playing it. If your
team kept control of the quad then you'd be laughing, other wises you'd
probably be getting your arse kicked.
Paul