Nice intro. cOlds aim was to create something that played well and wasnt interested in making it look to flashy. Well he succeeded on the latter part. It doesnt quite cut the mustard for me on the first point.

The layout consists of 3 very similar 3-floored atriums that attach together in a Y shape. The ground and 1st floors connect fairly well with staircases, but the top floor requires teleporter access and as such is a little disjointed from the rest of the map. It just smacks of the damn I ran out of space for stairs so Ill stick a teleporter in type of mentality.

The selection of textures is interesting, with upper sections decorated in Kingpin brick and lower in mostly wizmet variant merged with rusted metal beams. The two themes do sort of go together, but the problem is that given the 3 atriums look very similar in terms of layout and how they look, its hard to pick out where you are. Even after playing for a while it was still difficult. Some visual pointers wouldnt have gone amiss. Regardless of what c0ld says there is some detailing. The upper sections have unfinished brickwork, with some sections looking random, whilst others have strangely rectangular sections missing.

Item placement also lacks thought and I found myself wall hugging a lot since most items were placed in corners or up against walls. There is no real pattern to weapon placement and with no obvious item pad it is hard to pick them out at first. Which is a pity since the map is more than capable of holding 4.

Its quite an enjoyable map once/if you grasp the layout and random item placement.

Paul