Knee Deep
Chris Hampton

This map certainly brings back memories. Good ole Doom - the shooter of all shooters (some people will disagree and tell me that it's actually Wolfenstein or Quake, but to me it's Doom), was the first game that actually gave me a scare when I played it for the first time. It had atmosphere, something which was not easy to accomplish with the technology from that time.

Back to this map. Although it is a new design, it could have been one of the oiginal Doom-maps. And that is exactly the problem as well. It tends to get a bit repetitive, graphically speaking. The lighting is a wee bit too colourful as well, and some of the corridors are very cramped. But, that's all I have for critisism as far as looks are concerned. It is a smooth-running map with no real errors in it as far as I could see. The author mentioned some glitches in the ReadMe file, but I couldn't find them. The negative points I mentioned are also the positive points. It is a 100% Doom lookalike map and that's worth something as well.

The bots find their way around nicely and managed to get to the shieldbelt all the time, which is the reason I have no clue where to find it hehe. They do not get to the Damage amp in the middle area. I assume that it has something to do with the fact that it is in a slime pool, and the bots do not use the toxin-suit. Shame, but other than that the botplay will be quite enjoyable.

The map looks a lot larger than it really is, because all the rooms are focued around a center and interconnected. I played it with 5 bots, and that worked just fine. More than that and things will get really messy, especially in the tight corridors.

Weapons and placement are fine, most of the UT weapons are available. A chainsaw would have been nice though :) Ammo is a bit sparce and not always very easy to get to.