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- WAD Review of ZZONE.REV
- (ocf.unt.edu /pub/doom/wads/newwads2/zzone.zip)
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- Title : ZZONE.WAD
- Authors : Ari Koivisto
- Email Address : k139925@ee.tut.fi
- Misc. Author Info : additional credits to: my friends for playtesting
- and suggestions.
-
- Description:
-
- "It's a room full of obstacles, lifts, ambush places and rocket
- launchers." Well, Ari's description of his e1m1 deathmatch wad
- is part true. Rocket launchers and ambush places? Yes--tons
- of them. Full of obstacles and lifts? No. I really didn't
- see any obstacles to mention, unless you count pillars or some-
- thing. And lifts? Well, there's two of them, and I have yet
- to figure out why someone would want to use them.
-
- ZZONE.WAD is an interesting deathmatch pwad. It's basically a
- one room level, and nearly the whole level is _dark_. With
- monsters, it loads up eight cacodemons and one cyberdemon. Two,
- players can play a relatively active game, but, as always, four
- players will keep the game much more alive.
-
- * * *
-
- The first thing you'll see about zzone.wad--the name--brings up
- an interesting point. zzone.wad--two lowercase z's--will vir-
- tually show up last on any FTP directory list. And when you're
- searching through a list of files, do you remember the b's and
- the m's? No. You'll look at the last part of the list and ex-
- claim, "zzone! what a nice looking little wad." Well, maybe
- I'm wrong on this. It could stand for something. Zebra Zone,
- maybe. Or Zima Zone?
-
- As I've already mentioned, zzone is a dark pwad. There are a
- good deal of ambush spots, though most of them are in the open
- and just very dark. And although it's dark, there isn't much
- that makes it stand out from the crowd of deathmatch levels.
-
- Zzone is packed with boxes of rockets. As many of you DOOMers
- might know, rockets and _dark_ areas don't mix very well. So
- if you should decide to play this level, a word of wisdom: if
- you want a frag instead of the mushing sound you get as your
- body blows to bits, aim _carefully_ before launching that roc-
- ket. There are about one hundred boxes of rockets in the area,
- but they end up getting used up rather quickly. So after a
- few minutes you'll be limited to weapons 1 - 5 (chainsaw to
- rocket launcher).
-
- Zzone is nice and small, but it's very ordinary and plain. It
- doesn't have very much special about it. And the weapons are
- not layed out very well. Walk over a three foot area in the
- middle and you'll pick up a shotgun, chaingun and chainsaw.
- Move fifteen feet in any random direction and you'll probably
- snatch a rocket launcher from somewhere.
-
- Zzone can be an interesting level, but you'll have to make it
- one.
-
- On scales of 0 to 10:
-
- Layout: 6
- Textures: 7
- Difficulty: 5
- Huntability: 6
- Funness: 7
-
- On a Cameron overall scale of 0 to 10, ZZONE.WAD scores a 6.2.
-
- Level Hint: Strafe like a rabbit in a fox-coop for the first few
- fights (it will RAIN ROCKETS). In a few minutes the
- boxes of rockets will be gone and you can go back to
- fighting normally.
-
- Daniel.
- dmccarty@sitvax.stevens-tech.edu
-