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Blood.WAD

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The Castle of Blood is well known among your fellow marines and you got the short straw. Your mission is to succed where no one has!
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Another early gem from Jim McColm, this is his last map, and the only one released in 1995. As usual, the architecture and texturing are top notch for the time, the layout and progression are interesting, there are many well marked secrets and the gameplay is fun. One particular section I like is when a maze of corridors that led you through the level, suddenly open up into one big room with horde of monsters, once you find a key. McColm wasn't afraid to throw lots of monsters at you and there are some exciting fights, especially the finale. 

 

As with his other maps, his brother contributed the music. It's an alright moody track. For some reason however, the mus file isn't named and won't play, so you have to rename it to "D_E1M1" in SLADE.

 

I don't like it as much as his "Legion Down Under", as the green marble aesthetic gets dull after a while, but it's a good map nonetheless. 

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Hidden or forgotten single map. The music didn't play. If you open it with slade and rename the .mus It will work. Really cool level and music.

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Not too hard, not to soft, this one is just right. Fantastic play. Thankyou.
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Typical Doom1-style underground marble-and-lava level, overall very well done. Compact layout works well. Decoration is a bit replicative, but the ambiance is quite good. Puzzles are smart. Gameplay is balanced and slowly works to an interesting final. Playing it @ UV gave about half an hour of fun. Rated as 2003 Doom1 wad: solid 4*, absolutely worth a play.
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yakfak

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classic for the time and challenging if you try and rush through. I must have a version (from a shovelware disc) where the music naturally works, and it's gorgeous!
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very orginal layout, definatly a classic 4/5 - PerOxyd
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I don't see why people rate this one so highly. I find it dull and uninspiring.
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I didn't hear any new music, or see any lumps for it, so what are these guys talking about? Anyway the map is pretty good but it was confusing to get the blue key because some lifts are unmarked (they look like regular wall textures) and also some switches also don't stand out (they look like any other decoration). At one point you have to hump walls in nukage sector (unmarked lift) to get on a ledge... Other than that, it's fun.
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Jim McColm must be one of the great forgotten early level designers; his four maps in the archive are pretty good, especially given their age. This has the same strengths as his other levels - the design is intricate and architectural without feeling too random, there's a lot of action. Same weaknesses, too, in that it's a bit wandery and aimless, and sometimes ugly. I would usually dock points for having a maze, but it's a clever, curvy maze that unmazes itself.
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Great map ***** -sargebaldy
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I'll have to check more maps by this author but this one was a failure for me. Perhaps I'm dumb, but I spent ages trying to get the keys and failed, after killing everything in reach and finding a bucketful of secrets. The music isn't good, either.
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The fighting is decent, although somewhat cramped (favoring mostly the player) and progress is pretty good except for the blue key area, as noted in other comments. The WAD is a bit corrupt and the music lump is nameless. With an editor that detects MUS lumps by their header you can name it D_E1M1, which is worthwhile because it adds to the ambience for this type of map (especially compared to the usual metal music.) [3/5] ~Chain Mail (05/2012)
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"... dull and uninspiring"... You were surely out of your shoes when you played it, man! It's a most impressive marvel, with an immersive lovely music (very rare to find a good original music...) made by Jim's bro, and with a perfect gameplay. 4 stars - Jive
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