RTC-3057: Blue

The visuals and the music are excellent, but the gameplay is very meh. Most of the "puzzles" are along the line of "run back and forth all over the levels to activate one switch after another", which gets very boring very fast. The authors are very stingy with health pickups and quite reluctant to give you ammo, which makes the combat much harder than it should be, especially since you're running around with nothing but a chaingun and a shotgun.

A flawed but clearly impressive survival and atmosphere based multi-part hub. Patience required as there is little action. No pistol bug in latest Zdoom versions.

5/5

FIX THE PISTOL BUG!!!!!!!

It rox my sox, like no other 5/5 stars - Kirby

It's innovative, it's amazing looking, it's smart, it's a superb level... but I just like shootin' shit in old school doom style, and this is way too puzzle-y for me. I guess I'm a traditionalist, but I like it fast n furious as opposed to slick n cerebral. 4/5

after looking at the screenshots was VERY impressed *insane* playing Quake !!! bigger more detailed (I went 'w0w' at the missing floor tiles screenshot) Well done.. some marrage arrangement with Doom to be thinking of making this. I could do with your talent, also new monsters and weapons.. I would SCARE THE ALMIGHTY PANTS OFF YOU ALL!!!

It's too slow, which can be okay if it was because of the story. But being slow is a bad thing in this wad because of the locked doors. It's like every time I try to open a door, I have to go to the other end of the ship to hit some switch, but that switch is behind another locked door that can only be opened by another switch on the other end of the ship, etc. etc. etc..

This was really awesome. It's worth playing even though they never did the rest. I really want to know how the story ends.

Each to their own. It's still better than KDiZD.

This is the best ZDoom map ever. Download it now of god's sake.

It's very rare I can say this DOESN'T NEED MORE IMPSE! -thefwf

THE best. Can't wait for more. 5/5

What more can I say? Non-linear design in the format of a hub, puzzles, gameplay that is never overly challenging or dull (plenty of tenseness when health got a bit low and no health around), awesome music, excellently designed levels (and HUGE ones at that), very complex scripting (I have yet to figure out how the fans work, heh), and an actual story. This is by far one of the greatest wads ever created. Should hubs 2 & 3 be finished, this will without a doubt be the BEST wad series in existence. 5/5 -ace

It's sort of scary at the intro.

Fuckin awesome! 5/5 -Lipa

Pretty interesting storyline and gameplay. And an awesome soundtrack by Julian as well. Strange though... somewhere in the ACS script, there seems to be an alternate plot than of the original story. It might explain the unused sprites within the wad. Nice job over all. -DooMarine

Nice style but gameplay? Forget about it. There are far too few monsters and too many frustrating puzzles. 2/5

Only the bestest wad ever.

looks great, not do fun 2*

Pistol doesn't work after being picked up. Kept on dying at the beginning from the first round of imps. Possible script error, maybe.

Better than KDiZD? It's just as bad because this wad has the exact same type of locked-door and switch hunting gameplay!

From the 2 year old point of view, nice architecture and atmosphere, wether it pays homage to System Shock or not. Too much crap to read though, stuff that isn't really connected with the game (like dr's past in the labs). Too much telling vs showing. But the story itself developes pretty good with player's sanity going down the drain, while still in pursuit of demons. 4 stars.

A lot of this is just, wow, I didn't think... wow.

Really sucks that people are giving bad ratings to this wad because it's "boring" or "too hard". All I can say is forget them. The whole point was to take doom a new direction and they succeeded beyond expectations. RTC-3057 steps away from the regular monster packed rooms with 90 cell packs and goes into a story driven gripping adventure filled with puzzles and surprises. It's a grand experience. - Martyrdom