Decade

A competently made map, for sure, but fun?

It's way too long and repetitive, with same-y combat & ambush scenarios used again and again, and with way too much enemies, and not that much of a challenge, even for me who isn't exactly fond of "SUPER HARD WAD #9263!!!!11!. You can cut the whole thing in half, and then cut THAT half in half, and it would be a better map. Is it bad? No, just a little bit above average, mostly because it drags a bit too long.

Great level design and fluidity. Recommended for anyone looking for a challenge and lots of chaos. For extra fun/difficulty, play with Project Brutality or Brutal Doom. :)

Decade is a Cacoward winner from 2004. It is a single player map made by Russell Pearson and is intended to be a tribute to 10 years of Doom and Doom2. It accomplishes this quite well with it's old school style design while looking more polished than the originals. I played on HMP and the combat was plenty challenging, with lots of well placed ambushes and some dehacked monsters, like the supercharged mancubus and revenant. Tougher than their vanilla counterparts and employing different missile mechanics, I was caught off guard, in a good way, as they are not over-used. Balance of supplies and ammo is tight but not frustratingly so, forcing you to push forward to get to the items you need. I was never lost even while the map was looping around, dropping you into pits and returning back to previous areas. It felt non-linear with a clear path to follow. Through out the level you will encounter numerous rooms/areas that pay homage to the original games. These are incorporated well within the map and give you a nice nostalgic feeling when playing. My only real gripe, and its a small one, is that jumping is required...and that's' fine. But it's only needed for jumping on boxes to get items/ammo for the most part. It seemed unnecessary. It took me about an hour to beat it and at the end...I wished it was longer. Great map.

a cool map but weird scripting, you go from place to place, touching sectors just to go to the next location, it's pretty strange overall. but the cool thing to see is the combat is quite carnage-filled, and offers some homages to classic areas like the E1M1 starting room, the MAP10 area with the numerous zombies, the E2M1 beginning stuff, and the MAP01 platform room, plus a Dead Simple arena of sorts. there's also one really cool secret where shooting a barrel blows up a boatload of explosive crates. it seems a little too script-heavy at times, but the feel is still servicable enough that this is a decent one-level wad to play through.