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Zaero: Episode 1

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The first episode of a 4 wad mission pack. Created in the style of Quake 2, with unique textures, ZDoom Features and Monsters.

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episode 2???

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First thing I see, a crate with that obnoxious "is opened somewher else" message. Then it's a few minutes of fighting zombies and the odd demon in a generic and dull tech environment, with uninspired architecture making combat a tedious slog going through the motions. Having only the pistol didn't help either. Warping to map02 and map03 just to check if it gets better... Nope, more of the same. Yawn, and boo to these universally praising reviews making me think this was actually worth checking out.

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Class. Utterly massive quakish maps with tons of atmosphere and fun. Sometimes confusing due to nonlinearlity, but it's not a big problem. Altough ripped music isn't the best idea ever (though music is nice), mapset is great and has 5/5 from me, play it now -- Brun Ohn

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I agree mostly with reviewer number 5. 5/5

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i remmeber playing the quake2 zaero mission pack awhile ago, people said it was crappy. but i thought it was fine remaking this for doom is genius

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Fantastic mappack. Great levels, Quake2 atmosphere. Only usage of the music bugs me, but when it comes to entertaining visually and in the gameplay manner-it does an excellent job. Highly recomended. -Nmn

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Very Nice. I'm not entirely sure the music is ripped either. Now, I never did get to play the zaero mission pack for Quake 2. So I can't say if the music is from Zaero or the other mission packs, but the tracks are not from Quake 2. The style is similar that they might be from the same group, or remixes of said Q2 tracks. The levels themeselves are awesome. Very nicely done for doom. Probably wold of been better with Q2's enemies and weapons but still very cool.

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I agree with Nmn, this one's really great. I hope there'll be more soon! :)

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Holy crap! I'm just in the 1st level, but must instantly give it a v.good rating! Nice architecture, secrets, balancing starting from easy and getting slowly harder (beautiful special caco!), non linear mapping, fine music, just great! Thanks for creating that levelset.

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Man, I love non-linear maps. Excellent work here. The music is annoying, however. 4.5 out of 5 (I'm voting 5 out of 5, however)

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