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Arcadia Demade

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Rapture's vacationland. Side order of hellspawn.

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Havoc Crow

  

It's been a while since I played Bioshock but I could still recognize some of the iconic locations. Seeing Bioshock's scripted sequences reinterpreted for Doom was fun. The enemy layout feels mostly like an afterthought, though.

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Aquanet

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It's fun to play a map made by someone with a slightly different set of design tools and principles than most Doom mappers. Unfortunately, the map's guts also contain a fair amount of filler and so-samey-you-get-lost. The best areas are great, however (like the ne area). Just let it wash over you.

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Wasn't that great, wasn't that bad.Just boring.

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Nether really good looking nor exactly fun to play. It's a nice curiosity, being a demake of a 2007 FPS level made by one of that game's devs, but not much of a Doom map.

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Guest

  
Too dark. What is this, Doom 3?

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Large adventure map. Ambiance is basically very good, but lacks variation, and is often too dark. Layout is frequently quite rectangular, but the detailing helps; sadly it has a high copy&paste factor. Fights @ UV are not bad, but predictable, and the teleporting revenants are nice once but get annoying. Also the map has some anomalies and needs to be finished. All-in-all it is about a factor 3 too long. Despite the cons: 4* for a once-play experience.

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Lightning Hunter

  
Extremely unique map that has an empty, lonely feeling to it. This is the opposite of a slaughter map; you have to conserve ammo and take on small groups of monsters at a time - which is more challenging than it sounds (and fun). The author made a very poor decision to add an easy-to-find secret teleporter that allows the player to skip ALL the big battles near the end. There are also texture alignment issues. Still, a very unique map worth playing.

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Guest

  
Needs some more creepiness,but still,an excellent wad.Kudos!

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NuMetalManiak

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beautiful and replayable. a gem by one of the Bioshock designers. to think that a designer was a Doom fan, and decides to reinvent a more detailed level from a more detailed game into Doom, and make it work, is quite the feat. it succeeds spectacularly, with a palette that makes the place aquatic and moody, and even the gameplay works in a way similar to the real Arcadia, with teleporting monsters to watch out for and a number of places to explore. the excitement factor is diminished considerably given what we're working with, but every now and then a more atmospheric level with standard combat isn't bad, and this is one of the greatest examples of that.

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A very cool experience overall. A pretty huge, non-linear level with some cool designs and decent action, although enemies were a bit sparse considering the size. Also, I couldn't work out how to re-open the blue door after it shuts. Still, I give it 4.4/5 stars for some excellent mapping!

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Good map, finding the way is a little hard, but it's OK. I have a lot of fun on it. :D 4/5 -playerlin

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Blue tint? Seemed more green to me... anyway, Loved the exploration, not had an experience like that for years, 5 stars.

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Reisal

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A very fun and relatively strong representation of Bioshock's Farmer's Market/Arcadia floor under the Doom engine. 5/5 -Mr. Chris

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Bang-on remake, loved all of the little Bioshock-isms thrown in and the new palette just sets the whole thing off. Always nice when the current pros see fit to contribute something here for us old codgers! Good stuff mate! 5/5 - scalliano

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Great atmosphere, but a boring gameplay experience. Progress feels tedious, because it's hard to orientate in the samey (though complex) architecture. Typical case of laying too much weight on one aspect, while neglecting others. 3

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Good job shitifying something already shitty.

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palette shift is horrible imho

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Overrated piece of trash

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Haven't seen level design this good since the start of Doom. Claustrophobic feeling reminded me of Doom 1, this is how good it is. Probably on my top 10 wads ever.

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this is not great, but is good anyway

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Hellbent

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I really liked this. Very well built. Certainly one of the better built creations floating around the doom universe. Great atmosphere and cohesion. I've never played bioshock.

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Pretty cool and atmospheric level. It starts out rather nonlinear, but that's never a distraction, and the level's structure becomes clearer over time, too. I found the end to be a bit anticlimactic, to be honest, but it's still very good.

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Surprisingly confusing and while the atmosphere is great, visually, it is a bit redundant. Also, too much running around and non-linear gameplay for my taste. 4/5

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Great level that even has fun replay value, and most levels just don't have that nowadays. A definite download, and I've never played the game it's based on.

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This is one of the best Doom levels I've played. Clever use of teleporting enemies makes for some hectic battles. The music isn't great, but moody and gets the job done. Graphics are atmospheric, dark and made me stop and take a look at times. The level design/layout is splendid. A step above any of the original Doom levels for sure. Giving this 5 out of 5.

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