Hellfire: Dreams

Great creepy adventure, but some quests are tedious.

Great atmosphere, and gorgeous detailing. However, so maps go on for way to long and requite too much aimless wandering and backtracking (like that humongous city map later in the wad).

Sadly most raters rate only the ambiance based on the texture use, which is indeed solid 5*. Decoration: 4*. Map layout: varies between 2 and 4*. But gameplay? Unclear puzzles forcing much useless walkarounds, monster / ammo balance @ UV is not good, and overall monster placement is plain awful and horribly lazy. Therefore, despite the effort, I really cannot give more than 3*. Because DooM is about gameplay above all, and for visuals only we go to a museum. It's a pity, because it could be legendary.

milye kovry ot praporshika Zadova 5/5

almost like an entire pc game. took me a good 3 weeks, with some rests in between . Total immersion. Shadowman has quite the imagination for creation. Award winning. map 9 - epic (although a bit tiring until you figure the obvious for the red key). 400 some monsters seems slaughterlike, but is not! thanks for a great experience. 5 stars

Some map is too large, but very wonderful.

Quite tough in some places (map 7 gave more problems than it should), visuals are really neat.

greal levels

Nice work as for vanilla. I liked the atmosphere and detail level you created. 5.

another stellar creation from Shadowman, probably my favorite of the Hellfire saga. i like the realism and the gameplay, and this one only has two really long maps (MAP06 and MAP09). Twilight Town is one of my all time favorite Doom maps. and it isn't broken btw, you're supposed to shoot the switch to open the first door.

classy work shadowman

very good mapset

It kinda lags. Gameplay requires stealthiness w/ default monsters. It looks good though. Map reloops (I spoiled it, lol). ~4/5

If this doesn't win some kind of award, they're pulling Shadowman's plonker. The map design is generally amazing and the music suits each map well. I played this in GZDoom with no problems. I was not keen on map 7 though, and the maps don't feel optimised for a pistol start - though that could be me being shite.

Very nice mapset. My favorite being Map 9, a true classic for sure. Great visuals, and good gameplay. 4/5

I thought it was great!We need more wads this good.

So far so good. Thank you for continuing to make wads. B

This WAD has beautifully applied textures and gorgeous detailing and architecture. There are carpets on walls, but given that the author is Russian this is understandable. But the gameplay is absolutely horrible. Horrible! You're denied essentials weapons. They're hidden in visible secrets that have unknown activators. You're left with boomstick and chaingun. The layout and flow is completely fucked up. There are series of buttons that activate who-knows-what and there's a lot of senseless roaming around.

Better drink more vodka instead, awful boring maps.

Very atmospheric, realistic and detailed! Gameplay is also well balanced - ***** Arch

Map 09 is broken. Right after the player starting point, neither of the two doors will not open. No line defs indicating triggered events or nothing else. Every other map before that works normally, gameplaywise. - Doom Masta

Very beautiful and detailed architecture and awesome atmosphere! Great!

I preferred the smaller maps (Ruined Street, the train). Twilight Town was way too long for me.

Loved the architecture, hated the gameplay.