Dystopia3: Re-Birth of Anarchy

Car crash, plane crash, crazy race for your life, mystery mines, mad doctor's lab. These maps have a lot of memorable moments. Indoor tech-bases mixed with interesting mountain exteriors. A theme throughout the map progression.
The beautiful starting place in each one and curious finale... 

This wad start slowly, and even silly at some point. The first map is not a good seller, but when you reach map03 you will start to found some neat and interesting ideas.
Then this gradually unfolds in a excellent detailed and awesome looking mapset, with a lot of amazing textures and really good monsters encounters.

And the ending is the most hilariously serious of all the time!

Love it completely!

Cool and interesting wad, I've never gotten stuck

A pretty fun mapset, worth seeing for the imaginative visual design and layout alone, as well as the tough, challenging fights. Only gripe is that Iikka's maps tend to be very cramped and have uninspiring enemy placement, but they aren't terrible by any means.

Still fun after 20 years.

in this day and age you really think this isn't that good, as it's rather cramped a lot. but for its time Dystopia 3 is a kick-ass set that shows off lots of techniques. the ideas that Keranen and Czerwonka have are quite wonky and directly contrast each other very often. look at Keranen's style, you'll be seeing vanilla Doom tricks that were awe-inspiring at the time, particularly the bridges as well as the mineshaft, reminiscent of similar levels in Requiem MAP08 and MAP13. but his gameplay ideals involve mostly linear progression and usage of high-tier monsters in claustrophobic spaces. meanwhile, Czerwonka does provide well-designed levels with new textures and such, not so snazzy progression however is a hallmark against his design though. there's quite a bit of backtracking, although since his levels are usually small in size it's a bit better off. MAP04 and MAP10 in particular standout because these same levels were in STRAIN as MAP09 and MAP23 respectively, with a few changes to both. then you have the race level MAP03 which can throw newer players for a loop.

Dystopia 3 really stands out as a historic testament to vanilla design and it shows easily here. if you're a gameplay kind of person this may not actually be for you though due to how thing placement and such is designed. it doesn't mean this is unplayable though. it's worth at least one whirl