Custom Map Reviews - Away Stadium

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Published on March 7, 2016 11:27:21 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBdMokXqadg

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Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)

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Review

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Away Stadium
Can be downloaded here...
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/15954

Class G map...

Campaign Description...
“Fight thru 6 maps of zombie killing fun! These are 2 campaigns found on an a server out of Japan combined in to on six map campaign.”

Two maps found on a Japan Server?... Should have stayed on that server...
If you choose to pursue this one... Be prepared for one of the worst “maze” mods to ever exist...

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+ Positive
/ Neutral
- Negative

Aesthetics
- Very definition of bare bones...
- Several chapters that use only two textures if that...
- No soundscapes...
- Barely any lighting...
- Environments are ugly at their best...

Gameplay
- Was shipped literally broken...
+ Good amount of Supplies...
- Bland repeat maze after repeat maze...
- Tons of navigational issues...
- Ridiculously long chapters...
- Trigger volumes that can be triggered by infected...

Performance
+ Minimal to no studdering...
+ No apparent crashes or conflicts...
+ Optimized due to lack of everything...

Finale
- No finale...
- Ridiculous excuse for a finale...
- Next to no supplies to prepare...
/ How to escape was only obvious because of the structure of the area...

Final Verdict
Highly Not Recommended

I can not say enough bad about this one... Most of the campaign takes place in pitch black mazes... With no player leading of any description... The areas are devoid of anything and everything... and I swear Greybox used more textures than this campaign did...

The first chapter... That was passable... and it only went down hill from there...

I would also like to point something out... This was version 1.0... The first release...
In the first release... The second chapter was literally impossible to complete, because one of the gates blocking your path had no inputs or outputs... I had nothing calling it to open on a certain event... It was essentially a named wall...
A fixed was released after I had finished the demo recording... But the very fact that it was released in this state to begin with... That is shameful...

And yes... It has updated more sense... and I have seen the newer version... and I would say the older version is better... Just because you throw a bunch of random shit into a bare room... That doesn't me you have helped it... I stand by this when I say... If you are not going to detail with care... you may as well not detail at all...
A pitch black bare room looks better than a pitch black bare room with a random tractor in it...

Skip this one... You have no reason to play it...


Intro music - "Cybernetic" by D1scordant
Final Verdict music – "Synthetic Harmony" by D1scordant

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