Article 13948 of alt.games.doom: Path: usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.ans.net!hp81.prod.aol.net!search01.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: watchertwo@aol.com (WatcherTwo) Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Subject: Review of ThePits.wad Date: 24 Apr 1994 10:03:01 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 58 Sender: news@search01.news.aol.com Message-ID: <2pdu6l$m4p@search01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: search01.news.aol.com Ok folks, I've gotten pretty good responses to my reviews, so here's another one for you. The author had a note with this wad saying it was a very hard level and that he would like an lmp of it completed in UV (which as we know, is the only way I play!) if it was possible to complete it. So the uuencoded lmp of the completion of this game will follow this message. I would send it to the author but he/she didn't leave their Email address in the txt file that accompanied the wad. If anybody knows who made this level, could you pass the lmp on please? Thanks in advance 8^). [The green flash clears and...] Damn, I'm facing a wall again, why do they do that? I hear screaming all around me! I hope this isn't another 'put me in a room full of monsters and fight your way out without a shotgun' game! I spin around to see that I'm standing in the bottom of a VERY large VERY deep pit! Beside me is a shotgun and next to that is a box of shells, way to go! (I've always said, give me a shotgun and a box of shells and I'll get out of almost anything.. now it's put up or shut up time!) I grab the shotgun and the box of shells and start firing at anything I can see! A few short seconds later, I'm dead! (I don't like dying!) I start over and try to figure out if the author just screwed up or if I just did it wrong... How can I get out of this pit alive? Well, I start over a few times working things out, and sure enough, it's not only possible, but you can get out of there with health to spare! I exit the pit, finally, and have a look around me, there is another large structure right next to me.. and ... Look out! I'm being fired at! The entrance to this structure is easy to find.. and it's underground too, I clear out what I can see from the top, and head into the hole. Down here I find a fairly simple maze (I'm relieved, I hate mazes!), I'm lead through from room to room by the maze, killing whatever I see along the way (smiling the whole time!). Finally I have that area clear, I come back out topside and look around again, there seems to be another VERY large building and I have the key! I kick the door open to find... nothing, no monsters, just a very large room full of red poison.. Hmmm, I wonder if this is really poison... (I'll let you find out..). Well, I completed this level, then started my recording, it went pretty well until I was maybe 5 minutes away from finishing the level... I exceeded the 15 minutes limitation in DOOM for recordings... Shit! Now I not only have to survive, but I have to do it FAST! I redid the recording as fast as I could go and managed to finish the level. It could have been done much more elegantly (I did the first recording with health to spare) but this one made the time limit If you are looking for a hard hitting, fast moving, fun, workout for your shotgun, this is it! The watcher ratings will be split from now on, 1 for design, 1 for gameplay so here are my ratings of this game. Watcher rating for design? 7 It was pretty well done, a little HOM here and there, not a huge level, but a good one. Watcher rating for gameplay? 10 Yes folks, this game is a blast to play! Just put it on UV and have a blast!