New Q3 Maps
Standard DeathMatch and Some Weirdness or "You wanna deathmatch on a train????? Sweeeeeet."
Just to inject a note of almost normality, heheh - how about a really vicious and cool little deathmatch map, which takes place outside at night.
On the ground is a thick layer of mist, and at intervals, there are tall iron-girder towers, with multiple levels and bounce pads to move back and forth at speed. It's called DeathMatch Towers, and when there're enough folks hunting each other, it makes Sarejevo look like a sunday school picnic: (You can grab it HERE) (1.05megs)
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And then, before you start figuring we're about to go indoors again for the usual boring 'run around corridors and bounce up and..' sort of stuff... Wouldnt you like to have a frag onboard a moving train?
Well, thanks to assorted mappers with way too much time on their hands - you can.
At left is a wide view of the train itself, as it moves through the never-ending tunnel - and then at right is a close up detail of a little firefight happening onboard the open section of the train.. (Get Railroad here) 789k
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The Train isnt perfect, but again - it puts you in such a different place than the usual Q3 deathmatch, that its worth the download. Personally, I learned a long time back that the instant I got bored with the standard levels, to go hunting for the stuff created by mappers who were equally fed-up with the growing boredom...
And now, lets get into the weird and sometimes not-that satisfying arena of remakes. Quake 3 versions of favourite levels from both earlier ID Software games, as well as other games... for example, both of the following look reasonable, and play fairly well.
At left is a remake of an Unreal Tournament deathmatch level, (which can be grabbed HERE)(5megs) and at right, is a remake of one of the first levels from SiN.(Grab it HERE)(644k) The UT level is an odd one to get a good screengrab of, being a chunk of buildings more or less hanging in space - so this is taken from some way off..
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And the Sin remake, is basically a box-map, but it can still give a fairly frenzied deathmatch experience for a while...