A 16 Q3A map pack from the Speedmappers Guild. Each map made over 7 days.

Here is a quickly review them in order of my personal preference.

SHALLOW - Tech style, indoor/outdoor- very good game play. Bots mostly play outside.

WVIPERW - Think of Q2 The Edge combined with dmmq3dm3 (the one with the giant earth at the center). Very fast game play.

PSION - Tech-style ruins. Fast game play and fun.

AKUMA - Similar to any of the highly popular Q1 Tourney maps (i.e. Aerowalk). Good layout and fast game play.

EQUIM - just as good as Akuma but a bit more open.

MYTH - Indoor/Outdoor arena set in Roman ruins. Fast game play.

MONSTO - 2 separate arenas: one brown indoor/outdoor pyramid with GL & LG, and one big open tech-style 2-level room (Quad, RL & PG). This would have been my #1, but not enough weapons, and only one way to the 2nd floor on the open room.

AD5 - An indoor Castle style CTF map.Nicely done, but very big and mostly hallways.

ASNAGRIM - 3-level map. Open with side passages, texture scheme is a bit busy. Game play is ok.

BAAL-PEOR - A Matrix-like map. A City with tall skyscrapers that you can jump pad up onto. Cool concept, but it's too open for good game-play. Also underground 'joust' area is cool, but bots don't go for it.

TOMC - long rectangular map with 3 ways to get from one end to the other. Very dark in some areas.

WMERC - Several pyramids connected by passageways. You can teleport to a Hipdm-ish area that sends you back to a pyramid when you fall off the map. Not great game play.

CHRISQ - This is a prison surrounded by water. The readme says the object is to find the Dopefish...

GEAR - bathroom, lab area, lava, and a billboard of a speedmappers chat screen. Poor game play.

VAARSCHA - tech-ish CTF. Very small corridors.

SCAMPIE - 2-level outdoor in a quarry. Only way to upper levels is by climbing quarry wall. The map source for Scampie is available here.

Keep the first 6 or 7, the rest are good for checking out new map styles.

Check out the screenshots for all 16 maps under Turtle Maps (link removed as it is now dead).

Reviewed by remnent