Reviews - SPY-maps

The bridge map gave my computer a hard crash, which completely locked it up. Had to use the powerbutton to close my PC down, something which I haven't needed to do for at least 5 years or so. And for sure not with this very powerful PC that I now have. Beside this I am just not a big fan of beta HL2, probably the only one but that is just me, sorry. And, felt to me as if you just recompiled the base maps with some minor changes here and there. Most weren't for the better. Sorry to destroy the party here, because everyone loved it. But, just have to be honest. And such a hard crash is really just not cool, AT ALL!!!

Leon

It is clearly a HL game. It looks awesome, but the gameplay, especially fire at enemies is just ****. And this is only because it's an HL game/mod. You don't see any real damage when you shoot, and all enemies fall with the same animation which gets really old really fast.

Still, the game looks really good.
But the gameplay makes that it still is bad.
The devs seem to be working on this still and that surprises me, they should take a new engine and do their magic there. For sure they than would make an awesome game!

Leon

The top says;
"Death Wish is a campaign for Blood with over 30 new levels, cut scenes, and more."
And that is exactly what this is, and, it is done so well! The quality is really from a very high standard, it could easily be sold as a stand-alone Blood add-on, no kidding! This easily has a place in the top 3 of Blood mods! The gameplay is fun and exciting, and the levels are each very different and show a marvelous Blood world. Should you want to play a many hours filled Blood adventure then this is by far the mod you need to play!

I give this a 9 out of 10.
And I never give a 10 simply because there always needs to be room for improvement. Although this mod leans to a 10 to be honest!

lEON

A 5/10, just for the effort. Other than that, meh, strange in a bad and silly way. Everywhere sign of arrows and to break things. Like arrow, pick up this walky talky, break sign for wooden planks ona door to break. My god, we have played games and or mods before, we are not 2 years old. Just so annoying that I stopped playing after level 6 or so. Just not for me, but as said, for the effort a 5. And, that this is around d9 GB big is really a mystery to me. WHY???

SPYmaps

Have played about 80% of the demo and i have to say that i can clearly see that the makers have put much work and effort put in to this. Believe i did read somewhere that it was tested for several months with several men. That really does surprise me because i did find quit a lot of errors and unclear scenes in the mod. From weapons that were 'given' to the player by dead combines. Just to disapear minutes later out of players hands and to be replaced with a large 'red error' sign above the player that moved with him. Right from the start in i believe map 2 i did get stuck. A citizen tells me to follow him to a closed gate, a combine opens the gate and one comes from behind. The citizen says then to wait a second. Waited for hours there, played the whole part 3 times. With noclip i then noticed that door at the other end of the map was opened ??? So i moved to there.

The mapping was very inconsistent. Some parts were very well done and others were looking less. Like different skilled mappers worked on this. The Barney part were he takes his mask of felt like a real HL2 rip off. We all remember that scene ofcourse from HL2, probably was that the idea, but to take it so right out of HL2 felt odd and well, i say it, like it was just a copy apste job. There were many other issues. The city clearly was made to make the player feel hunted by the combines. But, in many cases i stoud right beside people who did get shot or were taken away. And not one combine did something to me which felt really VERY odd. Some npc's did act very strange, some were frozen in there animation, others were just.... well, it was all very odd. So, i really hope that this demo will not be a sign of how the mod will be. Seems there is still lots of work to do guys. Sorry, as mapper/modder i know how harsh my words are, but, i just can't say it any other way. Sorry,

Leon

I will be very honest about this mod. As modder/mapper myself i know all to well how much time and effort it takes to make mods like these. So, for that i really want to thank the maker for all his work.That said, looking at the mod itself. It;s full of inside jokes, which i don't understand. the overall quality is strange, some things are really very well done, other things are done badly. Why the difference? Map 2 crashes, something never may happen in a mod because its a game changer. When the mod started it really felt like it tried to show a world of someone with PTSD, but after only minutes it already changed in to just strange things. I love strange things, but a lot of these things didn't work (well) or just made no sense at all. All in all i want to thank the modder, but, as said, to me it was just no real fun to play it. Played about 6 or so levels, from which i had to no_clip quit a few of them. That this mod gets so high numbers is a real mystery to me.

Such a awesome old school Build engine fpshooter!!!
And, it comes with a super updated editor, what is there not to love!!!

Leon

Loved to play new missions with this awesome game,
it's so well made, and gives soooooooooo many hours of fun,
thanks for that!!!!!

Leon

Sometimes its very hard to review a mod! Take for instance this mod. I would love to give it a 10, or 9,5. Because it looks simply AWESOME!! It is if you play Doom 3 on GZDoom, it really is! So the first 5 minutes of the mod i loved and i was really very enthusiastic about playing the whole thing. But ones the monsters/enemies started to come in my joy started to faint raptly. Thing is, most monsters spawn right in front of you which gives you hardly any time to react, and when you do they already killed you. Which ended up in being killed by 4 out of 5 monsters. Which is at first no problem but which does get very frustrating quit quick. Then, the monsters are VERY powerfull! They do need loads of power to kill them. And, there isn't much health around. Well, there is normally speaking, but for this mod it simply isn't enough. First i played on normal difficulty setting which ended in that i couldn't continue after 15 min. simply because i had no health left and died each time. So i started a new game with lowest difficulty setting, but even then i died instantly all the time and again after 15 min i had left 4 health points, so one hit killed me each time. So there was simply no way for me to play on, would have loved to do so. But this game is simply to hard, and unfair. But, that is my opinion. Maybe someone else thinks differently, although i doubt it. I am a modder/mapper myself so i am a bit used to what people who play mods like. To be fair and precise, the maker of this mod named Doomero, he does say really everywhere that this game is brutal hard. So, he is really honest about it and that is true. I did had a discussion with him about it and he says that it is playable, but that it takes time to learn all the ins and outs of the mod. Most weapons can change the trajectory of there bullets, and when you want to put in the time to learn it all then the mod is probably a bit more forgiving, although it still then is HARD, with capital letters. And that is a choice the maker makes, and that is his good right. It is HIS mod, so he may develop it as he wishes. It is as simple as that. If the mod will be liked by many people who download it is another matter. For some it will be fun, but i am really afraid that most people will be like me, and simply can't play it because they just don't want to first put in the time to learn all the mechanics of this mod. And even then like the hardness and unforgiveness of it. Because even then it will kill you, again and again.
So, this mod looks like a 10/10, but my personal opinion is still 6/10. Simply because it is not playable for me. And this review is about what I think of this mod, not about how the mod maker sees it. So again, i really do think it is a shame that my 6 will turn down the overall number of review but i have to be honest. Seems it had 9,5 and because of my 6 ir now goes down to a 8.3. Till now there are 2 other reviews which both give 10 and 9, but i don't think they played it. Because both only talk about how the mod looks. And that is not a real review i think, but ok, np.
Am really interested to see over time how many people like this game style, i am afraid it will be not many. But then again, a mod is about what the modmaker wants to make, NOT what the public want it to be. In that field many people said the same about my mods, and then i answered that the mod was what I wanted to make. So, all is fair. This is what modding is all about. So Doomero, sorry for my 6, would have loved to give more because the mod shows real quality here. Its just that i personally think it is way to hard. Much success,

Leon