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	Re: Volunteers - Napalm/Chicken
	Posted By: Sidoh	Date: 8/2/01 10:57 a.m.
	In Response To: Volunteers - Napalm/Chicken (William Spencer) : This level is yet another entry in the What Idiot Designed This Spaceship? : contest. We should decide what the wierdest Marathon level is after we're done with this... : To me, this isn't one of the really killer-cool levels - it just kind of : fills in space. The music's nothing special, the texturing all runs : together in the tunnels, the monsters are just there...nothing special. But If your playing vid-style it gets a little hard. The first room was fun, the wasps pouring out of the half-closed door and having to use your fists isn't (I didn't feel like shooting 5 wasps with a little handgun). : On the other hand, if I was playing the levels straight through, instead of : one-a-day, I'd welcome the change of pace after The Rose, glad for a : chance to resling the AR and instead go sniping wasps with the pistol and : punching compilers in the particle emitter. Constant mind-numbing carnage : isn't effective gameplay - it's nice to have a break. Actually it was kind of nice on my first beta run. No 5 minutes of circling hulks with fists only to find 12 more on the level. : That opening ambush is a real piece of work, though. So far, you've always : been safe when you beam into a level, but this time you pop in and you're : instantly surrounded! And if you dive out and down the stairs to try for : extra maneuvering room, there're more nasties hiding in the adjacent : rooms... I still say this part is the best of the level. : The access tunnels are a pain, but easy to handle - side-step around corner, : no wasps, side-step around corner, no wasps, side-step around corner, wasp : on floor! Shoot it! Side-step around corner...Every 3D game needs a maze : or two, right? Well If you know where your going its not too rough. : All sorts of fiddly-bits in the mazes - lots of changing levels. : And that one corner in one tunnel where you sidestep into a sandwich between : a compiler and a pair of wasps. Ouch. I had the compiler hit the wasp. The wasp got madd and starting attacking the compiler. When the wasp was finished one running hit killed it :). : There are another of those computer-thingy pillars on this level - like the : one in the observation room on Arrival, or the one the first fighter is : hiding behind in Bigger Guns Nearby, or along the sides of the upper floor : in Mars Needs Women - what are those things? My guess is pillars with wiring running through them. : The trick with the bulkhead doors - how you can look past them and see a : corridor beyond - implies that the level is bigger than it actually is, a : trick used to good effect in the later games. You can make a 20 polygon level seem much, much, larger with that technique :). : It's a short level - you flip the two switches, ride that weird platform up : to the top, and then figure out how to properly trigger the other weird : platform that leads to the exit terminal. And you're off and away once : again... Yup. Off too Cool Fusion!

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Replies:

	Volunteers - Napalm/Chicken	William Spencer	8/1/01 11:37 a.m.
	Re: Volunteers - Napalm/Chicken	Hamish Sinclair	8/1/01 12:46 p.m.
	Re: Volunteers - Napalm/Chicken	7revor Smith	8/1/01 1:50 p.m.
	Re: Volunteers - Napalm/Chicken	Mark Levin	8/1/01 6:08 p.m.
	Re: Volunteers - Napalm/Chicken	Sidoh	8/2/01 10:57 a.m.
	Re: Volunteers - Napalm/Chicken	Graham Cull	12/13/01 9:42 a.m.
	Re: Volunteers - Napalm/Chicken	Mark Levin	12/13/01 10:07 a.m.
	Re: Volunteers - Napalm/Chicken	Steve Levinson	12/13/01 10:20 a.m.

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