Eurocorp Syndicate Airship

Description
Here we have a rather unusual map, because this is in fact a fusion of two different maps! First of all we have RunAmock's Hangar T-31 (from the recent JKFiles July/August) mapping contest and then within the hangar area itself we have the Eurocorp Syndicate Airship made by DLegion. I am presuming this Eurocorp Syndicate is some kind of clan, especially since the airship itself has all the things you would expect from a clan map, although I could be wrong!

RunAmock's Hanger T-31 map is a fantastic map, and it wouldn't be fair of me to review that map here since that is a separate map my a different author and will soon have its own review when I can get around to getting all the contest entries re-reviewed! Although more than half of the map is made up of RunAmock's map, the main subject of this file is the airship contained within the hanger and the other additions made by DLegion, so that is what I will be looking at.

The airship itself is very reminiscent of something from Star Trek... and indeed the interior contains several references to Star Trek, including technical deck plans of the USS Voyager, a few instances of Federation Symbols and other Trek related textures. Heck, the ship even has what appears to be warp nacelles on each side (which incidentally you can enter from the inside!) albeit green ones instead of the normal Trek Red and Blue. Inside the airship are several decks to explore, including a flight deck/hangar complete with small fighter type craft and some kind of huge mech suit. The interior of the ship looks very comfortable and looks like the perfect place for a clan to meet. The one major problem with the interior though is that the ceilings are just [i]too low[/i] which makes it difficult to find your way around, since your normal perception of space is a bit skewed due to the cramped surroundings.

Nevertheless though, it is nicely decorated, with several different areas, including a library, a small pool, areas to lounge out in and even a few toilets! ;) Not to mention multiple maintenance and storage type areas and tunnels including the engine areas.

Now, onto the other additions to RunAmock's map. One addition, accessible via the elevator at the back of the hangar is an office like area right at the top of the skyscraper. The architecture of this area, along with the somewhat creepy music definitely reminds me of something from one of the Final Fantasy series of games. The second area is the outside area of the DLegion Monolith, the full map of which you can find [file=92869]here[/file]. This area can be accessed via the 'holodeck' room in the Airship itself, so you could say it is a holodeck simulation!

There might be other areas, but I wasn't able to find any, this is a pretty large and sprawling map though so I would be surprised if there are some more secrets to be found!

As for improvements, I think for next time around, the ceilings of the decks on the airship should definitely be made a fair bit higher, since at the moment the whole ship feels very cramped due to the low ceilings. I would also like to see a bit more exterior detailing on the Airship, like some pipes and other such things, just to make it look a little less flat. Other than that I think the texturing needs a little more work inside, perhaps using more similar textures to tie the interior of the ship together as a whole.

Overall this is a cool combination of maps, although adding more features to the RunAmock Hangar T-31 (which already has quite low framerate in some areas) does lead to some very low framerates in certain areas of the map. Nevertheless I think its cool to see this kind of co-operation between different mappers and indeed, different maps. I look forward to seeing any future versions of the Eurocorp Syndicate Airship! :)

[b]New Textures:[/b] Yes
[b]New Sounds:[/b] Yes
[b]New Music:[/b] Yes
[b]Bot Routes:[/b] No
[b]Game Types:[/b] FFA, TFFA, Duel

~Nozyspy~