Matrix Lobby

Description
[b]’There is no spoon’[/b] was one of the main revelations that the super popular Matrix Trilogy gave us, along with the other revelation that we are all in fact in suspended animation, living inside a giant computer program that we think is the real world and providing an electricity supply for the population of robots that took over the world from us.

That there is no spoon though, is of course the most important thing we learned from the Matrix.

Ehm, anyway, enough talk of spoons, let’s get on with the review!

What we have here is a map of the famous lobby scene in the first Matrix movie, where Neo and Trinity trash the lobby of an office building whilst on their way to rescue Morpheus, who has been captured by Agents. This is a small map, suitable really only for duelling in (though it is available for FFA as well), so there isn’t much to explore, however this map looks absolutely amazing. Especially if you put the extra .pk3 file included here in your base folder. Ordinarily the floor in this map looks just shiny, as you see in plenty of other maps, add in the extra .pk3 however and the shiny floor will be replaced with a [b]mirror shiny[/b] floor! Just make sure your computer can handle the extra workload though, because this new floor shader in essence mirrors the entire map, which can drag FPS down quite a bit if you have a slower computer.

Add to that all the good quality textures, and those great glowy lights and you have one very cinematic looking map here. There is interactivity too! Neo and Trinity made a complete mess of the lobby in the film, and now you can too! Go and hack at the pillars and big chunks will break off and litter the floor, the computer screens - one of which has a screenshot of the Movie Battles 2(nice touch!) – are also destructible. Another nice little touch is that when you walk through the metal detectors, they go off! Fortunately though there aren’t any guards there to get in your way. ;)

I really cant think of any way to improve this map, other than making it bigger and maybe including the rooftop and the office where Morpheus is held prisoner. For a duel map though this is great, and I highly recommend a download, especially if you are a fan of the Matrix trilogy! :D

[b]New Textures:[/b] Yes
[b]New Sounds:[/b] Yes
[b]New Music:[/b] Yes
[b]Bot Routes:[/b] Yes
[b]Game Types:[/b] FFA, TFFA, Duel, Power Duel

~Nozyspy~