Sith Temple

Description
Here we have an interesting take on the good old Sith Temple theme. All you need to do is look at the screenshots to tell that this is no ordinary Sith themed map.

As you can see, this map has a very unusual mix of both Sith, Gothic and slightly Fantasy themed architecture. I’m almost expecting Dracula to come sweeping down from the rafters as much as I am some Sith minion! Though the mix of different architectural styles is unusual, the author has managed to mesh them all together very nicely, so that nothing in the map looks completely out of place. I for one, loved those vaulted ceilings, very nicely made indeed! One other area that I particularly liked was the library room. It is very similar to the Jedi Archives, except of course, instead of being all nice and blue, glowy and modern, this is filled with leather bound books and burning torches.

This map is a pretty decent size, so there is plenty of room for an FFA, though I would say that it isnt really suited so much to full time clan use because it doesn’t have the standard clan features like a council room, duel rooms etc.

It would, however, make a good RP map I think, as it is very atmospheric and has plenty of interesting locations, like a prison area for example, where you can lock up and torture your Jedi prisoners, if you are so inclined!

The texturing was also an interesting mix, with dark Sith-y Korriban textures and lighter Jedi Rift textures together. Although you would imagine the two wouldn’t go together at all, again the author has done a good job or meshing them together and preventing them from looking out of place. Another interesting mix was the music, which is a nice classical track, which kinda gave this map the flavour of a fantasy location, perhaps something out of Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter rather than Star Wars. That’s not a bad thing though, since I said above, the author has picked a track which also works for a Sith themed map, preventing it from feeling too out of place.

There are some things I think need to be worked on though, as this map has huge potential and definitely deserves a v2 made. One big issue I found was that some areas are just too dark, especially around some of the staircases, which means it’s not easy to tell if you are going in the right direction! I think perhaps an ambient light value of 10 in the worldspawn would help lighten up those very deep shadows a bit. I would also like to see some more areas, perhaps some duel rooms and a council room or something similar to make it more usable by clans, because it has great potential for that kind of map. Lastly, I really think some bot routing would be good, although that might be difficult considering some of the features in this map (such as the fire jets, which propel you down one of the corridors!).

All in all though, I like this map and I think it has a great deal of potential as both a clan themed map and an RP map, as well as being a generally fun map to explore, but I do think it needs a bit more work in places.

Keep up the good work mate! :)

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

~Nozyspy~