Talus: Hillside

Description
\"Talus: Hillside,\" by TK432, is a rocky mountain-side map spread out with grassy areas and steep rocky hills. It\'s a pretty decent map - it\'s well-put-together, it has its own campaign, and it\'s got support for extra mods.

The map itself looks pretty good. Hilly maps are very much par for the course in user-created Battlefront II maps, because of the simplicity of the terrain editor, but one thing that is almost always done poorly with the terrain editor is steep hills. I like what the author has done here in using lots and lots of stacked stock rock props (say that ten times fast!) to create an effective set of hills and cliffs. One of my favorite stock assets (the Tatooine mushroom rock - and yes, I know it\'s weird to have favorite assets) is used in excess here, and it\'s a good example of what creative use of stock props can yield.

The map also has its own campaign, which is a nice break from the norm - I\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it again; a mod map with a campaign is a huge leap over just a regular mod map in terms of how enjoyable I find it. The campaign is set in the CW era, and while it is short and relatively simple, it does have a bit of variability with some randomly-chosen objectives.

In addition to the above, it\'s always nice to see support for extra community content, which this map has. You can see in the screenshots below that it\'s a nice-looking map, so go ahead and give it a download - you\'ll enjoy it.

-Mav