The Cage Match

Description
This is quite easily one of the nuttiest maps I\'ve ever played, and I mean that in a good way. Of course compared with Dann\'s other maps this one is pretty sane.

As the name implies, [i]Cage Match[/i] is a constricted and small map filled with lots of carnage and more importantly explosions. It takes place inside of a temple with a symmetrical design. Each team starts off at their own side, then runs down some stairs, through a hallway, and into a big room where all the fighting takes place. There\'s also a little balcony above the room for players to shoot at enemies down below. As you can read, there\'s not a lot to the map and it\'s quite simple. Fortunetely enough it comes with custom units to make it interesting.

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[b]Conquest[/b]

Conquest Mode is pretty straight forward. It\'s basic Conquest and you\'re simply trying to capture the other team\'s side of the map. Not much to it.

[b]Assault [/b]

Assault is definitely the map\'s best mode and the one that people will probably play the most.

In Clone Wars assault it\'s heroes (Clones and Rebels) versus villians (Battle Droids and Stormtroopers). Oh yeah and each side comes with it\'s own rogue wampa. Hehe. Just about all the units are given high-powered rocket launchers that do a lot of damage. The battles are totally crazy. This can be frustrating though; I can\'t recall how many times I\'d get blown up while running through the hallway before I even got the chance to fire. Believe me when I say the hallway is a death trap. Most of the units have cool new skins, with the villian\'s having the coolest ones. I especially like the DarkTrooper\'s skin. The biggest flaw with CW Assault is that it\'s impossible to win as the villians. The two times I played as the villians I got my butt handed to me. I rarely could get a kill and I was usually blown up in the hallway as I mentioned before. So, when I played as the heroes the battle was much easier and we won by a landslide. To me it was obvious why the heroes have such a huge advantage: better weapons. The smuggler for example has a handheld rocket launcher that shoots an unlimited number of missles that have a large blast radiusthat\'s capable of taking out at least 5 enemies with one rocket. I remember being in the enemy hallway and I could just camp there and shoot rockets at the stairs, killing any enemy that put their foot down on the first step. So CW Assault is fun, but unbalanced.

*catches breath*

Now onto Galactic Civil War assault. I\'ll start off by saying that GCW Assault is balanced, and in my opinion more fun than CW Assault. The heroes are a bunch of random characters, ranging from long-legged ewoks to midget wampas, and mutants to super-sized jawas. The villians consist of droids. No, not battle droids. Droids. Like R2D2, the medical droid, the \"gonk\" droid, and even the little auto turret droid! I can\'t believe the words are coming out of my mouth but they\'re cute. There\'s just something funny about seeing tiny little droids rolling around at fast speeds and firing lasers. The problem with the droids is that they\'re easily destroyed and their weapons are a bit on the weak side. The droids best unit is probably either IG-88 droid. One has a powerful rocket launcher (uh oh, not again) and the other comes with a lightsaber. Some of the heroes are kinda cute too, especially the midget wampa. I love sprinting around as a tiny little wampa while carrying around a giant rocket launcher to blast enemy droids away with. There\'s not much else to say except that this is my favorite mode for the map and it\'s fun, to say the least.

Both assault modes are probably best enjoyed online with other players. However I don\'t know whether or not it\'ll work online so you\'ll have to give it a try.

[b]XL Mode [/b]

XL is the craziest mode of all. It\'s not super-sized Conquest Mode, but instead it\'s super-sized Assault. Each team needs to get 1,000 kills to win. I know that sounds like a lot but you can probably do it in a very reasonable amount of time. Both CW XL and GCW XL are like their Assault counterparts, except that the map is crammed full of units and the 1,000 kill-required victory. It\'s just absolute chaos as rockets, bodies, and lasers go flying past you as run through the hallway with a crowd of allies. Actually, all those things have a better chance of hitting you than not. Basically, if you like chaos then XL mode is for you.

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Aside from the modes there are some neat and funny little features to the map as well.
-\"Commit Suicide\" instead of Respawn
-Instead of killing enemies you \"PWN\" them
-Encouraging messages appear like, \"How many kills is that?\"
-You can receive awards such as pies, cookies, and doughnuts :donut:

Overall this map is fun though simplistic and flawed. It\'s interesting at first but after a while it can get repetitive. Then again, I\'m not particularly fond of maps with insane amounts of units or confined spaces. At times it\'s too hard and at other times it\'s too easy. Neither of which is a good thing. But darned if it isn\'t fun.

PS: According to the ReadMe there\'s a secret arena that can be unlocked, but I was unsuccessful. It\'s something you should probably try.

-[GT]EraOfDesann