While two objectives make this sound like a short assault run, the base is immense and the frustration is of equal proportions when on the offensive. To boot, your main weapon is the plasma rifle. I'm not sure why, but there's a LOT of them in here. Then, there are half as many barfrifles, which is still quite a few. The frustration really mounts when you have to take a very long stroll down to the farthest switch, run into a swarm of defenders, die, then get sent ALL the way back to the farthest point possible. Imagine doing this for about 10 minutes. I even massed my army and attacked as one whole throng of plasma firing freaks. We all get levelled, and sent back to that same point. The only change that actually takes place after about the five minute mark is that every minute thereafter, I start swearing a little louder each time I get wasted.

Defense keeps you on your toes, but now you have access to the ASMD...er...shock rifle. This is quite a handy thing in this map. I think I got about two mo-mo-mo-mo-monster kill-kill-kill-kills, three ultra kills, and countless multi and double kills defending. I usually end up getting destroyed by e pluribus unum rockets that have locked on to me, or by my own teammates. Unfortunately, for me anyway, I managed to tackle the base finally after about 13 minutes. I failed to defend the base by a marginal 23 seconds remaining. *frikkinfrakkinmudderflappin...grumble*

Bot play wasn't too bad, but there were few small scale skirmishes. It was usually the full eight against eight war! With a little bit of luck, you might actually come out standing. They attacked and defended well.

As far as layout and design goes, it looks really good without massive poly-counts. Lighting breaks up the monotony by carefully using oranges, but not pineapples, though a few spots were too dark for my tastes, especially around the large crates. All-in-all, a fairly good assault level.