AS-Vampire
Map Info
	File Name as-vampire.zip Author Edin Hozic Gametype UT Assault Date Added 10-01-2001 File Version 1.00 File Size 1.14 mb Player Count 6-10 Map Description None Review Rating 4.5 User Rating 8 Overall Rating 5.5	NC2 map imported without screenshot.
Review
Reviewer Nahand Awe Score:  1.0/3 Date 12-11-2003 Build Score:  1.5/3 Review Schema Cast Score:  2.0/3 User Point:  +1 Overall Score:  5.5/10 AWE: 1 Visually speaking, this map has the textures fitting, just like you would expect in a village setting like the one depicted here, and there's no visible misalignment (maybe the mountain or cave walls but you wouldn't REALLY notice it), but it's still very boring to look at. Lighting and architecture are almost unnoticeable (spelling?). I mean, there's light alright (!), but the outside area (read: daylight 11.00 am maybe) feels bland and there's absolutely nothing outstanding. Not even that little detail found in other maps that make us smile at its cheesyness when compared with the rest of the work. Architecture goes equal. The village has a few houses, some where the defending team spawn (with some detail, this one BTW), but again its all very simple and more oriented to giving the player something (anything!) to see in the otherwise barren valley the village stands. At least there´s plenty of room to dodge incoming rockets or shock lazer beams. I imagined, by the good comments on this map, that it was going to be a rich environment depicting maybe some Transilvanya-like area, just at dawn. That's my imagination floating, but really: i definitly think the setting/goal of the map would have given a great visual experience, if done/thought out properly. Unfortunately, it was not, IMHO. BUILD: 1.5 There's some ambient sounds at the village area to make it feel more alive, but the chosen soundtrack (a UT default one) is a bad choice IMO. It's that music that fits more in an urban afro-gangsta (i think!) map. The brush-work is simple all over. There's of course some details where the author put some more effort and its a fact that i've seen FAR WORSE mountain walls in other maps, and the 2nd objective hut with the waterwell is nice, but those all thogether can't make the map more of what it is really: an average brush-work to give body to an assault bunch of objectives. CAST: 2 Even when you get to the village area (a BIG valley), the FPS continue high. A possible author's decision to keep the map playable. That would justify partially the simple brush-work. The BOTs did fine navigating the whole map up into the last objective and giving the vampire a heart-broke (literally). That is good because while at the first rounds in this map, i got little to no clue where to go next. All i did was to follow the BOTs as they played the map for me :/ There's no clear indication of where-to, but that is an issue ONLY at the village valley, and up until you played it twice. Apart from that, the rest of the map is pretty much straight-forward. Even with that "i'm lost" situation, the overall map flow is great. There's the oh-so-common situation of spawning in the map, run a few meters and blast something to complete the 1rst objective (a personal no-no in AS maps), but i guess EPIC should have known better than having AS-Guardia as a bad example. Apart from that, you'll have combat. That, in fact, seems the only plausible reason for the high comment scores about this map. The moment you blast that first rock wall, up until the breaking of the chain at the end, you'll get sweet action that makes you really worth your final achevement. FINAL NOTE: I know the score of this review is WAY below what the comments suggested, but i honestly can't rate it higher in any of the reviewing categories. Thus, it would be rather unfair to the other maps and respective authors efforts that REALLY deserve better scores.
Map Comments
Razor 05-17-2003 02:50 PM MDT Rating: 8   the idea of this map is really nice ~shadow~ 06-23-2003 02:41 PM MDT Rating: 9   That's a cool map! I like the end stanleyboy 09-17-2003 10:34 AM MDT Rating: 10   it is one of my favorite map is AS vampire as its got a wicked vampire. Did you know there is a way getting to the 2nd objective quickly? theres a hole somewhere with cobwebs in it Mr. Derp 11-12-2003 09:13 PM MST Rating: 9   Cool map, 'lotta fun. Download it! Taydawg 11-13-2003 08:27 PM MST Rating: 8   Once upon a time i had to make a rhyme this map is certanly neet i dont know if its L33T hovever i thought more that you would break the door and find the count himself right here...... But ya Know what! .... Life always isnt fair. ive got some baldness, lacking of my hair but ya Know what! .... Life screws you in the butt! and if it does that then be happy its not the gut... You hunt a mutant man and shoot , not the FAN but the chain somewhere here, reminds me of a deer 0_o but to get here, youve gotta fight em back and you know who they are ITS TEAM BLACK! But ya Know what! .... Life always isnt fair. ive got some baldness, lacking of my hair but ya Know what! .... Life screws you in the butt! and if it does that then be happy its not the gut... What an open areaaaaah, what an open skyyyyyie great for snipers hiding here, they want to make you diiiiie so run a lot and shoot your best, running to MrS.ChOw, hey man u got a hole here >:0 , ITS IN MY BLACK AFRO!!! But ya Know what! .... Life always isnt fair. ive got some baldness, lacking of my hair but ya Know what! .... Life screws you in the butt! and if it does that then be happy its not the gut... -------------------------- good map. i really thought id be fighting Dracula,... but its still nice :) KRYZPO 11-15-2003 10:53 AM MST Rating: 10   this map is one of my favorite ASMAPSthe idea of killing a completely wicked vampire was pretty cool . STANLEYBOY:duuuuh!!!! but that it aint the fast way that's thewrong way!!! if you try to go to that cave they will kill you like a bug and when you r in that cave you go slower than going to the original way(the bridge). nice objectives!!! XepptizZ 12-22-2003 01:03 PM MST Rating: 6   I have seen better maps, much better maps. The indoor fighting is to cramped, never did like the village fighting thing, nor do I like Unreal monsters for UT. I do like the mountain theme and because it has no more obviouse flaws I left with a 6. Eddy Merckx "The Ripper" 01-25-2004 10:18 AM MST Rating: 4   I didn't like this map, the music is totally inadequate and the sky looks depressingly ugly grey cloudy... had expected much more and btw the map doesn't run very smooth on my pc that by the lake vampire is a funny concept