SP: Hell in a Can

[Baker]

Map Name: Hell in a Can
Year Made: 1998
Author: Michael Casaday
Review Link: Team Shambler
Download Link: casspq1 at Quaddicted archive



This is one of the most different single player maps out there.

This is more or less an Alien movie type of single player. I won't say more about it. This isn't kill the zombies. The review at Team Shambler from way back when said it had a Quake 2 feel.

Having 20 minutes of Quake 2 experience before deleting it off my hard drive, I'll have to take their word it.

[To the 1 or 2 Quake 2 fans, I would have thought Quake 2 was "ok" if it weren't labelled a Quake game. I'm not against Quake 2 as a game, but it was as much like Quake as Blood 2 was like Blood.]

[scar3crow]

The Quake2 to Quake as opposed to Blood2 to Blood example doesnt quite work simply because Blood2 was an intended sequel, that kind of lost its focus and shipped with a lot of problems in the game logic itself that were never resolved.

Quake2 only fell apart on the storyline aspect really, and only somewhat - but it was not intended to be a sequel, merely they couldnt come up with a cool name for the game that wasnt already copyrighted, and it was assumed early on that of course id's next game was going to be a sequel to their blockbuster Quake, so it was already known as Quake2 early on.

Of course, id originally wasnt going to be such a franchising company, but, well, I will say more on that topic come mid July =)