Friday, July 5, 2013

Project X

Author: Eugeny
# of levels: 2
Rating: 7/10
Difficulty: Easy

Project X is an unfinished 2 level addon by Eugeny. The addon has not been abandoned, because Eugeny has stated that he will resume working on it once The Victors is finished, since he is a member of the development team.

The gameplay is easy and straightfoward. The mission objective in both maps is simply to find the exit to the level, but level 2 is an exeption. On level 2, you have to find the entrance to the church, and destroy the refrigerator (what refrigerator, I can finish the level without completing this objective, because there is no refrigerator?).

You will be fighting a lot of zombies, and a few Nazi soldiers, but mostly zombies (both the warriors and the skeletons). There are a few Nazi vs zombie fights, 1 in level 1, and 2 in level 2. The second fight in level 2 is more of a "death scenario", which means you cannot interfere with it, only watch. There are some secret areas, and a few are hard to find. The secret areas contain gold and health, but mostly gold.

The level design is simple; tombs and crypts. This addon reminds me very much about the original maps crypt1 and crypt2. There are some traps (closing wall and spikes to jump over), which is a plus since traps make a sp map more interesting. No custom sounds or models are used, but there are some great Egyptian textures along with a custom soundtrack that plays during a fight with zombies in level 1.

The reason I gave this addon a 7/10 is because:
1. It's not finished yet, which means there's room for improvement.
2. The lighting is great, but I think both levels could be made more creepy.
3. Some of the health and ammo are in unrealistic places. For example, when a zombie busted a wall, behind that wall was a pack of ammo for the mp40. Some armored helmets, health packs, and ammo are randomly laying on the floor instead of beside a corpse or laying on top of something, like a table.

Other than these few mistakes, I think Project X has potential to become a great addon for Rtcw.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkuILwPAiTo

I did not record the video above. All credit goes to Vicpas.

My playthrough of Project X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcbNcnC1AGM&index=26&list=PLYWhrG56_-7pUvaR1ykuZIN4zz8n8xeOR


Yo$hik's playthrough in "extreme quality": https://goo.gl/eB6Q1m


General Red's playthrough: https://goo.gl/DDlnbU


Eugeny's playthrough of all variants: https://goo.gl/E8RwRZ

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