Скачать или смотреть Doom 2: Hell Revealed - Map 10: Chambers of War (UV Max)

Hell Revealed is a 1997, 32-map mega WAD made by Yonatan Donner and Haggay Niv shrouded in infamy with a reputation that precedes it. For one, it’s a bit of an understatement to say, but Donner and Niv follow very clearly in the footsteps of Plutonia. They take the design philosophies and brutal combat of those maps and do them one better. They go even crazier and deliver fights that are much harder, more cathartic, and less forgiving. This is a WAD from the 90s that purely represents a focus on challenging combat, and pleasing aesthetics rarely (if not ever) show themselves.

Another very memorable part of Hell Revealed combat-wise is its strange fascination with Barons of Hell. It starts out somewhat mild, but Donner and Niv’s obsession with them will become VERY apparent early on in the mega WAD. It’s something that turns a lot of these maps into tedious chores. Tedium is something we’ll probably see a lot of.

A positive memorable feature of Hell Revealed is its heavy usage of Rise of the Triad MIDIs. Some of them are the sole reason that I remember the maps (such as MAP13), and they generally make the experience of playing Hell Revealed tolerable.

Despite my gripes with it, Hell Revealed is undoubtedly one of the most influential WADs ever made, and its hardcore combat design can be seen in countless WADs that followed it. So it’ll be interesting to look at these maps again.

I’m not looking forward to this one too much, and its sequel even less so. I’m curious what my perspective on these maps will be after a long time of not playing it.

HELL REVEALED PLAYLIST:    • Hell Revealed  
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IWAD: Doom 2
Port: DSDA-doom 28.2
Compatibility: Vanilla (comp level 2)
Mapper(s): Haggay Niv
MIDI: Lee Jackson - Havana Smooth (from Rise of the Triad)
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Hell Revealed: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/the...

DSDA-doom: https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom

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This Haggay Niv map is definitely better on paper than his Map 7, but I don’t think I enjoy it more. The Hell Nobles are starting to get used a fair amount, and the extremely orthogonal/basic design of the whole map makes their presence even worse to deal with. It’s not too bad though because you do get quite a bit of plasma for that Hell Knight horde, and if you’re able to get the Barons and Mancubi to infight, then that should ease things a bit. I wasn’t able to here quite as well, but everything still works out just fine.

I suppose that little hedge maze outside is a cute touch to the map, and I do appreciate what Haggay Niv was seemingly trying to depict here (some kind of house/wooden mansion maybe?), but that’s about it.