Underworldfan's Single Player Map Reviews

Maps Listed stats:
Industrial&Base: 23
Metal: 21
Space&Coagula: 4
Blue&Brick:4
Temple&desert: 9
Unclassifed&Misc:47
Medieval&Hist.: 34
Total: 142
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various screenshots
Starship 1
Starship 2
Soul Grinder
Murder Inc.
Centurion
All Black Within
The Fierce Livid
The First Attempt
Horripilatia
BrumalQuest
Structured Chaos
For My Babies 3
the Looming Madness
El temple de Sol
Temple
Hard Target 2
Corporal Punishment II
the 5th Level
Daredevils Descent
Escape from Alcatraz
Strength. Service. Honour.
Higher Synth

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Quake 1 Single Player Recommended Maps [Covering time period: from August 1996 to November 2002].

Note: Does NOT include any Hall of Fame Maps. Does NOT include any maps reviewed on the New Maps page [maps released since this site began in November 2002]. GREEN squares to the left of the map name indicate the absolute best levels out of all the recommended maps below, in each category.

Note: all maps & episodes can be downloaded by clicking on the desired map name. If you find any broken links or have any problems with downloading any map, Email me.

Credit & Acknowledgements: This page is fundamentally based on and an updated version of Shambler's original "list of old levels" page, so thanx to him for coming up with the original idea. I have included some (though by no means all) of the maps from that page, and also have used his idea of splitting the maps by *theme*.

Industrial & Base maps [23] | Metal maps [21]
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Key |  |  | Review | Key |  |  | Review
|  | actaltrz: Escape from Alcatraz |  |  |  | abw: All Black Within |
|  | Jjspq3: Strength. Service. Honor. |  |  |  | chaos: the Crawling Chaos |
|  | lthsp2: Backwards Compatible |  |  |  | tfl2: the Fierce Livid |
|  | cloning: the Cloning Facility |  |  |  | tms1: the First Attempt |
|  | commctr: the Command Center |  |  |  | Horrid: Horripilatia |
|  | dazsp3: Ground Zero |  |  |  | jawbreak: JawBreaker |
|  | ch1sp1: Higher synth |  |  |  | ls: LS |
|  | tmc: the Monolith Complex |  |  |  | arcane: Arcane |
|  | polygon2: Polygon Base |  |  |  | carnage: Carnage |
|  | xnq1002: Centurion |  |  |  | demons: Demon's Lair |
|  | imp1sp1: the Corral |  |  |  | evilwrld: Evil World 1 |
|  | dotd4: Dawn of the dead |  |  |  | fatalpla: the Fatal Place |
|  | cdestroy: Destroy Base |  |  |  | fmb3: For My Babies 3 |
|  | dxmf: Dextromethorphan |  |  |  | erotique: Horror Erotique |
|  | fatal-error: Fatal Error |  |  |  | networld: Netherworld |
|  | rc1: the Fratar Fracas |  |  |  | sadlark 6: Sacrifice of the Flesh |
|  | garrison: Garrison |  |  |  | scorn: Scorn |
|  | harmsway: Harm's Way |  |  |  | dm1m2: Strongholds of the battered |
|  | hive: Hive |  |  |  | tfl3: This feels Lurid |
|  | mars1: Mars 1 |  |  |  | well: the Well of Lost Souls |
|  | mungo: Power Plant |  |  |  | wishes: the Well of Wishes |
|  | czg01: Research Facility |  | Temple & Desert Maps [9]
|  | wieder: Timebomb |  |  |  | alk 13: the Looming Madness |
Space & "Coagula" maps [4] |  |  | alk07: Egyptian Myth |
|  | casspq1: Hell in a Can |  |  |  | temple2: El temple de sol |
|  | moon: Starship 2 |  |  |  | fmb8: For My babies 8 |
|  | starship: Starship 1 |  |  |  | Lisland: the Lost Island [2 maps] |
|  | dilcoa: I see Dead People |  |  |  | morbid_2: Morbidity ][ |
Blue & Brick maps [4] |  |  | perssp2: Return To Dust |
|  | pb2: the Soul Grinder |  |  |  | a2d2: Ambush Keen Pilgrims |
|  | anonca1: Anonca Base |  |  |  | e1: the Temple |
|  | pb1: Darkness Diabolical |  |  |  |  |
|  | godsjt: God's House |  |  |  |  |

Unclassified & Misc. maps [47] | medieval & Historical maps [34]
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Key |  |  | Review | Key |  |  | Review
|  | mrdinc: Murder Inc. |  |  |  | alba01: the Road to Inverurie |
|  | hrdtrgt2: Hard Target 2 |  |  |  | cryo: cryo 1 Daredevils Descent |
|  | sadlark2: the House of Sadlark |  |  |  | alk15: Brumal Quest |
|  | sadlark8: Temple of Amon-Sadlark |  |  |  | real: far beyond reality |
|  | sgc8: Notlobs Moonshot |  |  |  | gor1F: Gods of Rapture |
|  | fiffy6: reol tough O negative |  |  |  | alk11: Grizly Manifest |
|  | canal3: FloodGate |  |  |  | guard: the Guardhouse |
|  | corp2: Corporal Punishment II |  |  |  | alba02: Inverurie |
|  | asylum: the Asylum |  |  |  | rrsp1: Rune Keep |
|  | level5: the 5th level |  |  |  | alk05: the Savage Sanguine |
|  | czgtoxic: BioToxin |  |  |  | sm28: Structured Chaos |
|  | czg_moon: CZG's moonshot |  |  |  | rc3: Towne |
|  | ik100b: Valley of Kings [in pack] |  |  |  | cryo: cryo2:Cyrogenic Crypt [map 2] |
|  | avatar: Avatar |  |  |  | tefdbl3: Apollos Domain [map 2] |
|  | fmb4: For my Babies 4 |  |  |  | golgotha: Halls of Golgotha |
|  | old_city: Old City |  |  |  | n3sp03: At the gates of midian |
|  | seraphim: House of Seraphim |  |  |  | oblivion: Castle of Oblivion |
|  | tcentral: Teleportation |  |  |  | shoggoth: Chapel Shoggoth |
|  | fiffy3: Damnation |  |  |  | darkfst: Dark Forest |
|  | fiffy4: AntiChrist |  |  |  | darknite: Dark Night |
|  | assassin: Assassin |  |  |  | elektra: the Elektra Complex |
|  | dknight: fortress of the Dark Knight |  |  |  | elsinore: Elsinore |
|  | gordian: Gordian's Brick |  |  |  | edom: Empockels Domain |
|  | martim6: Lucifers Path/Overridden |  |  |  | Epoch: the Epoch Turning |
|  | purg2: Life after death |  |  |  | tfl: the Forgotten Level |
|  | purg3: Reconstruction |  |  |  | hostile: Fucking Hostile |
|  | tss: Temple of the Secret Society |  |  |  | haunt: Haunted Revenge |
|  | n3sp02: Castle Necrosis |  |  |  | outpost2: the Keldjoran Outpost |
|  | metro: Hive Part 2 |  |  |  | despair2: Liquid Despair |
|  | museum: museum Quake |  |  |  | lostwrld: the Lost World |
|  | siluette: Silouette of Darkness |  |  |  | sgc3: Notlobs parting shot |
|  | jjspq1: the Vigil of the Night |  |  |  | pdbq_sp1: Recurrent rumours |
|  | ps43a: Pumping Station 43/A |  |  |  | rc2: Swamp |
|  | canabode: Canyon's Abode |  |  |  | last game: Last Game 2 [map 2] |
|  | lthsp5: Exodus |  |  |  |  |
|  | sadlark9: Four Runes of Sadlark |  |  |  |  |
|  | fmb5: For my babies 5 |  |  |  |  |
|  | fmb6: For my Babies 6 |  |  |  |  |
|  | halo: halo of Fire[leap] |  |  |  |  |
|  | ksm: King Solomons Mines |  |  |  |  |
|  | tech+tchphob: Technophobia [no Quarter] |  |  |  |  |
|  | jjspq2: Unseen Assailant |  |  |  |  |
|  | techdeth: *Techdeth* |  |  |  |  |
|  | gostown7: the Hockey Arena |  |  |  |  |
|  | ktl: Keys To Liberty |  |  |  |  |
|  | paint6: the Paradox Emporium |  |  |  |  |
|  | scoop: Scoop of Chaos |  |  |  |  |

## Q1SP recommended map reviews sorted by: Map Name.

Notes & Comments Click on the name link to read the review. All Q1SP Recommended map [previously released prior to the start of this site] reviews are listed here. For Hall of Fame maps goto the "Hall of Fame" page. For *NEW* Quake 1 maps goto the "New Maps" page.

## Details & Explanation.

I wanted to present another page of download links, and possibly reviews in the future of more Q1SP maps in addition to the hall of Fame page. There have been so many excellent Quake 1 maps released and i felt that the Hall of Fame page on its own wasn't covering enough maps, and i wanted visitors to this site to have the chance to play even more good maps.
The Key points are as follows:
[1] These maps are just my personal recommendations, they have not been voted for by other people in contrast to the Hall of Fame.
[2] The hall of Fame remains the *elite* best of the best of Q1SP maps page. This is a secondary, bigger collection if you want more maps to play =). All these Q1SP recommended maps are still of a very high quality.
[3] Maps are grouped by their "theme", that is their Architectural and texture Style. Within each group, roughly speaking the best maps are at the top. BTW, my personal favorite theme is probably metal maps, although i like Temple & Desert Maps a lot too. Try a couple of maps from each group and see which theme you like the best.
[4] All the maps listed above are worth playing, but the ones with a GREEN square next to them, are the absolute best of these maps, if you just want to try a few.
[5] "Unclassified maps" are those i have not yet had the time/inclination to put into their correct group. This may be done at a later date. Some of these maps are also "misc" [miscellaneous maps], which means their theme does not fit into any of the other groupings.
Some of these maps will be well known to the experts/veterans of the Quake 1 community but there are also a few hidden treasures and obscure maps i have found whilst searching through the web.

REVIEWS
A "review" link (in a light blue box) by the map/episode indicates i have written a full review for that map/episode, click on the link to read the review. I intend to write more reviews of these classic maps as time passes. I will probably choose my personal favorites to review, there is no particular order or reason beyond this, as to which of these maps/episodes get reviewed. If you have a particular classic map you would like to see reviewed, email me.
Stats:
Total number of Q1SP recommmended maps listed = 142
Total number of Q1SP recommmended maps reviewed = 0