This was a promo level by Sony for the Anaconda movie.

O_o

Thats what the web says. Apparently it is called Temple of the Mist, and the boss snake is the Anaconda.

The level author is Magicman, as you would know if you'd read the end message.

I suggest raising the rating of this level to "nice" because it does a couple things that aren't done often in Quake. Check out the amount of water and the use of wood textures in this level, all of this really gives it a continuous theme that you don't see often. The selling points are the monsters, including the boss monster, of course.

It would fit right in with id episode 1. It's not excellent, though.

gb

Umm, you played the right level, yes? You're supposed to start a new game, because idiotically the map is called start.bsp. The other level here is "anac" (Snakepit) which seems to be a boss test level.

nevermind, you played the right level.

Still, it deserves better.

and finally, the title may be a ripoff the Tomb Raider addon, "Temple of the Cat" (which was a lot better).

Please post links next time:
http://www.bluesnews.com/archives/march97-5.html
http://www.bluesnews.com/archives/april97-1.html
http://www.bluesnews.com/guide/tcs.htm (talks about a DM map though)
http://www.planetcrap.com/topics/52/23/

But for the rating, I don't know. The boss is cool but the map is bollocks. It's small, uninspired and pretty ugly. And those uzi-equipped snake things are a bad joke. So I personally don't think it qualifies as "above average".

It was quite fun but also short. Those snake mobs we pretty annoying and seemed too accurate with the nail guns. The end boss was pretty cool.

It was quite fun but also short. Those snake mobs we pretty annoying and seemed too accurate with the nail guns. The end boss was pretty cool.

was magicman really bubbah/tan sian yue, as i seem to recall the snakes were based on his snakeman monster mod, though i'm too lazy to research it :)

The map is average+, as it gives a different gameplay and theme, but the boss is very good for a quake1 boss, i would love to see the smaller versions of it fighting alongside the boss.

Basically what Spirit said. No offence to the authors, but I would say this is at best barely average.

Played this when it first came out, and while it was nice to have a boss fight, this mod wasn't very good, even for the time.