Mercy at Stroggos Deten3

Content - Quake2 - Quake2 Levels - Quake2 Single Player

Author: Brad Kiefer | Rating: 6.00 | Download: mercy.zip

Welcome to Stroggos Deten3! The Stroggs have captured a squad and its up to you to show mercy to your bretheren by killing them before the Strogg use them for spare parts! To help you out, some of the squad members are carrying various weapons and ammo so, as the .txt file says, “be sure to get 100% kills in this mission.” Poor bastards! Not only are they being tortured, they have to carry the very means of their merciful death.

Gameplay is offered up in minute proportions. The main problem is that the level was unbalanced with too much weaponary and ammo. The map also holds 3 secrets that are completely unneccassary. Within the secrets you will find the rocket launcher, railgun, and the hyperblaster. If any one of these weapons are located the gameplay suffers dramatically ceasing any challenge the level holds.

The level design is standard at best offering only a few spots of interest. One being an area where you must find your way through a pool of water to locate a kill switch. What purpose was there for the pool ,other than to look neat, is not known but it does look nice none the less. This area also provides an interesting way of handling secrets so keep your eyes open to atleast see what the author has done. Texture usage involves the standard Quake2 textures giving the faciltiy more of a base feel. This, sadly, drowns out the inteded theme and if not for the amount of crazed soldiers everywhere you would forget your original mission entirely.

In closing, one must keep in mind that this is an older level but the theme could have been implemented better. This, of course, is not helped by the disturbingly low gameplay and the ease in which I conquered this level should be viewed as an example of what not to do for all future authors!

- DorKwolf