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From: watchertwo@aol.com (WatcherTwo)
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Subject: Review of ThePits.wad
Date: 24 Apr 1994 10:03:01 -0400
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  Ok folks, I've gotten pretty good responses to my reviews, so here's another
one for you.
  The author had a note with this wad saying it was a very hard level and 
that he would like an lmp of it completed in UV (which as we know, is the
only way I play!) if it was possible to complete it.  So the uuencoded lmp
of the completion of this game will follow this message.  I would send it
to the author but he/she didn't leave their Email address in the txt file
that accompanied the wad.
  If anybody knows who made this level, could you pass the lmp on please?
                      Thanks in advance  8^).

  [The green flash clears and...]
  Damn, I'm facing a wall again, why do they do that?  I hear screaming all
around me!  I hope this isn't another 'put me in a room full of monsters and
fight your way out without a shotgun' game!  I spin around to see that I'm
standing in the bottom of a VERY large VERY deep pit!  Beside me is a shotgun
and next to that is a box of shells, way to go!  (I've always said, give me a
shotgun and a box of shells and I'll get out of almost anything.. now it's
put up or shut up time!)
  I grab the shotgun and the box of shells and start firing at anything I can
see!  A few short seconds later, I'm dead!  (I don't like dying!)
  I start over and try to figure out if the author just screwed up or if I 
just did it wrong... How can I get out of this pit alive?
  Well, I start over a few times working things out, and sure enough, it's not
only possible, but you can get out of there with health to spare!
  I exit the pit, finally, and have a look around me, there is another large
structure right next to me.. and ... Look out!  I'm being fired at!
  The entrance to this structure is easy to find.. and it's underground too,
I clear out what I can see from the top, and head into the hole.  Down here
I find a fairly simple maze (I'm relieved, I hate mazes!), I'm lead through
from room to room by the maze, killing whatever I see along the way (smiling
the whole time!).
  Finally I have that area clear, I come back out topside and look around
again,
there seems to be another VERY large building and I have the key!  I kick the
door open to find... nothing, no monsters, just a very large room full of red
poison.. Hmmm, I wonder if this is really poison... (I'll let you find out..).
  Well, I completed this level, then started my recording, it went pretty well
until I was maybe 5 minutes away from finishing the level... I exceeded the
15 minutes limitation in DOOM for recordings... Shit!  Now I not only have to
survive, but I have to do it FAST!  I redid the recording as fast as I could go
and managed to finish the level.  It could have been done much more elegantly
(I did the first recording with health to spare) but this one made the time
limit
  If you are looking for a hard hitting, fast moving, fun, workout for your
shotgun, this is it!
  The watcher ratings will be split from now on, 1 for design, 1 for gameplay
so here are my ratings of this game.

    Watcher rating for design?
               7
    It was pretty well done, a little HOM here and there, not a huge level,
      but a good one.

    Watcher rating for gameplay?
               10
    Yes folks, this game is a blast to play!  Just put it on UV and have a
blast!


