"Wages of Sin"

wagessin.wad

Author(s):

Sam K. Ellis III

Year of release:

2001

Map(s):

E3M1

Engine:

Doom1/Ultimate Doom

Date of review:

06/15/2005

Overall rating:

Optically, this is a very good map, with everything being hellish bloodred around you and many details adding nicely to the atmosphere.
However, this is also a puzzle-map, and the author has made a big mistake: you need to find a really well hidden secret to proceed and exit the map. You find a blue key but no blue door, and I never found out, what this key was good for. After 30 minutes of desperate search I finally found the solution and finished the map. Normally, I'm a puzzle freak and don't finish a map until every monster is killed and every secret revealed. But this time, I was only glad to find the exit, though there must have been some monsters and an unrevealed secret somewhere.
This (and the moving fake-teleporters in a lavapit) spoil a map that otherwise would have been a real jewel.