People keep calling these maps "oldskool". What does oldskool mean? After finally getting the time to play them I can only assume that it means "really well designed and constructed and excellent fun to play".

Proof, not that it was ever needed, that small/medium maps can be just as impressive as massve sprawlers.

Brilliant fun. Thanks CZG. 

I somehow missed these skiping through the news but a release from czg!! Now I've seen it all, bal releasing maps, czg releasing multiple maps.

cant wait to get back and try these out. 

As in the style of Quake itself, smaller, Quake themed maps with some exploration, nice styles but not too extravagent, and a strong Quakey atmosphere.

But of course in this case done with better build quality, stronger design, and beefier gameplay. But still retaining that original Quake flava - which is a great thing IMHO. 

thats why you should keep running a review site shambler! 

Thanks. I knew that already, of course, but thanks anyway. My question was suppossed to be a sideways sarcastic prod at people that think size and "new things" maketh the map. Didn't really work, though. Besides which I can't think of any of the mappers that are still mapping for the mighty Q that are (that) guilty. Most of them have blessedly "retired".

It's a great thing IMHO2. :-) 

Another batch of demos have been posted over at SDA:

http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/ 

they're nice to look at without being wow material but the gameplay is excllent. I liked how *everything* from the lighting to the layouts was oldskool. 

...the review should be up over at UWF Reviews shortly. Nice work. 

Great work master. You know - before playing this pack I had spent some minutes with some frustrating Doom 3 level followed by a frustrating ZDoom level - I was so pissed off. But then I saw terra.zip on my desktop and decided to have some Quake fun - and fun it was.

I love the clean look of these levels and the near-perfect gameplay. The only unfortunate stop was at the end of the fourth map where the exit wouldn't open due to a bug mentioned here. I really loved the way those four Shamblers were thrown at you at the end of the third level - I was like "is this guy serious?" - and then they were gone.

Glad you released them! 

Lovely lovely traps! I like it! Its hard and very likeable, but seriously, on the second map, just sickening quantities of enemies, I haven't played through it all, will do tomorrow, gj! :D 

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