"
It features 8 excellent new single-player
levels, a new start map,
a few new textures..."
Beyond
Belief is just as it says, beyond
belief. It's hard to imagine
that such a quality conversion was
created over 4 years ago. The
architecture and design definately reign
superb in these high quality maps. The
first few levels seem like your normal
military base levels, but don't judge to
quickly. Just take a second to look
around, after you remove the grunts and
enforcers of course, and you'll notice
the detail that was put into these levels.
There are some awesome ceiling structures
that should not be missed and I
especially liked the huge pool area. This
area looks very nice with the transparent
water effect on. See screenshot 1.
As you
continue your journey the military bases
gently fade away giving in to the lava
type levels. This is a very nice
transition if you pay attention. From
there, the real beauty of Beyond Belief
begins to be exposed. You travel through
twisted hallways, across wooden bridges,
and work your way through pools of slime.
All of this just to decend further and
further into the depths of what some
would probably call Hell.
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The way
the maps intertwine is especially neat.
While playing through the level you have
the feeling that these are your standard
maps that just leads you in the forward
direction, but once you move further
through each level a much more complex
and twisted map is revealed. Also, keep
your eyes opened for traps.
There are monster traps through out every
level but one level in particular host a
button puzzle that was rather difficult
to figure out. Hint, look for the pattern
on the floor. Features like these show
off the time and effort that was put into
the design of Beyond Belief.
The
balance between ammo and enemies is also
well done, usually giving just enough
ammo to get you through but you will need
to keep watch on your rocket supply, you
will need them later. The most dominate
weapon has to be the shotgun. In fact,
you go quite sometime before finding any
other weapons. One theme that flows
through all of the maps seems to be
plenty of shotgun shells. Several times I
would run out of all other ammo but still
have the trusty shotgun.
Overall,
this conversion leaves you wanting more
of this type of quality and all though it
was left behind on ftp sites to be
forgotten, this classic still holds its
head high against the test of time.
Level
Created by Matthias Worch
Please
Visit the authors site :
Langsuyar.com
Review by Joe
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