Aquarius

Title: Aquarius
Link: http://gamemaps.com/details/2488
Author: Richy221
Survivors: L4D2
Notes: Just a cheap, long boss fight against an ugly huge machine.

Aquarius is a single-map campaign that is just a boss fight in a large arena against a huge machine that looks like a giant hamburger with flying orbs. This is a completely intolerable map because it takes ridiculously long to kill the orbs and the boss, the bots are absolutely helpless, the arena slowly loses platforms, and the campaign constantly sends hordes and chargers to try to deathcharge players.

The machine thing sprays out these hideous red beams that do damage to you periodically, as well as missing texture effects. This clutters up your screen and makes it difficult to see anything, not only when you're shooting the machine, but also when fighting the hordes and chargers. This makes playing this campaign, let alone seeing anything, excruciating.

I actually beat this with another player and after three retries, we eventually destroyed the power core. All that’s left is just kill a tank, kill a witch, board the helicopter and watch it circle around and the mission ends.

Difficulty: AIDS level difficulty. The boss hits you with random unavoidable beams, the arena falls out beneath your feet, the boss is nigh-impossible to kill solo, and the bots are absolutely useless, so for all intents and purposes it might as well be considered essentially impossible to play without a team.

Final Verdict: The concept is bad, the map is terrible, and the boss fight is even worse. This is literally one of the worst campaigns I've ever played. This map is literally just like taking a kick to the balls. Avoid this at all costs.

Rating: -2.5/5.