Thursday, January 30, 2020

Cachoeirinha City


Title: Cachoeirinha City
Link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1941212651

Author: Satanás Ama Todos Vocês
Survivors: L4
D2
Notes: Unfinished, requires quitting to menu to leave.


Thankfully this is one of those really short reviews I can make because the campaign is so unfinished. This is just one city map that doesn't have a functioning ending, so it's either played as a beta-test map or is going to be left unfinished forever. In terms of city recreations, I've seen worse, but I've seen a lot better, too. Giving the benefit of the doubt, this seems like an okay first attempt at seeing how to create things in Hammer to give the effect of a hometown.


All things considered, there's some stuff to pick up here and there, and the saferoom is okay to look at, but overall it's neither difficult nor particularly interesting to explore the areas. It appears that Cachoeirinha City is a city in Brazil and it definitely gives off that vibe, so at least visually it somewhat looks like that part of the world. However, the map is extremely short and areas you're not supposed to get to are blocked off rather poorly. Additionally, there aren't events and things like a radio don't function as they should. Eventually you can call rescue in an extremely easy holdout area, which will for some reason move a bus over a sewer grate, allowing you to traverse a short tunnel in the sewers to a saferoom.


However, this is one of those maps where it's far more fun to see how far out of bounds you can get, and to see if you can get back in bounds, than it is to legitimately play. It's mostly a feeling of "been there, done that" and not much of a creative vision other than trying to recreate a plaza center that frankly isn't that good for killing infected. Maybe this will become something one day, but as of 




Difficulty: It's mostly too easy. The only thing hard about it was identifying that the bus was actually moving to uncover the sewer grate.



Final Verdict: This is clearly unfinished and isn't all that fun to play unless you just want to kill some time in a large open area. Maybe if there's a mutation that works well in large open areas, this could work, otherwise this is just a nothing campaign. The fact that you can't even finish it tells you what you need to know. Not recommended.

Rating: 1.3/5.

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