Unsung Legends and WC3WoW...

Heres another map I'm looking forward to play besides WC3WoW.  The screenshots look amazing, and I'm geeky over their UI.

Check out the UI on the left side on the screen.  It looks like an inventory, and the original Inventory spot is probably used as buttons for Character info, inventory,spellbook and such. I would love to be able to use that left side UI to hold spells, holding 8 spells would be awesome.




These Undead cities look amazing.


This FAQ question caught my eye on some of the features this map is going to employ

Q: How many different types of maps will there be?
A: There is 3 primary types of maps:
Towns: in the towns you can buy items, talk to people, visit the library and a lot more. In towns you are almost 100% safe, if it�s an allied town you�re in. If it's an ennemy town, then it becomes a dungeon
War-torn area: 60% of UL�s surface consists of those maps. To show that war is constant, they are like AoS-type maps. Enemy and allied units will constantly spawn and attack each other, and you can help your team, fight creeps or find quests.
Dungeons: are special maps without any allied units and are very difficult areas with tons of enemies. Defeating the monsters of a dungeon will usually give a good reward and release some special cinematic of the dungeon story. Every dungeon has a certain number of levels, each of them harder than the other before. Once a level completed, you don't need to redo it once more to get to the other one when leaving the dungeon.



Link
http://www.wc3campaigns.net/ul/

I wish I can play the War3WoW Beta =/

I sent them an email, maybe they'll be nice and let me test it out. It supposedbly possibly might be able to support up to 40 players via a plugin program of some sort. That would be pretty neat, WoW without paying(jizzes on my face).

Undead Assault II WOW! What a GREAT map!

The first time I played this map, I kept thinking to myself, wow how great the terraining and the missions are. I thought Swat was well made, but after playing this, it blew Swat out the water in certain areas IMO. The map has a Post-Apocalyptic outback town on the verge of extinction trying to survive against the zerg , erhrm zombie onslought feel to it. It looks great!

You start the game off in the middle of the map via a helicopter dropship(Great entrance!) From there you select one of the few classes that are available to you, if you're new, or perhaps several more if you have saved ranks. Only 3 classes are available for the uninitiated; the medic, the riflemen, and the grenadier. Each class has their own special abilities, advantages, and disadvantages. The game starts off right away with swarms of zombies coming at your wave after wave. There is good variety to the zombies, from boring slow moving zombies, to leaping purple exploding coming back alive 5 times after it died zombies, to giant lobsters, spiders, and all sort of scary monstrosities.

The missions are one of the main highlights of this map. There are tons of them and you can only do a random portion of the total each game. Each game spawns different random missions, so there is a lot of replay value and variety to each game. The missions objectives are also a great treat. There are escorting missions, covert stealing item missions, survival missions etc etc...
The zombies are very strong and can kill you witha few good swipes. You really can't run around ramboing and tanking damage like its nothing, you would die pretty fast. Sticking with your squad and taking up defensive positions is the way to go.

This amount of detail that went into this map can't be praised enough. Its very realistic like, although its not America's Army or anything, it is still a very squad tactical game. Realism features included are ammo reloading, limited ammos, gun jamming, sprinting and running out of stamina when you sprint too much. It is very easy to access these abilities. Simply press Z to bring up the ability menus, and ESC to get out of it. Lets say I'm fighting a mob of zombies in a prone position. They are advancing at me quickly and I will die if i stay prone. I would press Z, and then press E, to get up, and then press T to sprint away. After a quick jog, I decided shoot some of them down. I'm still in the ability menu so I hit ESC to go back to my regular ability menu, then I press S to stop. My unit stops and automatically acquire a zombie to start blasting at.

This map also employs a code save/load system, however its no where near as long as SWAT codes. One of my code is 62bWrgy, its case sensitive. Completing missions and killing zombies gains your experience, which gains you rank, which lets you unlock different characters. There are also several modes including deathmatch mode and others. Although the map is very well done, I do have some gripes about it though; for instance there are glitches that messes up the mission, sometimes it fails to spawn at all.

And thats jist of it, nothing more to say but to tell you to hurry and go download it! If anyone need me I will be on Lordaeron/USWEST getting owned by zombies.

Download Link:

http://www.undeadassault.net/index.php?page=undead-assault-ii-1-4f

SWAT AFTERMATH ...Zombie Survival Galore!

      I've been playing this zombie survival map call Swat Aftermath lately.  Its really fun and challenging to play with your friends.  Its fairly well done, and many surprises awaits you throughout the game.  The background story is a pretty much the same zombie survival theme you've heard and seen before.  Basically you're sent to Racoon City to restore power, rescue civilian, destroy radiation fragments(more on that later), and oh yeah... stay alive.  


      You start the game off in a random room in the game map.  Once started, the player chooses a class to play.  There are over 8 classes plus unlockable classes.  The player can also customize the class chosen by choosing traits such ass weapon specialist(more damage/range), or gifted(faster movement speed,exp gain etc...).  Once the players had customized their characters, they should head out and start working on the objectives.  The first thing a lot of people do is to hunt for radiation fragments.  These are green objects that spawn periodically in random locations of the map.  The more rad fragments there are, the stronger and faster the zombies become.  Also at higher radiation levels due to unchecked rad fragments; it will damage players over time.  The other primary objective is to restore power to the city so APCs can be called in to rescue innoculated civiillians.  Power generators are scattered throughout the map, some generators are more damaged then the others.  Smart players would choose to charge up the less damaged ones, because they lose less power per second if they weren't charged completely.  Once the designated amount of generators are charged, the squad can then proceed to the laboratory in the middle of the map to purchase antidotes.  Antidote can be used to turn zombies back into normal civilians.  Lead the designated amount of civillians to the APCs spawn point to win the game.


      It all sounds really bland on paper, but this game is actually really exciting to play.  Noobs can easily get ambushed and killed early even at easy difficulties.  At hard or insane levels, its pretty intense, because one mistake can cost you your life.  The classes are varied and very unique.  There are Medics(healer),Demolition(heavy damage),Sniper(long range assasin duh!),Maverick(recon),Psycologist(support/buffs),Cyborg(AOE damage),Heavy Ordinance(summons droids), and a host of other that I can't recall right now.  You will need to know how to use your class effectively to stay alive and to kill the bosses through out the game.  They are tough and huge(Godzilla unique boss) and can kill you with one swipe.  
      Swat uses the save code system that you see on many of the maps.  The save codes records the rank experience that you've accumulated.  It is unique to your Battle.Net account and can't be used by another login.  The ranks allow certain abilities to be unlocked along with special character, like the pyrotechnician.  It also gives extra boosts such as more damage and faster firing rate.  


      Thats basically the jist of it.  Take a look at the screenies, go download it, and go kill some zombies!

Download Link:

http://www.redscull.com/swat/readmeafter.html

Testing Testing...1 2 3...

Testing my new blog, this blog is going to be about Warcraft III : Frozen Throne user made custom maps.  I will be having a weekly map feature.  Only high quality maps will be featured.  I will extensively test it out so you don't have to.  Also if you've played a great map and you want the world to know, email me the map and tell me why its great, I will try to review it and put it on the site.