Tatooine: Death Valley

Description
Dread_ is here with his latest map, Tatooine: Death Valley. This is a map for the original Battlefront, which is a rarity these days. Despite this, however, the map manages to be quite enjoyable. There was a pack of screenshots released for this map last year, which some of you might have seen. Anyway, onto the review...

This map is set on Tatooine. Although this is a setting which is somewhat overplayed these days, Dread manages to take it and make it interesting and feel new. The map has a small town in the center, which contains a lot of destroyable buildings and a few command posts. The starting posts are located around the outskirts of the town, and the objective is to fight your way through the town to the other sides' command posts. The town is well planned out, and I didn't notice any AI getting stuck anywhere. There are a lot of reskinned models used in the construction of the map- these look nice and give the map a fresh look. There are also what look to be a few custom models in there as well, though these have some collision issues.

The map has some new sides to play with- the Empire has been given a makeover here to be sandtroopers. These guys have really powerful weapons at your disposal, though despite the powerful weapons I still managed to get killed a lot by the normal Rebels on the other side. The clones have also been given the same treatment, with new skins and weapons, though they seem a bit less powerful than the Empire.

Despite the map's strong points, there are a few problems. Unfortunately, these are problems that are hard to overlook. One of the most immediately noticeable problems is that there is no localization at all. This is a very annoying problem, and it should certainly be fixed in the next release. Also, there is at least one gigantic hole in the ground that you can drop down into a bottomless pit. A few of the models have collision problems, like the plants scattered around the map. These need to be fixed, if possible.

To sum it up, this map is very fun and well-designed. However, the experience is marred by a few serious bugs. If these are all cleaned up, the map will be much more enjoyable to play. In my opinion, it's worth a download. Once it gets cleaned up and all the bugs are fixed, it will definitely be worth a download.

-Jedikiller