Academy Redux

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Remember that scene in Aliens where the marines are defending themselves against hordes and hordes of monsters? Yeah, here it is in Halo.
Well, that scene was just one of my inspirations for this map. When I started I already had a few decent maps under my metaphorical belt, but my problem with those maps was how they were much too small for larger parties. With the goal of creating a compelling zombie map for larger groups I began working on Academy Redux. Continue reading and I'll explain how the gameplay works out on this map. Complete with pretty, pretty pictures.

The round begins with a group of humans spawning in a large, seemingly easily defended room.

Zombies begin to pour through the two visible entrances, luckily turrets are positioned at each choke point.

And everything was calm and fine inside the base.

But once the first minute of the round passes a destructible bridge of pallets spawns outside, allowing the zombies to have another route into the base.

The zombies then begin to give the humans what's coming to them.

Of course, not all games end like that, like I said the bridge is destructible so a resourceful team can rip off one turret and destroy the bridge from inside the base. But then, that exposes one of the entrances. It's all about choice, bro. So please download the map and give me some comments. And just as a bonus for reading this far, here are three more screenshots, you scholar, you.

The second story of the base with the spawned bridge in the background.

The courtyard outside of the base.

The zombie spawning area, complete with a sweet arrow.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vGEPo6nGdF0
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