Doom 3 - UAC Franchise 666

09-19-07 UPDATE :

This is a mutch smoother reworked version of my original map # 2., "lift portal access".
I've expanded the map area and fixed all of the bugs and lag that I had in the last release.
Lighting is better, tons of detail added, Visportals all work, more tips, fixed some GUI's, FPS is up! Please let me know if you find any other problems in this map. I'm going to start on the rebuild for map #1 next. I know that one needs a lot of work...

Background:

This has ben my first attempt at mapping for any game, much less creating a whole expansion pack. I'm learning as I go, and have had a blast learning all I can about the Doom 3 engine. I am a Doom fan from way back in the pentium 120 days. I would like to hear your ideas and opinions, rants and raves, about my expansion pack. All maps where created with the vanilla Doom3 editor.
Thanks to all the gods of the doom3world forum, for this would not be possible without them.


Storyline:

You are a highly decorated, combat tested marine, who just happens to have a problem with authority. (Hard to believe, I know...)
Your last mission whent badly because of the dumb-ass, green-horn, college-boy, desk-jocky lieutenant who was in charge of your last mission. Your whole squad was KIA during the mission, and you barely made it out alive.

You vowed to get revenge on that snot nosed piece of crap lieutenant, just as soon as you returned to marine HQ. Some one had to pay for the death of your squad.

Your punnishment for punching out the lieutenant, after you returned to base, was a choice between the stockade, or volenteering for a mars mission that nobody has ever returned from.

The UAC was conducting secret reserch on mars and the small franchise 666 facility was the end of the line for tired old dogs of war like you. You decided, "screw these bastards, I'll take as many of them out as I can. I'd rather go out fighting, get busy living or get busy dying and it's a good day to die!

Your first day at the franchise 666 facility was full of filling out paperwork and getting through Main Processing. After a short look around the place you think "This may not be such a bad place for an old war dog like me after all..."


Special credit:

Thanks to Voldemort for letting me use his exploding microwave (in my first map) and exploding fire extinguisher ideas.
Thanks to Zakyrus for his particle effect on the exploding fire extinguisher.
Thanks to all the rest of Doom3World.org Forum and the great bunch of folks who spent the time to help out.