Looks indeed a bit ehm ... fullbright and a lack of texture variation ...

I like the idea, but get yourself some prefab cars or boxes and put 'em on the streets, will look nicer.

Try to do some outdoor lighting too, will create some atmosphere.

I think I might make it night. I do like those sort of maps... nightvision and all, may look rather spinkeh.

I wanted to get on with the brushwork.. didnt want to texture something I was going to delete.

Boogie on down to the general forum, you'll notice I only came back to this site after about a year, two days ago.

If this is your first map, ever, then its OK. If not... well, if Vash were here, he'd eat your legs

I suggest you use more texture variations, the lights the same texture as the street just doesnt look right. Even though you say the texture work isnt done yet... you could at least do something before releasing screens.

Brushwork is... OK I suppose. What are your wpoly/epoly like? I see very little visblocking. Also I've noticed some distant faces are being culled (In Hammer, go Map->Map Properties and increase max viewable distance )

I think you should make it a night map. n00bish outdoor maps always look better in the dark...

Thats just my thoughts, agree/disagree if you want, I dont care, as long as you learn from it.

EDIT: Just looked at your first post:

Youve got the right idea for visblocking. If you make the buildings look decent, the map isnt going to look blocky.

I dont know about compiler frontends... but to make lighting work, you need to run HLRAD.exe. Also, this may sound stupid, but do you actually have any lights in the map?