I've done so many proper maps, I wanted a change. Get away from worrying about gameflow and balance etc etc and do something small and compact and purely "visual" that only takes a week or so.

Yes, the images are big but my logic is that as I said before its a "visual" project. I doubt I will release this, the only representation of the map will be via the pics and panoramas and as such I wanted them to be large to get across as much of the ambience of the map as poss. I know that all sounds really "arty" but there we go

You really did a good job bringing the source material into... uhm... the source engine. These shots look a cut above what you've done before (in cs_bulletheory for example) and I really like what I see.

The only thing that sticks out to my eye is the roofing on the gray buildings. I think a different (more roof-like) texture might look better.

Why not take the theme and basic geometry and turn this into a real map?

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Spikeman, you've been here far to long to post screens that huge. :*(

Tasty texturing and lighting!
Turn this in a proper map immediately!

That... Looks. Awesome If you map like that in a normal map! Wowie!