I made Pine_Hills for a modelmaker who made me the Deuce model in return. He gave me a lot of room for my own style, he only said: there has to be a river, a bridge and some hills that are passable. So this is actually the map describtion already: there are some hills which where really hard work when I made them and a lot of trees which actually dont look like pines (but I liked the name) and some crates. There is no CS goal in this map - you have to kill the enemy. The map is good for sniping, but is not as most of these fun maps restricted to it. The usual gameplay of this map is that the terrorists camp and the CT storm the front coz they have got more cover. The terrorist can also storm before the CTs can see them which is also a good strategy. The battle is mostly faught at the river - there are several crates to take cover on both sides - or its a sniper duel, then it can be anywhere on the whole map. The gameplay is balanced due to many beta tests. This is a pretty small fun map with a nice atmosphere and a fair gameplay. The R_Speeds are a little too high though, I can only recommend this to owners of good computers. 6 Players is the absolute maximum of players this map can handle by the way - more would be a total mess.

The idea behind as_intruder is an escape through a city which means you climb through windows and go through backyards and stuff. I also wanted to give AS_maps more action. This is a very fast paced as_map. Both teams have to hurry a lot so that they're faster than the other team. If the terrorist dont hurry they will miss the VIP going straight through their base. And if the CTs dont hurry the terrorists can build up a very strong defense, so this is a map for Counter-Strike pros or at least for those who know CS very well.

The Counter-Terrorists start at a nice family house with a garden. They can leave through the door or the window, although the window is only used for defense if the CT's are constantly rushed (the CT base is easily defended). Then they cross the street and go into an industrial building with a backyard that leads to the back a storage hall. On the front of this hall theres the street where you find both of the rescue points. There's also the terrorists base which is a building that contains "sweet_home3" (my flat and HL-map). Right and Left of the T-base house are the rescue points. There are three ways to enter the street: backdoor & frontdoor of the storage hall and its backyards sidegate. There's one special way for VIP protectors - they can give covering fire through a window of the storage hall - this is a huge atvantage, because you can see most of the street there. The terrorists have the atvantage to stay inside of "sweet_home3" and shoot out of the windows. All in all it has a simply action loaded gameplay.

The grafic has some pretty cool aspects, but has some stuff I would have made much better if I think about it now. For example: on the street with the rescue points there are no windows at the side of the house, but those you can go through from inside or inside the industrial building there is an error - you can see another small part of the map through the sky. By the way this map contains my first self-made textures. The r_speeds are very low thanx to a lot of work at the construction. Back to the gameplay I have to add that it's very balanced although you might not think so at the start. If both teams know all the ways and tricks it should be a super-fair game which allows a lot of team stategy when you storm/defend the last street. This map is for those who like VIP maps with more action in it.

This is a medium size map with a lab/xen theme. The grafic looks pretty cool even if there are hardly any custom textures. There are several funny features in Gosu like a transporter which beams you into the xen world where you can find a dead HEV suit guy with the taucannon or a bathroom where a scientist is sitting on the toilet and telling you a funny sentence when you come near. Another cool part of the map is the included alien environment inside the lab where the gman whatches the behaviour of an alien (there are some monsters included which dont attack you). The map just looks great - there are cool light effects and architecture plus some cool chargers.

Most of the map is lab-like although in a new, cool style and there's the alien environment and the platform jumping xen world. The connectvity is alright, there is always a third way you can choose and there are no dead-ends. The map plays very good, the item placement is well done with no parts of the map where it wouldnt make sense going into. The gauss is harder to get then the other weapons, cause you need to jump over some platforms with low gravity and there's only one way out of the xen world. There are all weapons, but you cannot reach the glueon which is outside the lab and you can see it from inside. Gosu contains a lot of cool sounds like a lab speaker sound that says: "No you will not escape!". The r_speeds are always under 500 which is amazing if you consider the great look of the map.

This is definately my best-looking medium size map and you should really check it out - it's fun, it looks cool and it plays nicely! Download now!