Balin's Tomb

Balin's Tomb v1.6b
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(Last updated: 07-11-2006, 03:19 PM CST)

Players: 2-9
Category: Dungeon Crawl (hack'n'slash)

Gameplay:
- Nine heroes with diverse playing styles
- Coordination and teamwork are greatly rewarded
- Lots of secret areas and hidden content to find
- Gameplay progresses from survival, to hack'n'slash, to powerlevelling at the end
- 10 boss encounters interspersed with the packs of monsters, each with a different mechanic that makes them challenging

Goals of the map:
- Survive to the end
- Work together with other players in a group to defeat monsters and bosses along the way
- Friendly competition (usually) with your group members for treasure and kills to improve your hero

It's primarily designed to be a group play (goals 2 and 3), although it's somewhat soloable depending on the hero you choose. The heroes are equally balanced after rigorous playtesting, each with a different playing style.

I only played it in singleplayer, but still got a fairly good idea of what it's like.

It seems to be more stats than really doing something your self, you should have more interesting abilites and more control over what happens to your character.
Also, it doesn't have the right LoTR feeling, like most LoTR maps, it needs more custom models and skins, I would recomend Hueter's Gimli skin, part of Hueter's Aragorn skin (the sword, the rest of the skin is also good, but has the king armor, wich doesn't fit in Moria) and my Moria doodads.

*Cough advertising cough*

I dont feel models are what a good map needs, yes it helps give the feel of the place, but with a bunch of fancy models and no real gameplay it becomes boring real fast. I would test the map to see if this is not the case, however I don't have Warcraft on this computer.

ev0l! 666 kb!