Northern Isles

[Moderator]

21:46, 6th Apr 2016
Rufus:

Rufus Review Map Score Gameplay: 25 / 30 Aesthetics: 18 / 20 Total: 43 / 50 Rating Chart 45-50 5/5 Highly Recommended 35-44 4/5 Recommended 25-34 3/5 Useful 15-24 2/5 Lacking 0-14 1/5 Unacceptable Gameplay The creep camps are balanced. The items they drop are balanced aswell. No player has a positionging advantage. The gold expansions gold amount are balanced. Plenty of large open areas that allows for epic battle clashes. Aesthetics I like that you mixed three types of trees with each other. It prevents the otherwise almost always dull looking forest areas. The environment in general is well-executed for using only stadard doodads. there is no excess use, but you have still managed to fill the terrain in a good way. The tile usage is very good. It looks realistic and thoughtful instead of just spammed as in so many other maps. You have also used the higher/lower tool very well. There are no obvious hills, which gives the map a very distinct and underlaying feeling of tranquility. The fog effect is also nice, as it is not heavy enough to impact on gameplay, but just enough to be visible and contribute to the environment. The cliff islands in the outline of the maps are simple but still well-made and adds to the atmosphere. The only thing i could think of is the river rushes placed in various places. Their colour is slighlty off as they are pretty healthy-looking for being in such a barren and frozen area. There are few things you could do in order to improve the environment. Bugs - Summary A well balanced melee map with quite beautiful terrain. Approved with a rating of 4/5.

 

[Legal_Ease]

Very nice. Well balanced and spaced properly. Good use of doodads. Creeps are perfect, neutral builds are where they should be. My only critique is that it is right at blizzard quality. You can do better than blizzard, though blizzard makes fine maps. I love the video (but why no sky?). Voting for approval - obviously. 4/5 +rep

 

[Rufus]

Rufus Review Map Score Gameplay: 25 / 30 Aesthetics: 18 / 20 Total: 43 / 50 Rating Chart 45-50 5/5 Highly Recommended 35-44 4/5 Recommended 25-34 3/5 Useful 15-24 2/5 Lacking 0-14 1/5 Unacceptable Gameplay The creep camps are balanced. The items they drop are balanced aswell. No player has a positionging advantage. The gold expansions gold amount are balanced. Plenty of large open areas that allows for epic battle clashes. Aesthetics I like that you mixed three types of trees with each other. It prevents the otherwise almost always dull looking forest areas. The environment in general is well-executed for using only stadard doodads. there is no excess use, but you have still managed to fill the terrain in a good way. The tile usage is very good. It looks realistic and thoughtful instead of just spammed as in so many other maps. You have also used the higher/lower tool very well. There are no obvious hills, which gives the map a very distinct and underlaying feeling of tranquility. The fog effect is also nice, as it is not heavy enough to impact on gameplay, but just enough to be visible and contribute to the environment. The cliff islands in the outline of the maps are simple but still well-made and adds to the atmosphere. The only thing i could think of is the river rushes placed in various places. Their colour is slighlty off as they are pretty healthy-looking for being in such a barren and frozen area. There are few things you could do in order to improve the environment. Bugs - Summary A well balanced melee map with quite beautiful terrain. Approved with a rating of 4/5.

 

[Legal_Ease]

Looking at this again, I almost want to give it 5/5 because of the video. It's very nice. Although the fog filter is set to white and there is no sky. These are easy fixes. What software do you use for video capture? Still, I think that while the presentation is fabulous the map is still a solid 4/5. High quality and great presentation, just short of true excellence.

 

[Dess_26]

Very good map. Well balanced. Thanks for sharing!

 

[tulee]

The creator left hiveworkshop before his/her map was officially added to the map pool for tournaments....

Most tournament maps use the Lordaeron summer tile-set, which is why it is so refreshing to see a different tile-set on an official map. Also really nice to see creeps like Tuskar. There are so many neutral units that we never see (on official tournament maps) because of the lack of variety of tile-sets.


Also, it is nice to know that out of the 8 maps in the WCG 2019, quite a few are made by hiveworkshop users.

World Cyber Games 2019

 

[W3Sour]

@tulee No, the creator goes under the name Keito now, and is still active. She knew about the map being added when it first came out.

 

[quasio]

A tad late to the feast... but hey! This map is nicely balanced, good terrain and fun to play. Tnx!