22:01, 2nd Mar 2009 by bounty hunter2:
Mystery is a cinematic with a nice concept, however lacking a more clear storyline, terrain, cameras and music. 2/5 (Lacking) and Pending.

You can find my full review Here.

Please improve, until then rejected.

1) Description at this thread was bad. All it written was "This is my first cinematic and map protected", you could at least give a little more detail about it.
2) Sound effect was good, but there is no music at all. I choose undead race and it play undead music, I choose night elves and it play night elves music. There should at least be 1 appropriate music for it.
3) Camera not that good, infact it run over a tree. If you are making a cinematic visual of the character as the audience who are trying to run away, I was wondering how can a person penetrate a tree?
4) Fade filter not good in some scenario, I notice the camera switch to the position before it fade in.
5) Mystery? The title is mystery, but what is the mystery all about? There is nothing in this cinematic seems to be mystery to me.
6) There is no story, there is no synopsis either to tell a little info of what it had. All I seen was a guy try to run away only to be knock out by Medivh.
7) The cinematic should use Victory - Player 1 skip dialog skip score instead of defeat.
8) Terrain? I would let the other explain about it.

This resources condition was between rating 2 (Lacking) and rating 3 (Useful). After I watch it for the 3rd time, I came to the conclusion to give it a rating 2 (Lacking) because

1) Music - No music have been set. It doesn't matter if you use import music or wc3 music, but a music should be in a cinematic to enhance the visual.
2) Detail/Story - There is no story, no detail. Nothing. All I seen was a guy get knock out by Medivh and send to a room, then he try to escape only to be knock out by Medivh again. The description at hiveworkshop doesn't tell anything about it either.
3) Camera & Visual - It was alright for the camera to goes through destructible/doodad if there is a good reason to do so. But, what you trying to make it right now is to make the audience feel like they are part of the character who are trying to escape. So, how come the camera just move through the tree when you try to visualize the character was running?

Ok i deleted the tree and i added a better description and an introduction at the start. But i dont knoe how to change the music?

it's a pretty good cinematic,the crying kid freaked me out cuz i had loudspeakers turned to loud XD

I will give you 4/5,because it all dosen't make much sense.

bounty hunter2's Review on Mystery

Warning this review contains spoilers.

I have watched this cinematic twice just this moment since it's short and I had some time on my hands.

Mystery is a cinematic with not a such clear storyline and plot. It is non dialog aswell.

To start I shall mention a couple of things on your terrain, that is bad. It is too plain and the ground texture variation was bad. Not enough tiles were used. Not enough dodoads aswell and there was no sky model. The terrain was generally bad and didn't contribute much. Now with the cameras, you tried to make it 1st person which I support, however you had too much problems. Such as too late fade outs and some angles were just bad. You need to concentrate more on the angles. Now I will pass on to the story which I don't understand much. A boy was running on a road, then some prophet kicks you, then a car crashes you then the prophet kills you. Didn't make sense at all. It lacked custom music, the rest of the sounds were fine. You have a nice concept however you need a lot more work to make it better. The terrain, cameras and music are a must fix.

To conclude, this cinematic didn't prove to be something great, but it wasn't that bad either. However it still lacks, thus until you update it, 2/5 (Lacking) and Pending!