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The Essence of Magic

-Kobas- Presents


The Essence of Magic
[Map is protected]

Cinematic Info:

Battle between two ultimate mages, Arcane Mage vs Blood Mage!
Credits:

Ultimate Terrain Map
takakenji
WILLTHEALMIGHTY

Music:

Linkin Park - What I've done


1.0: First Released Version
1.1: Added intro, fixed few things, improved terrain

Keywords:
Battle, Arcane, Blood, mage, Essence, -Kobas-, cinematic
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The Essence of Magic (Map)

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Comment: A very short and random cinematic, with 2 characters fighting each other, although not really that intense.
 
lol and then you say my description is cheap :p Gonna check it out nao :D
Edit : What the hell :D I think this is about 35 seconds or so, the fight is kinda weird, they're almost not hitting each other, instead creating explosions around themselves, the terrain was nice but the cliffs around the map was weird and the cinematic just starts and the fight begins. w00t w00t.
If you want this to be approved, then at least extend it and maybe the fights should make sense as well :p Also, please add an intro.
 
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Meh it was okay :D

Pretty random cinematic you have there P:


  • The spells <-- brilliant, best part of the whole thing
  • The terrain <-- alright :d
  • Map Preview Image <-- awesomely done



  • The Music <-- I liked it although in my opinion, it didn't really suit the map
  • The storyline <-- There wasn't much (Needs to be worked on/needs an intro to the cinematic)
  • Cinematic was a bit short <-- Could've had more fighting and went longer



  • A loading screen image <-- Black Screen isn't attractive
  • Voices for the Characters <-- Narrators or something, would spice things up


Overall its alright, although there needs to be more of a storyline for my liking.


Keep up the good work,
Lag_Reviews!
 
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lol and then you say my description is cheap :p Gonna check it out nao :D

Damn [center ] don't work so i must use simpletable :razz:

Pretty random cinematic you have there P:

Overall its alright, although there needs to be more of a storyline for my liking.

Keep up the good work,
Lag_Reviews!

Thanks man, I know that there is no story but hey who cares is battle :xxd:
I was bored and then created something like this because I wanted to make cinematic map :eekani:
 
Actually i liked the music xD

Thanks :thumbs_up:

Edit : What the hell :D I think this is about 35 seconds or so, the fight is kinda weird, they're almost not hitting each other, instead creating explosions around themselves, the terrain was nice but the cliffs around the map was weird and the cinematic just starts and the fight begins. w00t w00t.
If you want this to be approved, then at least extend it and maybe the fights should make sense as well :p Also, please add an intro.

Ok ok I will add intro and make some fight :grin:
 
All right lets sum everything up:

+ Music :thumbs_up:
+ Terrain :thumbs_up:
- Fights :cute: I think that it can be at least half +
- No Intro :cute: Damn you are right
- Not even 40 seconds :cute: Dinamic battle but with intor it can be 50 sec :xxd:
- Ugly Cliffs :cute: Hey cliffs are part of terrain :eekani:
- No story? w00t :cute: It is battle why to make story? Nvm it will be writen in intro

Rating.....argh......2/5
Let me guess, did you make this right after you left the chat? :p

:grin: Something like that I started this morning 11:24 AM and now is 6:18 PM (+ I needed to study C and C++ :grin:) Damn I slowly become awesome just like you :mwahaha:
 
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Kobas i must say this is weird cinematic :D Like others say; no story, music is not so good choise for this,spells are not bad but all together look bad.Only good thing exept spells is terrain. I will not rate map until you improve it, but for now 2/5
 
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lol its wierd but in the beggining they say what are we waiting for the waiting is like waithing or something.

Kobas i must say this is weird cinematic :D Like others say; no story, music is not so good choise,spells are not bad but all together look bad.Only good thing exept spells is terrain. I will not rate map until you dont improve it, but for now 2/5
you wont rate the map until you dont improve it? how is that possible lol
 
OFFT: Thats a coincidence, I just finished learning 'What I've done' for piano, so when I watched it, I played it instead of the game =D

ONT: a bit short, no real story behind it, can't really say anything the others hadn't already, I can't really give a full review cos it's not 'big' enough as it were, so I'll just give a rating

2/5
 
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lmao...... The most random and probably the shortest cinematic in the warcraft 3 maps gets a 5/5 from someone :p If that's so, then i should make a replica of this :D
Btw, are you going to update this or not? :>

I will update but hey I need time :hohum:
I already write somewere that cinematic was made in free time between study time :grin:

*DEMIGOD
Thank man, thanks a lot! :thumbs_up:
 
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lmao...... The most random and probably the shortest cinematic in the warcraft 3 maps gets a 5/5 from someone :p If that's so, then i should make a replica of this :D
Btw, are you going to update this or not? :>
Well i like it,if you don't like it that's your choise.-.-
 
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The Essence of Magic was a cinematic map by -Kobas- that based on the battle between Arcane Mage and Blood Mage. The terrain of the map was simply above average and pleasant to be view, but the environment created was simply lacking and abnormal.

What do I mean with being abnormal? The scenario of the fight took place in the wilderness and yet I do not seen a single living thing at all. Not even a single bird could be seen at all :hohum:.

Next is camera and fog, the camera and fog setting was rather poor as some camera movement was either too choppy or the angle are not appropriately selected which makes some scene was rather an eyesores to be view at while some fog are not thick enough, rendering our view of the end of the world was flat.

Next comes the battle scene, I was expected some sort of awesome fight that would really capture my heart; but I was surely dissappointed after watching it. The battle scene is nothing more like fire cracker show during the new years because all you just seen was an bunch of special effect cast by both side.

To make it from bad to worst, the sfx usage was soo heavy that it cause a drastic fps drop. The sfx abuse are not the only thing that make it worst, the waiting syndrome in the battle scene and the poor usage of animation are part of the contribution to the downfall of the quality of this map as well.

The use of that music was really a bad idea because this is not the first battle cinematic that used it, it also not fit for a generic fight of a magic theme as well.

Typo errors for a cinematic that barely last for a minutes shows that the author of this map was rather rush in the development of this map, thus rendering lot's of flaws that kill the replayability values and the quality of this works. To be frankly honest, it almost cannot be consider as cinematic cause it was way too short.

Overall, this cinematic performances was rather poor and almost at the level of unacceptable (1/5) due to the rush and inproper planning by the author itself. The author should devoted more time to remove those flaws before it was distribute to us audiences to watch.

As I could summarize it, this map was very close to the edge of approval and yet it was very close to the edge of rejected at the same time. The authors of this map should reduces the lag of this map by reducing the sfx usage and fix the trigger leak(I do believe the author of this map does not fix memory leak since he assume it was just a cinematic) to ensure a much pleasant view for the audience itself.

My overall vote for this map 2/5 (Lacking) and I suggest this map to be at pending stage until the author improve it.
 
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rofl with this very fast cinematic, lets see. uhm, its a cinematic alright :D
can't describe words for this. but all I can tell its somehow just a friendly match between two spellbinders working out their achievement in magic. but nonetheless, a really clean match :)

I'll take that for 4/5 because I heard linkin park
 
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Hello,

...What should I say? Terrain and effects were nice, but on the other hand, it didn't still capture my interest.

There's no story, the dialogue is dull... Oh yes, and I hate the music. I watched it twice, first with music on and then off.

Without music: 2/5
With music: 1.5/5
 
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