What are your favourite Missions (Maps or Levels) from a Game?

The first moments of Half Life 1


favourite maps, theres a few...

office - counter strike
facing worlds - unreal tournament
brunwud castle - mount & blade warband
deck 17 - unreal tournament 2004
bridge of fate - unreal tournament
camping grounds - quake 3
the longest yard - quake 3
donner - day of defeat source
avalanche - day of defeat source
backlot - call of duty 4
chernarus - arma 2
 
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When this topic comes up my immediate thought is always Hong Kong from Deus Ex. A truly great atmosphere, and fairly big too (I found myself discovering some new sections accessible by water even a few hours after reaching the level).##

"Hell" from Painkiller is also great because of the incredible vision to interpret Hell in that fashion (if you haven't played it, it is basically one big level with snapshots of how humans have destroyed each other throughout history, from battles with sticks and stones through world wars and finally an atomic bomb. All 'frozen'. Incredible artistry.

The Call of Duty series has some tremendous levels with epic set pieces but my first love was probably Stalingrad, you start off as a green recruit on a boat coming into shore whilst being attacked by dive bombers. You then get given ammo or a gun I think (nice choice huh?) basically drilling home how the Russians had lots of men but not much hardware or preparation. CoD was the first game I can remember having a proper cinematic wartime feel with lots going on around you, making you feel very insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

Unreal for the time it came out has some staggering good level design, including an interactive introductory level where you don't actually do any fighting, with some real movie-like tension building via the use of diaries and *that* scene where you here someone being mutliated from behind a door. Halflife won all the plaudits for this type of opening but Unreal beat them to it by 6 months. Furthermore Epic then followed this up with a jaw-dropping open expanse of a second level as you step off the ship (no previous engines could handle this type of thing, and it wasn't bettered until Serious Sam came out some 3 years later). Finally while in itself the 3rd level wasn't particular outstanding, the sequence where you meet your first Skaarj and the lights switch off one by one followed by the door slamming shut behind you remains in my opinion one of the greatest set pieces in the history of gaming some 15 years later. Oh, and I shouldn't forget Bluff Eversmoking, more great design from CliffyB.

Mount Panorama track in Shift 2 is really interesting because it is so different from many race tracks with massive steep inclines and a huge daredevil downhill straight that can sometimes catch me out in terms of the braking zone for the final left hander.

Far Cry has some great levels and one that really wowed me was Rebellion, where you emerge from some sort of indoors level into a big open expanse to find a big battle going on between mercs and trigens, swooping over it in your hanglider.

There's probably a bunch more from other games but perhaps not nicely split or recognisable as a particular level. RPG games for example - tough to pick out specific places but maybe Dantoiine from KOTOR.

On the multiplayer side of things my favourites are the Quakeworld levels ztndm3 (Blood Run) for FFA, Duel and 2v2; and dm3 (The Abandoned Base) for 4on4 tdm.
 
Going to be Quake 2/3 levels for me: Q2DM1, Q3DM6, ZTNDM3. I dread to think how much of my life those three maps have eaten up :eek: Some of the OSP and 3Wave CTF Q2 maps were also epic, but I can't remember any of the names now......been over 10 years since I played them. Just remember they were great.

Sad to admit this, but if I hit the jackpot on the lottery.....I would buy some land and build Q2DM1 for real. Could play paintball on it. Or just hang out in the MH room. Don't think the missus would "get it" though :p
 
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Sad to admit this, but if I hit the jackpot on the lottery.....I would buy some land and build Q2DM1 for real. Could play paintball on it. Or just hang out in the MH room. Don't think the missus would "get it" though :p
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Of course she'd be fine with it - within 5 minutes you'd have cratered in the main room and she'd inherit all your money :)
 
Glad to see some love for The Cradle in Thief 3, by far the scariest thing i have ever played.

Not a level as such but when you first emerge from the sewers in Oblivion.

The Milkman Conspiracy in Psyconauts is awesome.
 
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