Map 02: The Elevator
"Where will you go captain?, you can destroy
my specimens but what about the millions
that are waiting to greet you outside?..."
- Professor Logan "Frankenstein"
Hello again, well map 2 is as I said previously almost complete, so i wanted to take some time just to let you know what to expect and how I went about the idea. So to bring you up to speed the l4d2 characters begin inside the city of the first map "dead place" in a mad dash to the chopper they finally realise they haven't been noticed as they watch john's helicopter leave them behind, so quickly they leap into one of the few remaining working boats in the dock and speed off after the city, fade to black.
The return to the bunker in day of the dead suggests a marsh land, part water part dense forest and brush, but I also wanted to add a bit more to the level than "run through the forest to the elevator" so after taking some advice from a kind gent on l4dmaps.com I read the original script for day of the dead, the film George A Romero wanted to make but wasn't able to afford I strongly recommend you read it its a very different film to what we finally received, I wont say its better, its just different, to be honest I think it would have made a better sequel than Land of the dead, but that's the humble opinion of someone who cant let go of the 80's, yes the hair was weird but it was a golden age of film making , and film makers I might add, regardless I digress.
I decided to imagine before the cast of the film were isolated in the bunker that above ground had perhaps acted like a rescue station in the early days of the end, but inevitably something bad happened and the rescue station was over run, so i went with the concept that the military had to ferry people in by boat, and also people would be finding there way to the station in there own boats, well long story short one of those boats got overrun on the way there and it crashed right through the fence walls and well you can imagine the rest, so to break up the forest you have a military outpost/rescue station with a custom event don't what to say what just yet as its a spoiler , from there you travel through some more natural landscape until you finally come upon the elevator, now what I can tell you is I'm having a bit more luck with the elevator siren and the event at the elevator is a simple survival as you call the lift back up and the siren attracts the horde, i will get some more screen shots up soon but for now this should give you an idea of basic look.
Thanks for reading!
