Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Online

I gave you mention off all bugs I found yesterday.

What they said, by… No, but seriously. Mirrow’s tileset pack is a very decent pack, contianing 3 high quality tilesets. The city tileset looked very cool. The bricks looked good, the whole thing is easy to use. It has a good layer 8 background, wich doesn;nt work to well textured. It has some diging machines, with those you can sorta make a construction site outside the city, where a new road is being made or something. The diging machines seem to be photos from real life, just like that red, nice looking car. Thety work good in the set, only they have some white pixels around them, wich looks sorta ugly. The thing i realy love in the city set, are those cute litle birds flying across the screen, they ook realy cool;). The jungle-danger or whatever set looks neat too. I remember seeing this one a long time ago, i like it. It has basic tree structures,n and good, forest-like ground. A major part in this set it the white-blueish ground, i dont know exactly what it resembles. Oh, and a note to disguise: The textured background here worked perfectly fine. The castle set may sorta be my least favorite. The layer 8 background loks pretty good, very good even, but it just does’nt fit in with the rest of the set. A textured sky would have probably looked much nicer. A good idea i saw here where those rotorblades(thats the name right?;). They make the whole thing look a litle more like a abandoned sawmill actuely, wich would have been a pretty sweet theme for the set. The blue bricks where well drawn, but they did’nt have slopes, wich is bad. I want slopes in every sort of surface tiles, to be able to improve gameplay. The example levels by our o’ll friend Fear aka Blackdeath on J2O where pretty good. I must admit i did’nt finish them, i just looked at them for fun. Actuely seeing the sets was enough for me. A high (or low?) 8. points. Tileset fans, get these.

C’mon VIolet, can i help it if i’m a lousy speller some times?:P

Before we get this review underway…

Does anyone here even use low detail? When JJ2 came out, I ran it on a 486 just fine (of course the lighting had to go, and the resolution was low).

Personally, I will never dock point from a level because it looks bad on low detail. You want to boost performance a lot? Play in 8 bit mode. Performance will go way up, and the changes will be much more subtle.

Anyways, that said…

The low points in these levels are very few. I saw a couple of mismatched tiles, but these were very few (actually, I only recall two, and I’m pretty sure it was just an oversight).

I also noted the useage of Pepper Spray and Electro Gun power-ups…normally, I would take a slight dock for that, because these do not power-up the weapon. I have decided to stop that however, because power-up or not, they DO give you a quick 25 ammo, and that’s worth something. Plus they change the Electro Gun to yellow, which looks cool :)

As for TNT, well, that might be worth .2 off. It’s not completely useless though. In most levels it is (there are acceptions) but then again, if you get the ol’ stuck in a wall bug, it’s possible to kill yourself with TNT, so that’s kinda handy.

As for the good points:

Overall tileset usage is good. The levels are all unique and playable. I especially like the Doomsday Darkdream and Grassy Hills level. The later backs good use of springs and some interesting sucker-tube events.

The choice of music is also very good. In the first place, Deadlock is an awesome tune. Secondly, I loved the Darkness piece, especially the voice-over.

Oh yeah, general level design…Well, I found it very easy to get about in these levels. Lots of paths, springs, sucker-tubes and warps make getting around a breeze, and there’s plenty of ammo where ever you go.

Superb work >CeIl<.

~Buster[This review has been edited by Buster_Snowbunny]

Still not comparable to the original Epic tilesets.

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´MWHAHAHAHAHAAAA CYAS BAd raterS…
I re-uploaded the file and fixed every
masking bug iguess (special thx to cell and jelze who helped me:P) I hope You guys will aslo re-rate it otherwise do i kick ya all awayerrm ask ya …

Btw. THx for ya rating Guys ;)

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[This review has been edited by mirrow][This review has been edited by mirrow]

Being novel, I think I’ll merely list the Bad things.

Universal Warzone:
Spelling mistake, layer 5 to make the level look better, which makes it look bad on low detail. Don’t do this if you can help it, and if you can’t, make the entire thing in layer 5, not just around the slopes. There’s also a place to get stuck easily.

Holy Land:
Spelled Holly Land in text. More of that layer 5 stuff I mentioned. Bad use of doors. Red lock sitting around for no reason.

Doomsday Darkdream:
This level was made in one day or less. Either that or you’re a lot sneakier then I thought. Anyway, there’s not really all that much to this level. No real problems, though.

Grassy “Moutians”:
Spelling mistake, zzzz… This level is paticularly bad looking in low detail. Highly Highly. I don’t like the layout that much either.

Also, every single level has TNT. Never use TNT in battle levels.

Note to everyone: This music is fully 1.23 compatible:)

All these 8.0s and 9.0s are not realy worth this level, nice as it is though. The name is pretty cool for starters, ‘Inner EVIL’, i like that, as long as its evil;). The music, made by Skaven and taken from Unreal Tournament, is not THAT god, but it fits this tileset like a charm. The use of the tileset is good, could have used a tad more eyecandy though. The bases where placed like in most CTF levels, one on the right, and one on the left. The level sorta reminded me of Bloodbunny’s lair, but it just lacked that feel and design that made it so famous. But still, i’d say this is realy somewhat above averege. Design is good. Easy to get around in, no dead ends that i noticed and so on. Weapen placement is not to bad. Maybe even good(wow:P) actuely, but anyways. The level is not confusing or anything. A few ambient lights would have been nice, realy adding to that “Ack! I’m in HELL!” feeling;). Overall, this level is definetly not worth a 8.0 or a 9.0, these 7.2 points are more like it. Take them.

Well, a nice litle tileset for 1 hour of work;). It has no funky ‘Disguise’ or something signs, but what would you expect for 1 hour of work?:P. I must admit i did’nt realy look into the CTF level, but hey, its a tileset, so it would’nt afect my rating anyway.

Hmmm, where to start. Ah yes, I must say that I think discofever is definitley better than this tileset.

Other than that, this is a very decent set, but a few flaws made it worse. There isn’t enough texture on the tiles, why this wasn’t taken care of so nicely as in discofever I don’t know. You can see that the tiles are hand drawn, but done very nicely. Heck, this tileset has three major sections to use (so you don’t gte bored) and loads of other mini-sections to back it up. Nice layer work and all the ‘event’ tiles you need.

Another big problem is the mask. It has loads of jaggies in it, and it’s not very nice if someone wants to use it for their level (and can make some people get stuck). If you took more time to smooth this out I would’ve boosted the rating by a lot. The mask is very important.

Anyways, as a final comment: This is a very nice tileset, but the mask and lack of texture brings the rating down. It’s still worth a download though ;)

Nice tileset. Good mood to it.

You thought of a theme and created it well. Themed tilesets are good.

What I don’t like from the set:
- Not enough variation in the rocks. Make somwhat bigger stones, or stones with small spider webs or cracks or something like that..
- The grass is bad.

Hey WR and others. This is an great pack,with good lvls like the Waterfall,that is an lvl for using the instagib mode,or under destruction is also an good lvl i think this is an very great battle pack
Great work WR.. : )

Xan.
-=BØÐ TT X

The greatest CTF levels ever asembled. Every level is full of new ideas. Get these now.

Very, very good. Not as good as Happy CTF, atleast to me, but still pretty darn good.

Hey Aiko,

This is a very good program, i use this program every time!

Greetz from Joey

Cool Indeed,Mirrow you where right,these IS yer best :)
I was just looking for a tilest for new level and that thing surtently will do the trick!You can build 3 difrent terrain type,lot stuff for a eyecandy.These set shows posibilities of mirrow bu im sure you can do alot better!!!
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Thanks Buster

I can’t downlaod this. For some reason, the file is only 105 kB large and it’s an “invalid archive”. Fix it, if you can, please.

This tileset is one of ur best mirrow i really like it