Final Doom: TNT: Evilution: Industrial Levels (up to the secrets)

 Crater: 2/5 Hey, they used other monsters! Another step down in difficulty from the middle of the last pack. TNT continues to compete with themselves to find who can make the ugliest level (what if I smashed three door textures together to make a SUPER DOOR!?) Not a good level, but pretty good for Evilution.

Nukage Processing: 4/5 Not just a good Evilution map, but a good map overall. Shutters are one of Evilution's gimmicks, and this is the best implementation I've seen so far. One of the better Cyberdemon traps in any wad I've played. 

Steel Works: 2/5 I was mostly enjoying this one until they pulled the "run the level backwards with extra monsters" thing. Some levels can make that work, but this one was just another slog through a million former humans.

Dead Zone: 3/5 Kind of a boss arena, but not quite. Not great, not terrible.

But really, I want to take a minute to talk about the skybox on this level set.

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Let's start with the smaller issue. We're supposed to be on one of Jupiter's moon. Why can we see what looks like a galaxy and, I dunno, the space Eye of Sauron? It's not like Io got yanked to Hell like Deimos in Episode 2 (and it's not a very hellish sky anyway).

Number two is that, especially in modern ports) it looks awful in game. Zoom in a bit, and you can see that the white stars are stretched vertically, and the galaxy is super pixelated. Doom can do a good looking night sky (see Dr. Sleep's skybox used in the Master Levels), but TNT just didn't care I guess. 

That's kind of how I feel about their texture work overall. Some variety is nice, but 90% of them look significantly worse than the id textures. I'd rather look at the same textures for the 9001 time than have such ugly "variety."