Author: Pascal Rouaud
Released: 21st April 2000
Rating: 95
Review by Steven Laliberté on 27th March 2008
Ahhhhhhhhhhh! Screaming out and falling completely disarmed in the well ending Roch 2, diving into a nasty cave infested by slimers, taking a rather strange lift, killing an unfortunate tripbomb-trapped trooper and finally, going out in the city... Hey! Looking on your left, you recognise the plaza of Roch 2 behind the police line you still can't cross, and straight ahead, under your favourite blue sky, it’s Roch 3! Indeed, Roch 3 is the direct sequel of Roch 2 and once again you'll have to make it clear to those alien bastards that the ROCH city is yours, and not theirs!
Pascal built up this map through the foundations of the still growing ROCH style: nice elaborate facades, realistic architectures and cool detailed interiors. You’ll visit a nice Hi-Fi store, a motel, a well-designed railroad station and several residences, disturbing on your way a human/monster mixed party. Have a look to the industrial river bank, but beware of the helicopter landing in front of you and delivering your usual boorish piggies or else you may quickly become history!
The gameplay sounds a bit tough at the beginning of this map, as much due to the little ammunition you begin with, as a funny effect which makes the monsters awaken and overstimulated within the city before you’ve ever been spotted. Thereby, it could be first useful first to get a glimpse of and reach some of the 10 secret places to get additional weapons. Once you’ve defeated this first terrific alien wave, the action is top-notch, intenseness increasing throughout your way, and always served by a fairly balanced Goodies/Baddies ratio. You’ll be encountering each class of alien, and defeating it with the weapon of your choice, because they’re all available.
Other fine stuffs are scattered within this map : you'll note the famous billboard, ruled here by a new interesting animation, a new splendid car and also a lot of funny details, like this rather strange big clock on the pavement, this nice familial mini golf course set in an house, or even all the ironical words Pascal wrote in the forbidden places, still to be discovered.
Therefore, don’t wait for fighting your way to the download button!
Gameplay Type: SP
Requires:
Duke Nukem 3D v1.4+
Filesize: 110.82 KB
Level includes: multiple difficulty settings
Download:
Roch 3 (543)
Other releases by Pascal Rouaud:
Roch,
Roch 2,
Roch 4,
Roch 5,
Roch 6,
Roch 7,
Roch 8,
Roch Secret 1
Know of any other maps from this author? Let us know
Mapping template:
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Title : Roch 3
Filename : Roch3.map
Author : Pascal ROUAUD
E-mail : pascalrouaud[at]hotmail.com
Please send me any comments about this map
If you plan to post it on your web page, tell me you'll do
it so I can appreciate...
Web Page : none
Misc. Author Info : I'm French (so sorry for my English!)
Some "wads" for Doom (94-95)
Other Levels : Roch, Roch2.
Description : Third episode...
Notes : 10 secret places, please don't cheat to get the jetpack!
(you'll find it at the end)
If you love this map like I do and would like to know all
secrets, e-mail me to get a demo file that shows everything
(or to get my previous levels).
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Additional Credits To : Ken Silverman, 3D Realms.
Special thanks to my (super)beta-testers:
Dukebert http://www.homestead.com/dmz/
Juha Laaksonen http://www.dukesivut.cjb.net/
Matt Wareham http://www.dukeworld.com/dukeinc/
Maarten Pinxten http://matrix.crosswinds.net/~gamorama/
Mikko Sandt http://www.planetduke.com/msdn/
I also wish to thank Jeremy Endres (aka Deathtoll) for his demos and previews,
of my levels: Duke Map Busters http://www.dukeworld.com/dmb/
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* Play Information *
Episode and Level # : none
Single Player : Yes
DukeMatch 2-8 Player : Yes
Cooperative 2-8 Player : Yes
Difficulty Settings : Yes (3 skills)
Plutonium Pak Required : YES! YOU MUST HAVE IT.
New Art : No
New Music : No
New Sound Effects : No
New .CON Files : No
Demos Replaced : No (see above for a "secret demo")
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* Construction *
Base : New level from scratch
Level Editor(s) Used : BUILD
Construction Time : 3 months on and off
Known Bugs/Problems : Let me know if there are...
* Where to get this MAP file *
File location : In the zip archive with this file...
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*Important Information*
Installation : Unzip ROCH3.MAP in your Duke3d directory, then
type : duke3d map roch3
You may choose your skill: add /s# (#=1 to 4)
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* Copyright / Permissions *
Authors MAY NOT use this level as a base to build additional levels,
concatenations, or otherwise.
You MAY distribute this MAP (Roch3.map), provided you include this text file
(Roch3.txt), with no modifications. You may distribute this file in any
electronic format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this file
intact.