Created by: Jei9363

The Basics: You're rich, your pad is amazing, and you party all night and sleep all day. You're living the dream in Los Santos, San Andreas, but life is about to get real. You play as Michael De Santa, Sarah Michelle Geller, a Los Santos Police Officer or Michael Rooker as zombies are breaking in - even though some of them might be Charlie Sheen trying to give Sarah Michelle Gellar AIDS; still what will you do in order to survive? Time to use all of your gadgets and perks of your privileged life to send the zombies back to the grave.

What We Liked: The look and layout of this map are incredibly fun with tons of places to drop down from and run to safety.  There are all Black Ops guns and perks along with a new custom perk that will allow you to defy gravity. There is also a cool Der Riese style catwalk that you can hold off the zombies on for those who love them some campin'! There are custom traps throughout the map like a baseball launcher, a tennis ball shooter and several poison sprinklers all able to be controlled from anywhere by your very own iPhone er...I-Zom (to avoid legal trouble). I love the SWAT team zombies that spawn in as they have very unique way of making your life difficult. Finally, there is an interesting way to unlock an elevator which takes you up to the PAP machine as well as a fun little objective that actually has to do with killing zombies and not looking endlessly for BS parts.

What We Didn't Like: Nothing really; this map does so much right and utilizes every square inch to near perfection while providing a great zombie base for survival.

The Final Word: A fantastic map that is full of creative and fun features that will keep you entertained for a good while. Don't forget to buy some Grav-a-rita while you are there and maybe take the leap of faith if you are brave. For those who love running, gunning, flying and surviving monstrous jumps then this map is for you!


Level Detail: 7/10
Custom Content:8/10
Fun Scale: 10/10
Replayability: 7/10

Score: 32/40

Download here: http://ugx-mods.com/forum/index.php/topic,9452.0.html

Creator: CreepersAreEpic (Ping998)

Setting: Shortly after the events of Discovery Island a team of highly trained soldiers has been sent to some ancient ruins to investigate a supposed element 115 sighting...WFT, am I reading the same script that's been used for like 300+ custom zombie maps? Screw this, I'm writing my own version.
That old crazy bastard, Walt Disney, setup theme parks to attract young children and began kidnapping them and harvesting their brains in his underground lab where he'd then hook up all the brains to a machine and use their combined happy thoughts to summon a powerful alien entity to take him with them and give him eternal life and their own planet and 72 virgins and a truck load of blow.

Positives: I've really liked all of the maps I've played by CreepersAreEpic, both Bunbury and Discovery Island were fun maps. This map looks better than both of its predecessors with a better, more fun layout and good use of heights as there are ramps, tunnels in the sky and underground areas which all take you around the map where everything connects in a pretzel-like shape. There are tons of guns from COD4 all the way to Advanced Warfare so you are sure to find something you like. Once again there are no wall weapons so every gun must be purchased from the mystery box; I think that is a really cool idea which seem to be a trend on all Creeper's maps. There are 10 hidden switches to location and each of them unlock a perk machine location, the PAP machine and the buyable ending location hidden in an underground cavern. There are also 3 hidden teddy bears and 3 soul chests to fill to give you some extra optional things to do.

Negatives: Regarding the objective - these are the exact same objective that the mapper has used in each of his previous maps with really no variation. It isn't that it's not fun, but it's not creative in the least. The only reason to play this map over the previous ones would be newer guns and a new layout to run around in. There were quite a few places on the map that I could train zombies very easily and after just a couple rounds I knew all the zombie spawn locations and could run the map with my eyes closed (more-or-less); even areas with tall grass seemed surprisingly easy to navigate.

Conclusion: This map does look better than the mapper's previous two offerings but in the end it suffers from being too easy and feeling like you've done all this too many times before. Overgrowth is a fun, relaxing map and depending on how forgiving you are may offer enough to convince you to see it through to the end but the lack of difficulty or anything new and fresh may mean that you never come back to it again.
 

Level of Detail: 6/10
Custom Content: 7/10
Fun Scale: 7/10
Replayability: 4/10

Score: 24/40

Download map here: http://ugx-mods.com/forum/index.php/topic,8000.0.html

Mapper: Smasher248

The Basics: Kino der Toten was an old dirty run down theatre. You survived Kino and escaped to tell about it. Since then you've seen many machines of mystery and horror; teleporters and time travel devices, machines that have the power to bring the dead back to life as well as alter history itself. The machines have learned from past failures and have built this new Kino in their image. A high tech merging of metal, wires, cables, electronics and a horde of new zombies stand in your way. "Who will survive, and what will be left of them?"

What We Liked: The map starts you off by setting itself apart with a really cool helicopter ride which drops you right down into the starting area. This time around there is a whole new arsenal of futuristic weaponry with different attachments to add plenty of weapon variety. There are twice as many perks as the original map, but players are still limited to pick their 4 favorites so choose wisely. The map looks amazing with Smasher giving Kino a complete futuristic overhaul along with a few minor changes to the actual map itself like additional drop-down areas to give you a bit more freedom navigating the map and may just save your life if you find yourself in trouble. Not enough can be said about how fun this map looks, it's easy to see that Smasher had a great time making this. The teleporter works great and you'll never teleport back to the spawn area only to get killed off immediately by a crowd of zombies waiting for you which is a nice feature that I'm glad he got right. Lastly, it really does feel like Kino, from beginning to end you have that familiar feeling but with a shiny new look to it.

What We Didn't Like: I've never been a fan of the Black Ops zombie map "Five" and the Pentagon Thief might be my least favorite of the bosses from any zombie map. Here is no different. One strategy you can use on the current version of the map is to keep a claymore in your hands and the Thief will take your claymores for that round and allow you to keep both guns. If the mapper fixes this then just accept the fact that you're going to lose one of your guns until you can PAP a good gun in order to deal with him - I really hate this. Also, the Nova crawlers teleport very quickly and somehow are always right at your feet which is going to lead to more than a few deaths where you may feel like you got cheated.

Final Word: All things considered this is an amazing remake that stands tall beside the likes of Nacht der Untoten Reimagined as one of the few remakes to actually get it right. If you were ever a fan of Kino this is going to feel like a dream come true and you should feel right at home on this map remembering a simpler time when an easter egg was activating a song and we played only for high round bragging rights.

Level of Detail: 8/10
Custom Content: 10/10
Fun Scale: 8/10
Replayability: 7/10

Score: 33/40

Download Link: unavailable on this site at the moment.

Zombie Realism Mod 3.0

The first Realism Mod 3.0 map has been released, here is the announcement video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oTgLXDJ_i4



Realism Announcements 1-12 below

Creator: MidgetBlaster

Intro: This map is the new 2015 definition of insanity. This map was made just for fun by a very non-politically correct individual who not only wants to blast midgets, but has your player saying horrendous things as you liquefy group after group of Usain Bolt flavored zombies.

Postitives: A town where bloody snow falls from the sky, zombies explode out of the ground in a full on sprint, you've got more weapons than in every war mankind has fought & there are more colors here than at the Crayola factory. With Halo guns at your disposal including the energy sword, the Advanced Warfare AE4, perks out the ying-yang and the lunar landers are here and are essential to use (hint, hint PAP Machine, hint, hint). The PAPed guns on this map are balls to the wall insane; I've sent a hellhound flying over a building with the paped Raygun - it was pure magic. This map has tons of cleverly designed buildings with escape route at every turn and a high level of detail in many places. There are lots of soul chests to fill as well as a steep 420,000 point buyable ending, but getting interest with the bank makes that much more doable.

Negatives: SPRINTERS FROM THE BEGINNING!!! I understand that the running zombies are about the only thing that gives this map ANY challenge, but that is a design flaw in my opinion and people cover up these mistakes by doing their absolute best to make sure rounds 1-3 are the hardest things you will ever do...harder than coming out of the closet to your parents or performing open heart surgery with zero prior experience.

Conclusion: Yes, this map is SUPER fun even with its glaring drawback. Once you get Jug and Staminup you will never get touched by a zombie again, from then on just enjoy all of the wonderful goodies this map has packed into it.


Level of Detail: 7/10
Custom Content: 8/10
Fun Scale: 9/10
Replayability: 8/10

Score: 32/40

Download Map Here: http://ugx-mods.com/forum/index.php?topic=5860.0

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This is a trip. 81 members strong!

In light of Jiffy wanting to atone for gross error. I thought I should come clean and apologize for all of the errors I have made in assessing people's maps incorrectly. To all of the mappers who's maps I have made humorous reviews for I am very sorry. If you could see me now I have tears in my eyes. Those kind folks didn't deserve all of the hilarious things I said about their quality efforts and Jiffy has helped me see that making apology after apology is very cathartic. Thank you Jiffy and once again sorry to the mappers I've hurt, I shall never again make another custom zombie map review, please forgive me.

Creators: AwesomePieMan, HexZombies, JBird632 & RadimaX

Setting: And so it begins... You find yourself in a small room with only the Pack-a-Punch machine and a MP5K on the wall, too bad you don’t have enough money for either. You look around further but within seconds you are ejected out into the cold waters of the deep and dropped down beside an ocean floor research facility. Sharks swim around you sizing up their next meal. You notice a sign above your head which reads “Reception”, you stagger toward it, you need air badly  and things are going dim. Your chest is tight, you can’t take it anymore and you prepared to breathe in the salty frigid water if it will just end the pain. You inhale, but instead of water air fills your lungs. You've made it! You grab a PES (Pressurized External Suit) and go through the doors in front of you.
Yea, this is just the beginning. This has all the feel of James Cameron’s The Abyss meets Deep Blue Sea (yes, I love that movie). It is an underwater homage to the Black Ops I map Moon and stays true to its source material in a very respectful but ambitious manner.

Positives: This map perfectly captures being inside an underwater facility in every way imaginable and it looks amazing doing it. Every area is detailed exactly the way it needs to be done. Maybe my favorite moment which embodies this map for me was when I was in one of the clear glass tunnels taking in the amazing detail of the sea floor and other buildings around me and then out of the corner of my eye I saw a shark swim by just minding its own business. It was awe-inspiring to say the least.
The map is massive, probably the biggest map ever created in the custom zombie world and detailed in a way that tells me that some serious studying and research went into making this undersea world come alive. Nothing is overkill either, not every square foot of the map is covered in circuit boards, blood marks and rust stains. It would be easy to go overboard here and to think that enough is never enough, but the detailing is done just right with emphasis placed where it needs to be.
There is also a fully developed quest that you can go on if you’d like to complete the map. It is completely audio driven which keeps you more engrossed in the story than reading text on your screen. The voice acting is good, if a bit over the top, but as a big fan of B-movies I love me some good sci-fi overacting any day of the week. For a guy stuck in an aquatic stasis tube for months on end that guy can sure belt it out with some serious passion.
Lastly, the guns on the map are made up entirely of JBird’s Black Ops I mod which means that you have a very solid weapon set, but the guns are so familiar you’ll be thinking less about the guns and more about the map itself – possibly an intentional move on the part of the mappers.

Negatives: There are a couple issues with this map that I’ve got to mention. There have been many times that while booting the map up you’ll be given error messages causing the map to not start, there may be times that you load the map up and all you see is a gun floating in the air, you may also start the map and be unable to see how many perks you have or what powerup drops are floating in the air. Hear this though; all of these problems can be fixed by a simple reboot.
I also have heard that the map may crash during gameplay but this should be few and far between. If you want to get the maximum FPS you can tweak a graphical setting but this will cause massive amounts of pop-in to take place. This was rather distracting. Otherwise, going for lower FPS will reward you with near perfect visuals.
Lastly, in this category, for those people wanting the latest arsenal of high tech weaponry you won’t find it here, if you can forgive this though or really like BOI guns then disregard.
It would have also been VERY nice to be able to complete the objective with less than 4 players because who the heck has 3 friends out there, right?

Conclusion: There have been large maps made before, there have also been maps made with a high level of detail and there have been maps made with lengthy objectives as well; but never has a map been so large and so detailed and still maintained an obsessive level of commitment to quality, presentation and storytelling.


Level of Detail: 10/10
Custom Content: 10/10
Fun Scale: 10/10
Replayability: 10/10

Score: 40/40

Note: I was trying to think of where to take a point off of if I was going to take one off, but I still feel that with what's currently wrong with the map that it's still a 10 in each of these categories.