/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4890103
The soundtrack is TNT's strongest aspect, and it well supports its second strongest aspect: the mood and atmosphere.

In spite of being made by a ragtag bunch of misfits, with no real goals or direction on style, it still manages to exhibit a recognizable one. It's gritty, dark and tense, almost feeling a bit retrofuturistic with how primitive some things appear; tape reel computers, crude wooden crates, rusty stamped metal panels fastened to the architecture by rivets, piping and circuitry exposed in all manner of places. It takes the somewhat primitive appearing technology and locales of the original game, and turns it up to max, finally adding little quasi-realistic detail here and there, with sector furniture and working spaces (office cubicles, warehouses, loading bays, personnel quarters, etc). The music accompanies this perfectly, providing a mix of pumping action themes, and low tempo tension themes, droning as to hypnothize you and pull you into the game.

The style of Evilution is just so distinct from the other iwads, and I love it, even if not all the levels are perfect.
Though I found TNT: Revilution to be an outstanding mapset, and absolutely worth playing on all its own merits (and I will absolutely play it again some day), it largely disappointed me for how it generally failed to capture the atmosphere and tone of Evilution, and I still yearn for something which does.