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'''MAP10: Containment Area''' is the tenth level of most console versions of [[Doom]], based on the original [[E2M2: Containment Area]] with modifications made to adapt the level to consoles' memory and storage limitations. The author of the conversion is unknown, and the original map authors are [[Tom Hall]] and [[Sandy Petersen]]. The map first appeared in [[Atari Jaguar]] version, and was later used in the [[3DO]], [[Sega 32X]], [[Game Boy Advance]], [[Sony PlayStation]], and [[Sega Saturn]] versions. Due to its original size, it is one of the most radically altered levels, with nearly half of the original geometry removed.
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'''MAP10: Containment Area''' is the tenth level of most console versions of [[Doom]], based on the original [[E2M2: Containment Area (Doom)|E2M2: Containment Area]] with modifications made to adapt the level to the consoles' memory and storage limitations. The author of the conversion is [[American McGee]], and the original map authors are [[Tom Hall]] and [[Sandy Petersen]]. The map first appeared on the [[Atari Jaguar]], and was later ported to the [[3DO]], [[Sega 32X]], [[Game Boy Advance]], [[Sony PlayStation]], and [[Sega Saturn]] consoles. Due to its original size, it is one of the most radically altered levels, with nearly half of the original geometry removed.
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== Texture theme ==
 
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As opposed to the PC version of this map the following texture theme is used:
 
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{{stub}}
 
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== Music ==
 
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The map uses the following music tracks:
 
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{| {{prettytable}}
 
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! Port !! Track !! Composer !! Notes
 
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| Atari Jaguar || "Donna To The Rescue" || [[Robert Prince]] || Only plays in the [[intermission]] screen after the map is completed.
 
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| 3DO || "Donna To The Rescue" || Robert Prince || Re-orchestrated version played by live band
 
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|-
 
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| Sega 32X || "At Doom's Gate" || Robert Prince ||
 
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| Game Boy Advance || "Intermission From DOOM" || Robert Prince ||
 
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|-
 
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| Sony PlayStation || "A Calm Panic Rises" || [[Aubrey Hodges]] ||
 
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| Sega Saturn || "Breath Of Horror" || Aubrey Hodges ||
 
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|}
 
  
 
== Walkthrough ==
 
== Walkthrough ==
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[[File:Jaguar doom map10.png|thumb|300x330px|Map of Containment Area]]
 
{{map spots}}
 
{{map spots}}
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[[Image:Jaguar doom map10.png|thumb|300px|Map of Containment Area]]
 
  
 
===Essentials===
 
===Essentials===
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Before moving southward collect the [[green armor]] and the [[shotgun]]. The armor lies to the right of you starting position. The position of the shotgun depends on the current skill level. On the easy skill levels it is put on the floor near the armor and a [[box of shells]] lie on the crate. On all other skills the shotgun is put on the crate. You should lower the crate to get these items. Flip the switch on the wall to lower the crate.
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'''Blue key'''
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Go straight forward, turn left when you reach the crate wall and pick up the [[berserk]] pack in front of you. Turn right and head through the metal archway in front of you to a room with four pillars. Go straight ahead through the exit flanked by candelabras and press the [[switch]] on your left to open the door. Go through the door and a staircase will rise in front of you. Climb it and go left at the crossroads, which will bring you to a room with a nukage pool. Run across it (the nukage is [[damaging floor|harmful]]) and take the [[blue keycard]] on the other side.
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'''Red key and exit'''
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With the blue key, go forward and down the staircase to a blue door. Open it and turn right to see another blue door, behind which is the [[red keycard]]. Take it and head down the corridor to the four-pillared room. Go back up the staircase from this room again and go straight ahead at the crossroads. Follow the corridor through a large room and you will see a nukage pool in front of you, with the exit door on the other side. Turn left to see a red door in front of you - head through it and follow the room round to a switch. Press the switch to raise a bridge over the nukage to the exit door. Go back through the red door, cross the new bridge through the exit door and press the switch behind it to finish the level.
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===Other points of interest===
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The yellow keycard in this level is optional, but is required to get to secret #1 ([[#Secrets|see below]]). After taking the berserk pack in the crate maze at the start of the level, instead of going through the metal archway to the south, walk past it and follow the path south, east and north around the crates. You will see a door at the end of the path - go through it and head straight forward. The keycard is past the room with six pillars, next to a backpack (this area also holds secrets #2, #3 and #4).
  
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Move southward and turn left. You will see the first [[berserk pack]] in the game (unless you visited the [[MAP24: Military Base (Console Doom)|Military Base]]). Take it and turn right. You will see a metal arch behind which is a room spanning southward. If you want you may explore the other parts of the crate maze. In any case you have to go to the room behind the metal arch.
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An [[armor]] pickup can be found on your right at the start of the level, along with a [[shotgun]] on I am a Wimp/Not Too Rough [[skill level]]s. A crate just in front of you holds a [[box of shells]] on those skill levels, or a shotgun on Hurt Me Plenty and Ultra Violence - you can reach these items by walking forward and pressing the switch on your left, which lowers the crate.
  
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'''Yellow key (optional)'''
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After reaching the crossroads past the rising staircase, go west and follow the corridor to the end. You will find a [[megaarmor]] in one corner, and a [[clip]] and two [[4 shotgun shells|stacks of shotgun shells]] in a nearby closet.
  
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When looking on the arch, head left (east). You will see small gray crates making a staircase. Ascend on them and collect a [[stimpack]] and another armor. Drop down to the next portion of the corridor. If you turn left here you will come to a dead end with the third armor (you can take it later). Head to the north and you will meet a door. Kill [[imp]]s and take some items in the "alcoves" between crates. Enter the door to be in a room. There are three locked doors and the keycard in the consequent room. If you take the card, the three silver pillars will rise. Flip the switches on each of the pillar to open the doors. Behind the central door is a [[rocket launcher]]. Behind the other ones are group of enemies (kill them with the new weapon or use the desired one).
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There are two platforms in the nukage pool by the blue keycard, holding a [[stimpack]] and a [[box of bullets]].
  
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Also, if you flipped one or two switches and after comming back to the room of pillars they all have been lowered, you still can flip the switches [[Linedefs can be activated regardless of player's Z position|while they are "sunk"]] one by one every time returning there. First, flip the switch on the right, east, pillar to open the central door with the rocket launcher. Then, flip the other switches to open the rest of the doors. Therefore, you can exploit [[blast damage]] against the enemies as long as they do not leave their rooms.
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The room due east of the exit area contains an armor pickup and a [[medikit]].
  
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With the yellow key, get back to the place of the crate maze where there were the berserk pack and the first door. Behind the door is the yellow door. Open it but be careful. There is an inescapable nukage pit. First, destroy the demons with an impack weapon while you are standing near the door. When they are dead, flip the switch on the other end of the room. The pit will soon vanish and the [[chaingun]] will be accessible.
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===Secrets===
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# In the north region of the map is a square concrete corridor, accessible through a door just south-east of the start point. This corridor surrounds a central chamber which requires the yellow keycard to enter. Inside is a [[chaingun]] on a pillar ('''sector 46'''), which can be lowered by pressing the switch on the north wall. (Note that if you fall into the nukage pit before pressing the switch, you cannot get out.)
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# In the north-eastern room at the end of the crate maze, approach the yellow keycard and backpack to make three metal pillars rise. There is a switch on the north side of each pillar that opens a door in the previous room. All three of the alcoves behind these doors ('''sectors 78, 79 and 80''') count as separate secrets and contain a [[box of rockets]], a [[rocket launcher]] and a [[box of bullets]].
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# See secret #2.
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# See secret #2.
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# After climbing the rising stairs, turn right, take the first left and turn left again to enter a dark room. There is a switch on the north side of the first rectangular pillar, which temporarily lowers the second pillar to the east (this switch only works once). Step on top of this pillar ('''sector 38''') to collect a [[plasma gun]]. (If you are still on top of the pillar when it rises again, press the switch on the north wall to lower the pillar permanently. The switch can also be activated [[Linedefs can be activated regardless of player's Z position|from below]].)
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# In the blue keycard room, there is a brightly-lit triangular sector in the south-east corner of the room. Stepping on this triangle temporarily lowers a floor across the nukage pool - step on to this floor ('''sector 112''') before it rises again to collect a [[soulsphere]]. (If the floor rises while you are standing on it, press use on the north, east or west walls to lower it again and let yourself out.)
  
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'''Blue and red keys'''
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===Bugs===
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[[File:JagDoom-MAP10Secret.png|thumb|300x330px|The unreachable chainsaw room is highlighted in red.]]
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The [[chainsaw]] room is still present in some console versions and is normally inaccessible. Because the hallway leading to it was removed, it is normally impossible to get into this room and therefore to get 100% kills and secrets. In the Jaguar version, it is possible to clip into the area using a glitch with the rocket launcher. This was fixed in the PlayStation and Saturn versions, which remove the orphaned rooms.
  
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Now move into the room behind the metal arch and toward south. To open silver door press the switch. Step on the platform to make a staircase. Ascend to a room with lamps in the middle. Head to the left, and you will be in a nukage room with two islands. Both islands contain items. Get to the other side with the blue keycard to get it. Once picked up the key go to the revealed passage to the right, which is the shortcut to the large room. Descend to the blue door (killing a demon on your way). Open the door and you will be back in the familiar room. Open another blue door to the right. Behind is the red keycard.
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One [[barrel]] ([[thing]] 90) has no flags set for any of the three [[Skill level#Doom and Doom II skill levels|difficulty classes]], so it does not actually appear in the level.
  
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Return to the staircase and to the room with the lamps in the middle. Now take either right (west) or a corridor ahead (south). Both paths guides you to the exit but if you choose to go to the south you can find items and the fourth armor in a room. If you choose the west going to the extreme end and collecting two stimpacks, you will eventually discover a room with [[blue armor]], [[ammo clip]] and two [[shotgun shells]].
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== Comparison of versions ==
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Of all the levels ported to consoles, Containment Area is among the most radically altered. Around half the playable area was removed, along with geometry simplification in the remaining areas and texture changes to reduce the number of unique textures used.
  
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In the south west you can see a nukage pool and two doors. One of which is the inaccessible exit. You need to build a bridge to it. Open the second door which requires red key. Behind is a room with imps and a switch that will build the bridge. Now you can finish the level.
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===Removed areas===
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* The entire western section of the crate maze has been removed.
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* The north and west hallways around secret #1 have been removed.
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* The western hallway from the central room with four pillars and the nukage river it leads to have been removed.  
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* The crusher hallway and the yellow keycard room were removed.
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* The three hallways with flashing blue lights in the west of the level and the three sets of quadrant-shaped lifts in the southeast of the map, along with their associated secret areas, have been removed.
  
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===Other points of interest===
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===Room design===
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* All switches use a red/green light on metal wall texture (SW1MET2).
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* All but one of the small crates are removed from the south-west corner of the crate maze.
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* The yellow keycard is moved to the north-east corner of the map, next to the backpack.
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* The blue keycard room is moved further west, into the space where the yellow keycard room used to be. This area is connected directly to the crossroads past the rising stairs by a hallway.
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* A small alcove containing [[megaarmor]], north of the exit area, is removed. The pickup is placed on the floor.
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* The exit door is now separated from the rest of the level by an isolated nukage pit. The pit itself is shallower.
  
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===Secrets===
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===Monster placement===
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* Two [[revenant]]s appear in the south-west corner of the crate maze on Ultra Violence [[skill level]] (UV).
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* Three [[demon]]s that appear in the level on UV are replaced with [[nightmare spectre]]s:
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** One in the room behind the yellow door (secret #1).
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** One at the bottom of the staircase north of the blue keycard.
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** One in the dark room north-east of the exit area (secret #3).
  
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===Bugs===
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<gallery caption="Comparison of maps" perrow="3" widths="236px" heights="381px">
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The [[chainsaw]] room is still present on the level and is normally inaccessible. It is ordinarily impossible to get into this room and therefore to get 100% kills and secrets. In the Atari Jaguar version, it is possible to clip into the area using a glitch with the [[rocket launcher]]. This was fixed in the PlayStation and Saturn version, as these versions remove the orphaned rooms.
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Doom v1.2 E2M2 map.png|E2M2 (PC)
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Jaguar doom map10.png|MAP10 (Jaguar, 3DO, GBA)
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32X Doom MAP10 map.png|MAP10 (32X)
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PSX Doom MAP10 map.png|MAP10 (PSX)
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</gallery>
  
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== Areas / screenshots ==
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== Areas / screenshots ==
 
{{ScreenshotsNeeded}}
 
{{ScreenshotsNeeded}}
 
===Atari Jaguar screenshots===
 
===Atari Jaguar screenshots===
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===Game Boy Advance screenshots===
 
===Game Boy Advance screenshots===
  
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== Versions comparison ==
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== Music ==
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Compared to the PC level, a large amount of changes were made to the console version to simplify it for the limitations of consoles.
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The map uses the following music tracks:
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{| {{prettytable}}
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|-
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! Port !! Track !! Composer !! Notes
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| Atari Jaguar || "Donna To The Rescue" || [[Robert Prince]] || Only plays in the [[intermission]] screen after the map is completed.
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|-
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| 3DO || "Donna To The Rescue" || Robert Prince || Re-orchestrated version played by live band
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|-
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| Sega 32X || "At Doom's Gate" || Robert Prince ||
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|-
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| Game Boy Advance || "Intermission From DOOM" || Robert Prince ||
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|-
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| Sony PlayStation || "A Calm Panic Rises" || [[Aubrey Hodges]] ||
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|-
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| Sega Saturn || "Breath Of Horror" || Aubrey Hodges ||
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|}
  
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The entire western section of the crate maze has been removed.
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== Deathmatch ==
  
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The western hallway from the central marble room and the slime river it leads to have been removed. The exit door is now separated from the rest of the level by an isolated slime pit. The pit itself is made shallow.
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===Player spawns===
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This level contains four spawn points:
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# facing south. ('''thing 139''')
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# facing south. ('''thing 140''')
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# facing east. ('''thing 141''')
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# facing south-west. ('''thing 144''')
  
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The crusher hallway and the yellow keycard room were removed. The blue keycard area, previously after the crusher hallway, is now where the yellow keycard room used to be. The eastern hallway from the central marble room was shortened to match this change in geometry. The yellow key now finds its place in the north-eastern optional room with rocket launcher, so the players can find the chaingun and complete the crate maze without going to the south side to get the key.
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== Statistics ==
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===Map data===
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{{mapdata|
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  things=140|
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  vertexes=820|
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  linedefs=804|
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  sidedefs=1029|
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  sectors=127|
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  vertexbefore=670}}
  
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The three hallways with flashing blue lights in the west of the level and the three sets of quadrant-shaped lifts in the southeast of the map, along with their associated secret areas, have been removed.
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===Things===
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This level contains the following numbers of [[thing]]s per [[Skill level#Doom and Doom II skill levels|skill level]]:
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{{col-break|width=33%}}
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{| {{prettytable|style=text-align: center;}}
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!colspan="4"|Single-player
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|-
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![[Monster|Monsters]]!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Imp]]||23||40||47
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Lost soul]]||1||2||2
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Demon]]||4||6||9
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Revenant]]||0||0||2
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Nightmare spectre]]||0||0||3
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|-
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![[Weapon|Weapons]]!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Shotgun]]||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Chaingun]]||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Rocket launcher]]||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Plasma gun]]||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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![[Ammo|Ammunition]]!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Clip]]||6||5||5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Box of bullets]]||colspan="3"|3
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[4 shotgun shells]]||colspan="3"|5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Box of shotgun shells]]||2||1||1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Rocket]]||colspan="3"|2
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Box of rockets]]||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Energy cell pack]]||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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![[Item#Doom games|Health & Armor]]!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Stimpack]]||colspan="3"|15
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Medikit]]||colspan="3"|4
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Armor]]||colspan="3"|4
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Megaarmor]]||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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!Items!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Armor bonus]]||colspan="3"|2
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Health bonus]]||colspan="3"|5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Supercharge]]||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Backpack]]||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Berserk]]||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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![[Key|Keys]]!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Blue keycard||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Red keycard||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Yellow keycard||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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!Miscellaneous!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Barrel|Exploding barrel]]||colspan="3"|3
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|}
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{{col-break}}
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{| {{prettytable|style=text-align: center;}}
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!colspan="4"|Multiplayer
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|-
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!Monsters!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Imp||23||40||47
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Lost soul||1||2||2
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Demon||4||6||9
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Revenant||0||0||2
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Nightmare spectre||0||0||3
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|-
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!Weapons!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Shotgun||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Chaingun||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Rocket launcher||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Plasma gun||colspan="3"|2
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|-
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!Ammunition!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Clip||6||5||5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Box of bullets||colspan="3"|3
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|4 shotgun shells||colspan="3"|5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Box of shotgun shells||2||1||1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Rocket||colspan="3"|2
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Box of rockets||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Energy cell pack||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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!Health & Armor!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Stimpack||colspan="3"|15
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Medikit||colspan="3"|4
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Armor||colspan="3"|4
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Megaarmor||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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!Items!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Armor bonus||colspan="3"|2
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Health bonus||colspan="3"|5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Supercharge||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Backpack||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Berserk||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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!Keys!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Blue keycard||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Red keycard||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Yellow keycard||colspan="3"|1
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|-
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!Miscellaneous!!1-2!!3!!4-5
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Multiplayer#Cooperative|Cooperative start]]||colspan="3"|2
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Deathmatch start]]||colspan="3"|4
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|-
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|style="text-align: left;"|Exploding barrel||colspan="3"|3
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|}
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{{col-end}}
  
 
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== Trivia ==
 
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Latest revision as of 09:41, 25 January 2021

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◂Containment Area▸

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This is a console version
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This level occupies the map slot MAP10. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP10.

MAP10: Containment Area is the tenth level of most console versions of Doom, based on the original E2M2: Containment Area with modifications made to adapt the level to the consoles' memory and storage limitations. The author of the conversion is American McGee, and the original map authors are Tom Hall and Sandy Petersen. The map first appeared on the Atari Jaguar, and was later ported to the 3DO, Sega 32X, Game Boy Advance, Sony PlayStation, and Sega Saturn consoles. Due to its original size, it is one of the most radically altered levels, with nearly half of the original geometry removed.

Walkthrough[edit]

Map of Containment Area
Letters in italics refer to marked spots on the map. Sector, thing, and linedef numbers in boldface are secrets which count toward the end-of-level tally.

Essentials[edit]

Blue key

Go straight forward, turn left when you reach the crate wall and pick up the berserk pack in front of you. Turn right and head through the metal archway in front of you to a room with four pillars. Go straight ahead through the exit flanked by candelabras and press the switch on your left to open the door. Go through the door and a staircase will rise in front of you. Climb it and go left at the crossroads, which will bring you to a room with a nukage pool. Run across it (the nukage is harmful) and take the blue keycard on the other side.

Red key and exit With the blue key, go forward and down the staircase to a blue door. Open it and turn right to see another blue door, behind which is the red keycard. Take it and head down the corridor to the four-pillared room. Go back up the staircase from this room again and go straight ahead at the crossroads. Follow the corridor through a large room and you will see a nukage pool in front of you, with the exit door on the other side. Turn left to see a red door in front of you - head through it and follow the room round to a switch. Press the switch to raise a bridge over the nukage to the exit door. Go back through the red door, cross the new bridge through the exit door and press the switch behind it to finish the level.

Other points of interest[edit]

The yellow keycard in this level is optional, but is required to get to secret #1 (see below). After taking the berserk pack in the crate maze at the start of the level, instead of going through the metal archway to the south, walk past it and follow the path south, east and north around the crates. You will see a door at the end of the path - go through it and head straight forward. The keycard is past the room with six pillars, next to a backpack (this area also holds secrets #2, #3 and #4).

An armor pickup can be found on your right at the start of the level, along with a shotgun on I am a Wimp/Not Too Rough skill levels. A crate just in front of you holds a box of shells on those skill levels, or a shotgun on Hurt Me Plenty and Ultra Violence - you can reach these items by walking forward and pressing the switch on your left, which lowers the crate.

After reaching the crossroads past the rising staircase, go west and follow the corridor to the end. You will find a megaarmor in one corner, and a clip and two stacks of shotgun shells in a nearby closet.

There are two platforms in the nukage pool by the blue keycard, holding a stimpack and a box of bullets.

The room due east of the exit area contains an armor pickup and a medikit.

Secrets[edit]

  1. In the north region of the map is a square concrete corridor, accessible through a door just south-east of the start point. This corridor surrounds a central chamber which requires the yellow keycard to enter. Inside is a chaingun on a pillar (sector 46), which can be lowered by pressing the switch on the north wall. (Note that if you fall into the nukage pit before pressing the switch, you cannot get out.)
  2. In the north-eastern room at the end of the crate maze, approach the yellow keycard and backpack to make three metal pillars rise. There is a switch on the north side of each pillar that opens a door in the previous room. All three of the alcoves behind these doors (sectors 78, 79 and 80) count as separate secrets and contain a box of rockets, a rocket launcher and a box of bullets.
  3. See secret #2.
  4. See secret #2.
  5. After climbing the rising stairs, turn right, take the first left and turn left again to enter a dark room. There is a switch on the north side of the first rectangular pillar, which temporarily lowers the second pillar to the east (this switch only works once). Step on top of this pillar (sector 38) to collect a plasma gun. (If you are still on top of the pillar when it rises again, press the switch on the north wall to lower the pillar permanently. The switch can also be activated from below.)
  6. In the blue keycard room, there is a brightly-lit triangular sector in the south-east corner of the room. Stepping on this triangle temporarily lowers a floor across the nukage pool - step on to this floor (sector 112) before it rises again to collect a soulsphere. (If the floor rises while you are standing on it, press use on the north, east or west walls to lower it again and let yourself out.)

Bugs[edit]

The unreachable chainsaw room is highlighted in red.

The chainsaw room is still present in some console versions and is normally inaccessible. Because the hallway leading to it was removed, it is normally impossible to get into this room and therefore to get 100% kills and secrets. In the Jaguar version, it is possible to clip into the area using a glitch with the rocket launcher. This was fixed in the PlayStation and Saturn versions, which remove the orphaned rooms.

One barrel (thing 90) has no flags set for any of the three difficulty classes, so it does not actually appear in the level.

Comparison of versions[edit]

Of all the levels ported to consoles, Containment Area is among the most radically altered. Around half the playable area was removed, along with geometry simplification in the remaining areas and texture changes to reduce the number of unique textures used.

Removed areas[edit]

  • The entire western section of the crate maze has been removed.
  • The north and west hallways around secret #1 have been removed.
  • The western hallway from the central room with four pillars and the nukage river it leads to have been removed.
  • The crusher hallway and the yellow keycard room were removed.
  • The three hallways with flashing blue lights in the west of the level and the three sets of quadrant-shaped lifts in the southeast of the map, along with their associated secret areas, have been removed.

Room design[edit]

  • All switches use a red/green light on metal wall texture (SW1MET2).
  • All but one of the small crates are removed from the south-west corner of the crate maze.
  • The yellow keycard is moved to the north-east corner of the map, next to the backpack.
  • The blue keycard room is moved further west, into the space where the yellow keycard room used to be. This area is connected directly to the crossroads past the rising stairs by a hallway.
  • A small alcove containing megaarmor, north of the exit area, is removed. The pickup is placed on the floor.
  • The exit door is now separated from the rest of the level by an isolated nukage pit. The pit itself is shallower.

Monster placement[edit]

  • Two revenants appear in the south-west corner of the crate maze on Ultra Violence skill level (UV).
  • Three demons that appear in the level on UV are replaced with nightmare spectres:
    • One in the room behind the yellow door (secret #1).
    • One at the bottom of the staircase north of the blue keycard.
    • One in the dark room north-east of the exit area (secret #3).
  • Comparison of maps

  • E2M2 (PC)

  • MAP10 (Jaguar, 3DO, GBA)

  • MAP10 (32X)

  • MAP10 (PSX)

Areas / screenshots[edit]

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Atari Jaguar screenshots[edit]

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Game Boy Advance screenshots[edit]

Music[edit]

The map uses the following music tracks:

Port Track Composer Notes
Atari Jaguar "Donna To The Rescue" Robert Prince Only plays in the intermission screen after the map is completed.
3DO "Donna To The Rescue" Robert Prince Re-orchestrated version played by live band
Sega 32X "At Doom's Gate" Robert Prince
Game Boy Advance "Intermission From DOOM" Robert Prince
Sony PlayStation "A Calm Panic Rises" Aubrey Hodges
Sega Saturn "Breath Of Horror" Aubrey Hodges

Deathmatch[edit]

Player spawns[edit]

This level contains four spawn points:

  1. facing south. (thing 139)
  2. facing south. (thing 140)
  3. facing east. (thing 141)
  4. facing south-west. (thing 144)

Statistics[edit]

Map data[edit]

Things 140
Vertices 820*
Linedefs 804
Sidedefs 1029
Sectors 127
* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 670.

Things[edit]

This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:

Technical information[edit]

Inspiration and development[edit]

Trivia[edit]

Navigation[edit]

Console Doom levels - Atari Jaguar, 3DO, Game Boy Advance
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Phobos: MAP01: Hangar • MAP02: Plant • MAP03: Toxin Refinery • MAP04: Command Control • MAP05: Phobos Lab • MAP06: Central Processing • MAP07: Computer Station • MAP08: Phobos Anomaly
Deimos: MAP09: Deimos Anomaly • MAP10: Containment Area • MAP11: Refinery • MAP12: Deimos Lab • MAP13: Command Center • MAP14: Halls of the Damned • MAP15: Spawning Vats • MAP16: Tower of Babel
Hell: MAP17: Hell Keep • MAP18: Pandemonium • MAP19: House of Pain • MAP20: Unholy Cathedral • MAP21: Mt. Erebus • MAP22: Limbo • MAP23: Dis
Secret levels: MAP24: Military Base
Console Doom levels - Sega 32X
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Phobos: MAP01: Hangar • MAP02: Plant • MAP03: Toxin Refinery • MAP04: Command Control • MAP05: Phobos Lab • MAP06: Central Processing • MAP07: Computer Station • MAP08: Phobos Anomaly
Deimos: MAP09: Deimos Anomaly • MAP10: Containment Area • MAP11: Refinery • MAP12: Deimos Lab • MAP13: Command Center • MAP14: Halls of the Damned • MAP15: Spawning Vats
Hell: MAP23: Dis
Secret levels: MAP24: Military Base
Console Doom levels - Doom for Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn
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Ultimate Doom
Phobos: MAP01: Hangar • MAP02: Plant • MAP03: Toxin Refinery • MAP04: Command Control • MAP05: Phobos Lab • MAP06: Central Processing • MAP07: Computer Station • MAP08: Phobos Anomaly
Deimos: MAP09: Deimos Anomaly • MAP10: Containment Area • MAP11: Refinery • MAP12: Deimos Lab • MAP13: Command Center • MAP14: Halls of the Damned • MAP15: Spawning Vats • MAP16: Hell Gate
Hell: MAP17: Hell Keep • MAP18: Pandemonium • MAP19: House of Pain • MAP20: Unholy Cathedral • MAP21: Mt. Erebus • MAP22: Limbo • MAP23: Tower of Babel
Earth: MAP24: Hell Beneath • MAP25: Perfect Hatred • MAP26: Sever the Wicked • MAP27: Unruly Evil • MAP28: Unto the Cruel • MAP29: Twilight Descends • MAP30: Threshold of Pain
Secret levels: MAP56: Military Base • MAP55: Fortress of Mystery • MAP57: The Marshes
Doom II
The Star Base: MAP31: Entryway • MAP32: Underhalls • MAP33: The Gantlet • MAP34: The Focus • MAP35: The Waste Tunnels • MAP36: The Crusher • MAP37: Dead Simple • MAP38: Tricks and Traps • MAP39: The Pit • MAP40: Refueling Base • MAP41: O of Destruction!
The City: MAP42: The Factory • MAP43: The Inmost Dens • MAP44: Suburbs • MAP45: Tenements • MAP46: The Courtyard • MAP47: The Citadel
Hell: MAP48: Nirvana • MAP49: The Catacombs • MAP50: Barrels of Fun • MAP51: Bloodfalls • MAP52: The Abandoned Mines • MAP53: Monster Condo • MAP54: Redemption Denied
Secret levels: MAP58: The Mansion • MAP59: Club Doom
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