MAP27: Playground (Doom 64)

Doom 64 fun levels
MAP25: Cat And Mouse MAP26: Hardcore MAP27: Playground
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This level occupies the map slot MAP27. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP27.

MAP27: Playground is the twenty-seventh map of Doom 64, designed by Tim Heydelaar, and the last "fun" level. It can only be accessed by the "Features" menu. It uses the music track "Warped" also heard in MAP18: Spawned Fear.

Walkthrough

Map of Playground

Letters in italics refer to marked spots on the map. Sector and Thing numbers in boldface are secrets which count toward the end-of-level tally.

Essentials

The level starts as a closed-off arena set in a hellish environment. The player starts off in the middle of the action surrounded by a multitude of pillars topped with arachnotrons. Strewn along the floor at the feet of the pillars are a rocket launcher, multiple rocket boxes, a few stimpacks, and a blur artifact hovering over each of them that cannot be avoided; once the player grabs an item underneath, he will automatically pick up the sphere. This makes the battle against the arachnotrons harder to deal with as the arachnotrons' shots become more erratic.

Once the player kills all the demons, a megasphere will spawn in the center of the map. Collecting the megasphere will trigger the sides of the arena to lower, exposing more rockets and a cyberdemon.

Once the cyberdemon is killed, the arena's walls lower and unleash an army of mancubi coupled with even more rocket boxes. Once the mancubi are defeated, the level ends and takes the player back to MAP01: Staging Area.

Secrets

There are no official secrets in this level.

Speedrunning

Routes and tricks

The pillars work great as cover from the arachnotrons' bolts, granting you a safer way to take them out one at a time. In the second part, the pillars also work well as cover from the cyberdemon's rockets.

Collecting all blur spheres at the start allows you to safely grab items later in the level without re-applying the partial-invisibility effect.

Statistics

Map data

Things	58
Vertices	192*
Linedefs	228
Sidedefs	432
Sectors	17

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 151.

Things

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

Monsters	1-2	3	4
Arachnotron	7
Mancubus	7
Cyberdemon	1
Weapons	1-2	3	4
Rocket launcher	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4
Box of rockets	24
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4
Stimpack	2
Medikit	2
Items	1-2	3	4
Megasphere	1
Backpack	3
Partial invisibility	9