Synopsis Ever since Halo 3's mythic map pack forge addition, Sandbox, was released it had been a personal goal of mine to recreate the Gears of War 2 map as a Halo rendition. The only thing that held me back then was patience, time, and vision. After the modifications to the forging engine introduced in Halo Reach, I found the motivation to finish what I started on Sandbox. Weapons & Overview x2 Assault Rifle x4 DMR x4 Frags x2 Magnums x4 Needle Rifle x2 Needler x4 Plasma Grenades x2 Plasma Pistol x2 Plasma Repeater x1 Rocket Launcher x2 Shotgun x2 Sniper Rifle For those who have not played Gears of War 2, Ruins is a symmetrical map based around a central bridge. Because the transition from a third-person shooter with limited respawning to a first-person shooter with respawns, many things were modified and/or removed from the map entirely (i.e. dead ends, weapon placement, etc.) but I tried to keep it as true to the original as I could. Sniper spawns remain at the corner platforms on the side and Rockets replace the flame thrower at the top section of the bridge. Shotguns stand underneath the bridge at both sides where boom shield would be along with frags and Needlers are behind the stacks of cover are where. if it were still GoW2, there would be a Gorgon or Boltok. Other weapon are placed around the map in what seem to be reasonable places. Because this wasn't original on my behalf, there is only so much I can say about this map. No doubt it will seem more impressive to those who have played the Gears version, but I hope that anyone who gives this map a download finds it both aesthetically appealing a fun to play on.
Dom, we gotta drop the hammer! lol Anyways, looks like a fun map to play on, not to mention it seems like a great replica of the real map. My suggestions would to replace the guns with something like it in Reach(like a spiker for a Gorgon pistol). Also, I like the way that you modified it to respawns, it should be very balanced from the pictures.
i had the idea to forge this a while back, but just as you said it takes a lot of time and vision to remake a favorite map the way you want! i am very glad that someone recreated this. gears doesnt get the credit it deserves in terms of maps, because it is difficult to remake many of them. ruins is the best option for halo, especially its layout. the map looks great, and this is definitely a DL for me
In the first and third pictures I see Struts that you could change the color of too make it more visual appealing in my opinion. There are also lights which I think you do not need. You already have a lot of aesthetics so I don't see the point of the light. I would get rid of it because it tends to cause frame rate issues. I cannot post on how close it is to the GoW2 version of the map, but it looks like a very nice map overall. There seems to be enough cover which is always nice to find since there are may maps that need to add it.