Pasquill's Vehicle Pack 1

I'll be continuing my analysis of Doom 1 level design very soon - but for now I need to get a review out - that's the point of this blog, isn't it?  To provide people with some insight on what they might spend their money on with game-guru?  So this week I'm reviewing Pasquill and a pack of his I recently purchased.

I recently purchased Pasquill's vehicle pack 1 as a reward for my five year old son doing a good job on his schoolwork.  Being he loves cars we spend a lot of hours building huge sprawling maps and just making cars in all positions.  He loves a good car wreck.  So he'll position them and I'll set the details up like smoke and lighting.

Up until recently I've used my City Pack (which has somewhat cartoon looking blue, red, green and orange cars) and some freebies I've picked up over time (like the dark city stuff by Cosmic).  It's nothing spectacular but does the job for a five year old.

The vehicle pack features 24 high quality, ~1500ish poly count models which utilize 2048x2048 textures.  In short, they look great!

Tons of shapes, colors, and variety!

The pictures don't do this pack justice.  You get 24 different vehicles, in five different styles.  Those five styles get a lot of mileage though, with drastically different textures, additional bits (such as missing windows or sirens being added) and colors.

The detail on the side panels is a nice touch.

As you can see above, the van is really nicely made.  I have several vans from other makers and they vary in quality but generally the models are a bit lackluster (it is a box on wheels, after all).  However note the subtlety of the texturing and modelling here.  There's lots of indentations, smooth and graduated edges.  What I like best are the wheels - gone are the dodecehedrons  most of the older free models had.  Here we have really beautifully round wheels that look great.

What's really impressive though are the textures on the damaged vehicles:

This little beater has seen far better days.

 This is where that 2048x2048 texture size pays dividends.  While the flat colored vehicles look nice the rusty and damaged vehicles look SPECTACULAR.  If you're doing a zombie apocalypse or warzone - or hell even a junkyard level - these vehicles are pretty much a must have.  Coloration, design, shape, damage - everything looks phenomenal.  The tires are even flat!  It's a huge amount of detail for what is a very reasonable price.  We're talking 62 and a half cents (USD) per car!

The bottom line:  For the money there's really no better vehicle-based pack on the tgcstore.  You get a big variety of high quality models that are different enough to be worth the expense.  Fifteen dollars seems like a lot when we're talking an online resource market that has things priced criminally low - but take my word for it - it's been worth it.