Everyone needs to check out the media on this outstanding work-in-progress level called Niveus. The level has been put together in Sandbox 2, of course, and it features a stunning custom-modeled/textured medieval city crafted by environment artist Andrew "androkles" Hasko. It took two and a half months of Andrew's time to reach this development stage for the level.

According to Hasko the goal was to not make a playable level per se but a medieval environment which is nice to look at, and he says that the currently unoptimized level runs at ~5fps on his PC (Intel dual-core, 2GB, GF8500GT). His future plans for the level is to performance-optimize it and do more texturing work and so on. Hopefully this fascinating creation sees the light of day in a playable form some day.