I'd been looking for a good remake of Colossus that was not built into the coliseum and could not find anything. So I went ahead and made my own.

In retrospect I think the coliseum is the way to go- the lighting is fantastic and having an enclosed area is easy on the budget, and the changes in scale and shape are probably not too sever, but having finished I'm pleased with the overall feel. Reminds me quite a lot of the original, and stood up to the actual gameplay comparisons in my and my sons' opinion.

The architectural layout was based on a wireframe overhead pulled out of the pc version of the original (thanks to dt192 for his help).

(for comparison, map with top removed)

It ended up slightly shorter due to budget constraints. I may have to go back and see if I can correct that with some creative substitutions of structures.

Spawns were determined by excessive amounts of suicides in the original in free for all and team based gametypes. Weapons are fundamentally the same except I used spikers in the bottom section in place of Plasma Pistols and needle rifles instead of needlers in the middle sections. And I chose to have a focus rifle spawn in free for all games and the standard sniper in team games.

The budget is all but used up. I believe I have 4 buildings, 1 incline, and 5 dollars remaining. There is some room for fx and additional weapons (I suppose grenades could be bumped up a bit. I've limited them- same places, but far less numbers- given the general boost to damage in classic settings) if you were to delete the additional grav-lifts in front of the man a cannon. They're functional, allowing you to jump down from the sniper roost into the lift without taking any fall damage and such, but they do eat at the budget and may cause some frame rate issues when looking across the map at the extreme ends.

It plays well normally, but feels like your playing Goldeneye when you go to split screen- the frame rate suffers at a constant when split.

Forgot to mention this was built for classic settings. but if you were to use AA's I'm sure normal settings would be fine.

Lets go for some screenshots then (some of which are not linking properly.... I'll work on that):