RTCW: Enemy Territory Full Version Released

bani writes "Following just a month after the test release, Enemy Territory has finally made a full version release! You can download the Linux and Windows versions for free, it does not require the retail Return to Castle Wolfenstein product in order to play. Hats off to Id+Activision+SplashDamage for giving the community such an excellent 3d FPS, for FREE!" Update by J : Id has set up a BitTorrent for the downloads. And if anyone needs a Mac beta-tester, I'm available :)

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Fileplanet ! NOOOOOOOOOO! Mirrors?

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I despise having to have an account for places like this, and when you do get through its usually slow as hell.
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Any Mirrors???!?!?

My guess as to why it is free

[DrXym]

RTCW is a superb game multiplayer, but it stinks singleplayer. I wonder if the ET developers had the rug pulled from under them when attempting to develop the sequel because of the single player aspect being too weak. Throw in an aging game engine and perhaps they saw no viability in selling it and decided to toss the already designed maps and MP bits out as a freebie.

Still I thought the ET test game was excellent and I'm looking forward to this. IMHO, Wolfenstein just kicks the shit out of the likes of UT2003 with their flashier visuals simply because it is not one tedious fragfest with everyone bouncing around like kangaroos.

Re:Win/Linux Games...Mac?

[ZorinLynx]

Anyone who is a gamer on a Mac has long since unplugged the one button mouse and connected a mouse with three or more buttons and a scroll wheel.

This is a rather silly reason not to port a game to MacOS X...

**Jaw Drops**

[MoeMoe]

Either these companies are very smart or very stupid, I personally would have bought this game in store for a max of $50 which I'm sure other people would have as well and therefore increase revenue for the companies, but the fact that they are giving it away will really get the word out on them as well and give them the image of a "gamers gaming company" so when they will charge players for thier next big hit, people will remember the name and buy in (I know I would). Either way, Kudos to them for having the guts to give it away and make many MANY gamers very happy :)

Thanks guys!!!

Re:Yes, but...

[Planesdragon]

but don't give them the ability to have their voices heard any louder than a regular joe.

Why not? /. already gives those with UIDs a louder voice than the anonymous coward; why shouldn't those who help pay for the site get a louder voice?

In RL, courtesy gives the host a slightly louder voice in a topic of conversation (especially one with thousdands of participants.) No reason the same can't be true on /.

Re:however

[bigjocker]

Its fantastic that they are releasing it for free, and I'm very grateful that development took place for GNU/Linux and win32 concurrently. However, I'd still like to see a quality open source FPS sometime. It is important to note that this is still "free as in beer", not "as in speech".

Well, you are very welcome to write one and donate it to the comunity.

Re:however

[Matt Ownby]

Id has released many quality open source FPS games for Free. Perhaps you meant modern quality open source FPS games, but surely you must realize how unlikely this is considering the large development costs of these titles.

Quake 2 remains one of my most played games ever, and I am absolutely thrilled that id released the full source to that game. To me, quake2 is about as quality as it gets. Sure it's a little outdated now, but the basic physics and gameplay still appeals to me.