Urban Terror For Quake 3 Revealed

nukem996 writes "The Silicon Ice development team has just released Urban Terror 3.0 Beta, a great realistic team-based urban warfare Quake III total conversion." The 322mb download includes "...completely new code for lag compensation, hit detection, physics... and a fully integrated UI", and there are multiple download mirrors listed on the official site, plus a BitTorrent link from Filerush.com - good to see there's still some quality Quake III mods, even after Epic's financial inducements to mod Unreal Tournament instead.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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The army of modders

[The Munger]

It's amazing just how much life can be added to a game by making it mod-friendly. A game like Quake 3, after a few years like this can still have enough wind to carry a following in add-ons.

I guess it doesn't always work though. Consider games like Freedom Force. FF had a nice Python interface, and yet I didn't see a single mod out there for it (not that I looked especially hard).

It's good to see independent developers getting started too. I haven't played this latest release, but I remember downloading and playing a bit of this a while ago. It was really quite polished, even back then. If these guys want to get into the industry, it's a good way to go about it.