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GPL First Person Shooter Released

Posted by Zonk on from the tux-with-a-gun dept.

Lisandro writes "Nexuiz v1.0, an fast paced deathmatch FPS, has been released under the GPL. It uses a heavily modified version of the Quake 1 engine, with real time lighting/shadowing, improved particle effects and more. It looks really good and it's available for Windows and Linux, with a Mac version said to be coming soon."

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  1. GPL'd game... by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 4, Funny

    But "This website was designed for Internet Explorer 6 and higher"!?

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    1. Re:GPL'd game... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Firefox is higher than Internet Explorer 6... What are you complaining about?

  2. Mac version by daeley · · Score: 3, Interesting

    According to a post on their forum, there is a Mac app in the download, but it is non-functional out of the box -- they are working on including some libraries with the download that will alleviate the need to compile anything. They "expect the patch to be out within a week", so that's cool.

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  3. Re:Cube? by Lisandro · · Score: 4, Informative

    I like Cube, but it's a slower game, and more oriented to single player as far as i've tried it (never played it online; all servers i've found are outside my country and ping kills me). However, it has nice (yet basic, a bit cartoony, but quite likeable IMHO) graphics and an interesting engine which lets you do things like editing levels while playing the game.

    Nexuiz is quite more fast paced; think of it being Quake 3 and Cube being Serious Sam, and you'll get a basic idea. It boils down to personal taste :) The downloadeable clips give a good idea of how Nexuiz plays, IMHO.