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Freeware FPS Alien Arena 2007 Reviewed

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the best-of-the-cheap dept.

Alienkillerrace writes "Linux.com has reviewed the brand new release of Alien Arena 2007, giving it a glowing review. 'New Alien Arena 6.10 blows away its FPS competition' claims that Alien Arena is now the very best of the freeware FPS games, surpassing even Tremulous."

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  1. Better than Tremulous ? by mikesum · · Score: 4, Informative

    Tremulous is a really good game. If Alien Arena 2007 better than that according to this guy, then it's at least worth checking out. /me is BruceCambellsGhost on Tremulous

  2. OSS games need more graphical artists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    While we already have very good to excellent 3d games as Sauerbraten and Nexuiz, we still are behind commercial software companies in the graphical area. Many otherwise excellent games have poorly designed characters, maps, weapons etc. In the last two years the gap shrunk, but IMO more work is needed.

    1. Re:OSS games need more graphical artists by Ilgaz · · Score: 3, Informative

      While we already have very good to excellent 3d games as Sauerbraten and Nexuiz, we still are behind commercial software companies in the graphical area. Many otherwise excellent games have poorly designed characters, maps, weapons etc. In the last two years the gap shrunk, but IMO more work is needed. PR is a huge problem too. I check Mac news, download sites every day and I had no clue a game like "Sauerbraten" exists and it can even be binary (dmg) downloaded from Sourceforge.

      There is no entry on Apple Downloads or de-facto download standard site, Versiontracker too. If they submitted it to Softpedia, those guys would even review it. Using Apple downloads site for years, I know they would advertise it on front page as it is open source and uses OS X technologies.

      I know it sounds lame but they should use Digg etc. like dynamic sites to advertise their game/work. One iPhone story less, would work for everyone ;)
  3. Wait by Kelz · · Score: 3, Informative

    No warning that linux.com and /. are owned by same company?

  4. Re:hmm by Nomaxxx · · Score: 2, Informative

    Alien Arena looks more like Quake 3 / Unreal Tournament than Counter-Strike. Personally, I like Alien Arena better. ;)

  5. the very best of the freeware FPS games ? by skzo · · Score: 2, Informative

    what about warsow !? or even wop ? i find them a lot better than Alien Arena.

  6. Re:A bit of variety wouldn't hurt by xoundmind · · Score: 2, Informative

    OK, its not football, but it is the only Quake-based chess game I know of:
    CHESS III ARENA

  7. Re:What license is it released under? by hweimer · · Score: 4, Informative

    docs/license.txt:

    It is only permissible to distrubute the game data(models, maps, textures, sound, etc) as a whole, and with the intention of being used with Alien Arena. It is not permissible to distribute individual portions or items of the game data without express consent from COR Entertainment. [...] Under no circumstances ALIEN ARENA 2007 as a whole be sold or used for profit, without express consent from COR Entertainment.

    If you want a free-as-in-speech shooter that rocks, try Nexuiz.

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  8. Re:hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.alienarena.org/downloads.php

  9. Quake Pong by DrYak · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's line of "football" Quake mods called Quake Pong by the way.

    The goal of the game is to push around a huge steel ball into the opponents goal, hitting it with ballistic weapons to give it kinetic energy.

    URLs :
    Original QPong mod for Quake II. (Had wquite a few laughs with that one)
    Newer QPong Arena mod for Quake 3. (Didn't test it).

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