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Freeware FPS Alien Arena 2007 Reviewed
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."
This is less a review, and more a HOWTO. There's nothing there that isn't in the readme, and the only opinion is on the last line proclaiming that it is better than Tremulous. And even that has no justification.
(E-) Must try harder.
Counter-strike is opensource/freeware now? Including the engine? Wow I really should come out of my cave more often.
Riiiight, because having access to the source makes a games soooooo much better to play.
Ok, I don't truly mind that the majority of FOSS software has a geek mindset and the UIs tend to reflect and look like the UIs of the Win9x era.
However, can we ever get to the point that the 'best' horse that gets trotted out for OSS Gaming looks like the era of games released for Windows95?
It is just not possible for a high end gaming production to be FOSS?
One further sad note... I have seen games developed by newbie gaming developers that are picking up XNA and MS Game Studio and producing higher quality games in terms of playability and especially in the area of graphics/audio.
Can't we do better than your neighbors kids and his/her friends designing an XNA came in C# that runs on their PC and the XBox 360 as well?
PS. You should really have a 'review' of the game, when you write an article 'reviewing' a game, and not just a quick intro of key commands.
Wolf:ET is the best freeware FPS released. Quite possibly the best PC game released. Also, half of the articles praise should be directed to the engine, not the game.
### Many otherwise excellent games have poorly designed characters,
Could you name them? Most of the free software games I know have poorly designed 'everything', its not a issue of graphics, its an issue that goes from bad code, over to the lack of tools right down to the complete lack of a solid core game design (aka nobody knows what the hell they actually want to accomplish). So fixing the graphics would help little to nothing to create a compelling game.
Who is being bitter? It's not me. I don't really understand why you don't get this. It's utterly hypocritical to go complaining about other people posting links to whatever games they like when YOUR post to a GLOBAL website PUBLICLY denounces one particular game in favour of your own. Now this doesn't really bother me in itself, I just find it a bit rich that you apparently want some kind of moratorium on other people posting their own thoughts on whatever game they like, when you're seemingly allowed to say whatever you like.
"When Tremulous was reviewed by this same guy last year, you didn't see *me* posting links to Alien Arena and trashing Trem."
Is the insinuation here that I have been trashing Alien Arena? I certainly don't remember doing so, maybe you can point it out. The only people that are making judgemental comments here are the players themselves; these are the people that you're ultimately trying to appease. If you're not satisfying them, you need to address their concerns, rather than criticising and blaming other developers.
And another thing. You have a pretty strong victim complex going on there. You seem to think that it's only Alien Arena which gets criticism. Look at any other news posting for any other game and you'll find the same repetitive drone of "this game sucks! X is much better!". Get over it, that's just the way it is. By complaining about this phenomenon, you do yourself no favours. You're not engendering yourself toward the players and especially not to other developers. Just let it wash over you and concentrate on making the game better.