What's the best free First Person Shooter game?

[Angantyr]

I used to play Sauerbraten all the time, and it's fun as hell. But I was wondering what other FPS freeware applications are available for download out there.

Thanks! :apple:

[cosmokanga2]

America's Army is one, although the Mac version is a bit old.

[Jethryn Freyman]

Quake Live should be good - when it comes out.

[tominated]

Quake Live should be good - when it comes out.

+1
got back into playing q3a with friends a couple of weeks ago and played quake live on my pc. it's awesome

[ghettochris]

a free game, about a 700 MB download, used to require quake 3, but no longer. runs great on os x, i get smooth 60+fps on my macbook pro.

Not really a single player game, but great to go fight some people online easily. Free for all, Capture the Flag or bomb mode are the best depending on what kind of action you're looking for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQPhpBdGnXY

my favorite parts are the physics and how you can strafe jump (bunny hop in an arc) to get places quickly, knife and boots are fun to humiliate or if you run out of ammo, and if you can jump on someone's head from 10 feet up or more they get curb stomped.

there are lots of maps to test these jumping skills, and running in arcs on ice makes you go really fast

jumps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTnte8DnyZQ
icyjumps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIp02sZ6cBc

icy ones get pretty out of control by the end of the vid

[son of olaf]

Check out Nexuiz. It is open source and quite a lot of fun! :D


http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/

Here is a video of gameplay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E5kRPp9m3E

[aznguyen316]

some windows free FPS: Combat Arms, Operation 7 both have a leveling system and aim down sights and weapons mods ala CoD4.

[themoonisdown09]

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/files/files.shtml)

It's a free stand alone multiplayer game.

[baslotto]

Call of Duty. All of them. (love 4)

[Aegelward]

Call of Duty. All of them. (love 4)

Not exactly free.

It requires bootcamp, but Tribes Next (a free version of tribes 2) is an awful lot of fun

Savage can be good too.. but i've had somewhat limited luck trying to run it under OS X

[shawnathan]

3D Paradise Paintball. Let's you play single player, or online multiplayer up to 8 people. You can play on the widget found here http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/games/3dparadisepaintball.html
or I heard you can play it on facebook somehow too.

[hardon]

easily the best free FPS now,

http://combatarms.nexoneu.com/Intro.aspx

there has just been a massive overhaul to weapons added in the game, give it a go its free !!!! :D

[roacch]

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Quake Live
Warsow

[MattZani]

Battlefield Heroes Looks Very Good.

[OMAC1A]

Instant Action has some cool browser-based games like Fallen Empire: Legions and they are going to be relaunching Tribes soon. If you don't have Steam installed I recommend you do. They sometimes have some really good deals on their content. Right now Unreal 3 Black for $12.00. I know it's not free but it is cheap and they do sometimes host free weekends where you can play the full game without buying.

[Clayne]

1. What do you mean Call of Duty is free (besides bootcamp)?

2. Which is better? Wolfenstein or Combat Arms? CA looks nicer.

Thanks for the input,
Clayne

[dos0711]

UrbanTerror...it's based on the Quake engine...

[aznguyen316]

easily the best free FPS now,

http://combatarms.nexoneu.com/Intro.aspx

there has just been a massive overhaul to weapons added in the game, give it a go its free !!!! :D

Do the characters still feel sluggish and fat? I hated that part of the game. It was slow moving..

[dustydog]

here's another vote for:

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

Still the only game I play regularly. I feel like this game was a big inspiration for team fortress 2, in that the game play is very similar, and several TF2 maps bear a striking resemblance to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory maps.

[zingo]

Jake 2 is a rewrite of Quake 2 using Java and JOGL.

You can get it from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jake2

More info:
https://wiki.in-chemnitz.de/bin/view/RST/Jake2

It comes with the demo game by default (which is fun). Supposedly it will accept all the original Quake 2 files but I don't have them so I have only played the demo game.

[torchwood04]

I'm surprised no-one mentioned OpenArena. 0.8.1 is out now... It's addicting!

[feuerschlange]

Warzow runs native on Mac, is free and a blazingly fast fun multiplayer shooter.

[Asnyers]

If you plan to play your games using bootcamp, you should also check out Warrock. http://warrock.gamersfirst.com/new_user.php?cid=
It's a very fun game!

[aznguyen316]

man there are a ton of free FPS, though the original, CS is the shizzz

[John Jacob]

here's another vote for:

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

Still the only game I play regularly. I feel like this game was a big inspiration for team fortress 2, in that the game play is very similar, and several TF2 maps bear a striking resemblance to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory maps.

I tried to download this from http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/files/files.shtml

But it wouldn't allow me to download the DMG file, saying that an Active X control could not be installed. :eek: Seems a little brain dead to force users to download a Mac file from Windows. I actually do have boot camp installed, but I haven't had time recently to close all my open files and applications and actually reboot into Window$. Does anybody know of a workaround?

[iAlexG]

When I tried to play Wolfenstein Enemy Territory it wont let me join games because I dont have punkbuster enabled. I click enable but it does nothing. Any Solutions?

I've been playing Cube 2: Sauerbraten recently and I can't wait for Quake Live!!

[marioman38]

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[marioman38]

Check out Nexuiz. It is open source and quite a lot of fun! :D


http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/

Here is a video of gameplay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E5kRPp9m3E

+1 great game, great developers, lots of fun, and free!

[Paradontax]

http://freeshooters.blogspot.com/

Large list of free fps

Greetings
Leo

[JollyRogers]

Not exactly free.

It requires bootcamp, but Tribes Next (a free version of tribes 2) is an awful lot of fun

Savage can be good too.. but i've had somewhat limited luck trying to run it under OS X

Whoa... all engines stop! Tribes Next? I was this monster Tribes player. Clan leader and all... playing on a 56K. My son and I had 2 phone lines so we could both play... and he was killer. People would get mad at him because they found out he was a modem player and started calling him the 56K assassin :) Me on the other hand... well I played OK. I would have to vote for that then and Enemy Territory.

[txa1265]

http://freeshooters.blogspot.com/

Large list of free fps

Greetings
Leo

Great list! Some of those look quite nice, and you can't beat the price!