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What's the best free First Person Shooter game?
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got back into playing q3a with friends a couple of weeks ago and played quake live on my pc. it's awesome
Urban Terror
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
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
Check out Nexuiz. It is open source and quite a lot of fun! 
http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/
Here is a video of gameplay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E5kRPp9m3E
http://www.alientrap.org/nexuiz/
Here is a video of gameplay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E5kRPp9m3E
some windows free FPS: Combat Arms, Operation 7 both have a leveling system and aim down sights and weapons mods ala CoD4.
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.
or I heard you can play it on facebook somehow too.
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 !!!!
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 !!!!
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.
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 !!!!
Do the characters still feel sluggish and fat? I hated that part of the game. It was slow moving..
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
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.
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.
Quake 2 => Jake 2
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.
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.
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!
It's a very fun game!
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.
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?