What's the best free First Person Shooter game?

Angantyr · Mar 19, 2009, 04:05 PM

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!

cosmokanga2 · Mar 19, 2009, 05:03 PM

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

Jethryn Freyman · Mar 19, 2009, 05:21 PM

Quake Live should be good - when it comes out.

tominated · Mar 20, 2009, 04:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jethryn Freyman

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 · Mar 20, 2009, 09:22 AM

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 · Mar 20, 2009, 09:40 AM

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

aznguyen316 · Mar 20, 2009, 10:27 AM

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

themoonisdown09 · Mar 20, 2009, 10:30 AM

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

It's a free stand alone multiplayer game.

baslotto · Mar 20, 2009, 10:55 AM

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

Aegelward · Mar 20, 2009, 11:13 AM

Quote:

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 · Mar 20, 2009, 01:39 PM

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/dashb...paintball.html
or I heard you can play it on facebook somehow too.

hardon · Mar 22, 2009, 06:24 AM

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 !!!!

roacch · Mar 22, 2009, 07:08 AM

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Quake Live
Warsow

MattZani · Mar 22, 2009, 07:42 AM

Battlefield Heroes Looks Very Good.

OMAC1A · Mar 22, 2009, 07:06 PM

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 · Mar 24, 2009, 07:53 AM

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 · Mar 24, 2009, 01:07 PM

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

aznguyen316 · Mar 24, 2009, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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 !!!!

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

dustydog · Mar 26, 2009, 12:43 PM

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 · Mar 28, 2009, 12:31 PM

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 · Mar 28, 2009, 09:14 PM

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

feuerschlange · Mar 31, 2009, 11:34 PM

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

Asnyers · Apr 1, 2009, 06:11 AM

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 · Apr 1, 2009, 11:31 AM

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

John Jacob · Apr 1, 2009, 05:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.

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?

Mar 19, 2009, 04:05 PM	#1
Angantyr macrumors newbie Join Date: Mar 2009	What's the best free First Person Shooter game? 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!
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Mar 19, 2009, 05:03 PM	#2
cosmokanga2 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Canada, where we live in igloos.	America's Army is one, although the Mac version is a bit old. __________________ Mid '10 15" Macbook Pro i5, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2 Nikon D80, f/3.5-4.5 18-70mm, f/2.8 70-200mm VRII My Flickr My Website
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Mar 20, 2009, 09:22 AM	#5
ghettochris macrumors 6502 Join Date: Feb 2008	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
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Mar 20, 2009, 09:40 AM	#6
son of olaf macrumors newbie Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Evergreen State	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 __________________ 20" Aluminum iMac, 2.4 Ghz, 4GB RAM; 15" Unibody MBP, 8GB RAM; iPhone 4S
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Mar 20, 2009, 10:27 AM	#7
aznguyen316 macrumors 68000 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Tampa, FL	some windows free FPS: Combat Arms, Operation 7 both have a leveling system and aim down sights and weapons mods ala CoD4. __________________ iPhone 5, 32GB \| Early 2011 13" MBP My Channel for MBP videos
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Mar 19, 2009, 05:21 PM	#3
Jethryn Freyman macrumors 68020 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Australia	Quake Live should be good - when it comes out.
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Mar 20, 2009, 10:30 AM	#8
themoonisdown09 macrumors 68040 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Georgia, USA	Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory It's a free stand alone multiplayer game.
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Mar 20, 2009, 10:55 AM	#9
baslotto macrumors regular Join Date: Feb 2007	Call of Duty. All of them. (love 4)
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Mar 20, 2009, 01:39 PM	#11
shawnathan macrumors member Join Date: Mar 2008	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/dashb...paintball.html or I heard you can play it on facebook somehow too. __________________ iMac G4 17" Flat panel 1Ghz, 24" Aluminum iMac, 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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Mar 22, 2009, 06:24 AM	#12
hardon macrumors regular Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: UK Kent	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 !!!!
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Mar 22, 2009, 07:08 AM	#13
roacch macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2008	Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Quake Live Warsow
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Mar 22, 2009, 07:42 AM	#14
MattZani macrumors 68020 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Weymouth, UK	Battlefield Heroes Looks Very Good. __________________ Mac Mini 2012 - 2.6Ghz Quad i7, 16Gb RAM, 1Tb HDD 32Gb Black iPhone 5 16Gb Black iPad 3 MDPhotography
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Mar 22, 2009, 07:06 PM	#15
OMAC1A macrumors newbie Join Date: May 2006	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.
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Mar 24, 2009, 07:53 AM	#16
Clayne macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jul 2008	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 __________________ "The society that abolishes all adventure makes the abolition of that society the only real adventure."
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Mar 24, 2009, 01:07 PM	#17
dos0711 macrumors newbie Join Date: Mar 2009	UrbanTerror...it's based on the Quake engine... __________________ 20" Aluminum iMac, 2.66 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 1.5 TB HD ; 30 GB iPod Classic
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Mar 26, 2009, 12:43 PM	#19
dustydog macrumors newbie Join Date: Mar 2009	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.
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Mar 28, 2009, 12:31 PM	#20
zingo macrumors newbie Join Date: Mar 2009	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.
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Mar 28, 2009, 09:14 PM	#21
torchwood04 macrumors regular Join Date: Jul 2007	I'm surprised no-one mentioned OpenArena. 0.8.1 is out now... It's addicting! __________________ -PowerMac G3 B&W 350-384mb RAM/250gb HD/OS 10.4.11 -iPod shuffle 2G-1gb
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Mar 31, 2009, 11:34 PM	#22
feuerschlange macrumors regular Join Date: Oct 2008	Warzow runs native on Mac, is free and a blazingly fast fun multiplayer shooter. __________________ USB cable \| paper clip \| 4 sheets A4 paper \| bicyle with flat tire \| desktop phone with LCD + 10 number redial www.teknopunk.com
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Apr 1, 2009, 06:11 AM	#23
Asnyers macrumors newbie Join Date: Jul 2007	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!
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Apr 1, 2009, 11:31 AM	#24
aznguyen316 macrumors 68000 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Tampa, FL	man there are a ton of free FPS, though the original, CS is the shizzz __________________ iPhone 5, 32GB \| Early 2011 13" MBP My Channel for MBP videos
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