Free Software FPS Games Compared

An anonymous reader writes "Linux-gamers.net has posted a thorough, although harsh, comparison of free software shooters. It compares seven open source shooter games in a lengthy discussion. Few have gone to the trouble of comparing and carefully examining the genre before. The author ranks the games in the following order (best to worst): Warsow, Tremulous, World of Padman, Nexuiz, Alien Arena, OpenArena, and Sauerbraten. In making these choices, it claims to use gameplay, design, innovation and presentation as criteria and includes a short history of free software shooters in the introduction."

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[Smordnys s'regrepsA]

Wolfenstein, I still love you!

Re:Fun, but....

[Anonymous Coward]

Quake was released in 1996. OpenArena uses the Quake III engine.

Saying OpenArena "would be considered pretty good...in 1996" is like saying the SR-71 Blackbird would be considered "pretty good" in 1935.

It's such a ridiculous understatement that the only possible explanation is that you're British.

Interesting, but...

[turing_m]

your comment would be considered insightful... in 2005.

Re:Slashdotted - No Mirrors up

[Hal_Porter]

That's spelling though. Version 1 of his post had issues with spelling and grammar. Version 2 had the grammar fixed. Why are you complaining about the spelling in Version 2? Didn't you read the release notes? WAIT FOR VERSION 3! Bug reports concerning spelling for Version 2 WILL BE IGNORED.

Re:What about bzflag?

[Anonymous Coward]

Calling bzflag a good FPS is like calling IRC a good MMORPG.

Re:What about bzflag?

[bar-agent]

like calling IRC a good MMORPG

"IRC, where men are men, women are men, and 14-year-old girls are FBI agents."

Sounds like a MMORPG to me. :)