Open Source FPS Game Alien Arena 2009 Released

Alienkillerrace writes "The open sourced, freeware FPS game Alien Arena 2009 has been released (Windows and Linux). The improvements to the game engine are very significant, and have surely raised the bar for free games of this genre. All surfaces in the game are now rendered using GLSL, not only improving the visual quality, but the performance as well. Interesting new effects like post-process distortions using GLSL have been implemented, as well as light volumes, better per-pixel lighting (reminiscent of UT3), and shaded water. Equally notable is that the sound system has been completely rewritten using OpenAL, allowing for effects such as Doppler, and adding Ogg Vorbis support. The game is free to play and available for download on its official website. It has a stats system and a built-in IRC client in its front-end game browser."

Re:Oh wow, it gets worse.

[Anonymous Coward]

Clearly, Windows is not ready for gaming.

Re:Windows installer totally broken

[robot_love]

Don't believe it, Kiffer. I have over 15 toolbars installed and if anything, I'd say my browsing experience is significantly degraded. However, I suspect that with just 5-10 more toolbars I'll be past the 'tipping-point' and my browsing experience is going to go stratospheric!!

Re:OMG WHY NOT ON MAC?

[Anonymous Coward]

This site [gigenet.com] has a patch that will fix your issue.

Re:Wow, it has technical specs.

[nacturation]

Wow, the bashing didn't take long.

Everyone bashes anything that is free. From free t-shirts, to a free day camp for kids, to free FPS game. If it's free it is bashed. If it cost $10, it would not be nearly as criticized. There is some sort principle I've read explaining this concept somewhere.

Okay, I think we've answered the question "Are you fun?" But the original question was whether or not the game was fun.