Oh, yeah Alien Arena was the other game I wanted to ask about. I see it got slightly better reviews in its latest Code Red: Alien Arena 2007 incarnation. It looks very Q2/3 in the promo video. Lots of jump-strafing on floating Marvin the Martian ribbon-platforms, and the usual weird weapons and funky powerups. It seems that style of DM is exactly what the creator(s) intended. Their site (iIrc) says something about FFA deathmatch (as kozak6 already mentioned). I can't remember if botmatch is supported.
One of these games also had CTF, but I can't remember which. Oh, now I see, Nexuiz (review topic much, PlayerOne?). It seems for everyone who liked any of these other games, there's at least one person who also thinks it sucked.
Mikiupdown2, thanks for trying Legends. I thought it might be cool, because I had both Starsiege (although I never got interested enough to play it all the way through) and Tribes 1 (which I can honestly say I spents years of my life playing).
Kozak6, Tribes is amazingly one of the most downloaded free games at one of the big commercial sites (was it GameSpy?), in the last seven days. Quake-players usually hate the weak jetpack and annoying disc-launcher. That's why they added a rocket launcher in Tribes 2 (which I also owned, but which ran like $#!t on my old machine - those games are pretty GPU-dependent, from what I can see). I was hoping either Legends or Starsiege: 2845 would run OK, so I wouldn't have to go completely back to 1999 in PlanetTribesland. It's too bad the franchise took a dive after that PlayStation Aerial Assault game. I think Vengeance was the one that bit them in the butt. It would be cool if they could resurrect either Aerial Assault or Vengeance and make them more multi-platform. Mac gamers would have something to play besides Trem and Bookworm. By the way, thanks for the considered reply. I may actually try Nexuiz or Alien Arena.
The lists on the other two threads are fairly extensive. I've spent hours checking out these freeware sites. Looks like Trem is one of the best.
Oh, and ETF is finally fairly abandoned. That's the thing about TeamFortress games. They attract a certain percentage of a certain type of player. I remember severs on TF 1.2 with four snipers in four towers and people just connecting and quitting. Team-based action my @$$.... :-? :eek:
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Thanks to all who replied. I was wondering if Sauerbraten or War$ow were worth getting. I figured that Sauerbraten looked pretty abandoned, except for the mapping community. And I really can't remember anything about War$ow, come to think of it....
Oh yeah, and word on the street is the same as mentioned above, Wolfenstein: ET has some players using questionable resources (it seems there's more discussion of Punkbuster, wallhacks and aimbots than anything else).
I only hope Quake Wars is cooler. Plus I need a better computer to run it, so I also hope it's delayed.
Speaking of which, concerning War$ow, Nexuiz, Sauerbraten or Alien Arena, how will they run on a GMA950 MacBook Core2Duo? Trem runs great. Mid-50's FPS - moving, in battle. When I was looking at the counter.
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