Alien Arena is a standalone game based off of id Tech 2 source that combines a sci-fi atmosphere with the tournament style deathmatch of Q3A and UT2k4. With major graphical enhancements such as GLSL per-pixel lighting, hi-res textures, light blooms, real time lights and shadows, textured particles, shaders, and reflective water, Alien Arena brings the Quake II engine into modern gaming. The game also includes mutators, adjustable effects, bot skill settings, and fully configurable deathmatch, team deathmatch, CTF, All Out Assault, Team Core Assault, Cattle Prod, and Deathball games. The game features original artwork, with a dark, sinister atmosphere combined with an off-the-wall campiness, and trippy, techno type music. There are currently over 60 maps, loaded with weapons(each having an alternate firing mode) and powerups. Alien Arena has fast, smooth gameplay, and players can play online against one another or against the bots.

Report article Mod Video Spotlight - October 2008

With October well behind us, it's time to reflect on an Unreal month!

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October was a very Unreal month (hehehe that was an awesome joke) with Unreal Tournament standing tall as the most used engine this month! Sit back and enjoy! October may be done but as always we encourage you all to try these awesome mods that are listed below!


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Till next time mod away my good friends and watch this group for updates.

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A.M.M.D.
A.M.M.D. Nov 2 2008, 1:38pm says:

nice

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awesomepossum
awesomepossum Nov 2 2008, 1:42pm says:

Nice, bunch of mods. makes me want to get UT3

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JimBobUK
JimBobUK Nov 4 2008, 6:03pm replied:

you should its awesome and cheap

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LORDDEREX
LORDDEREX Nov 6 2008, 10:09am replied:

Agree, it makes we want to get UT3 and UT2004, But i dont have a cumputer that can run UT 3 today...

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Profanity-Incarnate
Profanity-Incarnate Nov 8 2008, 1:03pm replied:

planetfall looks ASSKICK

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CommanderPT
CommanderPT Nov 2 2008, 1:45pm says:

Lots of UTIII mods, shame that my pc can't handle it.

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angry_bot
angry_bot Nov 2 2008, 2:38pm replied:

I'm building a friend a PC capable of running UT3 on max settings for somewhere in the neighborhood of $600. If you stick with an AM2 board you can easily get a screamer of a processor for dirt cheap, RAM is inexpensive and the 9800 GT is quite the budget card.

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MrtwovideoCards
MrtwovideoCards Nov 5 2008, 7:02pm replied:

Ha, am2.

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Foxxy
Foxxy Nov 2 2008, 1:46pm says:

The haunted <3

Best mod ever!

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angry_bot
angry_bot Nov 2 2008, 2:35pm says:

To be honest, the UT3 mods and AA's new release blew everything else out of the water. The Haunted and The Ball especially stand out, easily overshadowing the "editor's pick" by a long shot.

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Henley
Henley Nov 2 2008, 4:35pm replied:

The reason the mod was selected as editors pick was due to really awesome marketing plan that the team behind portal prelude produced. No other mod this year has been that popular it was more a tip of the hat to the team, kudos to you!

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MrTambourineMan
MrTambourineMan Nov 2 2008, 3:20pm says:

Right below my post there will be a great battle fought between Valve fanboys and Valve hateboys (this happens always when a Source mod is released for some reason).

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hushpuppy
hushpuppy Nov 2 2008, 3:21pm says:

The ball is amazing, from our own Hourences :D

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stenchy
stenchy Nov 3 2008, 5:37am says:

Dark mod would have been in here too but we had some troubles getting footage, sorry guys!

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crazyjointje
crazyjointje Nov 3 2008, 7:57am says:

Yeah bttf mod FTW

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Wilhelm_III
Wilhelm_III Nov 3 2008, 9:24am says:

Woo! Australian voice again! Yeah! After seeing this though I need to go pick up UT3. Too many mods out for it now!

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Psycho_Sam
Psycho_Sam Nov 3 2008, 4:45pm says:

Shame the first 3rd party game mod released via Steam didn't get a mention. Especially considering that is using the Unreal engine also. :(

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Harvey_
Harvey_ Nov 3 2008, 7:26pm replied:

Mare Nostrum ate my Hamster

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Henley
Henley Nov 9 2008, 1:24am replied:

the other steam related mods didnt get a mention either.

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Phantom2745
Phantom2745 Nov 5 2008, 11:10am says:

Wow, those were some pretty awesome mods. I never knew unreal tourny could be modded in such ways.

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tnathan475
tnathan475 Nov 5 2008, 1:08pm says:

gotta love Back to the Future

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strangelet
strangelet Nov 5 2008, 8:23pm says:

hai guys, thanks awfully for the vid props (AFF:Planetstorm) , but duuude! couldnt you find a more boring looking piece of space in our mod!?!

note to self - dont leave boring space in our mod, features editors will find it :)

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strangelet
strangelet Nov 5 2008, 8:25pm says:

and to those commenting that they like the look of all the ut3 mods - that has definately been the whole point of ut3. you will not BELIEVE what is being done under various bonnets right now.

the best is definately yet to come!

much kudos to all the great teams out there pumping epic's engine for all its worth.

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familybleeder
familybleeder Nov 7 2008, 3:13pm says:

unreal domination was definately inspired by hotwheels turbo racing for psx. even the same song too. ps the song is fuel by metallica.

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Profanity-Incarnate
Profanity-Incarnate Nov 8 2008, 1:04pm says:

one of the maps looked like it was from mariokart 64

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K|CkUrBuTToX
K|CkUrBuTToX Nov 8 2008, 3:24pm says:

Lol, the way he says OMFGZOMBIESLOL is pricelss. As for not running UT3, lol, wtf? Its so easy to run, i used to run it on max with a +4200 x2 on standard clocks 1gb of ddr2 ram and a 7900gt, this was all at 40 fps constantly. Now i have 2gb of ram and a 3870xt, max at 60fps... The engines so brilliantly optimized its easy to run.

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123freezo
123freezo Nov 10 2008, 6:40pm says:

Wow! I didn't know they still make mods for the first half-life game.

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Henley
Henley Nov 12 2008, 8:53pm replied:

LOL where is this Rock that you live under?

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Smoth
Smoth Nov 17 2008, 4:38pm replied:

I occasionally see a mod for doom. it happens..

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_Jack_
_Jack_ Nov 18 2008, 12:19am says:

That Ball mod looks sweet. I want UT3 now!

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