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.
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It's humans vs aliens vs robots, who will be victorious in the decimated city?
This reminds me of the original Martian Chronicles game. I think it was the first level of the first game where you're in a hilariously out of scale city.
Haha, yeah those levels were pretty skewy :) I think you'll find this to be alot more accurate, and well constructed. It's a fairly small level, but has some degree of verticality to it due to a hill and some staircases along the sides of buildings, as well as containers strewn about. There is a huge emphasis on trick jumping throughout, you can do some really fun stuff on the broken sections of jersey wall, and on some of the garbage/terrain areas. Hard to say yet, but it might be the best 1v1 level in the game to this point.
Are there any plans to port the original campaigns over to the new engine? I could understand if not, but it could still be kinda nifty to play through those games with a bit more eye candy.
Awesome game! Great work and commitment on this project
Ya know you guys did one helluva job shinnying up the quake III engine! outstanding! Excellent work! :^)