Alien Arena is a standalone that combines a sci-fi atmosphere with the tournament style deathmatch of Q3A and UT2k4. With major graphical features such as GLSL per-pixel lighting, ragdoll physics, light blooms, real time lights and soft shadows, Alien Arena brings a level of beauty and immersion not generally seen in deathmatch. 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. 

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The game features original artwork, with 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, which feature multiple skill levels, and will rocket jump, strafe jump, and taunt you mercilessly.

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5 comments by Irritant_new on Feb 8th, 2013

Alien Arena: Mercury Edition has been released!

After months upon months of work, the newest version of Alien Arena has been unleashed with a number of new features, graphical enhancements, and a much faster rendering game engine.  This is a major enhancement, and players should see on average around a 300% increase in rendering speeds. 

Some of the new features for this release include:

  • Major improvements in map rendering speed
  • HD lightmaps
  • IQM mesh animation now handled in GPU for major performance gains
  • Particle rendering optimizations
  • Fixed issues with ATI and shaders
  • Soft shadowmapping for vegetation and players
  • Cubemapping on mesh and map surfaces
  • New glass and water effects
  • Weapon switching has been made significantly faster
  • TCA now best two out of three
  • Various player models received poly increases for smoothness
  • New armor models

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Alien Arena: Mercury Edition for Linux/Unix(7.65)

Alien Arena: Mercury Edition for Linux/Unix(7.65)

Feb 8, 2013 Full Version 0 comments

Alien Arena is a freeware online deathmatch game with fast and furious action for Windows and Linux! The game runs on the CRX engine, and features modern...

Alien Arena: Mercury Edition for Windows(7.65)

Alien Arena: Mercury Edition for Windows(7.65)

Feb 8, 2013 Full Version 1 comment

Alien Arena is a freeware online deathmatch game with fast and furious action for Windows and Linux! The game runs on the CRX engine, and features modern...

Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition for Linux/Unix(7.60)

Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition for Linux/Unix(7.60)

Jul 4, 2012 Full Version 0 comments

Alien Arena is a freeware online deathmatch game with fast and furious action for Windows and Linux! The game runs on the CRX engine, and features modern...

Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition for Windows(7.60)

Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition for Windows(7.60)

Jul 4, 2012 Full Version 1 comment

Alien Arena is a freeware online deathmatch game with fast and furious action for Windows and Linux! The game runs on the CRX engine, and features modern...

Alien Arena Accessory Pack

Alien Arena Accessory Pack

May 19, 2011 Multiplayer Map 3 comments

A collection of numerous third party maps, models and textures created for Alien Arena.

Q3dm17 "The Longest Yard" remake for Alien Arena

Q3dm17 "The Longest Yard" remake for Alien Arena

Nov 16, 2006 Multiplayer Map 0 comments

A very faithful remake of the classic Q3DM17 "The Longest Yard" for Alien Arena 2007.

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METALHEAD62
METALHEAD62 Dec 6 2012, 1:02am says:

Man I've been playin FPS since the first "Wolfenstein"..Prolly played more than 1000 differnt shooters..I found this game 3+ years ago and I believe my search is over..This game friggen "ROCKS THE HOUSE" with all the new updates and outstanding graphics and performance upgrades...This is the sh*t my freinds..DEATHMATCH is here to stay \m/

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[OS]$hifty
[OS]$hifty Dec 5 2012, 2:02am says:

I have not had so much fun playing an FPS since Unreal Tournament & Quake 2, all those years ago. Have been playing this game for over 1.5 years and haven't looked elsewhere since, it's that good. Mods, keep up the good work and many thanks. Cheers.

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Guest
Guest Dec 3 2012, 10:10am says:

Great game. Very fast game play and highly competitive. It has become my favorite game and keeps evolving.

+5 votes     reply to comment
sinbonfire
sinbonfire Dec 3 2012, 6:24am says:

awesome game!
incredible how much this game has evolved, since i started playing, almost 5 years ago!

keep it coming :o)

+6 votes     reply to comment
Skitz0Frantic13s
Skitz0Frantic13s Nov 1 2012, 9:26pm says:

Wish they would release/post a legacy version. One prior to needing physX, or whatever graphical enhancement made it not play on my old machine anymore. It may not be compatible with the current version, but it was still fun to play on older hardware. If you have problems installing, you may need dev packages (libcurl_dev, and etc.)

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Irritant_new
Irritant_new Nov 4 2012, 12:06am replied:

All versions of Alien Arena are compatible.

+3 votes     reply to comment
thatguy4377
thatguy4377 Nov 29 2012, 3:11pm replied: Online

Where can I download the engine?

+2 votes     reply to comment
CheatCat
CheatCat Dec 15 2012, 5:45am replied:

Via SVN, currently "the engine" is actually the game. You will need the source code however, that you can get from SVN.

+1 vote     reply to comment
wmesko
wmesko Oct 15 2012, 8:37am says:

Cant launch it on OpenSuse 12.2. Running terminal, shows something related to libcurl4. However, cant lanch even after reinstalling this package.

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Irritant_new
Irritant_new Oct 15 2012, 10:28am replied:

Post the error in the forums at Red.planetarena.org and someone there will be able to help you.

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wow this game is just awesome :)
its my favourite game, i play it since months and it dont becomes boring.

I would recommend this game everyone

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