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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thewonderboy
thewonderboy Mar 26 2012, 4:09am says:

Funny, i just bought new slick PC (desktop which i can for now on upgrade) and decided to try for teh lulz how well it would run centrain games, my most demanding commercial game being RS Vegas 2 (old, console port) and running flawlessly.

So, i downloaded AA 7.53 and Nexuiz 2.5.2

In nexuiz i score pretty stable 100 FPS (arranging from 60 to 231) but in AA i could score 60 at MAX :D (arranging 47-60)

I dont know is it the AI improvements or what but it was surprising result :D

I hope that future updates wont have great performance drops ;)

with GTX 560Ti

cp0020 wrote:
everytime i try and change my resolution to 1440x900 it goes to a console command and just sits there. if i hit esc it just goes back to the settings and doesnt change my res. any help? thanks! :)


I think console popping up is completely normal but for me it has always changed resolution, my current setup with 1920 X 1080 and old (using GF 8600m GS) with 1440 X 900 both worked.

Are you sure you typed proper resolution to custom fields or does console tell .you something ?

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Irritant_new
Irritant_new Mar 26 2012, 10:29am replied:

Did you change the max_fps settings? AA is capped at 60 fps. cl_maxfps is the cvar you would need to set. Just type cl_maxfps 500 in the console. Also make sure vsync is disabled if you want it to go over the monitor refresh rate(usually 60 fps). (But, the game runs best when capped at 60 fps). Nexuiz also has far less detailed environments than AA, so it's not a totally fair comparison.

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thewonderboy
thewonderboy Mar 26 2012, 2:13pm replied:

yup, got 47-241 fps

just tried out of curiosity, both stand out differently in graphical department.

but i prefer AA Aesthetics more.

so glad i can finaly play both of them without problems ^^

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cp0020
cp0020 Mar 25 2012, 12:57pm says:

everytime i try and change my resolution to 1440x900 it goes to a console command and just sits there. if i hit esc it just goes back to the settings and doesnt change my res. any help? thanks! :)

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elucyuk
elucyuk Mar 8 2012, 7:17am says:

A have installed this, but there are no sound in game(((

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Irritant_new
Irritant_new Mar 8 2012, 10:52am replied:

Make sure you install OpenAL, otherwise the sound will not work.

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elucyuk
elucyuk Mar 8 2012, 11:49am replied:

Thanks, it helped)

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ghostuser
ghostuser Mar 5 2012, 8:47pm says:

need a game like hord and you fight off waves a humans or aliens

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CheatCat
CheatCat Dec 15 2012, 5:49am replied:

Hmm, MODDB are bugging.

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CheatCat
CheatCat Dec 15 2012, 5:48am replied:

Then you might like the upcoming game from COR!

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