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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$n!p3r
$n!p3r Feb 28 2012, 4:38pm says:

a qw, will this game ever be on steam ?

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Irritant_new
Irritant_new Mar 4 2012, 12:57pm replied:

We have applied, and are waiting back from them.

+2 votes     reply to comment
BraveNoob
BraveNoob Feb 10 2012, 6:41pm says:

The blood looks very bright.

+3 votes     reply to comment
chaosfera
chaosfera Feb 6 2012, 9:33pm says:

Very dynamic shooter in a oldschool climate.

+2 votes     reply to comment
Ravebot
Ravebot Jan 24 2012, 7:57am says:

Oh, i remember this one. One of the first FPSes I played xP

+2 votes     reply to comment
Dr.Styropore
Dr.Styropore Jan 12 2012, 3:03pm says:

Just downloaded and played it.It's impressive game.Really nice.

+3 votes     reply to comment
FoxFav
FoxFav Dec 21 2011, 4:37am says:

Man I remember playing this years ago when I was looking up Quake 2 mods. It's come a hell of a long way! Can't believe it's running off it Tech 2. You guys have done a hell of a job?

+4 votes     reply to comment
danate94
danate94 Dec 19 2011, 9:21pm says:

Can't change video settings on Xubuntu 11.10

I pick what I want, and it just goes black. Never comes back up.

+3 votes     reply to comment
Irritant_new
Irritant_new Dec 19 2011, 11:17pm replied:

What video chip, driver, etc?

+2 votes     reply to comment
Irritant_new
Irritant_new Dec 8 2011, 12:02am replied:

This one is free, what other one are you talking about?

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wow this game is just awesome :)
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