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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Th3Pr0ph3t
Th3Pr0ph3t Dec 7 2011, 10:20am says:

What's the difference between this and the free one?

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trickybilly
trickybilly Dec 2 2011, 3:20pm says:

According to my mind this is the best freeware FPS.

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sinbonfire
sinbonfire Dec 2 2011, 12:29pm says:

yay!
alien arena for the win :)
best fps ever so go get it!

+3 votes     reply to comment
zacho1111
zacho1111 Nov 26 2011, 5:27pm says:

why is their no sound ive got volme all the way up and my speakers turned all the way up

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Irritant_new
Irritant_new Nov 26 2011, 7:23pm replied:

Do you have OpenAL installed? What OS are you using?

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Raltay
Raltay Nov 19 2011, 4:46am says:

Awesome game, on of the best free fps's available :-) Keep up the good work!

+3 votes     reply to comment
kingbeowulf
kingbeowulf Nov 10 2011, 2:17am says:

If you have issues running Alien Arena, please post in the support forum. That way it will be more likely that the devs wil see it an provide a fix.

+4 votes     reply to comment
WalcionyRS
WalcionyRS Nov 7 2011, 12:59pm says:

AHHH. It's awesome! The AI scripts could be better, but, it's awesome!

+2 votes     reply to comment
gabsd84
gabsd84 Nov 3 2011, 11:48am replied:

Installed libjpeg8...all works fine. :)

+2 votes     reply to comment
Protektor
Protektor Nov 10 2011, 4:44am replied:

I set it so now it will install libjpeg8 if you don't have it when it installs the game.

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