Code Red Alien Arena reminds me a lot of the first Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 Arena games that came out. I think I was addicted to Unreal Tournament in 1999 playing in a high skilled CTF clan for more than a year. It was tremendous fun and we were all pretty disappointed when the successor brought shiny graphics and shitty gameplay to the community. Alien Arena has nice enough graphics for a freeware game but the most important aspect is of course the gameplay. What can I say, it is fun.
You can either try your luck in Deathmatch against bots or play on the internet against real opponents. Everything that made UT and Q3 so popular is included. Fast paced action, different weapons, great levels and a thriving active community which for instance creates new maps.
The game is available for Windows and Linux which is another big plus for me. This is a great game for a freeware production. Hope you all enjoy it.
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Nice. I actually just installed the old UT99 a couple of days ago for some nostalgia. Been playing on a server with the sniper rifle only mostly.
So, my question about this game: is there instagib?
Unfortunately there seems to be no instagib and no ctf at this point.
Oh well, I’ll still keep the game in my bookmarks for future reference. :) I’ll probably try it out eventually even if it only remains in it’s current state, as long as it has a good community.
Another “old-school” game to play online is Doom, using the SkullTag mod. There are still people playing that too, and it’s quite fun. :P
Still, a great game and quite busy servers!
It has ctf and instagib, and a bunch of other modes (dm,ctf,aoa,tca,db) and mutators including joust.