Those of you who are fans of FPS (first person shooter) games, single or multi-player, should take a look at the open source project Blood Frontier. Some of the highlights from their website include:
- Unique, original, and fun gameplay, storyline, theme, artwork, and content. Pushing the boundaries of open source first person gaming.
- Play plain ol’ deathmatch, instagib, ctf, duel, lms, or use the select range of mutators and myriad of variables to create your own.
- Item domination and dropping, fight for your lives over a great range of weapons, each with its own distinct personality, pros, and cons.
- Strong artificial intelligence (A.I. or “Bots”) capable of participating within all modes of its deathmatch environment, even online.
If you take a look at the screenshots, the game is visually impressive as well. One great aspect is the entire engine is developed on open platforms meaning there are versions for Windows, Linux and Mac.
I personally stopped with the FPS games after Quake and 007 (Nintendo 64), so I would be curious what opinions ‘modern’ FPS gamers have on this release.
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*sigh*
It’s everything I find wrong with the OSS community. Rather than innovate they think copying proprietary software will do.
No, it wont. No one pays less (or nothing) safe in the knowledge it had 60-70% of the features (in this case playability.)
There are some awesome open source games and apps out there, but this isn’t one of them. It’s a tired Quake III clone.
Phil’s comment is exactly what is wrong with the OSS gamers. Commenting on a game without even trying it out amounts to nothing but negativity – when one could be ACTIVELY working to improve whatever points they find fault with.
Blood Frontier is nothing like Quake 3, or any other game for that matter – sure there are some aspects which are quite common to ALL First Person Shooters, but the gameplay itself is unique and original.
Uninformed comments like this just irk me, play the game and then get back to me, otherwise your comment is entirely invalid. Thanks!
It’s not exactly like Quake 3 but it’s not exactly different.
In short, it’s nothing revolutionary and it’s comments like Quinton’s “Blood Frontier is nothing like…” that irk me.
I’ve played Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, Blood Frontier, Action Quake, Paintball, etc, etc… even Smoking Guns and only Smoking Guns can be called anything different.
Blood Frontier is a quake clone. Phil’s comment is “valid” and who is Quinton to judge anyway?