The1Qwerty

Open Arena is a standalone mod off the Q3 engine, in fact I would say that it is pretty much a copy of Quake 3 Arena but open source. It is only in its beta stages at the moment. I tested out their latest beta 0.6.0, and to be honest I was pretty impressed with it, sure the models of the characters and weapons can sure use some improvement, but what do you expect when it is still only a beta. 0.6.0 included bots which are pretty good if you want to train up before playing online, they also randomly shout abuse at you.

I am not going to give Open Arena a full review until the first final version of it comes out so to be fair on the game. But I do highly suggest that you go to their website, and download it and give it a shot for your-self. Again like Tremulous there are Windows, Linux and Mac versions of the game, so their really is nothing to stop you from giving it ago and seeing what its like.

Screen shots after the break.

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