Apr 5, 2006

Tremulous: Murdering Quake 3 banality

Long time readers of Gnome's Lair (well, actually it's not such a long time anyway, but you get the idea) might have gathered, that First Person Shooters aren't exactly my cup of tequila. It's not that I don't enjoy mindless massacres, it's not that Quake, FEAR, Doom and Serious Sam aren't good games, it's just that they are too similar. Too banal, and only redeemable through inspired user-base intervention. That's why I tend to look at interesting mods, like the Quake Hide 'n' Seek thingie, for a breath of innovation on the genre.

Enter, Tremulous. A Quake 3 total conversion mod with a strong RTS side, that heavily expands on every level of the Q3 engine. The graphics are better, the physics model improved, two distinctly different factions included and -that's the RTS bit- players get the ability to construct buildings. It's quite an interesting bastard of a game, and the download is less than 100mb. There's even a stand-alone version available. Hurry (for no apparent reason). Visit tremulous.net and download to your heart's content.

Then again, you might prefer Morrowind or Doom 3 mods. For all I know, you could even be interested in a Zombies!!! review or the latest indy Adventure game awards.


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4 comments:

  1. tequila? did someone say tequila?
    Nice post mr. gnome. Indeed modding of morrowind significantly enhanced the game for me.

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  2. Yes, dear Mr. Elderly. Tequila. My bane. And glad you enjoyed the Morrowind mods....

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  3. I'm not much into FPSs either (except for multiplayer Halo 2... why? Because, its, um, fun and exciting...), but yes, those mods definitely sound interesting. Unfortunately I have never tried any of them, but that could change sometime in the future...

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  4. They are free, and not such hefty downloads... You could enjoy them, you know, ross.

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