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First Person Shooters [FPS] - a closer look at the best retail quality, FREE fps games on the net.

August 23rd, 2007 | by Randy |

First Person Shooters [FPS] - a closer look at the best retail quality, FREE fps games on the net.

[sorted by size]

America´s Army: Special Forces V2.8.1
First-person 3D game where you enter into virtual service to the United States.
Size: 2.1GB
OS: Windows, Linux, MacOS

America’s Army is one of the five most popular PC action games played online. It provides players with the most authentic military experience available, from exploring the development of Soldiers in individual and collective training to their deployment in simulated missions in the War on Terror.

In America’s Army: Special Forces, players attempt to earn Green Beret status by completing individual and collective training missions drawn from the Special Forces Assignment and Selection (SFAS) process.
Players who complete the SFAS process have the opportunity to take on elite Special Forces roles and are qualified to play in multiplayer missions with units ranging from the elite 82d Airborne Division to the 75th Ranger Regiment.

This latest release includes:
* New Unreal 2.5 engine
* Bug fixes
* 4 new maps
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F.E.A.R COMBAT 1.07
F.E.A.R COMBAT the free multiplayer version of F.E.A.R.
Size: 1.76GB
OS: Win 2000/XP

F.E.A.R. Combat is a free multiplayer component from the original PC first-person shooter F.E.A.R., which lets you play against the owners of the retail version of F.E.A.R. as well as the other F.E.A.R. Combat users.

Please visit www.joinfear.com to register for a required F.E.A.R. Combat authentication key.

System Requirements:
* Windows 2000/XP
* 1.7 GHz CPU
* 512MB RAM
* 64MB GeForce4 Ti or ATI Radeon 9600 or equivalent with hardware T&L and pixel shader support

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Cellfactor: Revolution 1.0
An action-packed first-person shooter that takes advantage of the dedicated AGEIA PhysX processor.
Size: 859.59MB
OS: Win 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3/Vista

CellFactor: Revolution is an action-packed first-person shooter that takes advantage of the capabilities of the dedicated AGEIA PhysX processor, but is playable even if you do not have the Physx accelator card.With only a select few games available that actually used the PhysX card, it was becoming increasingly difficult for sites like ours to recommend the purchase of the card.

We were fed GRAW, which really wasn’t all that impressive with PhysX enabled and up until today when Cell Factor is released, the only enjoyable game which is truly enhanced by the PhysX card, was a small game available on Valve’s Steam called RoboBlitz. Now we have Cell Factor and in this editor’s opinion, not a moment too soon.

The back-story isn’t exactly a new one. Not unlike most other sci-fi storylines, the world has been taken over by a mega company called LIMBO. Rather than ramble on and on, let’s get it straight from the horse’s mouth.

“After a series of cataclysmic events, the planet is now dominated by a superpower, known as the L.I.M.B.O Corporation, dedicated only to the advancement of technology – no matter what the human cost. This technology forms the basis of a cybernetic-enhanced humanoid army – the Technocracy, whose telekinetic powers are used to maintain order across the planet. A scattered human resistance fights for one last shred of freedom, tapping into psionic abilities in an attempt to conquer what appears to be an invincible enemy. The gamer can play as characters from both sides of this war.
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War Rock 1.0
FPS featuring modern weaponry and combat vehicles in an online multiplayer setting.
Size: 602MB
OS: Win 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3

War Rock is a completely Free2Play FPS featuring modern weaponry and combat vehicles in an online multiplayer setting. War Rock´s multifaceted gameplay will appeal to both new recruits and FPS veterans.

Currently in Open Beta, War Rock is populated by thousands of players at any given time in servers all over the world. With a wide variety of customizable weaponry and vehicles, intuitive controls, and multiple battle modes, War Rock is a blast for seasoned FPS veterans and first-timers alike.

EASY TO LEARN
* Very low entry threshold and immediate access to action-packed frag-fests, even for casual players.
FREE2PLAY
* Unique Free2Play™ access and player options to purchase gameplay enhancing items, services, and products, or play entirely for free
FREQUENT UPDATES
* Frequent add-ons and updates that include maps, weapons, vehicles, and game-play modes driven by Player Request.
EFFICIENT ENGINE
* The extremely efficient Jindo game engine supports incredible graphics and high framerates despite low system requirements.
VARIETY OF COMBAT EXPERIENCES
* Mission scenarios between strike teams, Infantry-level firefights, or even Combined Arms engagements with gunboats, attack helicopters, and tanks – the player makes the choice, not the game.
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World Of Padman 1.0
World Of Padman is a free FPS Shooter in a giant Real Life Environment.
Size: 550.05MB
OS: Windows, Linux, Macintosh

World of Padman is a free mutliplayer fps shooter set in a giant real environment e.g the kitchen, the prison etc. There are many characters to choose from with a vary of weapons too. Its very face paced and the maps are beautiful. furthermore its free so give it a try. The World of Padman features full bot support for all game types! All you off-line gamers out there will be happy to play Spray your Colour, Big Balloon and Last Pad Standing with bots. The bots play very well, and most maps have been optimised for good bot play. It is pure fun to see the blue nosed people frag each other in SyC and BB.

System Requirements:
* Some Maps require a fast Processor and more Ram, bu a 1 Gig Processor and 512MB Ram should be fine for most of them
* recommend: 2 GHz 1 GByte
* 1GByte Harddisk place required
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Urban Terror 4.0
Urban Terror is a free First Person Shooter that uses the Quake 3 engine.
Size: 531.28MB
OS: Win 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista

Urban Terror is a mod turned standalone that´s on the Quake 3 engine. It features realistic gameplay, much like in Counter Strike, except for a twist: you can jump off of walls and do other crazy things like that. Also, all the weapons are available at spawn, instead of a buy system. The same applies to the equipment. Another interesting idea is instead of realistic looking skins, there are orange and blue teams.Please Note: Those of you who do not own Quake3 will need to download and install the ioUrbanTerror installer prior to installing the main 550MB file. You can get this file from the UrbanTerror website or here: http://www.gamershell.com/download_18565.shtml.

The gameplay in Urban Terror is absolutely fantastic, borderline perfect. The weapons connect when they´re supposed to connect, and not at any other time. Movement is easy to get used to.

System Requirements:

• 64 MB RAM
• 8 MB VRAM
• Around 650MB disk space

Obviously the higher your specs the smoother the gameplay.
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Nexuiz 2.3
A 3D deathmatch game based on an advanced Quake1 engine (Darkplaces).
Size: 272.96MB
OS: LINUX! Win 2000/XP/Vista

Nexuiz is a 3d FPS deathmatch game project, created online by a team of developers called Alientrap.Nexuiz is based on the Darkplaces engine. The darkplaces engine is an advanced Quake1 engine developed mainly by Forest “LordHavoc” Hale, who has been working with the Quake1 engine for many years.

A few of Darkplaces main features are Quake3bsp support, realtime lighting and shadowing, new particle effects, advanced menu system, and Md3/Md2 model support. Because Nexuiz is based on the Quake1 engine, its source code along with its content is entirely GPL.

Nexuiz focuses on bringing the FPS back to the basics with quick, lethal battles and balanced weaponry. As of the current release there are 9 weapons and 24 official maps, as well as 15 player models, with an average of 2 skins each.

Nexuiz is primarily multiplayer (though it includes a full single-player campaign, which allows one to play through the various multiplayer game types and maps with bots), and allows for hosting and joining of games. It can also support new gametypes, or whole conversions quickly applied to it (much like Quake). Nexuiz supports most, if not all, Quake modifications (although with varying functionality). Currently there are a few custom mods and maps used.

35 Map Pack
This is a community map pack compiled by Strahlemann. It includes 35 maps, and a campaign mode for the user to fight through. The map pack includes Quake3 communtiy maps, Nexuiz community maps, and some new maps from Nexuiz developers. Credit is given for all of the authors. To install it just unzip the file into your main Nexuiz directory.

Download the map pack (108.27MB).

System Requirements:

• 200mb of hard drive space

High Quality - Realtime lights and shadows on, bloom on, high detailed maps, 1024×768 or higher res

• A 1.5-gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 chip or AMD Athlon 1500
• 9600ati or 5700fx
• 256 mb of ram

Low Quality - no realtime lights, no bloom

• 800mhz
• Geforce Video card min
• 256 mb of ram

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WolfenStein Enemy Territory
Wage war as Axis or Allies in team-based combat.

Size: 270MB
OS: Windows (All) / Linux

Wolfenstein Enemy Territory is a free, stand alone, downloadable multiplayer game in which players wage war as Axis or Allies in team-based combat.

Do battle in traditional single scenarios, or wage war through a series of linked scenarios in a totally new campaign mode. During combat players gain experience and skill, and through battlefield promotions are awarded additional abilities that remain persistent across an entire campaign.

Additionally, new character classes like the Covert Ops as well as enhyanced Engineer allow teams to perform reconnaissance, steal enemy uniforms, and construct battlefield structures and military installations in the midst of combat to gain tactical advantages for their team.
All new game modes, maps and communication abilities require players and teams to develop advanced strategies and tactics in the struggle for front line domination.

MOD: TrueCombat: Elite
A team-based realism modification, based on the free and popular Enemy Territory. Download TrueCombat:Elite
Size: 550.05MB
OS: Windows (All) / Linux

TrueCombat: Elite is a fast-paced modern tactical shooter with a focus on close-quarters gunfights and objective oriented teamplay. Two teams engage each other using modern weaponry, in the objective game mode there is one defending team.

One of the most notable features, which often confuses new players, is that there is no crosshair. Instead, the gun’s iron sights are used. The gun can also be fired from a lowered position without using the iron sights, but at a loss of accuracy.
The game features two different teams, Terrorists and SpecOps (a portmanteau for “special operation forces“). There are three classes for both teams:

• Assault - Has access to assault-rifles, pistols, a semi-automatic/pump-action shotgun, and one hand grenade.
• Recon - Has access to submachine guns, suppressed submachine guns, a pump-action only shotgun, optional techkit (replacing the grenades, flash and smoke), and akimbo pistols. The fastest class, movement speed wise.
• Sniper - Has access to sniper rifles, pistols, and only a smoke grenade. Slower and less mobile due to the heavier load.

There is a total of 27 weapons in True Combat: Elite. Each team has 16 weapons to choose from, 5 weapons being selectable by both teams. The inventory of the player consists of one primary weapon (submachine gun, shotgun, assault rifle or sniper rifle), a pistol as sidearm, a knife and a class-dependent grenade load out.

You are also capable of picking up the primary weapon of a fallen friend or foe.
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Kuma Games Full Client 2.0
Access all of the latest first person shooter games, media, more from Kuma.
Size: 187KB
OS: Win 98/ME/2000/XP

Using the same business model as TV, Kuma Games develops and releases free, premium entertainment paid for by quality advertising. Thanks to our sponsors, you get more than 100 graphics-rich, state-of-the-art video game titles, along with original videos, supporting news articles, forums, and more, and it won’t ever cost you a cent. See? The best things in life really are free.

KumaWar 2
Size: 208MB
OS: Win 9x/2000/XP

Ok first of all i want to let you all know that this game can be played in either First-Person Mode Or Third Person Mode. Although the Third-Person Mode Looks better and is easier.

Kuma\War is a free online war game that uses cutting-edge game technology to accurately reconstruct real-war events from the news. Kuma\War is a first and third-person squad-based war game. It is the first PC video game to bring the tactical FPS (shooter) into the 21st century by modeling missions on actual real-world events. Each month players get new single player and multiplayer games (missions), to reflect unfolding events around the world. Armed with identical weapons in a realistic re-creation of various locations, you´ll experience some of fiercest engagements in the most hostile territories in the world. A vast database of intelligence accompanies Kuma\War online games: satellite photos, political context, event details and the weaponry, tactics and forces involved. You´ll also get exclusive video news shows and insight from a decorated team of military veterans.

Minimum System Requirements:
* System: 1 GHz Pentium III or equivalent
* RAM: 256 MB
* Video Memory: 64 MB
* Hard Drive Space: 750 MB

more FPS from Kuma Games

• NEW! Dogfights - Climb into the cockpit of history´s most famous fighter planes in this new exclusive game series, produced in cooperation with
  the History Channel. Watch the shows every Friday at 9:00, then play the games right here! Fly an American Hellcat over Wake Island, trying to lead a
  Japanese Zero into a death spiral, or a P-51 Mustang defending our B-17 bombers against German Me-109s trying to crash into them before they can reach the fatherland. With game episodes based on the History Channel´s hit program of the same name, Dogfights: The Game lets you experience history´s greatest aerial battles firsthand, with heart-stopping multiplayer action inside well-researched real war scenarios. Dogfights training missions will teach you
  how to maneuver your aircraft with great expertise in combat…the rest is up to you!
• NEW! The Kill Point - The Kill Point Game thrusts players into a dramatic world of gangs, guns and glory! Watch TV’s most intense new series: The Kill Point, Sunday nights on Spike TV, then enter the ultimate cops and robbers showdown in The Kill Point Game. Wage your own war on the bands of criminals or seasoned SWAT teams in massive multiplayer face-offs, take-no-prisoner style battles for control of the mean city streets. Your team’s goal: to infiltrate and decimate the other team using powerful automatic weaponry, voice communication, and raw instinct. The Kill Point Game: Captivating television comes to life!
• Shootout! - Shootout immerses you in the same suspense and action seen on The History Channel´s hit show, Shootout! Get inside the bloodiest battles spanning WWII to Vietnam, where you load in with authentic weaponry like sniper rifles, Stinger missiles, Katanas and flamethrowers! Play as a fierce Vietcong soldier in the epic infiltration of the US Embassy in Saigon, or be the first American to sink your boots into the sands of Iwo Jima. Play alone or with an army of friends in a first-person battle to survive history´s deadliest shootouts!
• DinoHunters - DinoHunters takes you on an action-packed, massive multiplayer trip through space and time to battle some of the nastiest beasts known
  to man! Travel aboard the spaceship, where zero gravity and your futuristic laser gun turn the enemy to molten piles of ownage. Got a fear of flying? Take your high-powered, automatic weaponry and glowing grenades to lands before time to fight fierce pteranadons; hit the streets of New York City to take on the mammoth Tyrannosaurus Rex; and travel to ancient Iraq and defend its prized beer temples from attack!

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Alien Arena 2007
Multiplayer online deathmatch game based on the GPL id source code.
Size: 201MB
OS: Win 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3/Linux

Alien Arena 2007 is a freeware online deathmatch game with fast and furious action for Windows and Linux!

Do you like fast paced deathmatch? How about rich, colorful, arcadelike atmospheres? How about…retro Sci Fi? Then you’re going to love what Alien Arena 2007 has in store for you! This game combines some of the very best aspects of such games as Quake III and Unreal Tournament and wraps them up with a retro alien theme, while adding tons of original ideas to make the game quite unique.

AA2K7 is the latest version of a freeware online deathmatch game that was first introduced to the public in October, 2004. Since that initial release, nearly every aspect of the game has been revamped, in fact, much of the content and code from the November 2005 release of Alien Arena 2006 has been redone as well. It’s like an entirely new game, and it may shock people just how much it has improved in less than a year’s time. With 35 levels, five modes of play, loads of mutators, built-in bots, 11 player characters, 8 weapons(with alt-fire modes), the game has an endless supply of replayability. With so many new features, AA2K7 is nearly an entirely new game when held in comparison to it’s predecessor. With the trials and tribulations of software development, endless hours of playing, gathering feedback, COR Entertainment has been able to not only fine tune and perfect it’s flagship game, but add completely new dimensions to it.

Using the CRX engine, which is based on the Id GPL source code, AA2K7 now includes modern effects such as real time vertex lighting and shadows, lensflares, light blooms, reflective water, textured particles, stainmaps, 32 bit color, shaders, fog, and much more. Built into the game is a easy to use server browser which allows the user to query information about each server. A Q3 style console has been added, as well as colored player names, winner podiums, and weapons stats. The best thing about the CRX engine however, is it’s netcode and speed. Even on a modest system, you will get excellent framerates, and movement is still extremely smooth and fast, even on high ping servers.

Bot AI has been improved with each release, and for AA2K7, a number of improvements and enhancements have been made. These bots are among the most human acting bots in any game, and also some of the toughest if you choose them to be. They are fully configurable using an external editor, and skill levels can be set in game.

Alien Arena is a fast paced, furious frag fest with arenas ranging from the small, to the massive. With a large built-in player base, it’s never hard to find a good match going on, at any hour of the day. The community is friendly, as well as prolific. Dozens of maps, models, and various accessories have been created by community members to add on to the game experience.

New for AA2K7 is Team Core Assualtl, a mode in which players must work together to disable their enemy team’s central metal spider. Don’t forget about the Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Deathball, and All Out Assault mode(in which players can enter vehicles) either.

What are you waiting for? Find out why this is being called “The Ultimate Freeware Deathmatch Game”!

SINGLE PLAYER CODERED GAMES

For those who like the single player experience, COR offers two single player games, CodeRED: Battle For Earth and CodeRED: The Martian Chronicles. *Note - these games are very old, and use a much older version of the CRX engine, and are no longer in development.

In BFE, you play a URF soldier, Commander Joseph Hicks, who has learned that his commanding officer, General Braddock, has betrayed the URF and is working with alien invaders to take over planet Earth. Entering a devasted post-apocolyptic world, you do your best to fend of the invasion of the maniacle Martians and their contraptions of death. In time, you come to realize that the URF has secrets of it’s own, and that you are all alone…

The Martian Chronicles picks up some years later. Now a decorated officer for your efforts on Earth, you have been sent to Mars to investigate the disappearance of combat troops. It appears a new leader has assumed control, codenamed “Big Brain”, and is massing a new army. Your mission is to find him, and put a stop to his plans. Along the way, you’ll see incredible Martian facilities and landscapes, and horrors that you could have never imagined.
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Sauerbraten (Cube 2)
A free first person shooter built as a major redesign of the Cube FPS.
Size: 166.22MB
OS: Win 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3/Linux

Sauerbraten (a.k.a. Cube 2) is a free multiplayer/singleplayer first person shooter, built as a major redesign of the Cube FPS.Much like the original Cube, the aim of this game is not necessarily to produce the most features & eyecandy possible, but rather to allow map/geometry editing to be done dynamically in-game, to create fun gameplay and an elegant engine.

The engine supporting the game is entirely original in code & design, and its code is Open Source (ZLIB license, read the docs for more on how you can use the engine).Download the MacOS and Linux version.

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Penumbra 1.1 [it has been brought to my attention that this is actually a DEMO so be aware]
First-person horror game. Uses the latest graphics technologies to create an immersive game world.
Size: 156.8MB
OS: Win 2000/XP

Penumbra is a free, first-person horror adventure game that uses the latest graphics technologies and physics to create an immersive game world. The protagonist finds himself in an underground base searching for his lost father. It´s dark, scary, and dangerous.

Penumbra uses the developer´s in-house develop 3D engine, featuring the latest graphics and physics technologies. Thanks to these technologies Penumbra is able to immerse players into it´s world of horror, unlike anything seen before within the genre.

Dynamic shadows, normal mapping and specular effects creates a dark dynamic visual environment, creating a world of constant change. Motion blur, noise filters and bloom is used to create a world where sanity has no place.

The physics engine, using Newton Game Dynamics, allows the player to interact with object in new ways where doors drawers needs to be pulled open and doors barricaded to keep the evil out. Each object creates unique sounds based on surface and force, you can never predict how anything will behave or sound in this world.

In Penumbra the player finds himself in an underground base on Greenland, searching for his lost father. It´s an adventure horror game, free from classic first person shooter elements, with an emphasise on puzzle solving and exploring. Constantly on your toes you will never know what to expect, with no weapons how do you protect yourself?
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Warsow 0.12
Standalone 3D FPS based on Qfusion (a modification of Quake 2 GPL engine).
Size: 62.2MB
OS: Windows (All), Linux

Warsow is a Standalone FPS game for Windows and Linux.

Features:

* 3D Engine based on Qfusion (a modification of Quake 2 GPL engine) ;
* eSport oriented FPS ;
* Fast-paced gameplay focused on trix (trick jumps) and art of move ;
* New tricks have been added like walljump and dash
* Complete Power-up System including Weak and Strong fire mode for each weapon ;
* Cartoonish graphics that are similar to cell-shading.
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.kkrieger
The entire game uses only 97,280 bytes of disk space.
Size: 97,280 bytes
OS: Windows (All)

.kkrieger (from Krieger, German for warrior) is a first-person shooter computer game created by the German demogroup .theprodukkt (a former subdivision of Farbrausch) and won first place in the 96k game competition at Breakpoint in April 2004. The game remains a beta version as of 2007.

The entire game uses only 97,280 bytes of disk space. Much of this small size is attributable to the game’s use of procedurally generated content. In contrast, most popular first-person shooters fill one or more CDs or DVDs. [1] According to the developers, .kkrieger itself would take up around 200—300MB of space if it had been stored the conventional way.
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Wrap Up

Have you seen my mmorpg closer look post yet?

Did you know Wiki is an excellent source for all sorts of games? Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_first-person_shooters

Still haven’t got enough time wasting games? Ok fine, here ya go have fun: http://www.freewarefiles.com/category/games.php

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