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N3Cr0:
As a tribute to the now 15 years old milestone in history of First Person Shooters, Quake1/Quakeworld (the first online shooter) I wanna present you Quake Live.
It's based on Quake 3, but it comes with some improvements which were only available with mods in Quake 3,
for example unlagged gameplay (a frag gets post processed to calculate where you have hit and where the target was at that time)
- new gamemodes like clan arena (last man standing in teams, no weapon/ammo/health spawns, but almost all weapons and lots of health at the beginning, also rocketjumps don't hurt you)
- and @ Raj even Freeze Tag
Also your gameplay gets tracked to rank you; that makes it easier to find oponents with the same skill level.
...And what I personally really like is: it's a very fast game, much faster than Unreal Tournament...



Since they get payed for advertisements (and premium accounts) you can play this game FOR FREE.
Just register at quakelive.com, download the webbrowser extension and the 300MB game.

If you are pissed by the advertisements, just get an adblocker for your webbrowser or this client:
http://www.qlprism.us/

Hicks:
Played this a year ago, when it was open beta. Many player models, many players, new game modes... looks exactly as Q3, but little bit newer. Btw, works better with Firefox.

[MiA]Raj:
No dodging, no translocators and much less popular than ut2004.

I think I'll pass...

N3Cr0:
BUT:
Circle/strafe jumps, rocket jumps ... no movement combos like dodging in UT, but combos using the great physics engine (this makes it for example possible to move faster than a rocket)

[MiA]Raj:
I know, but it just feels weird not being able to "dodge" bullets :)

There's also some nice open source Quake alternatives, which I'd rather play instead of browser games :D
Xonotic and Red Eclipse come to my mind. I think they're both originally based on some Quake engine release.

But the movement in both is like a science compared to UT. And funny too, in Xonotic players should have a skateboard under their feet for the movement to make any sense.

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