From Pixel Apocalypse...
"Has the wallet been a bit bare lately? Are you for a new FPS experience but can’t afford new releases like Homefront or Crysis 2? Why not try Alien Arena, it’s no Crysis 2 but this amazing free to play FPS will keep you in headshots until that next paycheck comes in."
Player Attack: Free-to-play Linux shooter Alien Arena has been revamped, revitalised, reloaded and - most excitingly - released! Getting the important stuff out of the way first, we have the full, standalone clients for both Linux and Windows PC, as well as all the details on just what has been updated for this shiny new edition.
I managed to miss the Quake era of shooters during their heyday, since I was busy fawning over the copy of Command and Conquer: Red Alert that I didn’t have. What I missed seems to have overtaken me in the form of Alien Arena, an aged FPS running on the Quake II engine with modern graphics. If my experience with recent adrenaline-fueled shooters is any help, then I hope that the offense of calling all competitive first person shooters the same is a pardonable crime.
Player Attack: Alien Arena has been in development – in one form or another – for more than eight years now. From humble beginnings as a mod for the original Quake, the game has since shifted gears completely to now be a standalone, free-to-play deathmatch FPS. It's now a force to be reckoned with, and in these dying days of 2011, it’s been given a fresh lick of paint and a shiny new update to v7.53.
One of the many reasons I love PC gaming: free games like this. You just don't get games like this on the consoles for free.