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Over the past few days I’ve become hopelessly addicted to the game Tremulous, ever since reading about it on NewsForge. While I originally thought of the NewsForge author’s opinion of Tremulous as “The best free software game ever” seemed a bit excessive, after trying it out and getting into the game, I have to agree. This is a seriously great game.

What piqued my interest was the fact that it was based on the Quake 3 engine, GPL’d, and would run on Linux. After downloading it and
giving it a spin, I must say I was shocked I had never heard of it before. It is possible that this is because the standalone 1.1.0 version was released less than 4 months ago, though with the quality and polish of this game, I would have expected to be seeing and hearing about it all over. The game looks and feels fantastic, and all of the graphics and user interfaces are very professionally designed. I really love the concepts of the buildings and units as well as the creativity shown in the popular maps, with tons of interesting and well-themed nooks and crannies. Tremulous also has a unique fast-paced mixture of Real Time Strategy and First-Person Shooter gameplay, which makes it fun but also strategically interesting.

What more can I say? I am really enjoying this game. Be careful though… try it out, and you too will soon be addicted!