Midway has released for free Area 51, allowing you to enjoy the PC version of this sci-fi FPS developed by Inevitable Entertainment. Area 51 features the voice talent of David Duchovny as Specialist Ethan Cole of the Hazardous Materials Division, Powers Boothe as Major Bridges, and recording artist Marilyn Manson as Edgar, the gray alien. As Cole, players,will delve into massive levels within the confines of Area 51, discovering a deadly mutagenic side effect of the virus that controls the minds of those infected, as well as an ancient alien colony buried beneath the facility. With a multitude of human and alien weapons, players must explore chilling conspiracies such as the extraterrestrial crash at Roswell and the faked lunar landing, in order to solve the enigma of Area 51 before the viral mutagen is released and irrevocably mutates all life on Earth.
Action/FPS
Get Area 51 Free
Deus Ex now free
Deus Ex is now free over at Gametap
Enter a world where the future is always uncertain...a world where the key to survival is held by a chosen few, and where terrorism is fueled by intense desperation. As operative JC Denton, you have a difficult decision to make: do you complete your mission and ensure the safety of the rich and powerful, or do you rebel for the sake of the millions who would be doomed without you?
Some other great first-person shooter games that are free are:
Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat
Done with with Portal and Episode 2? Looking for something to play? Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat is a total conversion mod for Half-Life 2 built on the source engine. According to my research and Steam stats, it is the most popular third-party mod for Half-Life 2 with 213 servers and 5.6 million minutes played per month. Beta 2 is being released hopefully in the early days of November and a video has been released showing some of what you'll get in this new release. Here's some notes:
- New Commander Promotion System*
- New Weapon: M4A1 Assault Rifle with Front Grip (USMC)
- New Weapon: AKS74U (Insurgents)
- New Weapon: Al-Kadesiah Sniper Rifle (Insurgents)
- New Weapon: SKS Simonov Self-Loading Carbine (Insurgents)
- New Map: Ins_Samawah
- New Player Customization and Weapon's Selection Systems
- New Navigation Indicators**
- New Overhead Map
*The New Commander Promotion System gives the best player in each team the chance of becoming Commander. He will be able to accept or deny the promotion. If he doesn't accept it, the next best player will get its chance to command its team.
**The New In-game Navigation Indicators will help you a great deal in navigating through the maps, finding objectives and following your commander's orders. You can see the new system in most of the following screenshots.
And here's the video:
Looking for something to play?
There have been a lot of new demos that have come out in the past week. In the storm of confusion about The Orange Box, COD4, and Unreal Tournament 3, you may have missed some great game demos that were released in the past few weeks.
F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate -- The newest update to the F.E.A.R. series. This game has a great player experience.
Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties -- One of the best real-time strategy games comes out with another expansion.
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars v1.1 -- This demo update brings the ETQW demo up to speed with the game release.
Time Shift -- I've heard great things about this game. Unlike F.E.A.R. and Max Payne where you slow down time, you can actually stop time in this game to move around.
Heroes of Might & Magic V Tribes of the East -- One of the best turn-based strategy games releases a new expansion.
These are all linked to Filefront, so no registration is necessary to download.
Alien Arena 2007 reviewed
Alien Arena 2007, which is a part of our free multiplayer games list has been reviewed by Linux.com. Nexuiz, Alien Arena 2007, and Open Arena are the best open-source first-person shooters that you can download as far as I'm concerned. Linux.com also adds Tremulous, which steps outside of the traditional FPS to me. Version 6.10 was just released and here are some of the changes:
How does 7 brand new, gorgeous arenas to play in sound? How about a more balanced and responsive weapon set? Do you like to 1v1? Well we now have a duel mode! The gameplay of Alien Arena was the big focus this release, and you'll see the difference immediately. Weapons now respawn in five seconds rather than twenty. A Q3 style health and ammo system has been implemented, to help prevent weapon camping, as well as a random spawning quad. Last but not least, version 6.10 presents a brand new weapon, the Violator!
Check out the Alien Arena 2007 official site. Give it some time, it is being slashdotted today.
