This months game: Tremulous

Tremulous is a multiplayer aliens vs. humans shooting game, where you play via internet with over 30 players. Biggest games can have up to 60 players. When you start to play, you first choose the side. You cannot join if your side has too many players. Then you choose are you builder or soldier. And then... Its time to let the game begin. Tremulous has quite small maps and when there are many players you easily find yourself in the middle of a chaos. Aliens jumping all over and going on the walls, humans shooting around and hoping that they are shooting to a right direction with different kind of weapons, autoturrets and acid tubes attacking to nearby enemies... And everything you have to do is to join this caos and hope that you will get few kills so you could by new weapons or evolve to better alien. Both sides have main building. If it gets destroyed, you can not build any buildings and defense structures won't work. Other structures can only be built near this main structure or repeater (aliens have eggs). Trmulous don't have any bots or AI, so playing through the internet is the only option. This game don't need powerfull computer and it is surely worth of trying. This game allmost got the "Best free game"-price but Spring engine remains in the lead.



game name: Tremulous
homepage: www.tremulous.net
operating system: Windows (xp/vista), Linux, Mac OS X
license: open source (media isn't)

graphics: 8
extensibility: 7
gameplay: 10
multiplayer: 10
singleplayer: -
system requirements: 9
rating: 10

Good:

• quite good graphics
• different weapons and alien types
• system requirements
• gameplay
• structures
• game system allows strategic playing
• funny caos
• multiplayer
• game is never going so badly that you couldn't win

Bad:

• no singleplayer
• building system
• you lose your weapons if you die
• joining to a game can be tricky when everybody else have good weapons
• battles can be quite long