I had a lot of free time last weekend so I had a chance to annihilate stuff by playing another first person shooter game on my Linux box. The game is called Tremulous and it's not a typical FPS since it incorporates elements of real-time strategy that makes it even more fun and challenging.


Some Facts:

Tremulous started out as a modification of the popular game Quake III Arena. The gameplay is generally inspired by the Quake II modification Gloom, although they absolutely share no content.

After the release of the Quake III Arena source code under GPL in August of 2005, the developers decided to rework Tremulous into a stand alone, free and open source game. The current version (1.1.0) was unleashed on March 31, 2006 and is based upon the ioquake3 Quake III source port.

Though it's been a long time since the last Tremulous release, development is going on for the 1.2 version, which will be out soon.


Gameplay:

Tremulous is a deathmatch between humans and aliens. Players can choose to be either side with each has its own strengths and weaknesses. They must build and