selectparks - Nexuiz 2.0 Released

The open-source FPS Nexuiz has reached its 2.0 milestone. It sports a robust and greatly improved network layer, hardware shaders (GLSL), support for particle systems and other goodness.

Having played against bots for around half an hour I notice the feeling of gameplay is close to that of Quake (Nexuiz's architectural parent), while the graphics are more on par with Quake III; that's hardly a criticism given so many preferred the 'physicality' of Quake I over it's successors. It's clear the engine has alot to offer and anyone familar with producing assets for the Quake strain of FPS engines should have no problem creating content for this one.

My only criticism of the Nexuiz game experience itself is that the bots are far too cunning and it does take a bit too long to load (at least here on my Linux laptop).

Download the engine, art, full sources, binaries for Linux, Windows and OSX PPC here.