Acid Arena Monster Blast (157Mb)
Fancy turning your PC into a psychedelic multi-colored shooter arena? You might want sunglasses - to shade some of the glare! : - whether it’s from the multi-hued scenery or the zany many-colored monsters! It’s been developed using the Quake III engine and you can play multi-player online, or single player offline. If you haven’t met this before, it’s been available since 2005. You may have to wait a while to find online players, unless you’ve friends who’ll play! Or just play off-line against the game’s really excellent AI bots.
It features 23 maps and 52 colorful characters and comes with akimbo and alternate fire mods which make the game different from the average deathmatch first-person shooter. You can also download a couple of extra scenarios on the main download page for an extra 15.5Mb. There’s a wild cast of bots and weapons, and as good FPS gameplay as you’ll find almost anywhere.
“The basic premise of Acid Arena is, just as in every death-match game, to blast your freaky looking opponents into oblivion, while avoiding getting fried in the process. Simple, hectic, and fun. There are a fair number of weapons in Acid Arena, but there could have been a few more. There's a total of around 7, which pales in comparison to some of more recent DM games, although granted, what weapons there are, are good and useful for all different situations. In my opinion, the rail gun is among the best sniper weapons ever.”
Practically all of Quake III's libraries have been re-written for Acid Arena to provide a completely new and totally different visual and aural experience. Whatever you think of the gameplay, the settings are dream-like and beautiful, and the design for the bots and usual FPS pick-ups are awesome and inspiring, not to say frightening even!
System requirements are similar to those for Quake 3 so you’ll need a fair amount of HD space and a fully compliant Open GL graphics card with a Pentium II or better processor and a decent amount of RAM free depending on your OS. It is available for Windows and Mac. There are quite a few game mods available including the Akimbo and Alternate Fire mods that make weapons behave differently and add significantly to the gameplay!
Can you stand the heat - sorry glare from all of the colors? If the colors don’t clash, you’re sure to enjoy trashing the bots, before they trash you! Blast your carnival-like, freaky opponents into Never-Never land before they send - you - out of Wonderland for good. Gameplay is similar to Quake 3 in style ie interesting and very intense, but offers a much more bizarre and very vibrant gaming environment. The array of colors certainly add a new dimension to the gameplay!
The game has amazing graphics and great sound effects. There are three files to download to the same location on your hard drive, - click on the first one and use (the free) 7-zip, or WinZip or WinRar to extract the files.
Think Fairground + Arcade! Just because the monsters look a little like playthings doesn’t mean they don’t bite!
Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXkMRMvjLCY
Download HERE
You can find the game forum HERE (The forum link on the game’s webpage links to an inactive location)
The Alternate Fire mod is HERE
The Akimbo and other mods can be found HERE
