Nexuiz

Nexuiz is a free first-person shooter video game developed and published by Alientrap Games Inc.. The game and its media are released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and uses the DarkPlaces engine, a significantly modified Quake engine. A remake, also called Nexuiz, has been released for Steam and Xbox 360 using CryEngine 3. The original game was released on May 31, 2005.

Gameplay

Nexuiz is a first-person shooter game, heavily inspired by the original Quake games, running on a modified Quake engine known as the DarkPlaces engine. It includes thirteen weapons, 24 official maps and over 240 community created maps, as well as 15 player models. The graphics in Nexuiz use coronas, the bloom shader effect, Realtime World and Dynamic Lighting and shadowing, shaders (with OpenGL 2.0), offset mapping, and High dynamic range rendering. All these effects can be turned off to make the game run on older hardware.

Nexuiz is primarily multiplayer (though it includes a full single-player campaign, which allows one to play through the various multiplayer game types and maps with bots), and allows for hosting and joining of games. It can also support new gametypes, or whole conversions quickly applied to it (much like Quake). Nexuiz supports most Quake modifications (although with varying functionality). Currently there are a few custom mods and maps used.

Nexuiz (2012 video game)

Nexuiz was a first-person shooter developed by Illfonic and published by THQ for Microsoft Windows (through Steam) and Xbox Live Arcade. It used CryEngine 3 and it was based on the original free game called Nexuiz (now called Nexuiz Classic by IllFonic), developed by Alientrap. It was a fast-paced arena first-person shooter in futuristic, Victorian style theme. The servers for the Xbox 360 and PC versions were taken offline in February 2013 due to the closure of THQ.

Reception

Nexuiz received mixed reviews. The game was praised for being a "smart, speedy shooter for a great price", however was criticized for being fairly generic for a re-release, Game Informer describing it as a "haphazard port of a 2005 mod for a game that came out 10 years ago – except you have to pay money for it"

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