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This is great for Xonotic[1] and Warsow[2]! I hope the majority will look for a new FPS on Linux and Macintosh and find either Xonotic or Warsow, both great games. Warsow even got through the Steam greenlight program and will be on Steam soon.

1. Xonotic is a fusion of Quake and Unreal Tournoment. It features secondary fire mode, loads of modes and original maps and foremost a really awesome community. I highly recommend to try out this title if you are interested in this genre. 1.0 is not released yet, but it's already very mature and fun, it's also completely free software. http://www.xonotic.org/

1. Warsow is a Quake with a unique twist regarding movement and graphics. It got that Borderland cartoonish look and it fits really well in this fast paced genre. It also features a "dash", that is that you can turn without loosing velocity and do walljumps etc. Loads of great original maps, and a active community. Highly recommended as well. Warsow has reached it 1.0 release and is has a free software engine, but the game assets are proprietary. http://www.warsow.net/

Also there's Cube 2 - uglier than the ones you mentinoed, but it has a fantastic built-in level-editor that minecraft fans should love since it uses a very twisted perversion of voxels - the landscape is cubes where you can nudge the corners around. Somehow, this lets people build terrain that looks like this:

http://sauerbraten.sourceforge.net/newerer/screenshot_878348...

http://sauerbraten.org/

That and I love the beautiful simplicity of the weaponspread. Shotgun, Rocket-launcher, Sniper as the main weapons, and a chain-gun filling in the BFG10k's role of "OP weapon that you burn through the ammo in seconds" and a pistol and grenade launcher for "crappy stuff you start with". Also, you can melee in instagib mode. Just enough stuff to keep the game interesting without bogging you down with too much crap.

Edit: Also, there's OpenArena. It's a one-man-show and has some ugly models, but it gets the job done of being a complete content replacement for Quake 3 and capitalizing on Quake 3's open-source code to give you a 100% free/opensource implementation of Q3 complete with compatibility for most mods.

http://www.openarena.ws/smfnews.php

I'd highly recommend both of these games. I'm really hoping that the lack of Mac/Linux support in Quake Live will bring more players to the Xonotic and Warsow community. If you are into quake-like FPS, do yourself a favor and check out Xonotic or Warsow.

I got really addicted to Warsow for a hot minute. Great action in that game and I like the cel-shaded graphics option.

the community is great, and the game is fun. It's too bad that almost nobody plays it anymore :(

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