Review of featured applications

[Arand Nash]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Krzysztof Klimonda
<kklimonda at syntaxhighlighted.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 02:16 +0000, Arand Nash wrote:
> > I've tested both openarena and nexuiz.
> What about Warsow? I've found it the most compelling from all three
> games. It has a nice graphics and some nice concepts. I'm not sure if it
> has bots though.
>

Tested Warsow just now, and it does indeed have boots, however in the
starting screen of "local game" you will have to put in the number of
bots in the settings yourself.
Also, the single-player is mainly Skirmish (pick a level, pick some
bots), so I would assume not as straightforward as that of OA or NX.
It has a very nice audio/demo tutorial though.

>
> > However, what might speak against them is the ~18 rating that any of
> > these games would have if sold in stores, due to their violent and
> > meatpieces-flying-gory nature.
> Did Quake 3 get the ~18 rating somewhere? I think it's 15+ everywhere
> and I think the gore level there was similar.
>

Well, seems like Quake3 got an M for ESBR at least (and ELSPA: 15+, OFLC: MA15+)
I don't know, and today the threshold is probably higher, but until we
get a good age-rating system into USC it might be really muddy waters.
Isn't age rating and all that law-enforced in some way even?

On 26/03/10 14:05, Shane Fagan wrote:
> Nexuiz is dying upstream from what I hear so I wouldnt feature it
> myself. The development team had a big split recently and a lot of the
> developers are making forks of it. So id say Open Arena would be a lot
> more suitable long term.

At least the name and the main developer seems to be heading towards
some company deal, fork is at http://www.xonotic.org/ but I agree that
it seems to be in a quite a lot of turmoil at the moment, so possibly
not the best choice current.

- Arand