Alien Arena 2009 is a freeware online deathmatch game with fast and furious action for Windows and Linux!

The game runs on the CRX engine, and features modern effects such as real-time lighting and shadows, shaders, light bloom, reflective surfaces and much more, while still being able to run on even modest systems.

The game includes a built in, as well as external server browser and chat client. Players can look up their stats online, chat with other players, and become part of a growing community.

The Alien Arena experience is now a finely tuned, highly polished body of work.

Alien Arena has transformed into a lean, clean, fragging machine, with stunning visual effects that are usually reserved for commercial titles. This isn't your daddy's Alien Arena - it's not even last year's model, with a host of new and improved maps, sounds and music.

New Features in Alien Arena 2009:

• GLSL per-pixel lighting on meshes(now all surfaces).
• OpenAL 1.1
• Ogg-Vorbis support.
• GLSL post process framebuffer effects.
• New scoreboards.
• New HUD.
• Stereo music files.
• Seven new maps.
• Two new player characters.
• Voice taunt system.
• Doppler sound effects.

Alien Arena 2009 is open source, free to play, and sets a new standard in freeware FPS gaming!

What's New in version 7.32:

• Fixed bug with Nvidia 191.xx drivers causing game to crash on startup
• Dynamic world shadows using shadowmaps
• Game no longer automatically sets video settings on first run.
• New level, Dm-zion2k9!
• Splash damage triggers hit indicator.
• New spawn effects.