After I reviewed Alien Arena last year, some readers criticized my choice of that first-person shooter (FPS) as the best free software game I had played. Several suggested Nexuiz would have been a better choice. At the time, I had not played it. Now that I have tried Nexuiz 2.4, it has become my favorite free software FPS.

Nexuiz runs on an improved Quake engine called DarkPlaces. The engine has been undergoing on-and-off development by Lord Havoc, the game's creator, for several years. On icculus.org, Lord Havoc says he developed a custom OpenGL-only engine for DarkPlaces, and other modifications that "support Windows WGL and Linux GLX and have greatly improved graphics and image quality."

Nexuiz is all about deathmatch game play. Deathmatch is the default game mode in single-player play, but you can play other game modes online, or you can create your own single-player game and specify another mode of play, such as Team Death Match, Capture the Flag, Domination, or Rune. The gamemodes.txt file in the Nexuiz/Docs directory provides more details on the various modes

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