I had the time to play yet another exciting game on my Linux box. It’s a free first person shooter called Urban Terror. The game is a total modification of the immensely popular Quake III Arena. It introduces many elements of the tactical shooter genre --team-driven gaming in more realistic environments. Urban Terror is one of the best FPS games that I have ever played --you will know why later on.

Urban Terror, usually abbreviated as UrT or UT, is currently developed and maintained by FrozenSand, LLC. It is available for free, but unauthorised modification and selling is not allowed. The latest version of UT (4.1) is using ioUrbanTerror engine (rebranded ioquake3 engine) which means it can now be played as a stand-alone game even without Quake III Arena.

Since Urban Terror is primarily an online multiplayer game, I started playing it by joining an online server that hosted the game. The good thing is that there are plenty of available servers most of the time, so you can always choose those that suit your game level.

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