How To Kill a Weekend, The Free Way

So this weekend between bouts with MST3K doing Raides of the Lost Ark, my girlfriend and our friend Ryan fought off cases of the doldrums. Instead of jumping on Direct2Drive and throwing away some money we decided to take a risk and surf the web for a free game. We ended up coming out with a nice little jewel of a game.

Nexiuz is a free FPS that started as a Quake mod. Totally free and completely legal it strives to put the death match back in FPS shenanigans. It does a good job, there were some issues with either lag or something on my computer but aside from that “free” is definitely a fair price. It takes some time to download but not too long.

So if you have a bunch of friends, and are bored I sincerely recommend this game. There is a level with this ring over the board with a sniper rifle on top, you get onto this floating circle (trying very hard to avoid the term “halo” but that’s what it is) by using a jump pad in the center of the level. So it turns into this king of the hill match, except in mid air.

The game also features a grappling hook that your character can use to get to places, and it’s possible to slingshot yourself, so this usually results folks hanging from a wall trying to shoot their friends like some cracked out Spiderman. Ryan would camp in corners and wait for folks to walk by, once we figured out his game though he was easy enough to kill.

Balance seems to be a huge priority in this game, no one weapon seems over powered. The sniper rifle is a little too accurate, in that it works just as well from the hip as it does when you aim. By far my favorite weapon is this fully automatic…rocket launcher…thing… this spinning wheel of exploding death is not nearly as powerful as the actual rocket launcher but it’s still very cool.

Seriously though, I recommend it. Completely free, and it’s a good way to dick around with some friends that don’t want to drop $20 on an FPS. You also don’t have to think as much as that damn CoD4 game.