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I know, I blogged about Warsow and how amazing it was, but the game I’m most hooked on at the moment is Urban Terror. Seriously amazing game, great graphics, and some of the best gameplay I’ve seen this side of Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear. It combines some of the movement techniques of twitch gaming (powerslides! whee!) with the more measured combat of Enemy Territory and Call of Duty. It also focuses more on urban and suburban environments than most games emerging from the Q3A scene.

Download it; it’s big, so please do everyone a favour and use Bittorrent. (I currently have a share ratio of 11; you’ll probably be getting some of your bits from me.)

Urban Terror runs on Windows (of all stripes), Mac OS X, and Linux (I currently have it set up in Ubuntu). It’s free. You don’t have to be a gaming genius to play it, either.

I don’t play a lot of games. Really, I don’t. Granted, when I go over to my parents’ place, I might play a spot of Call of Duty 4. At home, though, there’s not really a whole lot of time to play, and I don’t have any disposable income with which to actually purchase any games.

That said, I’ve found a game to play lately, Warsow. It’s free, available for a variety of platforms, and breaks nicely from the traditional Quake-inspired Gothic darkness with cell-shaded graphics and an overall different appearance.

It’s also ridiculously difficult (for me) to actually play. Warsow is clearly geared to gamers and their trix. I, on the other hand, am just a lowly married man with bad hand-eye co-ordination. When I type cg_showSpeedMeter “1″ into the console (yes, it had a console, just like every other game worth its salt), I rarely if ever get over 400. I suck.

Yet I still have fun… try it out. Seriously. I double-dog-dare you.