Hmm, nice FPS game here, worth the download?

I was just searching around the web for a nice free game download. Since you have the Prey Demo being released tomorrow, and having all these various FPS games that I was hoping to play on the X360. Especially downloading some from right here from Blitz.

However, I came across an interesting FPS game, that's actually FREE, and done by an indie group of developers (probably some college hobbyists). The name of this game is "Penumbra" I guess. This was a great find, IMHO. Some say that this could be on par with F.E.A.R. and Doom 3, or HL2. Somehow this may find its way into my HDD sometime soon. What do you think of this game?

Here's the link: http://penumbragame.com/

Screenshots:



Still can't believe that an FPS this good has that great of a price tag to it...

Downloading right now :D
Thanks for the link

same :)

I'm too busy to play games - sniff.

looks cool, wish I had the time too...

Incredibly boring - uninstalled it after playing it for awhile.

Nice GFX engine, runs smooth, good used of physics, more puzzle than action.

Only gripe would be it's bloody dark when the torch battery dies!

Tonnes of potential with this.

Pretty cool, but I think it's just a tech demo... Two levels or something...

if we only could have graphics like this... all nice and bumpmapped and shiny and plasticy... :)

anyways, it's interesting to see what others are doing... this is decent stuff...

btw... has anyone gotten out of the room yet... i opened all the locker doors, exploded the dynamite on everything... i'm sure the key is the locked locker door, but how do i open it??

thx for the link RDM... interesting...

--Mike

Yes, you need to enter the correct code in the keypad, which you can find by reading some notes that you pickup.

I tosted some moster but then I got to scared to play it any futher.

thx D... i searched far and wide for more stuff... tried to break the bottle... tried to open the boxes...

where are these additional notes hidden (i'm terrible at these puzzle things :) )

--Mike

in the lockers somware. I think you press tab to view them.

Also to pick stuff up on the ground I found that you have to crouch, which I must say is most annyoing*.

Edit:
for me the code was 1993 but It might change per play.

thx... looking now :)

--Mike

Looks nice, I wonder if they will release the engine?

this is the kinda stuff, visually, that i'd like to be doing in Blitz right now... either B3D or BMax... not just the Doom3 like , plasticly normalmapped effects, but also the shadows...

c'mon guys... PLEEEEASE give us something to work with...


--Mike

Well, I also d/led the Prey Demo (yeah, the demo's out). I compared the Prey Demo to Penumbra, and well, both are great, but Prey has a lot more interactivity...