Shooting for nothing: A look at current and future free-to-play FPS games

Posted Dec 9th 2008 7:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Features, FPS, Multiplayer

If you are like most of us, the economy's quick drop this fall may have left you with a lack of cash to pay for that new copy of Left 4 Dead or Far Cry 2. However if you want to play a first person shooter game for free and don't feel like paying for it there are actually quite a number of free-to-play titles out there that you can download and play right now.

Big Download has noticed a growing trend of first person shooter titles that are already out there, in beta testing or coming up in the near future that you can just download and play. Some of these games do have or will have premium fees or micro-transactions to get more content but all of them can be enjoyed for free without the need to pay a cent. We decided to do a quick round-up of just a few of the current and upcoming free-to-play FPS titles. And remember, the best things in life are free..or so we have been told.

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I played Combat Arms not long ago and found it to be pretty enjoyable. I think I remember playing War Rock and it was a bit clunky. I know there was one other that I tried. It's not on the list, but I can't recall the name. I remember jet packs of some kind.Posted at 7:52PM on Dec 9th 2008 by Sokkratez

What about Urban Terror? It's free, actually available as opposed to sometime next year, and has lower system requirements than most of the ones on the list. It's also quite fun.Posted at 10:45PM on Dec 9th 2008 by Covarr

I could understand if this was ignoring older titles, but when you put made for lowest common denominator crap like Wolfenstein Enemy Territory on here, and ignore one of the most influential and now FREE FPS's ever made, Starsiege Tribes, then I must take you to task on this! Shame on you... Shame on you. Posted at 3:13AM on Dec 10th 2008 by Otimus

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