Suppose a mad scientist crossed a smurf, Superman, the Quake engine and lots of colorful weaponry. What would he come up with? Not much, surely. Suppose, now, a talented -mainly German- modding team got the same ingredients, updated to the Quake III: Arena engine and added a splash of humor. What would they come up with? But, The World of Padman of course, a brilliant freeware FPS.The game, a hefty 550MB download, is a hectic shooter set in cartoony world, that utilizes the now open-source Q3 engine and features 3 distinct game modes, a dozen or so maps and some genuinely bizarre weapons and power-ups. Get it right here and, while you're at it, do have a stroll around the official WoP site. Oh, and just to make sure, know that this is a standalone game, not a mod. There's is no need to have anything Quake III related installed. What's more the game runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
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clever clever germans... are smurfs related to gnomes?
ReplyDeleteWow...looks like a nice game LAN parties. LOL.
ReplyDeleteand yeah, its good to be back. Sorry for the drag cos there was too many things happening
So does this have a single player mode?
ReplyDeleteOr is it just multiplayer?
Or does it have a half-assed single player mode like Quake 3?
Smurfs... Germans.. Gnomes... OUCH!
ReplyDeleteMy head hurts...
Smurfs? Noooo. Definitely not, Mr' Elderly. They are Belgian. Well, ok. Just a little.
ReplyDeleteWell, slackogamer, welcome bakc again mate.
Caleb, there is a singl player mode of sorts, but it's against (very good) bots. Guess more like the half-assed Q3 thing...
'ere, have an Aspirin dear Father. Ever met a germanic smurf?
why are smurfs blue?
ReplyDeleteUhmmm, why not? Blue is fine...
ReplyDelete(considers gnomes rationale....)
ReplyDeleteyep your right blue is fine, no need to wonder.. blue is as good a colour as any other...
..im glad I met you, life is much less complicated...
tea?
Iced tea. Think I'll start teaching my brilliant philosophy for a fee...
ReplyDeleteiced tea and then we can discuss.... fee?.... any discount for pensioners?
ReplyDeleteOf course. For children under 12 too. Only 18-19 year old girls are tought for free.
ReplyDeleteThanks for bringing me my new addiction :) Well, one of them. But this game certainly is fun enough to warrant playing it more than once.
ReplyDeleteAnd the promise of a single-player mode is really nice too. Even without it's awesome, adding that on top would just be icing on the cake :)
The main issue one could think of would be weapon balance - the railgun and the balloon gun seem underpowered at first. But once you meet a master of balloons, you never doubt their power again.
Haslo, I'm really glad someone really got into this one. A very polished FPS indeed. And I'll take your word on the balance issues.
ReplyDeleteCheers!