Cube 2: Sauerbraten

Cube 2: Sauerbraten (German for “sour roast”, also known as Sauer) is a cross-platform, Quake-like, first-person shooter computer game that runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X using OpenGL and SDL. The game features single-player and multiplayer game play and contains an in-game level editor, its main feature. The game engine is free and open source software, under the Zlib License, with commercial support available from the developer's own business counterpart, Dot3 Labs.

The game started as a redesign to the original Cube Engine, and its first release was made on May 6, 2004. The game gets updated quite regularly.

Technology

Cube 2: Sauerbraten was made out of the game Cube, but is much more advanced and a player can create new levels. Cube 2: Sauerbraten was not made to look very good, but to allow easy map making within the game without making a big download. Cube 2 Sauerbraten CTF Edition is less than 350 megabytes.  The game Crysis is around 3,000 megabytes.

 Map editing 

Maps are made out of cubes, which can be made longer or shorter and can be reshaped. These cubes can be mapped out easily, using the in-game editor. This means that both map-makers and players can make very big, detailed maps very quickly. This is not like other games such as Quake, where you need a lot of effort and bugfixing work to even get the map to work.

This simplicity in editing has resulted in a lot of maps released by players and developers. They are available on the Quadropolis forums.

 Gameplay 

The game has singleplayer and multiplayer modes. Multiplayer can be with LAN and Internet connection. Online game types are deathmatch, last man standing,"Capture" (where teams fight for control of parts on the map), Quake-style Capture the Flag, also instant-shot games (Instagib, Insta-clan-arena, insta-capture) as well as online multiplayer map editing, which is one of Sauerbraten's most interesting and popular features. In single player modes the computer controls monsters against you.

 Media 

The game has been shown in a Burger King television commercial, it received four out of five stars in a MacWorld UK review, and the game was mentioned in Issue 3 of Games for Windows: The Official Magazine (as well as their 101 Free Games Article), where it was described as being "perfect for both stingy and creative gamers alike".

The CTF edition was given a long review by Phoronix, a website focused on Linux and software reviews, as well as Linux.com, a website providing news related to free and open source software.

 References 

 Other websites 

 Official Sauerbraten site
 Sauerbraten project at SourceForge.net
 Community Cube/Sauerbraten mapping and modding site 
 Tool to monitor servers for cube-based games

Category:2004 video games
Category:First-person shooters
Category:Linux games
Category:MacOS games
Category:Multiplayer and single-player video games
Category:Multiplayer online games
Category:Windows games