Firearms (computer game)

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Firearms is a multiplayer mod of the popular first-person shooter (FPS) game Half-Life created by Valve Software. Initially developed in 1998, Firearms was created as a quasi-realistic team-based FPS. The mod's main feature is the large amount of playable weapons in the game. Objectives can vary from capturing strong points to destroying objects but the main objective in all maps is to reduce the number of the opponent team's lives to zero. The loss of lives on a team can be stifled by the effort of the team itself and the direct and indirect actions of medics on the team. Firearms was also the first FPS game to feature parachutes. The current, and apparently final build is Release Candidate (RC) 3.0 which was released on April 18, 2005. Under the leadership and programming of Eric Smith (Zerk) and Ben Irwin, Firearms was also included in the Counter-Strike retail package and was later awarded PC Gamer's Mod of the Year award and PC Gamer's Best Multiplayer Game of the Year Runner-up in the year 2000[1]. Firearms was at one time the #3 most popular mod based on the Half-life engine, after Counter-strike and Team Fortress Classic.[2] [3] There is one bot developed for this mod called Marine bot (current version 0.91).

A controversy about the follow up projects, successor mods and the name Firearms has started in summer 2005. Several members of the Firearms development team have moved onwards to produce the World at War and is no longer actively developing Firearms. Other teams including Firearms:Source and FireArms² are recreating FireArms for Half Life 2.

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[edit] Weapons in Firearms RC3.0

Hand gun

Submachine gun

Shotgun

Assault rifles

Sniper Rifles

Machine gun

Demolition

Map-object weapon

  • M2HB heavy machine gun
  • 155mm artillery

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.pcgamer.com
  2. ^ http://www.download.com/Half-Life-Firearms-mod/3000-2113_4-10291769.html cited as award-winning
  3. ^ For statistics, see Firearms mention on Half-life retail box

[edit] External links

[edit] Official

[edit] Unofficial

  • World at War A Half Life 2 modification by members of the original FireArms development team.
  • Firearms:Source A Half Life 2 modification with the FireArms concept.
  • FireArms² Another Half Life 2 modification with the FireArms concept.


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