Topic: Revenge Of The Cats: Ethernet an independent experimental multiplayer FPS game

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Revenge Of The Cats: Ethernet is an independent experimental multiplayer FPS game.

Software Santa thanks ghostshell at gameboom for posting this game! A tip of Software Santa's Santa Cap to him!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h6hIaibTYU0

About

Revenge Of The Cats: Ethernet wants to be a fast-paced, teamwork-oriented, non-stop-action multiplayer PC FPS game that allows players to achieve a high degree of mastery.

Its main influences are Subspace/Continuum, Starsiege: Tribes and Tron.
Gameplay

Gameplay can differ quite substantially from arena to arena, but for now, the only arena type that is really being played is the eponymous Revenge Of The Cats: Ethernet type.

Revenge Of The Cats: Ethernet Arenas

ROTC: Ethernet arenas are divided into rectangular zones and two teams fight over control of these zones.

Players can switch at will between two different forms: The flying, indestructible "Etherform" and a humanoid, weapon-wielding physical manifestation called a "CAT".

Players start out in Etherform and need to find a zone owned by their team in order to manifest as a CAT. As CAT, players take zones for their team simply by being inside the zone while no enemy CAT is also present in the zone. The zone then turns red or blue, depending on which team captured it. If CATs of both teams are present, the zone remains white.

The game is won if the opposing team has lost all their zones.

Things that are fairly unique about the gameplay:

    Players can't "die". If a player loses all his health, he is simply forced back into Etherform.
    Dealing damage to enemies increases/restores a player's health.
    Players can fire and deflect target-seeking discs that bear an eerie resemblance to the discs in the movie TRON
    All weapons draw from the player's regenerating armor, which means that firing your weapons makes you more vulnerable to damage.
    Players can ride their "Etherboard" to trade agility for speed.

License

Revenge Of The Cats: Ethernet is licensed under the pretty restrictive Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. However, all game content (scripts, textures, etc) is made available under the permissive Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

http://ethernet.wasted.ch/