# Open Arena is the free version of Quake 3

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [March 2, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-arena-is-the-free-version-of-quake-3/487976 "2009-03-02T06:16:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hank\_Beecher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hank_beecher/32/7275_2.png) [@Hank\_Beecher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hank_Beecher)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/open-arena-is-the-free-version-of-quake-3/487976/1 "2009-03-02T06:16:00Z")

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[http://www.openarena.ws/](http://www.openarena.ws/)

Open arena is the open source incarnation of Quake 3. A simple FPS with deathmatch and capture the flag modes. The engine is something like ten years old so it will run on pretty much anything with a graphics card, yet it still looks pretty good at higher settings. Best of all it is free so you can recruit all you friends and/or enemies for a bout of fragging at no cost other than broadband.