Smokin' Guns

Smokin' Guns
Developer(s) Smokin' Guns Productions and Iron Claw Interactive
Engine ioquake3
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, macOS, AmigaOS 4, Linux
Release date(s)
  • WW: 2012/06/08
Genre(s) First-person shooter
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Smokin' Guns (SG) is a first-person shooter video game. Smokin' Guns is intended to be a semi-realistic simulation of the American Old West's atmosphere and was developed on id Software's Quake III Arena Engine. Gameplay as well as locations are inspired by Western movies,[1] particularly those from the Spaghetti Western genre.

Smokin' Guns’s codebase is free and open source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is built upon ioquake3, an upgrade of the original Quake III engine. The artwork and other media are licensed under a proprietary non free license.

History and development

Smokin' Guns was originally developed by Iron Claw Interactive under the name Western Quake 3. From 2001 to 2003, Iron Claw Interactive released two versions (beta 1.0 and beta 2.0) as modifications respectively total conversions for Quake III Arena. Further development by Iron Claw Interactive stopped after the release of version beta 2.0 in 2003.

The development was continued by a new team in 2005 in cooperation and with the blessings of Iron Claw Interactive. The new team released two additional versions of Western Quake3 (beta 2.1 in 2005 and beta 2.2 in 2006). The new team, going under the name of Smokin' Guns Productions, released Smokin' Guns 1.0 as a standalone version based on the open-source Quake III engine in January 2009.[2] The name of the game was changed in order to avoid legal problems as well as to reflect the work of the new team since it took over development in 2005.

In June 2012 the 1.1 version was released .[3]

Gameplay

Smokin' Guns is a semi-realistic simulation of the "Old West's" atmosphere.[4] The game is a so-called total conversion which was developed on the Quake3 engine. It includes new weapons created with historically correct information about damage, rate of fire, reload time, etc. Moreover, it includes new gametypes and maps inspired mostly by movies as well as a custom soundtrack.

The game differs in many aspects from similar games which are based on Quake3:

Modes

The following game modes are included in the game:[6]

Reception

Smokin' Guns and Western Quake3 were mentioned in German internet gaming magazine Extreme-Players.[8] Western Quake3 beta 2.0 was awarded the Mod-of-the-Month Award by Mod DB.[9] It has also received positive reviews from several other websites.[10][11]

See also

References

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