2009 · First-person shooter · Shooter

Smokin' Guns

Smokin' Guns is a total conversion of Quake III made available as a stand-alone title. It is a multiplayer game with a western theme with the game modes duel, deathmatch, team deathmatch, round teamplay, and bank robbery where one team consists of outlaws trying to steal gold and another as lawmen preventing them from entering the bank.

Released: 2009
Platforms: Linux Windows
Genres: First-person shooter Shooter Western
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action
Engine: id Tech 3
Country: Germany

About

Smokin' Guns is a 2012 first-person shooter video game. It is intended to be a semi-realistic simulation of the American Old West's atmosphere. Gameplay as well as locations are inspired by Western movies, 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.

Keywords

total conversion

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Smokin' Guns is a semi-realistic simulation of The American Old West's atmosphere. The game is a total conversion which was developed on the Quake 3 engine. It includes weapons created with historically correct information about damage, rate of fire, reload time, etc. It includes 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 Quake 3:

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. 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.

Reception

Smokin' Guns and Western Quake 3 were mentioned in German internet gaming magazine Extreme-Players. Western Quake 3 beta 2.0 was awarded the Mod-of-the-Month Award by Mod DB. It has also received positive reviews from several other websites.