Urban Terror is really a fantastic game: Fast, furious and lots of special move (there are even jump servers). There are more than 1000 servers on the net 24h/24. It’s a bit hard on the beginning (players on the net are good), but it’s rewarding to hold on.
(If you are interested, I made a fews videos there: http://sebsauvage.net/v/urbanterror.html )

Urban Terror has also departed from Quake 3 by using the ioQuake3, an improved opensource version of the original Quake 3 engine. Maps have been reworked to work without Quake3 assets (They are named ut4_*)

You should try Urban Terror, it’s great. I’m addicted.

given that high quality artwork probably isn’t going to be generated I think the best solution is in-game editors. the RTS games have really been pioneers in this, and those “mods” tend to be the most efficient to create. they just aren’t recognized as total conversions, even though they have the equivalent effect.

Capitalizing it just to distinguish it as a file extension seems, to me, as though it is completely missing the point. Focusing on the wrong thing.

How exactly do you “follow PC gaming”, Jayt ? By reading sites like RPS ? By talking with fellow gamers on Internet ? Here’s the deal : people who are going to take the time to speak up about video games are people who are more passionate about games than the average gamer. Then you get the really hardcore folks who will express themselves much more often and much more loudly than any other user, skewing any perception you might want to get from that even further.

Meanwhile, professional studies have shown many gamers (between 40 and 60%) don’t finish their games. If a good half of the gaming crowd don’t even bother to play a game they bought to the end, what makes you think so many people are going through the trouble of getting mods ?