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Ace of Spades is a free, online, multiplayer [[First-Person Shooter]].
To sum it up simply, it's what you might get if you were to cross [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'s [[Capture the Flag]] mode (using a briefcase as the intel) and color coded teams with [[Minecraft]]'s building blocks and boxy character models. It has a small, but dedicated, userbase.
 
By default, the game takes place on a large, randomly generated map with hills on Blue Team's side (west), and rivers on Green Team's side (east). You play as a member of one of these teams, with the choice of weapons between a rifle, a sub-machine gun or (as of v0.58) a shotgun. You other equipment consists of a spade (for removing and acquiring blocks), 50 blocks (for building), and three grenades. The point of the game is to capture the enemy's intelligence a certain number of times. You may change the color of the blocks you place by using the arrow keys to look through the pallet, or by right-clicking something else to sample it's color. A popular strategy is to build a foxhole in the side of a hill, using the same color blocks as the hill, and sniping in there with a rifle.
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* [[Floating Platforms]]: Generally averted, if you remove all the blocks under another, it will fall to the ground and vanish, but occasionally a glitch will leave a few in place.
** However, if a structure spawns floating at the beginning of the map, it stays floating.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: To [[Minecraft]] and (arguably) [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]
* [[Gaming Clan]]: Quite prominent. There are Major League Gamers, [[Dwarf Fortress|Bay 12ers]], and *Color* Veterans.
** Oh, and special mention must go to the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|bronies,]] one of the few clans to run their own server. Several clan members have named themselves after the "mane six" and naintain [[Kayfabe]], and there's a word-substitution script that forces you to ''talk'' like a brony. It's still one of the better servers.
* [[Game Mod]]: Mods can range from skins that revise weapons or iron sights, or make your character look like a [[Space Marine]] wielding a crossbow.
* [[Green Hill Zone]]: One of the default maps in the original version.
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* [[Stealth Expert]]: You need to be this if you want to even see the enemy intel.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: Grenades
* [[Taking You Withwith Me]]: Some players opt to save their grenades for hopeless situations, when they'll toss them just before falling dead in hopes of killing their killer. Sometimes it works.
* [[Unbreakable Weapons]]
* [[Unusual User Interface]]: There's no ingame server browser, and in fact you don't load the game from the Start menu at all. Once the game is installed, players have to select a server from a list on the game's website, or type the aos:// address into their browser.
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* [[War Is Hell]]: A common saying among the playerbase.
* [[Wartime Cartoon]]: A few of them exist for the game, as well as propaganda for the two teams.
* [[X Meets Y]]: [[Minecraft]] meets [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]] meets [[World War One]], [[World War II]], and depending on the map, the Falkland Islands war.
* [[Zerg Rush]]: Less experienced players often default to this. [[Reality Ensues|It seldom goes well.]]
 
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