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Today is a great day for iPhone gamers with the release of Cube on the App Store. Cube is a first person shooter for desktops, and now it’s been ported to the iPhone. The best news of all is that it drops at a very attractive price…free.

But, as you might suspect, it’s not perfect. This version of the game has frame rate, texture and memory issues. But, it’s still free.

Cube is actually a rather ambitious project. Porting an entire 3D desktop game is no trivial matter. Here are the details from the developer:

Cube is an open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game built on an entirely new and very unconventional engine. Cube is a landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine, which combines very high precision dynamic occlusion culling with a form of geometric mipmapping on the whole world for dynamic LOD for configurable fps & graphic detail on most machines. Uses OpenGL & SDL.

What’s crazy about the game is that all the features of the desktop version are present in the iPhone version.

Right now, it’s really more of a demo than anything else, but it’s worth a download. Jumping is a little awkward, but overall, the controls are surprisingly good. Sadly, the frame rate issues are enough to make the current version hard to play with for more than a few minutes. Also, multiplayer doesn’t yet work, but it’s definitely possible in future updates.

Speaking of updates, the developer is putting the final touches on version 1.2, which fixes a bunch of issues present in the current game. There’s even talk of Sauerbraten (Cube 2) being ported to the iPhone. Who’s excited?

Product [Cube (iTunes App Store)] Via [TouchArcade]