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10. Nexuiz
There's a long backstory of crappiness to this that really sours my opinion of the game. Originally Nexuiz was a big free and open source shooter created by a dedicated community, but this one guy (who's honestly kind of a jerk) came along and offered one of the lead devs the opportunity to license it to create the game you've played. It wouldn't have been so bad but they took all of the concepts and totally undid all of the hard work put in by the community, saying they'd try to contribute back (and never did). It's not surprising that the release is kind of a mess because it was really a cash-in on a license that was making a name for itself among old school arena fans.

The good news is that the community revolted and made a fork of the original called Xonotic that's really quite good. The player base tends to be more European but last I played there were a lot of servers. I recommend at least giving it a shot since it's free and really pretty good.