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Medal of Honor for Linux Released 65

Posted by CowboyNeal from the get-your-war-on dept.
victorvdl writes "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, the World War II-themed FPS originally developed by 2015 Inc. is now available for Linux and is shipping right now from Tux Games. The incredible Ryan Gordon aka icculus did the porting. It's nice to see more Linux games being shipped - I'm definitely buying this one."
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Medal of Honor for Linux Released

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  • I can't see this selling well (Score:3, Insightful)

    by steve.m ( 80410 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @04:55AM (#9333030) Journal
    I would have thought most people who want to play this game would have bought the Windows version.

    How many die hard Linux users are there who wait until games are ported to Linux before buying them?

    • Re:I can't see this selling well (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Dave2 Wickham ( 600202 ) * on Friday June 04, 2004 @04:58AM (#9333038) Journal
      Surely die hard Linux users wouldn't buy the Windows version because they don't have Windows?

      Anyway, I've just got round to ordering it. So that's at least one ;)

      • Re:I can't see this selling well (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Domini ( 103836 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @06:17AM (#9333218) Journal
        Seriously though, how many people will still play this game with you? It's based on old technology and even though it may still be fun single-player, the multi-player market is dead. Thus you will only get half the intended fun out of it.

        Don't shoot me down, I'm in the same boat really. I have 2 copies of Quake 3 (I bought the windows version, and later bought the Linux collectors edition anyway just to support them... even though I did not even need to)

        As for NWN... I just bought my second copy for OS X (I would prefer playing it on OS X), but all my friends have moved onto other games already, so it's a bit lonely now... :(

        It's a different matter if the games get released even just a week after the windows version... I would buy the Linux and OS X versions out of principle.

        But 6 months!!! You MUST be kidding... it's not worth-while. (Advice I should follow too...) ;)
        • Actually, the MoH multiplayer community is pretty alive and kicking considering the game has been out 28 months.

        • Not true (Score:4, Insightful)

          by rRaminrodt ( 250095 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @09:17AM (#9333870) Homepage Journal
          When I first saw the headline, I mentioned to my boss that MoH was finally out for linux. He told me that I should get it as soon as I can. That's one person who still wants to play it with other people.

          Then he mentioned that he played it _last night_ online. And that he has no trouble finding people to play against. And that there are plenty of servers.

          Maybe the unwashed horde has moved on to other games, but it seems like there's still a thriving community here.

          Besides, anytime's a good time to buy, when you're buying something that's worth it to you. Who cares what the other guy is doing, you're not him.
        • But 6 months!!! You MUST be kidding... it's not worth-while. (Advice I should follow too...) ;)
          Ya, an nobody is playing Counter-Strike anymore either...
          • Counterstrike is used as example of so many things it's sick- and tired.

            In my opinion, the reason for Counterstrike's continued success, is that it was one of the first popular on-line tactical shooters, and a lot of the players never moved on to anything else. *

            It's just like walking into an arcade with a bunch of 'old people'** and they all say 'oohh, Pac Man!'.

            Guys! Give it up! Move on! There is better stuff out there!

            But even worse, a lot of these Counterstrike players have machines that won't r
            • Counterstrike is used as an example because it is true. The game (Half-Life mod) came out almost 5 years ago and is still the #1 played online game. It's not about the graphics or eye-candy, it's about gameplay.

              Same with Pac-Man, it's a fun game. Just the other day I was in one of those arcades with my 6 year-old daughter, I was playing Pinball (these things are rare and are still the most fun!) and what was my daughter playing?
              Pac-Man
              I personally have also moved from the CounterStrike thing and like the m

        • the multi-player market is dead

          No it isn't. The MoHAA multiplayer market is still very much alive. There are many active servers and there are regularily more players for MoHAA on Gamespy than many of the newer release FPS titles.

          I agree that if you release this long after the Windows release then you aren't going to get nearly as many buyers, but playing online would be one reason to buy it.

        • Seriously though, how many people will still play this game with you? It's based on old technology and even though it may still be fun single-player, the multi-player market is dead. Thus you will only get half the intended fun out of it.

          That statement is the fundamental reason why the Linux gaming community has never really happened. Quite frankly, very few people want to play 3 year old FPS ports to an inferior graphics API. There's just simply not a large market for it. Not from a commercial standpo

    • me for one.
    • Imagine if they did this with Halo.

      Game comes out on Xbox in 2000.
      Game comes out on PC in 2003.
      Game comes out on Linux in 2006.

      I don't play a whole lot of video games, but I keep a high-end windows box around just for them. I really don't want to be the last guy on earth to get to play a cool game just because most aren't put out for Linux at the same time (except for UT2K4 and a few others!).

      If it weren't for the games, I'd finally rid myself of Windows entirely and I'm sure many others feel the same.
    • I guess no game ported from Windows months/years after the original release will sell well. I would gladly be proven wrong. But anyway I don't think that's the point in this business. Yet.

      TuxGames and Linux Game Publishing are (hopefully) making slow but steady progress. The problem the way I see it is that there really hasn't happened anything significant to attract more (commercial) game developers to Linux. On the other hand Linux distributions are just beginning to standardize thanks to LSB. Guess ther
  • I remember this game missed the christmas 2001 release date and came out in february 2002. I doubt this is what Linux needs, more quake 3 based games.
    After all, games were held back between 1999 and 2002 because of all the quake 3 based games. Only recently have companies released games that were a real step forward graphically, like NOLF2, Far Cry, UT2003/2004, etc.
    • Personally, I think MOH:AA is a piece of shit. Someone gave me the windows version, so I played through it. Of course, it's pretty much non-stop mindless action (kill soldier, retrieve ammunition, get healthpack, repeat).

      1) No replay value. At all. Quake had replay value because it had secrets, and went so fast you could complete an entire episode in fifteen minutes, and it had that nice "shooting-shooting" game feel to it. AA moves slow enough to be a "thinking-shooting" game, but there is hardly enough s
  • Anybody knows if theire is a market for linux games?
    How much are they selling?
    • Anybody knows if theire is a market for linux games?

      You bet! Loki [lokigames.com] is just raking in the cash!

  • More games! (Score:4, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 04, 2004 @06:02AM (#9333183)
    There are over 100 games on this list of Linux games [wikipedia.org]. Since this is Wikipedia, You can click the "edit" tab and add even more! You know you want too.

    Stop making up excuses, Linux has the games, the question is, will you play them? My machine is 100% linux, I have all the games I want! Saying "Linux has a lack of games" is NOT and excuse anymore for not using Linux!

    Lets not forget WineX [www.transgaming], the tool that lets you play Windows games in Linux! So no more dual booting, delete that partition, TODAY!

    • Re:More games! (Score:1, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Just a pity that the list in question is so dismal. Looking at the list, I can see only one of the PC games I've been playing in the last 6 months, namely UT2k4. No Farcry, no Temple of Elemental Evil, no Final Fantasy XI, no Deus Ex 2, no Silent Hill 3, no Homeworld 2. Before you ask, I seriously doubt I could play any of these games under WineX anything like as well as I do at the moment.

      Oh well, at least I could play kjumpingcube. Whatever the hell that is.

      Saying that "Linux has a lack of games" is not

    • There's something seriously wrong with WineX. I've been playing Civilization III on it (which is now officially supported) and the sound effects and music get stuck like a scratched CD. I hear the same half-second over and over until I shut off all sounds. Of course, that doesn't actually get rid of all the sound; a few random sound effects still get through (might be a bug in the game, though).

      Of course, that's just a minor annoyance I can put up with. The real problem is performance. I know everyone says

      • [begin rant] I got that game for windows shortly (a few months) after it came out and it was very buggy, make sure it is all patched up, but yah it is most likely a WineX problem, or possibly a MS problem where Infogrames used hacks to make it work in the first place-wouldn't suprise me based on the way the game first looked. [escalate rant] My biggest complaint is that they really needed to use some other data structures for things, it was barely playable (on bigger maps) at/near the minimum specs-450MHz C
    • Uh. This list is pretty questionable. Isn't Aleph One just a game engine used to play Marathon level files? It doesn't ship with the level files, so it can hardly be called a 'video game.'... it's just the engine.

      "Anagramarama?" That'll pull in the crowds.

      For some reason, Return To Castle Wolfenstein is listed while the stand-alone expansion Enemy Territory is not. Both are stand-alone games, right? Why one and not the other?

      "Troubles (or Tales) of Middle Earth"... they don't know the name of their
    • There, since everyone was complaining, I created a list of commercial Linux games [wikipedia.org].

      Enjoy.
  • Is the game any good. Always nice to hear of another game for Linux... Tired of playing Heroes3 all the time.
    • Yes. It's great. I've played on Windows... and the mission where you're in a landing craft on D-Day scared the heck out of me. It was like watching Saving Private Ryan the first time; and the game shows great respect for the sacrifices those guys made on that beach.

  • Great, but too late. (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Domini ( 103836 )
    All my buddies have already had the MOH PvP LAN frenzies, and now have moved onto something else... if only this was about 5 months sooner... then I may still have had some fun off it.

    But now it's a classic normal game at a special-edition price. It should be $5 in shops by now for win32.

    My, my... it seems to be expensive being a Linux gamer... not to mention late.

    If games were released MUCH sooner for Linux/OS X I would buy those out of principle! But this has been released MUCH too late.
    Still a bit of
    • if only this was about 5 months sooner... then I may still have had some fun off it.

      You know, the two games that I've been playing most at the moment are Homeworld (on a Windows box, and yes, I know that there's a Linux port), which was released five years ago and bzflag, which was originally released about twelve years ago.

      My, my... it seems to be expensive being a Linux gamer... not to mention late.

      Perhaps we'll fund this "expensive" habit with some of the hundreds or thousands of dollars we saved b
      • I really do buy a lot of games. I still play Quake (having become rather good at it if I might add)... I've got the original Linux version (that comes with Suse) as well as the windows version. (My original windows version got stolen and I bought it again.

        The problem is that these Linux games only get released in the U.S. Whereas all the other games are adapted for local currencies, I have to pay the exorbitant prices in US$ to get the Linux version.

        To do a bit of math... Amazon.com lists the win32 versio
        • Sounds like someone either has a short attention span when it comes to entertainment...or has had WAY too much coffee today!!

          You complain about spending too much money on Linux games now, when you admit to buying 30 games in the last year... 30 x $40 = $1,200
          You spent over a grand on games you probably don't play more then a couple weeks, and you say that Linux gaming is too expensive?

          Please say you bought budget games at $10 each...

    • Well, I have to add that I just recently got Neverwinter Nights like 2 months ago off Ebay, finished the original campaign, bought the regular Hordes of the Underdark, which is quite new (even on Windows), and started playing multiplayer just a week ago. And I plan on staying with this game for a while (at least until Guild Wars is out).

      Why? Because right now, there are (basically) only mature gamers around, and that is quite fun for me. Last night, some asked me how old I was, I replied with "27" and was

      • I've already bought NWN for PC, and have just ordered the Mac version as welll...

        My 3 top games:

        1. Quake3 (+Team Arena)
        2. Warcraft 3 (+ expansions)
        3. NWN (+ both expansions)

        I own 2 win32 (1 of which came with Mac binaries)copies and 1 Linux special edition of Quake3, Warcraft 3 works on my mac and win32 and I bought all the windows versions of NWN as well as a Mac version now.

        Insofar gaming age goes, I'll be 32 this Sunday, and can kick Anarki's butt on Nightmare usually 40 to -5, and beat Normal diffic

  • Sorry guys Lpong doesnt count (Score:3, Insightful)

    by voss ( 52565 ) on Friday June 04, 2004 @08:37AM (#9333618)
    Anything with
    K, L, Tux, or X used generically in the title
    doesnt really count for linux anymore than solitaire or minesweeeper counts for windows.

    Do you want to know when Linux games will finally
    breakout...its when

    A) 3d Video and sound works as reliably on Linux as it does on Mac or Windows
    b) When the installation process for installing a linux game involves sticking in a cd and clicking I-agree-next--typical install-next-next-finished
    c) When Linux has a unified installation interface for programs regardless of extension.

    • Insightful post my ASS
      Time to feed the Trolls

      Here's a small list of games that are available for Linux [icculus.org]
      Take not that these do not include the L, G or K games that are usually bundled with a desktop manager

      Once you have played every game on that list, come back and then say that Linux games suck...until then, keep your head buried up your ass or you may see the sun sometime
    • Why wouldn't solitaire or minesweeper count? They may not have amazing whiz bang graphics but they're fun and most people enjoy them regardless of gaming background.
  • ...how difficult would it be for a company to put all of their time and effort into creating a serious all-out kick ass game for a Linux platform? Now, I understand that developer's today are usually under the publishing thumb of companies who's #1 concern is market-share, so as long as Windows is the dominant platform for the common PC gamer, we aren't going to see EA or Blizzard release a Linux-only game anytime soon.

    However, seeing that Medal of Honor has been out for years now, and is most likely rea
    • Now, I understand that developer's today are usually under the publishing thumb of companies who's #1 concern is market-share, so as long as Windows is the dominant platform for the common PC gamer, we aren't going to see EA or Blizzard release a Linux-only game anytime soon.

      You do not understand the industry. The industry does not care about OS market share. The industry cares about return on investment and profits. If Linux was a lucrative market developers would be there. Even premier Linux developers

  • $45?!? (Score:2, Funny)

    by Holesome ( 101627 )
    Hmm, $45 for the linux version or $15 [amazon.com] for the windows version... Maybe back in Soviet Russia but it ain't gonna fly today.
  • I purchased MOHAA back in Jan *because* of the Linux client beta. Is the production client available *ANYWHERE* other than TuxGames??? All I see on icculus.org is the old beta 2 [icculus.org].

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