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The Best Linux Games of 2001? 379

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Apostata asks: "As more and more people migrate (or consider migrating) to Linux, I'd like to know what Slashdot readers would vote for as their top picks for Linux-friendly games (either native or commercially ported) for 2001."
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  • XBill!!! (Score:5, Funny)

    by PeeOnYou2 ( 539746 ) <.chokeondis. .at. .hotmail.com.> on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:07PM (#2738110) Homepage
    XBill for life! Who needs quake 3?

  • Only the best games ever! (Score:3, Informative)

    by digitalunity ( 19107 ) <digitalunityNO@SPAMyahoo.com> on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:07PM (#2738112) Homepage
    Quake3 and UT, all the way.

  • M-x tetris (Score:3, Troll)

    by zyqqh ( 137965 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:08PM (#2738116)
    Emacs, meta-x tetris. Doesn't get any better than this...

  • Alpha Centauri (Score:5, Informative)

    by Vicegrip ( 82853 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:08PM (#2738118) Journal
    This game is criminally responsible for the diversions of many many man hours that could have been spent learning useful aspects of Linux and directing them at gaming.

  • Emulator (Score:5, Insightful)

    by JollyTX ( 103289 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:10PM (#2738132)
    The only way to get decent "real" games at the moment is through emulators. Therefore I recommend Xmame + lots and lots of arcade games! Pang, Twin Cobra, Spy vs Spy.. ;)

    'Course, the KDE games are coming along nicely...

  • TuxRacer's always good... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by InterruptDescriptorT ( 531083 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:10PM (#2738133) Homepage
    TuxRacer [sf.net] is good on two fronts: they are Linux-friendly and they have an Open Source version (although it is older than the commercial one).

    If I may be slightly off-topic here, I'd like to see more people involved in creating Linux games. Unlike developing for a console, there are plenty of freely available docs and tools to make it happen. Take a look for example at plib [sf.net], a portable scene graph/geometry/network enabler/GUI/sound library intended for games. It's Open Source, GPLed, has a great, easy-to-understand C++ interface, and is overall a good thing. I've been using it for nearly six months, and I can't believe the ease with which I've been able to create a couple of little games. I'd love to see more Linux-based Open Source games based around plib.
    • Cosm (that's a working name; we have trademark issues) is a 3D graphical MMORPG being developed to be runnable on x86 Linux. The current version works fine on Linux (it's still in the middle of development). It's the only MMORPG in dev for Linux that I know of.

      We also run on Windows and will probably run on the Mac by release time.

      We're not open source (although two spin-offs, the autoupdater and armi projects on sourceforge, are), and we're not based around plib (Java+Java3D), but I saw an opportunity for a plug ;)

    • Re:It's all been downhill since (Score:5, Funny)

      by DJerman ( 12424 ) <djerman@pobox.com> on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:30PM (#2738266)
      Actually, it's been all downhill since Tux Racer

    • XSnow (Score:3, Informative)

      by booch ( 4157 )
      XSnow was much cooler than XEyes. (XSnow [euronet.nl] has snow falling in the background of the screen, and it piles up on the top ledge of windows and the bottom of the screen.) XPenguin isn't bad either.
    • Nah, Xroach is obviously king. Nothing like hearing coworkers scream when the move a window and a pile of nasty roaches skitter across teh screen looking for a new hiding place. Works best on slower machines though.
    • "X-Eyes", indeed. Big Brother was written for the NeWS window system, by Jeremy Huxtable, long before X-Windows supported arbitrarily shaped windows. Read "man xeyes" if you don't believe me. The original X-Windows rip-off missed the point by drawing two eyes in a rectangular window, instead of making round windows. Lame-o!

      -Don

      From: Jeremy Huxtable (jh@Ist.CO.UK) [google.com]
      Subject: Big brother
      Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
      Date: 1988-07-25 07:43:13 PST

      Try this out on your NeWS server.....

      %!
      % eye.ps
      %
      % Jeremy Huxtable
      %
      % "Big Brother" implementation in PostScript.

      % Create an Eyeball class from the Default window class.

      [...]

  • The classics are classic for a reason (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Syberghost ( 10557 ) <syberghost@@@syberghost...com> on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:11PM (#2738139)
    Gnomehack.
    • I prefer the QT version of Nethack. I use Gnome and QT Nethack is the only QT program I normally run, but it's interface has fewer quirks as compared to the TTY version (which has its own irritations). Gnomehack is a bit more tolerable once you change the background to plain back, and though the big tiles are pretty, I dislike not being able to see the whole screen.

      The Gtk+ that Slash'em has is pretty good, but I still like the QT interface better.

      On the subject of Slash'em, it's fun at first but it seems like they just threw in everything without considering the impact it would have on the game. Playing as a monk is like riding around the Dungeons of Doom in a wheat thresher, running over everything that dares to oppose you. Adding lots of extra special levels makes things a little more interesting, but eventually I got so powerful that everything became tedious, nothing was a threat to me and so the game just seemed to drag on.

  • Everquest... (Score:5, Funny)

    by angst7 ( 62954 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:11PM (#2738141) Homepage
    This is absolutley my favorite linux friendly game. It single handedly frustrated me to the point of never wanting to boot into Windoze again.

    :)
  • Called "Keeping Up With Patches."

    First you must begin by being wary enough to defend your installation: are there new patches or kernels available for LINUX?

    Then if you see a new update, you must go on to the difficult stage-- downloading, compiling, and installing the new kernel.

    In the higher levels things get intense as there are "must have" updates that patch serious security holes, and a time limit on the "Production System" level.

    If you lose at the lower levels (the training levels) you can just start over. If you lose on the higher levels, you die / get fired.

    Real fun game, lemme tell ya. The Open Source Mullet guy here drinks 12 cups of coffee a morning because it's so much fun.

  • Easy one (Score:5, Insightful)

    by jandrese ( 485 ) <kensama@vt.edu> on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:11PM (#2738148) Homepage Journal
    Kohan [lokigames.com] from Loki [lokigames.com] is easily the best game I have bought for the past 3 years. Loki's newsgroup [lokigames.com] is filled with some of the best people from around the world who set up games weekly (or more often) to play online. Kohan is very stable and tons of fun to play, and has easily soaked up more of my time than I really want to admit. Loki even ports the patches so the Linux players can play against the WinSlaves (although there have been a couple of issues with the "sync error" that are mostly cleared up these days).

    If you like RTSes, but hate all of the MM, or are just looking for something that isn't yet another Warcraft clone, then I highly recommend checking out Kohan.

  • Um, ok (Score:5, Informative)

    by Wind_Walker ( 83965 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:12PM (#2738150) Homepage Journal
    For Linux gaming, there's only one place to go: Linux Game Tome [happypenguin.org]. They have good features, good reviews, and an extensive list of the games available for Linux.

    As for the games that were ported over from Windows, Why not just go and check a place like Gamerankings.com [gamerankings.com] and see a good compilation of reviews? All you have to do is check on the games that have been ported to Linux [lokigames.com] and figure it out from there!

    For my money, though, Xbill is excellent :-)

  • from the tis-the-season form-making-lists dept. ? (Score:3, Funny)

    by daeley ( 126313 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:12PM (#2738152) Homepage
    from the tis-the-season form-making-lists dept.

    Aw, Christ. Bureaucracy takes over /. Do we really have to fill out a making-lists form?

  • How can you forget (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward

    gcc

  • Descent 3 (Score:5, Informative)

    by lessthan0 ( 176618 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:18PM (#2738183)
    I have purchased several Loki games over this year, but Descent 3 is the best! I am on my third run through (with higher difficulty). It is fast, the music is great, and the plot is fun. Nothing says FU like a black shark missile :)

  • XMAME! (Score:3, Informative)

    by frostgiant ( 243045 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:18PM (#2738187)
    Come on... With XMAME we get thousands of arcade games at our finger tips. What's better than that?

  • BZFlag (Score:2, Informative)

    by Bladerunner2037 ( 516233 )
    for non-commercial 'head to head' sh*t on your neighbor fun, I love BZFlag. As far as commercial games go, my first experience was Myth II: Soulblighter. I loved playing it on Winderz and the same applied on the Linux side. As to the new games that are out, haven't tried any of them yet, though Alpha Centauri looks interesting - being poor sucks.

  • I hate to say it, but... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by seebs ( 15766 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:20PM (#2738209) Homepage
    The only Unix-based games I play much are Angband and pysol. I play Civ III on Windows, because that's where the current patches will be, and I play a few things on MacOS.

    The games that have been ported (with a few exceptions) are almost all shooters - which I simply don't enjoy playing.

    I like RPG's and turn-based strategy, for the most part.

    The commercial offerings just haven't appealed to me much yet.
    • Another shameless plug...

      Come see us at www.cosmgame.com. We won't be available for a year or more yet, but I think we'll satisfy your inclinations...

      I'm an old Angband fan, too.

  • Kernel Panic (Score:3, Funny)

    by GutterBunny ( 153341 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:21PM (#2738214) Journal
    Seems like that's the game I play the most...

  • Moria/Angband (Score:3, Interesting)

    by W.B. Yeats ( 236617 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:22PM (#2738221) Homepage
    I've played Moria/Angband since iMoria on the University of Washington VAX in 1987. Moria and its variants are truly the greatest computer games ever invented.

  • Everyone knows the best game ever is: (Score:4, Funny)

    by Jamuraa ( 3055 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:23PM (#2738225) Homepage Journal
    Nethack.

    'Nuff said.

  • sokoban (Score:4, Funny)

    by ruszka ( 456169 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:24PM (#2738233)
    i got sucked into this damn game to the point where i was dreaming of gems and seeing outlines of gems on my carpets, walls, etc.. :\
  • ... how my parallel port is using the same IRQ as my sound card (for some reason). So the game is, I have to unload my parallel port modules, then reload the sound modules, and then (finially) reload my par port modules. Its really fun, and after going through a few lives and continues, I win everytime.

  • Creatures Linux (Score:4, Interesting)

    by StarTux ( 230379 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:28PM (#2738255) Journal
    Has finally arrived, and will begin shipping to destinations just after xmas.

    Get to play with digital DNA and see evolution at work all on your Linux box.

    check ds.creatures.net and also of course www.tuxgames.com

    There is no best one as each Linux game brings soemthing new to Linux, perhaps if enough of these games sell we might see more of each catagory or the same.

    Matt

  • Easy Uplink (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Dante333 ( 25148 )
    Very addicting...even the demo. Not much in the action department like some games, but still very fun. The only new thing I would like in it is network play.

  • Tribes2! (Score:4, Informative)

    by tjansen ( 2845 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:30PM (#2738263) Homepage
    Tribes2 is really bad for the Linux game market. I can't stop playing it and am simply not interrested in buying any other game since 6 months.

  • best == most enjoyment, for me (Score:5, Informative)

    by Ender Ryan ( 79406 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:31PM (#2738274) Journal
    Hmmm... that's a tough question. There's starting to be quite a number of games that are available for Linux, the ones I've played are...

    1. Unreal Tournament
    2. Quake 3 Arena
    3. Rune
    4. Heavy Metal FAKK2
    5. Soldier of Fortune
    6. Heavy Gear
    7. Postal Plus

    Out of those, the ones I enjoyed the most, in order of how much I enjoyed them...

    1. Unreal Tournament (good lan party fun!)
    2. Soldier of Fortune
    3. Rune / Q3A (can't decide)
    4. Heavy Metal (good, but a bit buggy and quirky)

    I'm really looking forward to RTCW, supposed to be out in January says the guy doing the port.

    After that there doesn't appear to be too much on the horizon, anyone know of any good games coming out for Linux?

  • Uplink... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by binner1 ( 516856 ) <bdwalton@@@gmail...com> on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:32PM (#2738277) Homepage
    Ok, I really love UT, but when I downloaded the demo for Uplink, my eyes were opened. So simple, yet so elegant. And the price...that's hard to beat.

    I highly recommend Uplink for anyone that is tired of the same old $#!+.

    -Ben
    • I'm with you. Downloaded the demo yesterday and placed my order an hour later. I haven't gotten full-screen to work with Redhat/KDE, so I've been playing the Windows version, but the game is - simply put - incredible. It's about time we saw some real inovation in the game market.
    • I agree, Uplink is the best Linux game released this year. Its also developed and sold by a garage shop group of guys. The game only costs $25, and it looks like it has and will continue to have a strong community following.

      Oh, and the game is freakishly addictive. I think that they would be crazy not to make an XBox and Playstation 2 port.
  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein seems pretty badass, and the Linux executables were available within a few days of the game release.

    Tribes 2 for Linux would be great if all the people playing the Windows version weren't watching their game crash all the time. Nothing like watching someone crash while running the flag.

  • Docking Station! (Score:2, Interesting)

    by vadim_t ( 324782 )
    It's a really nice game. And it even runs faster on Linux than in Windows!

    It's a very interesting Artificial Life game. Something like The Sims, but more oriented towards biology. It's written in its own interpreted language that you can see and modify (look in the Bootstrap folder). It's free (but not GPL'd) and you can get it here [creatures.net].

    Creatures and Creatures 2 can work under Wine, but they're pretty unstable. It's also possible to play Creatures 3 with this one because they share the engine.

  • Kohan (Score:2)

    by !Xabbu ( 1769 )
    I've just gotten into this game. I ordered it back when Loki was in bankruptsy and it got tucked under my newly purchased copy of Diablo II. After sorta getting bored of diablo (DAMMIT!, why are all the good weapons hard to find??) I've rediscovered it. And I remember now why I bought it! Wonderful graphics.. stable as hell.. my only beef... listening to "praise the kohan" or whatever every time I move someone.. chreeerist!
  • The game I have had the most fun with has to be Shogo:MAD.

    No, it did not have the most up to date engine.

    No, it was not the most original idea in the world.

    However, it was mad fun to play. The playability of the game was superb and the linux from whatever transfer was excellent.

    Kudos to Hyperion Software.

    ____________________________
  • There two great clones of classic
    games for that console:

    Mad Bomber, a Kaboom! clone

    and

    Circus Linux, a Circus Atari clone.

    Both are very good.

    Heffel

  • Duh! Nethack! (Score:2, Informative)

    by joshwitz ( 319038 )

    Isn't it obvious? Nethack is still the best game on Linux...



  • My favorite Linux game is seeing how long you can read the mkisofs manpage without developing stigmata wounds, bleeding from the eyes, or going insane.

  • The Sims/Mandrake Gaming!!! (Score:4, Interesting)

    by joestar ( 225875 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @01:46PM (#2738361) Homepage
    It's incredibly nice... (The Sims for Linux [mandrakesoft.com])
  • I realized the other night as I was playing Nethack 3.3.1 on Windows that I have been playing the same game (on and off) for almost ten years, never winning, never getting bored.

  • Can't Beat Descent 3 (Score:3, Informative)

    by Whip-hero ( 308110 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @02:10PM (#2738472) Homepage
    I don't know if it was actually published in 2001, but that's when I bought it. Descent 3 for Linux is an excellent port of the Windows version, and it even adds a few features that the Windows version doesn't have (like no-mouse-grab and rendering in a window). You just can't beat 6DoF in a first person shooter, as long as you don't get motion sickness too easily. :) Multiplayer is incredible too, with lots of multiplayer game modes.

    Then again, I always said that Linux itself was the ultimate video game- it's the only one that's kept me playing continuously for 6 years.

  • MindRover (Score:3, Informative)

    by Rob Seace ( 21193 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @02:21PM (#2738524) Homepage
    There are a bunch of good Linux games, but I think I have to go with MindRover being the absolute coolest, most original, most FUN game I've yet seen on Linux... (The all-time winner of that award in my book would be "The Incredible Machine", but unfortunately there's no Linux version of it or any of its sequels, yet...) If you like coding, you'll probably love MindRover... If you like BattleBots, you'll probably love MindRover... You basically build and program your own robotic vehicles to compete in a variety of missions... It's extremely cool... Check it out: The main site [mindrover.com], and Loki's product page [lokigames.com]...

  • BZFlag (Score:2, Interesting)

    by BiggyP ( 466507 )
    BZFlag is an incredibly fun Opensource MultiPlatform OpenGL tank shooter type thing, brilliant fun, and it even works on a 56K modem. well, almost.
  • Has anyone out there done a Linux port of Steve Shipway's Wanderer?

  • Maelstrom (Score:3, Funny)

    by Tofu ( 2355 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @02:33PM (#2738587) Homepage Journal
    Here is my list. Order is based on hours wasted.

    • Maelstrom
    • Tribes 2
    • fortune
    • ..


    .... but wait, I guess it is only tribes 2 because that is the only game that came out in 2001. Oh well. :)
  • Powermanga, if only they could make the game full screen and full speed at the same time. It's really not that hard.
    • I created 320x240, 400x300, and 512x384 modes for M.A.M.E. They are also useful for postage stamp games like Powermanga. Just Ctrl-Alt-+ until it's close enough to full screen for you. It's also good for some XMMS plugins.

      If you don't want to go through the pain of designing your own video mode then this page helps quite a bit.

      http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.p l

      If you're using XFree86 4.x then it also helps to know that it will look something like this when you're done:

      .
      .
      .
      Modeline "320x240@76d" 15.71 320 324 348 388 240 241 244 253 doublescan
      Modeline "400x300@75d" 24.17 400 408 448 504 300 302 306 316 doublescan
      Modeline "512x384@75d" 39.45 512 524 596 648 384 387 392 404 doublescan
      .
      .
      .
      Section "Screen"
      Identifier "screen1"
      Device "Matrox Millennium G400"
      Monitor "Display 1"
      DefaultColorDepth 16
      Subsection "Display"
      Depth 16
      Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "512x384@75d" "400x300@75d" "320x240@76d"
      ViewPort 0 0
      EndSubsection

      There ya go, hacky fullscreen of postage stamp displays. Enjoy.
  • I've recently fallen in love with "Return to Castle Wolfenstein". It is a great multiplayer games, and it uses the Quake3 engine.

    The only downside, is that they (id software) has not made a single player binary for it yet. But, who needs single player? When you can frag your best friend with a panzerfaust! ;)

    --Frank
  • If it needs anything more than curses to run, I ain't interested.

  • Freeciv! (Score:3, Informative)

    by jdavidb ( 449077 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @02:45PM (#2738642) Homepage Journal

    FreeCiv! [freeciv.org] Ever since I got RedHat 7.1 I've been an addict. Game is incredibly fun alone, even more fun online, and customizable to the extent that it's like having several games.

  • Top Linux Games - Freeciv, Kohan (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Naum ( 166466 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @02:45PM (#2738645) Homepage Journal

    Here is my list:

    1. Freeciv [freeciv.org] - the open source flavor of the epic strategy game. I purchased Civ3 when it came out, but TBHWY, it doesn't provide a compelling reason to reboot into Win-doze, and I still opt to play freeciv. Freeciv is much more customizable and plays quicker, allows multitasking, and was set up specifically for mulitplayer (even if I haven't ventured online to play much MP). I hope the freeciv team is entertaining notions of a Civ3 ruleset, or some variation ...
    2. Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns [kohan.net] - innovative, evolutionary RTS (real time strategy) game - instead of the "Age of Buildings", clickety-click nature of other RTS games in the genre, Kohan is the wargamer's RTS, with company-based battle, zone of supply, and zone of population constructs, and as opposed to the micromanagement of resource collection, resources are earned/spent on a per minute basis, and constructed companies have a maintenance cost. Plus you have magic wielding units that gain XP and cast some cool spells. Multiplayer with Windows gamers is possible (though with large maps you won't be able to view films after)
    3. Pysol [oberhumer.com] - the vastly superior Linux alternative to solitaire
    4. Sid Meier Alpha Centauri Planetary Pack [lokigames.com] - great game, but I have a big beef with the multiplayer support - you can only MP against other Linux users, unlike Kohan. So it gets downgraded to the bottom of the list for that reason.
  • In Emacs
  • What more do you need? I've wasted WAY too many hours with that thing!

    I've even beat the Expert mode in 2:44. Anyone done better?

  • /usr/games/fortune. Today I got these gems:

    At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
    -- The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
    and
    "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!"
    -- "Ma" Ferguson, Governor of Texas (circa 1920)
    I know, don't flame me, it's a Unix game from way back.
  • Rune, Kohan, and SimCity 3000 are a tie. They are all excellent examples of their respective genres, and the Loki ports are fast, stable, and are in no way inferior to the originals.

    Alpha Centauri I enjoyed, but in many ways it is just "more of the same" from Sid Meier. More of the same stuff that we love, of course :)

    MindRover looks really cool. I've had it sitting on my shelf for a while now, but my preliminary attempts at it found that it was hard to just jump right into the game. Sometime when I have a rainy day to kill reading the manual I plan to dive in...
  • OK, it's wasn't released this year and it's not Linux-specific. Yet, with a few hundread games to choose from, PySol is a real time waster -- filled with excellent card decks for the eyes (modern, old Europe, and old SE Asia) and a variety of games to while the hours away.
    1. http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/pysol

    Get the extra graphics so you can play some of the more unusual games. The theme music works well, so be sure to turn it on.

    As the name suggests, it has a high geek factor since it was entirely written in Python.

  • There are getting to be a lot of games for Linux. To me, though, there are very few games that I would truly call Linux games. That is, sure, you can get emulators and lots of versions of Tetris and Sokoban and lots of retro remakes of Asteroids and so on; and you can get some big titles that you can also get for other platforms, like Quake 3. But there's no much that really makes you think "Wow, now there is a gaming experience that I can only get under Linux." This is similar to the later years of many all-but-dead systems, like the Amiga, Atari ST, and Apple IIgs.

    Tux Racer is one of the few games that shines for Linux, even though there is also a Windows version. Too bad it's just one of several dozen "Franchise Racer" games, though. It's a good game, but it relies on the player never having seen Crash Team Racing or Diddy Kong Racing or other such games which make Tux Racer seem lackluster.

    Here's hoping for some original Linux games in 2002. The coding abilities are there, so the time is ripe for some good stuff.
  • Is a very good total conversion for unreal tournament. Check it out here [tactical-ops.to].

    My picks thus far:
    1) Unreal Tournament
    2) Tactical Ops
    3) Return to Castle Wolfenstein

    They really should release a playable demo for Tribes 2 linux...
  • Zork ROCKS! It's easy enough to get started, but it's really challenging and fun. I think it's one of the most fun multiplayer games out for ANY platform. The graphics require a little imagination, though...
  • I was out shopping for the future inlaws Christmas gift this weekend, in the casino games section at Best Buy. We were looking at several different slots games, and my eyes kind of got wide when I saw the banner on the corner of the box; Windows and Linux.

    I took home two copies; one for them and one for me (I like to play video poker, lol). It's not blow your doors awesome like Wolfenstein, but at 19.95 they've put out a VERY realistic slot machine game. Rated pretty highly by Casino Player Magazine, too.

  • My Personal List... (Score:5, Informative)

    by CrusadeR ( 555 ) on Friday December 21, 2001 @04:27PM (#2739112) Homepage
    I'm pretty sure all of the above titles received A-category reviews across the board, so out of those four you should be able to find one you at least like.

    Another note: Linux Game Publishing [linuxgamepublishing.com] is shipping a port of Creatures Internet Edition [creatures.net] which should reach resellers [linuxgamepublishing.com] after Xmas.

  • I can't see why everyone else doesn't also response 'Tribes 2'. This is THE most impressive thing I have seen running on my Linux box, apart from maybe VMWare, but that's no game...
    Tribes 2 has incredibly graphics, the game runs BETTER under Linux than Windows on my 500Mhz Athlon / 64MB DDR Radeon / 384MB. And it is totally immersive. If I just had ping times of less than 500ms everything would be sweet!
  • My favorite game is /usr/bin/gcc.

    (I would say /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, but I've only been playing it for a few years, so I'm still a beginner...)
  • Linux itself. Remember that article about it a few days ago? I don't want to get the link but something about how Linux is like a big "massively multiplayer game with lots of enthusiasts." Something like that anyway.
  • For FPS gameplay, UT r00x. It's quirky to set-up though, and seems to leak memory (There's no reason a machine with 256MB, and little else running should swap when running this game!)

    I hope the singleplayer Wolfenstein comes out for linux soon. I'm not buying it until it does!

    Other than that, the OS itself is a beautiful game! My favorite 'game' is windowmaker, rox-filer, and useful little perl and sh scripts to tie it all together!

  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein!
  • wine /c/windows/sol.exe
  • Definitely not Global Thermonuclear War. It's really a lose-lose game. In fact, I'd say the only way to win is not to play at all.
  • Does anyone know of an instruction site that tells (in depth) how to get Half-Life, CS, and the like working in linux? The configuration and compilation process of WINE (or is it best to use WineX? what's the difference? etc), proper X config, and the like, is all quite complex and involved, and more than even I feel is timeworthy for a game. I've seen one or two 'howtos' that are poorly written, but nothing that takes the topic from the ground up using the latest software versions (wine, X, etc) into consideration.

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