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I have to say that the AI in Far Cry 2 is definitely one of the worst of current generation video games. I couldn't play that game for more than a couple days before getting utterly bored and frustrated at the idiotic AI.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, on the other hand, has some of the best AI I've seen AND its a multiplayer game. The bots' ability to attack and defend objectives while using infantry and vehicle skills against the random actions of human players is incredible.

This article is about a tech-demo based on the actual game, not the game itself.

But you mentioned demos, so if you want to try out the demo of the actual game, here it is:

http://community.enemyterritory.com/?q=node/225

Team-based objective multiplayer is tons o' fun.

Linux Games..

http://savage2.s2games.com/main.php
http://www.eve-online.com/
http://www.wesnoth.org/
http://www.flightgear.org/
http://www.freeciv.org/
http://www.sauerbraten.org/
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
http://wz2100.net/
http://www.cubeengine.com/
http://lincity-ng.berlios.de/
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/
http://www.wormux.org/
http://www.secretmaryo.org/
http://www.ufoai.net/
http://www.bzflag.org/
http://tremulous.net/
http://www.eternal-lands.com/
http://www.enemyterritory.com/

Perhaps you could stop with the "No games for Linux" BS already as you obviously have your head up your ass.

Lets not forget the Quake Wars community site.

http://community.enemyterritory.com/

I see that in the case ov your blog you took advantage ov Drupal's approach to theming and did as little customization of detailed component formatting as possible. Next time at least change teh favicon!!! :)

Most unfortunate.
Prepare for stroggification then.
Makron will not be pleased. As you will soon discover, when he eats you!

http://enemyterritory.com/

With a free demo and a terrific Linux support, being set in id's Quake universe, I'm surprised no one on /. has mentioned it yet.

Anyone looking for depth in multiplayer combat should check out the fantastic Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
Tons of options, development, and best of all no persistent unlockables.
Smart teamplay is the name of the game there.

Yes, it is arcady, and not a strategic shooter a-la Rainbow Six, but who wants to sneak around on silent footsteps for half an hour, just to be finished off by one bullet...
It is not a standard deathmatch, or capture the flag. It has many elements and different play modes, asymmetric but balanced teams, vehicles, deployables and absolutely beautiful maps.
It is not a clone of COD, BF, but a successor to Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, which was released for free by the same team that developed Quake Wars, set in the Quake universe, during the Strogg invasion of Earth (Pre- Quake II).

Check it out...Link.
And to boot, it has a free demo map you can download and get a taste of the action. But noobies beware, this can be an overwhelming game at first, and can take months to master even a single class on one side.

Also appears to be affecting some games as well. Users of the recent Enemy Territory: QuakeWars release are reporting similar connection reset issues. Some are on other cable ISPs, so maybe Comcast isn't alone in this practice?

id's latest game, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is ramping up in-game advertising. All the levels contain conspicuous billboards and posters that will dynamically update with banners. Currently, they display joke recruiting posters.

When the real ads appear, I plan to script global tells that will promote competitor's products. I've read talk that people will code proxies to filter the ads once they appear. Oh, it's published by Activision, not EA.

Seth

10 years of development and it's basically the same old 2fort4 maps with better graphics. Whoopeee...
Now QuakeWars is another story. That game rocks.

A few months ago (in April) they certainly intended to prepare a GNU/Linux version.

Exactly. Some of the best games are OpenGL. Like one game I've got on preorder for June: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Check out the in-game footage. The game looks to be one of the biggest online FPS games of the year. It's not missing anything by omitting DX10.

"If id wants to rake in the cash and not worry about piracy, they need to develop something revolutionary and (as others have mentioned) tie it in to online play."

It's called ET: Quake Wars: http://www.enemyterritory.com/

Friedmud

Don't forget that the up coming Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is aiming to have a Linux client port in the retail box, if they miss the deadline it will be available for download later.

It's not a very old game either, in fact it's not even out yet ;-)

Drop Team
X2:The Threat
Savage 2
Unreal Tournament 2007
Enemy Territory:Quake Wars

I bought BF2. Put it down after a bit for the same reasons others have listed in this discussion. I'm not gonna restate the problems with BF2. I'd rather ask you people this: What games are you looking forward to in 2006?

ET:QW is the only game on my radar for 2006 so far.

Basically, ET play mechanics (which I like) set in a sci-fi Quake universe. Humans vs Strogg.

So far what I think makes it stand out to me:

-Unlimited draw distance, no fog or pop-up

-Asymetrical, yet balanced factions. Meaning, both sides don't have the same (or incredibly similar) weapons. Humans tend to have machine guns and tanks and helos, while the Strogg will have a big-ass walker (heavy armor, heavy damage, but slow) and laser guns and shit. This could be cool, each side having distinct, unique gear, instead of carbon copy armies fighting with the same pallet-swapped eq.

-Not Sucking on Foot. I've read numerous times about how the devs are taking great care to make it so you can stil kick ass and succeed if you didn't get a vehicle.

-No Ranked Server BS

Links:
Typical id/Activision pre-launch site. Has trailer.
Dev's Site
Decent summary of tidbits

The same company that worked on that game is in the process of finishing up QuakeWars: Enemy Territory. It will not be free but the trailer of in-game footage looks very impressive.

I have a 19" Sony X-Black TFT, which is quite responsive, reasonably large display and has really vibrant colour reproduction, I prefer it to my 19" CRT as I can use it for long periods without feeling fatigued. This means I never play above 1280x1024 (and at 60 FPS, as I like to play in vsync with the display to prevent tearing, which on a TFT is enough FPS for anyone).

I am primarily concerned about image quality, which means Anti Aliasing (4x or higher), Anisotropic filtering (x8 or x16) and smoothing on edges of transparent textures. My AMD64 3500+ w/ dual DDR400 and 7800 GT 256 MB are not quite able to deliver high end quality at 1280x1024 in games like Battle Field 2, Half Life or Doom (close, and certainly 'good enough', but not with high end quality details - I still have to put up with slow frame rates or have blurry textures and jagged edges all over the place, which break the immersion in an 'uncanny valley' sort of way due to the otherwise very high quality environment).

TBH my CPU is the bottleneck at the moment (I'll probably get a dual core AMD64 4200+ which will resolve that, the 4800+ is just a bit _too_ expensive to justify), once I have sorted out the CPU bottleneck I'll have to add the other card to my free PCI-Express slot and only then, with both cards in SLI mode, will I get MUCH better image fidelity (and drastically reduce blurred textures, missing lines and remove all jaggies).

The quality, rather than FPS or resolution is all I care about, even on there own the best cards in the market can't quite cut it (like the 7800 TGX) with really high quality textures and smoothing on games that use the HL2 or Doom engines (even games using the Unreal engine like WoW or Lineage are pushing it with the quality options turned up in the driver control panel). There is a massive noticeable difference between the quality of say a game with 12 x FSAA and 16x Anisotropic Filtering than a game without (or even at lower settings), blurry textures and sharp edges are what I find the most distracting though.

I don't know how much this consciously applies to most people though, I suspect few people other than a few select gamers even really play with the advance settings in their driver control panels an understand just how much better they could make their games look if they knew the options existed (typically the in game settings in most titles are very limited and don't enable the really nice features that make all the difference to high end quality, they are more there to just allow people to change settings in a broad way - usually so they can easily downgrade the detail to play on older systems).

There are a few titles that will use some of the features (like Shader 3.0), but it's fair to question them. However it's a bit of a chicken and egg scenario there of course. I know I'm going to need an SLI setup to run something like Quake Wars Enemy Territory at something approaching this level of detail.

You might be on to something there. The article goes on to explain that among other nanosatellite's, one called the QuakeSat is being launched. Now, they disguise the fact that it's for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars http://www.enemyterritory.com/ by saying that it's for Earth Quake prediction. But smart people like us know that the satellite would have been called an EarthQuakePredictionSat if that were true! It must be some sort of new network for the game. Maybe Carmack has figured out a way to eliminate the cost to space that causes players lag by overloading space with nanosatellites?

Or, perhaps the Strogg are true and we're all participating in a recruitment program to eventually become an Army trained to fight the Strogg off?!

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars looks to me like the game I'll buy.

(warning: Flash site) W:ET and WoW are the only games I play online lately. And I'm only trying WoW out on a friends acct to see if its really all that.

I believe Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory runs natively on Linux. Enemy Territory Webstie. Then again I may be wrong =/