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I am unsure whether this title is "unscary" enough for her, but it is less bloody than the LOTR movies.

It is simply one of the best and most unusual adventure quest titles ever made. It has a solo campaign and multiplayer mode. You can also play the solo levels co-operatively online or on a LAN. Make sure you have the latest patch.

Most multiplay nowdays is on Myth II though, but Myth TFL has a much better solo storyline.

Loki released a great Bungie game for Linux http://www.lokigames.com/products/myth2/
Work is still going on for the game on OSX and Windows via http://projectmagma.net/downloads/myth2_171/
All the best with LGP, ports are great fun for any OS :)

If he likes Halo, try modding for Marathon, the older Bungie fps game. Or the Bungie Myth series.
Both have free tools and active communities.
The learning curve is interesting but fun can be had mapping and using textures in Marathon.
freenode IRC network, #alephone for Marathon, http://projectmagma.net/ for Myth.

Myth and Marathon, Bungie's two big series before they ever dreamed up Halo, are still around, and continually updated by their respective fan communities (in terms of engine, content, and server). Old-school Bungie ruled like that.

I blame Microsoft.

I really want to like RTS games, but was ruined by playing Myth II. Managing resources always feels like doing chores rather than engaging game play - the tactics side.

Now, if someone would come out with a Myth II mod for Halo, that would be perfect.

I miss it so.

You might like Blue & Grey, built on the Myth II engine. I'm not a Civil War buff, and never played the game you're talking about, but the engine I'm talking about has all your desiderata and the people who put together b&g weren't just kiddieing around.

god, i miss Myth so bad

Then go play Myth. You can still play it online, no serial number required anymore. It has even been updated.

I'm sorry, I just realized the link I gave in my last comment was bad. This link will take you to the recent forum post indicating the current status of Project Magma Myth 3 development.

I'm sorry, I just realized the link I gave in my last comment was bad. This link will take you to the recent forum post indicating the current status of Project Magma Myth 3 development.

I have seen enough fighting and division of the Myth community and would like it to stop. Yes Project Magma had planned for Myth 3 development (you can read about the current status of Project Magma Myth 3 development here. Although some Project Magma members are still very upset about what has happened in the past, they are moving on and continuing to listen to and meet the needs and the requests of those who like to play and modify the entire Myth series as they have in the past. Good luck to Flying Flip in all of their projects.

We're talking profanity in the forums like you wouldn't believe, petty sniping, inhibiting progress to stroke their egos...

Bungie had open-sourced their Myth II metaserver code after the demise of they Myth II bungie.net server. Blades set up his own metaserver, and then added mandatory encrypted networking to the Myth II program as an update along with shiny new features as bait. As soon as people upgraded, only his metaserver would work with Myth, so the competing one (which was not run by egotistical bastards, I might add) had to close.

In other words, he intentionally changed Myth II so it couldn't work with the server source that Bungie itself released. All to give his own server an advantage. Why? Well, he didn't make money from the server. I think he just wanted a bunch of prisoners to exert power over.

Eventually, Clem's and Blades' malfeasance got so bad that the publisher yanked their right to tinker with the code and gave it to another group of programmers, who have done excellent work and remained responsive and dedicated ever since.

I hope Blades and Clem do better work now and focus less on ruling the community with an iron fist, but I have my doubts. They are like a plague on the Myth community -- every time you think they're gone for good, they make another power grab. Clem has been around for 7 or 8 years now. They are the reason I stopped playing.

According to their website, they already have plans to make Myth III incompatible with versions not under their control. They're going to rebrand the game "Legions of Destiny" or something and prevent it from interfacing with tools or servers they don't own.

Sigh.

No real problems, except a) it's SDL 1.1 application, and modern dists (Debian Unstable) don't come with SDL 1.1 anymore so I need to use the static build, and b) bungie.net isn't anymore, and ProjectMagma doesn't have Linux builds yet (seems like they need to start over with Linux because they didn't get the Loki source code along with other M2 sources...).

So it works for single play, not really much success with multiplayer...

You completely left out the Myth series in your history of bungie! IMO Myth is easily the best RTS game I've ever played, focusing more on actual strategy using landforms and unit formations than resource gathering. Numerous mods and complete conversions have been released for Myth II and while Bungie no longer supports the game, popular fan run servers Play Myth and Marius Net still host mulitiplayer games, and Project Magma is still updating the game with bug fixes and enhancments in patches. Bungie actually forfeited the Myth franchise to Take2 during the Microsoft buy-out, much to the shagrin of us Myth fans, alas Myth III just doesn't have the same bite as the two previous titles. Don't forget this once great Bungie series in a history of the company!