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Rune for Linux Review

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the games-people-play dept.

Woody Hughes sent a review of Rune for Linux thats running over at Reactive Linux. Rune is based on an enhanced version of the Unreal engine which has been ported to Linux by Loki. It features a 3rd person perspective and the ability to make other polygons dead.

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  1. Games I'd like to see on Linux by Hunts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I dont genreally play alot of games on my linux machines, and there is a good reason for it. My Linux box is a fairly slow old Celeron 300. It cant keep up with 3d shooters. What I'd like to see converted to linux are old classics like master of orion and games of that nature, maybe the odd RTS game or 2. If any knows of any of these sorts of projects, sing about them loud and clear. The old games that ran happily under DOS etc, these are the sorts of I want. Maybe a conversion the old Wing Commander series so that I can play games on my old reliable linux machine whilst my GF using my Windows box to us MS office..

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    "Enlightenment is your ego's biggest disappointment." --Yoginanda
  2. Mode of combat and 3rd person... by fialar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think many people find 3rd person combat confusing, myself included. When I first played it, it took me a few hours just to get view down. Sometimes if I hit the wrong key, it would zoom in or out too much and totally screw up my estimation of distance, that usually meant getting my head lopped off.

    One of the things I noticed the other guys I was playing with at the LAN party were just running and banging on keys and they generally got lots of kills. Utterly amazing. Maybe if I programmed lots of key commands in on one of those monster joysticks and just ran around swinging, I'd get a lot of dumb kills too. :)

  3. Re:Great, but there are some issues by zoward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had 128M RAM on a PIII-700 with a 256M swap and a 32MB nVidia graphics board, and Rune *would not run* until I increased the size of my swapfile. Which, seeing as I had a swap partition, forced me to allocate an additional swap partition (so I stole a gigabyte from my Win98SE paritition 8-P).

    It ran, but took forever to cache the levels in the swap file. The graphics were a little choppy as well. I later added an extra 128M of RAM (for a total of 256M RAM), and both these problems went away.

    Once I made it past that hurdle, I enjoyed the game so much I went back and ordered the expansion pack. Go Loki!

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    "Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?"
  4. I disagree by Roxton · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It takes a while to get into the swing of Rune, but once you've gotten down the basics of timing and facing, you can slug it out with another player for several minutes. Each weapon requires a different offensive strategy, and each opponent weapon requires a different defensive strategy.

    It's a lot of fun. My only beef is with some of the cheesy powerups, which can mercifully be mutated out of the game.

    It's bad if your having latency problems, but if you can keep it below 200, there should be little problem. Keep trying.