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The Best Linux Games of 2001?

Posted by Cliff on from the tis-the-season-form-making-lists dept.

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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  1. Only the best games ever! by digitalunity · · Score: 3, Informative

    Quake3 and UT, all the way.

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  2. Alpha Centauri by Vicegrip · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  3. Um, ok by Wind_Walker · · Score: 5, Informative
    For Linux gaming, there's only one place to go: Linux Game Tome. 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 and see a good compilation of reviews? All you have to do is check on the games that have been ported to Linux and figure it out from there!

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

  4. Descent 3 by lessthan0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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 :)

  5. XMAME! by frostgiant · · Score: 3, Informative

    Come on... With XMAME we get thousands of arcade games at our finger tips. What's better than that?

  6. BZFlag by Bladerunner2037 · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

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  7. Tribes2! by tjansen · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  8. best == most enjoyment, for me by Ender+Ryan · · Score: 5, Informative
    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?

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  9. Duh! Nethack! by joshwitz · · Score: 2, Informative

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

  10. nethack! by gregor · · Score: 4, Informative

    My favorite game of all time just happens to also by favorite linux game as well! Nethack is a game I can play and replay (unlike Playstation 2 or your latest Windows game), and it still feels fresh after all these years.

    Useful links to learn more:

    http://www.nethack.org [The official Nethack site)

    http://www.nethack.de (A good all around reference)

    http://www.spod-central.org/~psmith/nh/ (the *best* place for spoilers)

    http://nethack.devnull.net (home of the recently mentioned-on-slashdot tourney where some incredible players put up some incredible scores).

    Happy hacking!

  11. Can't Beat Descent 3 by Whip-hero · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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  12. MindRover by Rob+Seace · · Score: 3, Informative

    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, and Loki's product page...

  13. Re:I like Ultima 7 Black Gate and Serpent Isle by Cryptnotic · · Score: 5, Informative
    I'm a big fan of the Exult project. I think they've done a great job on their interpreter for the old DOS games Ultima 7: The Black Gate and Ultima 7: Part 2, The Serpent Isle. They basically re-wrote the entire game engine from reverse engineered data file specs. And the game engine really is better than the original was.


    Probably the only thing left for them to do is a multiplayer game.


    Cryptnotic

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  14. Freeciv! by jdavidb · · Score: 3, Informative

    FreeCiv! 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.

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  15. XSnow by booch · · Score: 3, Informative

    XSnow was much cooler than XEyes. (XSnow 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.

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  16. My Personal List... by CrusadeR · · Score: 5, Informative
    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 is shipping a port of Creatures Internet Edition which should reach resellers after Xmas.

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  17. Re:Bah Textmode Quake rules by vogel · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can play Unreal Tournament in textmode as well. Compile SDL with AALib support and use the software renderer :)