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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. Emulator by JollyTX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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...

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  2. TuxRacer's always good... by InterruptDescriptorT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    TuxRacer 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, 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.

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  3. The classics are classic for a reason by Syberghost · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Gnomehack.

  4. Easy one by jandrese · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Kohan from Loki is easily the best game I have bought for the past 3 years. Loki's newsgroup 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.

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  5. I hate to say it, but... by seebs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  6. Easy Uplink by Dante333 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

  7. Uplink... by binner1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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