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Review: BZFlag 3D Tank Game

Posted by michael on from the load-HEAT dept.

GonzoJohn writes "LinuxOrbit.com reviews the 3D Tank game BZFlag. 'Have you ever been walking down the street, minding your own business, and suddenly look down to find something you hadn't expected? It might be money, it might be a decoder ring, it could be anything. But the almost universal reaction is pleasurable. 'That's a nice surprise,' you think as you stoop and pocket whatever good fortune has dropped in your path. The same thing can happen in the strangest places. For example, a recent post on our message boards inquired, 'What's your favorite flag in bzflag?'. Not being familiar with the game, I had to ask "What's bzflag?' Little did I know that such an innocent inquiry would result in an almost indecent obsession with a very cool game.'"

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  1. Living large by shani · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I looked down and saw something I hadn't expected, I think I'd close my zipper.

  2. what sort of a name is bzflag? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    linux games need better names. bzflag sounds like a compression utility or something. i bet we'd all be playing it if it was called something like 'armoured smashing-fist 2000', not bzip2.

  3. I�m addicted to BZFlag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's already hard enough to find a decent server to play on. Now that BZFlag is on Slashdot I fully expect to find an increase in lag, teammate killers, and losers with hacked clients when I start playing this morning. Doh!

    The best flag is the laser by they way.

  4. Interesting Question! by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have you ever been walking down the street, minding your own business, and suddenly look down to find something you hadn't expected?

    Yes, an open manhole cover. But I'm feeling much better now.

  5. Re:IRIX Version by pmsr · · Score: 3, Funny

    You worked at SGI in that period and were playing bzFlag every day in office? And even had an available 8 cpu 16GB SGI Onyx 2 machine to play it on? Jeeez, now i know why i have to pay so much for my SGI machines. ;-)

    /Pedro

  6. Haiku by offtopic_haiku_man · · Score: 3, Funny

    Haven't played the game
    Though it sounds like it is cool
    'Member BattleZone?

  7. You love this game... by Bnonn · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...yet you post both a link to a review and to its homepage on Slashdot? One thing's for sure; having now had their servers crushed beneath the onslaught of half a million battle-tank-desperate nerds, the guys associated with this game sure don't love you.

  8. Re:All Programs need better names. by ameoba · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and everything begins to sound like a poorly translated Anime title...

    Liberating Music Player Sonique

    Archaic Compiler f77
    Multi-Purpose Text Mangler sed

    Tireless Text Locator grep -r

    --
    my sig's at the bottom of the page.