Linux Games WIth Guns

ZaMoose writes: "Not to beat on the poor America's Army servers any further, but their sitrep for today featured the following interesting tidbit: "That's not all. We're also working on an in-game browser, linux port, and host of other features. Yes, we've been busy the past week!" (emphasis mine). For those not familiar with AA:Operations, it is a free (as in beer) first person shooter developed under the watchful eye of the US Army. It received mounds of praise at this year's E3 and was released to Windows users July 4th." Well, it says Linux server port, anyhow. And JD writes: "Apex Designs have announced that their GTA-style game Payback is coming to Linux. The port appears to already be fully playable as there is a status report here which includes some early screenshots. (And their website doesn't require IE. :)"

Comments

...and you don't need a supercooled video card!

[Anonymous Coward]

Bah, who needs more than Nethack anyway?

Insert "back in my day, we had lines of text and we LIKED IT!"-type ranting here...

Re:...and you don't need a supercooled video card!

[colmore]

Newsflash: US Army releases free game to train and promote the new cockatrice-corpse wielding corpse.

"This is all part of a massive restructuring and revisioning of the US armed forces" said general Kaen to an attentive audience of soldiers, sergeants, and lieutenants.

"Congress has just allocated enough zorkmids to ensure that within 2 years our entire armed forces can be outfitted with blessed grey dragon scale mail and +3 silver sabers. But technological challenges remain. Izchak Inc. and other contractors are still looking for a way to bless bags of holding on an industrial scale."

Military watchers are certain that this new fighting force will be more than ready to defeat all of the forces of evil, including Osama, Sadam, Rodney, and Demogorgan, among many others.

"May the blessings of the RNG be with us all"

And...

[hkhanna]

In other news, the US Army decided to scrap the Linux client port after Microsoft announced that it would be assuming control of OpenGL and discontinuing it, leaving only DirectX on Windows.

Microsoft only had the following statement: "All your 3D graphics libraries are belong to us."

The US Army was not available for comment.

Army of One 0.1-3.5.89

[idiotnot]

Changelog:
0.1-3.5.89
"Osama Bill Laden" now has proper beard.
0.1-3.5.88
Changed OS Logos to "Axis of Evil" Flags.
0.1-2.7.34
Changed "Hand" cursor in XBill^H^H^H^H^HArmy of One to M-16 target.

Re:A large misconception

[Afrosheen]

If you're always a terrorist in the game it's gonna affect the game flow.

Every few minutes the battle halts and everyone has to pray towards Mecca. That's gonna suck bigtime.

Re:America's Army

[deniable]

Yep, Army hardware requirements.

I'm waiting for "Soviet Army." It will probably run in 16 colors on a 486.

Only one problem with a Linux port...

[goodEvans]

As Linux is affiliated with Communism, you can only play as the Red Army in the game ;-)

the four words that would really make this cool

[crazypeet]

United States Marine Corps!

Don't paraphrase and use quotes.

[Anonymous Coward]

A wise man once said, "Let he who has not sinned throw the first stone".

No, Jesus said, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

Since Christians are washed in the blood of the Lamb, they are without sin. Christians can cast as many stones as they like with impunity.

Re:Linux and US Army

[Anonymous Coward]

But I decided my contribution to the world was not going to be propigating what I believe to be the worst mistake of mankind.

Oh, come on. I know Linux isn't the best OS, but it really isn't that bad...