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25 Best Linux Games
bobz writes "The Linux Game Tome has announced the winners of the Happypenguin Awards. Games, toys and libraries in 25 different categories were nominated and voted upon by the Linux gaming community. Take a look at the best Linux gaming has to offer." Alas, no SimCity 4, and no Sims Online.
Free Games
Best Free Game - Frozen Bubble
Best Free 3D Action Game - Cube
Best Free Arcade Game - Frozen Bubble
Best Free Cards/Board/Gambling Game - PySol
Best Free Multiplayer Action Game - BZFlag
Best Free Multiplayer Strategy Game - Freeciv
Best Free Role-Playing Game - NetHack: Falcon's Eye
Best Free Simulation Game - Flight Gear
Best Free Single Player Strategy Game - Freeciv
Non-Free Games
Best Non-Free Game - Quake 3 Arena
Best Non-Free 3D Action Game - Return To Castle Wolfenstein
Best Non-Free Arcade Game - Space Tripper
Best Non-Free Cards/Board/Gambling Game - Eric's Ultimate Solitaire
Best Non-Free Multiplayer Action Game - Quake 3 Arena
Best Non-Free Multiplayer Strategy Game - Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Best Non-Free Role-Playing Game - Ultima I: A Legend Is Reborn
Best Non-Free Simulation Game - SimCity 3000 Unlimited
Best Non-Free Single Player Strategy Game - Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Miscellaneous Categories
Best Emulator - ScummVM
Best Game Support Library - SDL
Best Graphics - Unreal Tournament 2003
Best Sound/Music - Frozen Bubble
Best Toy - Celestia
Most Original/Unique Game - Liquid War
Most Promising Linux Game Project - Planeshift
Nah, Quake I is still the best Quake game. It has an atmosphere no other game has been able to duplicate, even the later Quake games couldn't do it (though admittedly they were going in a different direction anyway, but still).
Personally Quake II is the one that I think was probably the best in terms of style (after Doom II of course!), I never really liked Quake that much. Currently I play quite a lot of UrbanTerror which is a free Q3 total conversion which is like Counterstrike. UrbanTerror works fine in Linux and they have a Linux section of the support forums.
The other Linux games I have a Wolfenstine and Tribes 2 but after playing them for a bit I found that I always end up going back to Quake 3.
I don't actually miss the fact that there are not many Linux games -- there are enough for the time I have to play them.
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- Best Free Game - Frozen Bubble
- Best Free 3D Action Game - Cube
- Best Free Arcade Game - Frozen Bubble
- Best Free Cards/Board/Gambling Game - PySol
- Best Free Multiplayer Action Game - BZFlag
- Best Free Multiplayer Strategy Game - Freeciv
- Best Free Role-Playing Game - NetHack: Falcon's Eye
- Best Free Simulation Game - Flight Gear
- Best Free Single Player Strategy Game - Freeciv
Non-Free Games- Best Non-Free
Game - Quake 3 Arena
- Best Non-Free 3D Action Game - Return To Castle Wolfenstein
- Best Non-Free Arcade Game - Space Tripper
- Best Non-Free Cards/Board/Gambling Game - Eric's Ultimate Solitaire
- Best Non-Free Multiplayer Action Game - Quake 3 Arena
- Best Non-Free Multiplayer Strategy Game - Heroes of Might and Magic 3
- Best Non-Free Role-Playing Game - Ultima I: A Legend Is Reborn
- Best Non-Free Simulation Game - SimCity 3000 Unlimited
- Best Non-Free Single Player Strategy Game - Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Miscellaneous CategoriesSlashdot is jumping the shark. I'm just driving the boat.
Fry's usually has some linux games. I just picked up Myth2:Soulblighter and Heretic 2 this weekend for 5 bucks a piece! :)
Why should we expect Linux games to be any better than the millions of shareware games made for Windows?
Doom, Quake, Duke3D, etc were all shareware...
Don't forget Star Control 2!
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Tux Games sells Linux games exclusively and provides packages with Linux binaries even when the developers choose not to. (Medal of Honor: Allied Assault has been added as a preorder item already after the icculus.org announcement)
Loki Games' has ceased to exist but their site still lists their resellers here, I'm sure many of them still stock Loki's old games and probably titles from other publishers too.
Linux Game Publishing lists their resellers here.
Peroxide, the company from Denmark that started the Ultima I port to the new generation, decided to create a completely new game instead and calls it now "Era".
It's totally unrelated to Ultima I.
See it at:
http://www.peroxide.dk/era/
Those who don't understand why the parent post is funny, check out Drunk Gamers' (R.I.P., I guess...) "Switch" parody.
:)
Thanks, Quarters. Until now I couldn't hear that he said "Photoshop".
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Boy oh boy, Linux as a gaming platform... Linux was optimized to outperform in the areas of Software Design (for stability of the kernel) and Server Architectures. I have a partition kicking around whenever I need to do *real* work with C++, and I've used it since Slackware in 1995
... the UI/core apps now need about a half a decade of interface redesign to catch up. For one thing, a Control Panel type app would go a long way towards standardizing the configuration of these beasts. In all, completely giving up Windows for Linux is about as compelling as Switching to a Mac...
But, as a gaming platform, Linux still isn't exactly jumping out at me
I was a huge Tribes fan, and waiting for a long time for Tribes2 to come out since it meant that I could finally dump Windows and use Linux for everything. After about a year I realized that wanting to use Linux for everyday gaming use was a pipe dream. I still play Wolfenstein, SimCity, Tribes2 and old ROMs and stuff, but to play PC games these days you either need WineX or a Win32 partition.
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You're correct, but then Epic hired Dan Voguel from Loki before Loki went bust. Epic brought UT2003 to Linux by themselves.
They also ship the Linux binaries on the 3rd CD that ships with the game. Hows that for a top selling game with Linux support straight out of the box eh?
Quake3 is still the best because of mods like Urban Terror and tons of others. It's the engine that counts, not the game itself.
Well, if companies perfer writing console games because they don't have to deal with a million hardware configurations, then they will likewise prefer to write for windows because they don't have to deal with a million OS configurations.
I'm also rather tired of all of the attitude that there's something wrong with using a Microsoft product and that it's worth going through the pain in the ass of setting up these random software packages to get around using MS stuff. "Oh, just set up wine and winex and this piece of crap and that piece of crap that won't build on your machine without some tweaking of this arcane make file or maybe you even get to write some code yourself to make it work"
Just use windows and install the game in 5 minutes and start playing. Geesh.
I just LOVE that you're suggesting that linux is somehow easier to use than Windows and that there's absolutely no advantage to having a nice standard platform with lots of support.
/. and I made a remark to reflect what the readers like to hear and get a chuckle out of.
The standard platform with lots of support... you mean linux right?
When I do work on my *nix servers and need support on them I have no trouble surfing the web and searching google to get the answers I need. There's tons of online documentation by the authors and others.
But when I'm working with MS Access for the front end to one of our database servers, it's a complete headache trying to get support. It doesn't help that the key search word here is "Access", but even still, very few people offer free help for non-free software. And the quality that is out there is usually quite questionable.
Anyways, that said, we are talking about video games here and I'm not going to argue that windows isn't a better platform for that. But hey, this is
I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...
It IS getting better, contrary to popular belief.
I mean, look at the recent announcements, most of which were Slashdot headlines: Disciples 2, Bandits, Ballistics, Serious Sam 1 and 2, America's Army, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, and Medal of Honor: Spearhead... That nearly doubles the number of games we already have.
- Creatures Internet Edition (Simulation)
- Erics Ultimate solitaire (Card Games)
- Heavy Gear II (Mech Sim)
- Heavy Metal Fakk II (Action, Adventure)
- Heroes Of might and Magic III (Strat)
- Kohan Immortal Sovereigns (Real Time Strat)
- Myth II Soulblighter (Real Time Strat)
- Quake III Arena (FPS)
- RailRoad Tycoon II (Strat)
- Return To Castle Wolfenstein (FPS)
- Rune (FPS)
- Soldier Of fortune (FPS)
- Terminus (Space Combat/ RPG)
- Tux Racer (Sport)
- Unreal Tournament (FPS)
- Unreal Tournament 2003 (FPS)
- Quake II (FPS)
- Doom (FPS)
- Quake (FPS)
- Alien vs Predator (FPS)
- Tribes 2 (FPS)
- Alpha Centauri (Strat)
- Heretic II (TPS)
- Mindrover (sport/sim)
- Uplink (Hacking)
- Civilisation Call To Power (Strat)
- Jagged Alliance 2 (Strat)
- Serious Sam (FPS)
- Unreal (FPS)
- Sim City 3000 (Strat)
- Pontifex II (Strat/toy)
- Mobility (strat)
- Dominions (Strat)
You might have trouble finding some of these in a game store though, escpecially some Loki ones.Also these are only commercial ones there are a heap more free ones
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