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Legends FPS Adds Freeware Linux Version
jmahler writes "The Legends Development Team is proud to announce the availability of our Linux client and server downloads for Legends. Legends is a fast-paced, FPS-style multiplayer game. The game is designed to take advantage of the beautiful environments in the Torque Gaming Engine while still offering the breakneck pace and variety of gameplay styles available from classics such as Quake and Tribes. Our game has been made for gamers, by gamers, and will always remain free (as in beer), supported, and improved as long as there is interest in it." There's also a Windows version of this still-in-development Beta on their download page, and the Tribes-style gameplay looks intriguing ("jetpack use" through large, often open-air multiplayer maps.)
Well... that's not completely accurate. :) We originally released for Windows, simply because more of us use Windows at home (bad, bad people, I know) but Linux (and maybe Mac) support have been very high on our agenda from the beginning.
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..buzz off.
Graphics and glitz aren't everything. Gameplay and community can more than make up for graphics; they can make a game positively addicting and mind smashing.
I sure as hell remember playing Wasteland better than Deus Ex -- and Deus Ex was a fantastic game. People who think graphics and looks are everything are the same ones who bitch about a game being boring.
Not to mention that constantly upping the requirements on models, textures, and effects simply drives development time through the roof for content alone.
Talonius
My reality check bounced.
A few screenshots up at this site show the game in action - nothing major though.
A few nice servers running, one with 5 players right now. Looks like a nice game.
-- Christopher Schmidt YouTube Quality of Experience
The gameplay of Legends is unlike any conventional FPS. It is heavily movement based, very fast and fluid. Learn to ski as early as possible - there will be players utilizing it fully, they are NOT cheating! Do not expect your conventional FPS skills to get you very far here. Traditional FPS is simply slow in comparison. Indeed, the Legends learning curve is nearly vertical. That is the beauty of it. More competant players travel faster over the terrain. Don't be put off by the difficulty. I can say with great confidence that the reward is a game that resembles a sport far more than any game previously.
I used to run Tribes 1/2 servers, and this rekindled my interest in the game. Legends is a lot of fun, has great graphics, and has the smooth, fluid physics of the original (as opposed to the molasses-fest that was Tribes 2).
I highly recommend this game.