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Savage Demo Lets You FPS/RTS On Linux & Windows

Posted by simoniker on from the linux-and-windows-sitting-in-a-tree dept.

Ant writes "According to Blue's News, there's a playable demo for S2Games' FPS/RTS hybrid, Savage: The Battle for Newerth now available, providing the chance to sample multiplayer under either Windows (143 MB) or Linux (155 MB)." There are also BitTorrents of the Windows demo and the Linux demo, courtesy GameTab, for this welcome Linux-friendly title, recently cause for controversy when GameSpot pulled a review of it after "...allegations by the game's developers that the reviewer of the product did not play it for a sufficient length of time."

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  1. Re:Sorry by Grand · · Score: 2, Informative

    apt-get install savage
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    E: Couldn't find package savage

    no luck here either !

  2. heh... by rwven · · Score: 3, Informative

    this is NOT flamebait. i was a beta tester for this game and such and i can honestly say i am not impressed with the final product. it's just kinda uninspiring... but in any case, you're welcome to have your own opinion ;) cool in concept but bad in implementation IMHO

  3. Re:Out of curiosity... by linuxkrn · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a self-extracting sh (shell) script. The data is included in the script to install the game.

  4. Finally, played the demo. My 2 cents... by antdude · · Score: 2, Informative

    A very pretty game and it has nice music, but not really my type of game. It did remind of Natural Selection mod: http://www.natural-selection.org ... I like its aliens vs. humans with science fiction theme better. :)

    Good job, S2Games! Nice work especially with a small company and Linux support. I hope to see more games out of you, guys.

    --
    Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).