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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. Good Game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've been playing off and on for the last 12 hrs (nice to be able to do that when you want). After an hour or so of playing it does really start to shine.

    Pros

    graphics are superb

    gameplay is smooth

    netcode is a bit better then good

    Balance is well thought out

    get into some incredibly complex strategy when the team is communicating well

    Cons

    not being able to go to the armory and change weapons on the fly.

    a building of healing, regeneration

    lack of bots when in command mode. Nice for single player or 1 on 1.

  2. Sleepless in Savage by inkless1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    *snip*

    Couldn't sleep last night, got started on the Savage demo. It annoyed me at first, it didn't like the screen resolution I had chosen and needed to be beaten to play at first. My first couple of games I was pretty horribly confused and mostly just seemed to be respawning. The game doesn't feel much like an FPS to be honest, it actually kinda feels like you are playing one of those animated figures from an RTS game. For people who are expecting Quake slammed into Warcraft, you'll be a bit disappointed, the graphics and physics aren't terribly up to par for modern FPS games.

    But then again, if you wanted to play a modern FPS game - you would be already. The novelty here of being part of a large scale battle that slowly evolves with new buildings, units and techs is pretty invigorating and fun. Once Savage becomes familiar, it becomes very entertaining. The graphics might not be mind blowing, but they do keep the lag down to a serviceable (although sometimes not very fluid) level. I would definately be interested to see what the game is like with all it's features and commanders who have actually played for more than an afternoon. Try this one for a couple hours, there's a decent chance you won't walk away disappointed.

    ( cathodetan.com )