Multiplayer Linux Games

gooshy1 writes "Ok it's getting near the end of the year and people are beginning to wind down for the holidays. What I want to know is are there any decent multiplayer games that an office of about 4-7 can play, preferably action. The machines that we use are not all that great, P4 1.7Ghz with 2 year old NVidia graphics cards, so Quake and the likes are out of the question. A favorite is BZFlag due to its playability and nice tunable graphics. All thoughts welcome, and Merry Chistmas/Happy Holidays :-)"

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Machine specs and concept of "not all that great"

[CliffH]

Ok, I'm going to rant so mod me down appropriately.

The system you just spec'd isn't too far off from one of mine (P4 1.8A, 512MB RAM, GeForce2MX400) from which I play Enemy Territory from perfectly fine (from Fedora, and RH8, 9, Mandrake 9.1, Slackware 9.0, a homespun distro, the list goes on). Your system is more than capable of playing a good deal of games including but not limited to:

Quake 3

Unreal Tournament 2003

Americas Army

Duke Nukem Forever (just kidding folks) :)

So, you have plenty of options out there and these games will play on lesser machines as well. Hell, some of those games can be spun up on Live CDs (Gentoo Live Game CDs come to mind) so you don't even need to install them to play. Just do a little hunting and you will find plenty of current games out there that work. Granted, most are FPS but if you're into that thing, you've got plenty to play around with....