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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The best Linux dis ever

[brundlefly]

This entire thread is the best (or worst, YMMV) Linux dis ever.

The fact that somebody must ask Slashdot if there are any games that their office can play on decent hardware is, um how shall we say it, ouchie.

Ya, ya, troll post. Don't bother flaming, I run Linux too.

Re:wtf

[jefeweiss]

If by "ran just fine on windows" you mean "only gave me the blue screen of death every of couple of hours", then yes.

Time for a windows partition

[kuzb]

Why trouble yourself running around in circles trying to find games that work under linux when you can run any of them under windows?

I mean, if it's just for the holiday, bite the bullet. Windows, at the very least, is good for games.

Some of our local favorites (from the FPS action catergory):

Medal of Honor: allied assault
Battlefield 1942
Unreal Tournament
Vietcong
Halo

As far as I know, only UT would run under Linux (natively). I say, use the right tool for the right job. Linux is not a good gaming solution.

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