Medal of Honor for Linux Released

victorvdl writes "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, the World War II-themed FPS originally developed by 2015 Inc. is now available for Linux and is shipping right now from Tux Games. The incredible Ryan Gordon aka icculus did the porting. It's nice to see more Linux games being shipped - I'm definitely buying this one."

Comments

I can't see this selling well

[steve.m]

I would have thought most people who want to play this game would have bought the Windows version.

How many die hard Linux users are there who wait until games are ported to Linux before buying them?

Re:I can't see this selling well

[Dave2 Wickham]

Surely die hard Linux users wouldn't buy the Windows version because they don't have Windows?

Anyway, I've just got round to ordering it. So that's at least one ;)

Re:I can't see this selling well

[Wuukie]

I guess no game ported from Windows months/years after the original release will sell well. I would gladly be proven wrong. But anyway I don't think that's the point in this business. Yet.

TuxGames and Linux Game Publishing are (hopefully) making slow but steady progress. The problem the way I see it is that there really hasn't happened anything significant to attract more (commercial) game developers to Linux. On the other hand Linux distributions are just beginning to standardize thanks to LSB. Guess there's still a long way to standardize gaming libraries.

Re:I can't see this selling well

[Domini]

Seriously though, how many people will still play this game with you? It's based on old technology and even though it may still be fun single-player, the multi-player market is dead. Thus you will only get half the intended fun out of it.

Don't shoot me down, I'm in the same boat really. I have 2 copies of Quake 3 (I bought the windows version, and later bought the Linux collectors edition anyway just to support them... even though I did not even need to)

As for NWN... I just bought my second copy for OS X (I would prefer playing it on OS X), but all my friends have moved onto other games already, so it's a bit lonely now... :(

It's a different matter if the games get released even just a week after the windows version... I would buy the Linux and OS X versions out of principle.

But 6 months!!! You MUST be kidding... it's not worth-while. (Advice I should follow too...) ;)

Great, but too late.

[Domini]

All my buddies have already had the MOH PvP LAN frenzies, and now have moved onto something else... if only this was about 5 months sooner... then I may still have had some fun off it.

But now it's a classic normal game at a special-edition price. It should be $5 in shops by now for win32.

My, my... it seems to be expensive being a Linux gamer... not to mention late.

If games were released MUCH sooner for Linux/OS X I would buy those out of principle! But this has been released MUCH too late.
Still a bit of single-player fun to be had, but no or little LAN multii-player.

Pity... same with my Mac OS X version of Neverwinter Nights. (I've finally got the Mac version too, but all my friends have moved on...)

Re:Great, but too late.

[0x0d0a]

if only this was about 5 months sooner... then I may still have had some fun off it.

You know, the two games that I've been playing most at the moment are Homeworld (on a Windows box, and yes, I know that there's a Linux port), which was released five years ago and bzflag, which was originally released about twelve years ago.

My, my... it seems to be expensive being a Linux gamer... not to mention late.

Perhaps we'll fund this "expensive" habit with some of the hundreds or thousands of dollars we saved by not buying commercial application software and using free alternatives instead. How many copies of Medal of Honor will Visual Studio .NET and Photoshop buy you?

(I've finally got the Mac version too, but all my friends have moved on...)

It is a shame, that. Designing a game for multiplayer use gives you a cheap and easy way to get good AI and gives you a lot of mechanisms to make piracy a pain in the ass. However, multiplayer games have a lifespan that is rarely more than a few years (with a few exceptions, like Quake). MMORPGs are even worse -- within a few years, *all* MMORPG content, all the stuff you spent time acquiring, will be gone as the services shut down.

Re:More games!

[Anonymous Coward]

Just a pity that the list in question is so dismal. Looking at the list, I can see only one of the PC games I've been playing in the last 6 months, namely UT2k4. No Farcry, no Temple of Elemental Evil, no Final Fantasy XI, no Deus Ex 2, no Silent Hill 3, no Homeworld 2. Before you ask, I seriously doubt I could play any of these games under WineX anything like as well as I do at the moment.

Oh well, at least I could play kjumpingcube. Whatever the hell that is.

Saying that "Linux has a lack of games" is not an excuse for not using Linux is like saying that there's no need to use a Mac for graphics design, because you can get MS Paint in Windows.

Sorry guys Lpong doesnt count

[voss]

Anything with
K, L, Tux, or X used generically in the title
doesnt really count for linux anymore than solitaire or minesweeeper counts for windows.

Do you want to know when Linux games will finally
breakout...its when

A) 3d Video and sound works as reliably on Linux as it does on Mac or Windows
b) When the installation process for installing a linux game involves sticking in a cd and clicking I-agree-next--typical install-next-next-finished
c) When Linux has a unified installation interface for programs regardless of extension.

Not true

[rRaminrodt]

When I first saw the headline, I mentioned to my boss that MoH was finally out for linux. He told me that I should get it as soon as I can. That's one person who still wants to play it with other people.

Then he mentioned that he played it _last night_ online. And that he has no trouble finding people to play against. And that there are plenty of servers.

Maybe the unwashed horde has moved on to other games, but it seems like there's still a thriving community here.

Besides, anytime's a good time to buy, when you're buying something that's worth it to you. Who cares what the other guy is doing, you're not him.