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Free Software FPS Games Compared

Posted by Zonk on from the getting-your-frag-on-the-cheap dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux-gamers.net has posted a thorough, although harsh, comparison of free software shooters. It compares seven open source shooter games in a lengthy discussion. Few have gone to the trouble of comparing and carefully examining the genre before. The author ranks the games in the following order (best to worst): Warsow, Tremulous, World of Padman, Nexuiz, Alien Arena, OpenArena, and Sauerbraten. In making these choices, it claims to use gameplay, design, innovation and presentation as criteria and includes a short history of free software shooters in the introduction."

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  1. Three cheers for John Carmack, by shish · · Score: 4, Interesting

    seeing as 6 out of the 7 games are Quake-based :P

    It strikes me that open source has a reputation for really good code and half-assed presentation, so I wonder why there aren't many free-from-day-1 game engines :-/

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  2. Re:Xinerama by Kent+Recal · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Erm, sounds like you have no single-screen modes configured.
    Read up on the MetaModes option in xorg.conf.

    Mine looks like this:

    Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024_60.00, 1920x1200; null, 1920x1200"
    And I can play ET, AA, Tremulous, etc. just fine. The second screen simply goes off when a game requests fullscreen.