The “Nexuiz” you find in the repositories is usually referred to as “Nexuiz Classic”, and is staying at version 2.5.2. Open Arena can also be found in the Fedora repositories. Open Arena has an active community with forums, a wiki, and a game manual. Open Arena takes up about 450 MB on my hard drive. The guns and overall appearance are more futuristic than realistic. The maps are very large and expansive, and you have “tricks” like certain platforms that throw you into the air. No release date is listed, but definitely something to keep an eye on! This version was released in February of 2012, and the website mentions that a 3.0 version is currently being worked on with lots of improvements. The version in the repositories is 0.8.8-9, which looks to be the same as the one you can obtain at their website. There are a lot of different game types to choose from. OpenArena is basically a clone of Quake 3 and uses the ioquake3 fork of the “id tech 3” engine. (More pictures can be found at the AC website) The forums have recent activity.Īssault Cube is not available in the Fedora or RPMFusion repositories, nor is it at the PlayDeb website. The wiki seems quite complete, and has German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and other translations available. In addition to letting you download the most current version, the website also has a wiki, the community forums, and documentation. Once you do, there are 12 game modes available to you. You cannot play multiplayer using the old version, for that you will have to download and install the most recent version. In singleplayer mode you can choose from 2 to 32 “bots” to simulate a multiplayer game, and select how good they are, to adjust the difficulty. The graphics quality, window size, and many other settings can be adjusted. Single player mode provides 26 maps, but they are fairly small and feel claustrophobic to me. The most recent version is 1.2.02 (released in November of 2013) but the repositories are still using version 1.1. The environments and weapons you use are pretty realistic. It is a fairly small download compared to most other games, weighing in at under 60 MB. In this first article, I will be looking at the games that can be found in the Debian, Ubuntu, or Linux Mint repositories – specifically, the games Assault Cube, Open Arena, Nexuiz, Sauerbraten, and Red Eclipse.Īssault Cube is based on the original Cube engine, not the Cube2 one that a few others are using. Nearly all of these games let you choose between full screen or window mode, however they do capture your mouse during play. Here is the list of the games I intend to look at during the series:Īssault Cube, Open Arena, Nexuiz Classic, Sauerbraten, Red Eclipse, Warsow, Tremulous, Alien Arena, Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, Xonotic, Smokin’ Guns, World of Padman, Urban Terror, and possibly True Combat: Elite. I have found at least 12 games that are FPS-only (as opposed to a hybrid). This is the first of three posts discussing the current state of first-person shooter games that run on Linux.
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