[ubuntu-uk] Games

[Adam Bagnall]

red wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there any Linux gamers out there?
>
> My house mate plays pc games and I doubt that there is but any good games?
>
> Rik
>
>   
I'm a linux gamer where possible, although I still have a windows 
partition around and, depending on which games you wish to play, I would 
suggest that this is the best solution. Having said that there are quite 
a few commercial games with linux ports, but they tend to be older 
games. All ID software games (except quake live, but that's supposedly 
coming) have been ported although the linux installers can be hard to 
find. Unreal tournament and UT2004 have native linux ports, the UT3 
linux port has supposedly been held back due to some legal issues but is 
apparently still on the cards.
    On the open source front I'd recommend Battle for Wesnoth, a very 
nice turn based strategy game. There's also Openarena, warsow, nexuiz 
and numerous others for your FPS fix.
    Finally there's wine, which is an implementation of the windows API 
under linux. Some games run very well under this, especially older 
games. There can be some graphical issues or other problems however. 
I've not tried too many games under wine but I have had success with 
every blizzard game I've tried and portal ran well.

Some sites worth looking at are www.happypenguin.org - which lists linux 
games, both open source and commercial, and allows users to rate them. 
Another site is tuxgames.com, which is an online shop specialising in 
linux games.


Hope this helps :)

Adam.