WHDb’s Top 25
7th February 2008
Hazel
Jimmy Atkinson has posted up his Top 25 Linux Games For 2008 at WHDb.com. If you’re new to Linux gaming or just looking for some suggestions for what to play, this list hits right on target. All the games mentioned are high quality ’serious’ games - no card games and puzzles in sight.
Many of the games mentioned are ones which we’ll be reviewing here at Games Kernel over the next few weeks.
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8th February 2008
Unfortunately I’m not psychic so I couldn’t tell you what games are going to make it big.
I have however played a few of the listed games.
Tremulous: I actually got my step brother playing this, no idea how good he is but he spent ages playing it. Great combination of multiplayer FPS and RTS. Lots of fun and more than adequate graphics at a decent speed.
Freeciv: I’ve played and it’s basically exactly the same as Civilisation. Great fun if you have hours to spare and I believe it’s great to play networked too, but I never found enough people with enough patience.
Nexuiz: I was disappointed by this one, it didn’t run particularly smoothly on my computer, I realise I could have fiddled with settings but it didn’t jump out as being much special and I had already played Tremulous and the graphics of that were much more appealing.
Frets On Fire: WOW. I loved this. The only problem was it didn’t run on my PC at the time I found so I was stuck with my laptop (can’t reach around to hit F1-F5 damned monitor) and my only USB keyboard had a USB hub at the top so it was awkward. I now have the USB X-Plorer and it works great on my new PC
Secret Maryo Chronicles: I have this on my GP2X, although I haven’t played it much so I can’t really comment much, looks good and is reasonably fun to play though.
Sauerbraten: Ok, this impressed me. I didn’t play it much but the concept and design of the whole thing is absolutely amazing and I can’t wait for the RPG built on it to be in a playable state.
VDrift: I like driving games. I sucked at this one. I couldn’t even get the car started most of the time, this was probably due to bad calibration on my part but even when I put auto clutch, auto shift etc on I had trouble steering. Much too realistic for my tastes
TuxRacer: *bow*
TORCS: I guess my bad luck with racing games on PC is my inability to calibrate my gamepad properly. Again this looked great and lots of fun with great AI capability but my inability to drive a real car caused me to not play it that much.
Flight Gear: As the list says, Flight Gear fills in what EVERY other flight sim leaves out. You could learn to fly 747s into tall towers on MSFS but if you were to learn on this you’d be able to barrel roll your 747 with ease and manage to pull up in time to miss it then nose dive with a crashing finale. Ok, bad example. This is the most complete FS possible. I tried to configure my joystick to fly it and ran out of buttons… 3 input devices later (Logitech Attack 3, XPad, MS Strategic Commander) plus it can communicate via USB to your garmin.
That’s enough rambling from me… anyone else care for a shot?
8th February 2008
Hahahah wow, thanks for that.