107 giochi sparatutto per Linux (prima parte).

Linux, come tutti i sistemi Unix, è ben noto per le sue potenzialità di rete. Tutti sanno che una rete o un web server basati su Linux sono un'ottima soluzione, economica, affidabile, e che non necessita di hardware troppo potente; ciò ha fatto di questo sistema operativo una presenza importante nel settore dei server.

Tuttavia, negli ultimi tempi, Linux pare aver avanzato la sua candidatura anche quale sistema operativo per desktop, per sistemi, insomma, personali. Effettivamente le caratteristiche di velocità ed affidabilità (senza dimenticare il costo - o meglio, la mancanza di esso) di questo Unix ne fanno un concorrente temibile per ogni altro sistema operativo commerciale; i pregi sembrano essere maggiori dei difetti, il principale dei quali sembra essere, secondo i detrattori di Linux, la mancanza di applicazioni. Se può essere facilmente smentito che manchino applicativi di produttività generale o scientifici, è purtroppo vero che il settore videoludico del Linux è molto lacunoso.

Vediamo un po' di esempi per esaminare meglio qual è la situazione attuale e quali sviluppi vi potranno essere in seguito.

• Alien Arena 2008

  Alien Arena 2008 combines some of the very best aspects of such games as Quake III and Unreal Tournament and wraps them up with a retro alien theme, while adding tons of original ideas to make the game quite unique.

• AssaultCube

  AssaultCube is based on the game Cube. It is set in a realistic looking environment, with a gameplay that stays fast and arcade like.

• Doom 3

  (commercial) One of the finest games ever released featuring spectacular graphics and gameplay.

• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

  Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game mixing Enemy Territory and Quake 4. It is the follow up to Wolftenstein: Enemy Territory.

• Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge

  Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge (EMR) is a first-person shooter game with an epic and in-depth story line. The player travels through time in the Jurassic period, Camelot period, and into the future to chase down Morgana. Using the Aleph One engine, EMR creates an amazing new world, making it an entirely fun and unique gaming experience.

• Hexen II - Hammer of Thyrion

  Hammer of Thyrion is based on the original Linux Hexen II project, Anvil of Thyrion. It includes many bugfixes and some documentation. New features include: Improved sound and video modes, OpenGL glows and full screen intermissions.

• Nexuiz

  Nexuiz is a fast-paced, chaotic, and intense multiplayer first-person shooter game, focused on providing basic, old style deathmatch. It is extremely modder-friendly. Nexuiz is built on the power of the Darkplaces engine, which is a heavily modified version of the original Quake. Darkplaces features realtime lighting and stencil shadows, bumpmapping, gloss, bloom, and totally rewritten network code that supports up to 64 players on a single server.

• OpenArena

  OpenArena's gameplay is exactly the same as Quake III Arena - score frags to win the game using a balanced set of weapons each designed for different situations.

• Quake 2

  (commercial) Quake 2 is a fantastic 3D multiplayer action game that runs under X11, SVGAlib, or OpenGL. hot

• Quake 4

  (commercial) In Quake 4 you are Matthew Kane, an elite member of Rhino Squad and Earth's valiant invasion force. Fight alone, with your squad, and in hover tanks and mechanized walkers as you engage in a heroic mission into the heart of the Strogg war machine. But, in this epic war between worlds, the only way to defeat the Strogg is to become one of them.

• Tremulous

  Tremulous for Quake 3 Arena is an open source modification that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning.

• True Combat

  True Combat is a modification to Quake III arena featuring scriptable mission objectives in maps, C4 and smoke grenades to your arsenal, realistic lens flares, glare, and flash blend effects.

• Unreal Tournament 2004

  (commercial) Unreal Tournament 2004 is a multiplayer first person shooter that combines the kill-or-be-killed experience of gladiatorial combat with cutting-edge technology. Ten game modes - both team-based and "every man for himself" -- provide even the most hardcore gamer with palm-sweating challenges through unbelievably detailed indoor arenas and vast outdoor environments. As the ultimate techno-gladiator of the future, players will take their fates into their hands, battling against up to 32 other players online in action-packed, frag-filled arenas. hot

• Urban Terror

  Urban Terror is a realism based "total conversion mod" for Quake III Arena. Read more hot

• Warsow

  Warsow is a fast-paced 3D ego-shooter with colorful graphics which look like in comic (black lines around things; deliberatly surrealistic graphics) or similar to the movie "Tron". Read more hot

• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

  Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a free, stand-alone multiplayer game in which players wage war as Axis or Allies in team-based combat. It was originally planned as an add-on for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, but soon became it's own game, a separate entity with full single player, multiplayer, AI opponents and teammates. Read more hot

• World of Padman

  World of Padman is a multiplayer fun action shooter using the Quake 3 engine base. Read more hot

• 0verkill

  0verkill is a bloody 2D action deathmatch-like game in ASCII-ART running under Linux, OS/2 and Windows. Read more

• ActionCube

  ActionCube is a total conversion of Wouter van Oortmerssen´s FPS called Cube. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that´s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer fun.

• Adanaxis

  Adanaxis is fast-moving first person shooter set in deep space, where the fundamentals of space itself are changed. By adding another dimension to space this game provides an environment with movement in four directions and six planes of rotation.

• Aleph One/SDL

  Aleph One is based on the game Marathon 2 by Bungie Software. It supports, but doesn't require, OpenGL for rendering. Aleph One was originally a Mac-only game, but there is now a cross-platform version based on the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library, that should in theory run on all systems supported by SDL

• Alien Arena 2006

  AA2K6 is the latest in a series of standalone games based on a classic Sci-Fi theme with a modern, updated visual experience. With 25 levels, five modes of play, mutators, built-in bots, 9 characters, 8 weapons(3 with alt-fire modes), the game has an endless supply of replayability.

• Alien Arena 2007

  Alien Arena 2007 is a fast paced, retro sci-fi themed game jam packed with features such as 37 maps, 5 game modes, 6 game mutators, 10 player characters, 8 weapons(each with an alternate firing mode), and the Galaxy front end that includes a server browser, IRC client, stats lookup, and a buddy list to keep tabs on your favorite players.

• Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition

  Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition is based on code of Quake II and Quake III and is released under the GPL Licence.

• Alien Swarm

  Alien Swarm is an overhead view tactical squad-based shooter for UT2K4. Set in the the distant future, the players take the role of a Commander in the Interstellar Armed Forces. They must guide their squad of marines through Swarm infested colonies, overrun bases and outposts, to achieve a variety of objectives. Featuring Assault Rifles, Heat Tracking Guns, Sentry Guns, Flamethrowers and more. Supports co-operative multiplayer.

• Aliens vs Predator

  A Linux port of the Fox Interactive/Rebellion Developments game, Aliens vs Predator. Game is no longer being developed.

• Alpha Shooter

  Alpha Shooter is a single-player 3D FPS game with a sci-fi setting, multi-platform support, trivial particles and collision detection system, dynamic lighting effects and a shooting practice mini-game, written in C with OpenGL and GLUT.

• America's Army: Special Forces

  America's Army: Special Forces is released by the United States Army. In America's Army: Special Forces, players attempt to earn Green Beret status by completing individual and collective training missions drawn from the Special Forces Assignment and Selection (SFAS) process.

• Argonium

  Argonium is a standalone Multiplayer First Person shooter powered by id Softwares Quake II engine. includes over 100 sound files, over 250 image files and over 50 models. Argonium includes 5 different weapons, 1 player character with 3 skins, 3 powerup items, armour and health items. The game is strictly a Deathmatch game and comes with 3 levels.

• Balder

  Balder is a multiplayer Zero Gravity First Person Shooter using the Crystal Space engine. It also uses the borax template and the GNE -- Game Networking Engine. It will emphesise team cooperation, instead of the standard frag-fest and meaningless violence of most first person shooters.

• Balder2D

  Balder2D is a multiplayer game. It has a networked option and/or players can share a keyboard on the same machine. Players control small probes which shoot tiny projectiles with which they try to destroy each other. It features a 2D overhead view of the playing field.

• Battle Free

  Battle Free is a free online FPS, you can play with up to 64 friends online or just with the AI's. This game has 4 mission areas, and 4 weapons.

• Black Shades

  In Black Shades you try to keep your VIP (the guy in white) alive as long as possible. The assassins will all try to shoot or stab him to death. You must do all you can to prevent this. Your reputation has preceded you, so the VIP has absolute confidence in your abilities and will completely ignore all the assassins.

• Black Shades Elite

  Black Shades Elite is an action game that is more or less similar to the original Black Shades "Psychic Bodyguard FPS". Kill anyone that tries to kill the VIP (the white guy). The psychic part is seeing blue lines when bad guys line up on the VIP (when the line is red they are about to shoot).

• Blood Frontier

  Blood Frontier is a single-player and multi-player first-person shooter, built as a total conversion of Cube Engine 2, which lends itself toward a balanced gameplay, completely at the control of map makers, while maintaining a general theme of tactics and low gravity.

• Blood Toll

  Blood Toll is an innovative new first person shooter that allows players to compete online for real money. The game works by having each player buy in to enter a level, then for each player that you eliminate you get their buy in fee.

• Chocolate Doom

  Chocolate Doom is a Doom source port which aims to behave as closely as possible to the original DOS Doom executables ("Vanilla Doom").

• Counter-Strike 2D

  Counter-Strike 2D offers a lot more than the original Counter-Strike game. Counter-Strike is a tactical first-person shooter video game in which players join either the terrorist or counter-terrorist team (or become a spectator).

• Crystal Core

  Crystal Core is a first person shooter/puzzle game. The action is set on an alien planet invaded by hostile aliens. Crystal Core is a project that will help demonstrate what the crystal space engine can do.

• Cytadela

  Cytadela is a conversion of an Amiga Doom clone that was also called "Cytadela". The original was created in the mid-1990's by Virtual Design, and released first in Poland and then in other countries.

• d1x

  This is the Descent 1 Source Project. Our goal is to refine and extend the playability of Descent 1, coordinate compatability and features across platforms and versions, and make semi-official releases with major changes.

• D2X-XL

  D2X-XL is a port of Descent 2 to OpenGL. It is an open source project and has undergone a lot of enhancements compared to Descent 2.

• Dave 3D

  Dave 3D is a Free media data-only project for the Duke Nukem 3D source code.

• Dead Cyborg

  Dead Cyborg is a sci-fi adventure game. The story is about the meaning of life and death in a rusty post-apocalyptic metal and concrete world.

• Digital Paintball 2

  Paintball 2 is a fast-paced first-person game with capture the flag, elimination, siege, and deathmatch (free-for-all) styles of gameplay.

• Doom Legacy

  Doom Legacy offers an enhancement to the original Doom game with extra features such as split screen mode, skins, 32 players etc.

• DoomRL

  DoomRL (Doom, the Roguelike) is a fast and furious coffee-break Roguelike game, that is heavily inspired by the popular first person shooter game Doom developed by ID Software.

• Dreams Eternal

  Dreams Eternal tries to concentrate on the storyline instead of just shooting. The goal of the game is also to have a scary athmosphere. Basically the game will play in the dream world and will concentrate on puzzle solving.

• DXX Rebirth

  DXX-Rebirth is a remake of the two DESCENT ports D1X and D2X.

• EDuke32

  EDuke32 is an actively developed port of the classic, Duke Nukem. Duke Nukem 3D was a first person shooter developed by 3D Realms and released in 1996.

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