Are there games out there...

[chakra_dude]

Good day to all. I was wondering if there are games out there that runs on Ubuntu without third party programs like Wine or Cedega?

Forgive the ignorance, i'm just a casual gamer (in Windows that is..) who would like some nice games to work in Ubuntu. I've been having fun lately playing with my Ubuntu box and I'd like to have more fun with a few running games.

Thanks for your time. :)

[moffa]

Unreal Tournament 2004 is all I can think of at the moment.

[Artificial Intelligence]

Neverwinter Nights is also a good suggestion.

[chakra_dude]

I see. Do i just pop in the UT2k4 or NWN installer cd's and do some configs?

[Rinzwind]

Here's a cool list:
http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php
All the games that have a name in the column "Linux Version Publisher" should work without emulator.

Heroes of Might and Magic III is another one that's for Linux.
And Neverwinter nights owns :)


Regarding NWN:
see this webpage; http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html

[Artificial Intelligence]

NWN: http://icculus.org/~ravage/nwn/

and your 3D acc. is setup?

[chakra_dude]

Yep. I'll try these links. Thanks

[Artificial Intelligence]

Please let us know how it went or if you have trouble so we can help you out.

[anil_robo]

Chakra, you could also run games that comes bundled with ubuntu.

Applications-->Add Applications
Navigate to games section, click on "more" and install whatever you like. I recommend slune, frozen-bobble and planetpenguin racer! :D

[Rinzwind]

http://wesnoth.org/
The Battle for Wesnoth
The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.

Fight to regain the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate heir, or use your dread power over the Undead to dominate the land of mortals, or lead your glorious Orcish tribe to victory against the humans who dared despoil your lands … Wesnoth has many different sagas waiting to be played out. You can create your own custom units, and write your own scenarios – or even full-blown campaigns. You can also challenge your friends – or strangers – and fight multi-player epic fantasy battles.

http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/Screenshots



AND now the BEST part....
See your package manager, universe. It's inside the repositories :)

[mcmuffy]

Also Uplink and Darwinia from www.introversion.co.uk

[anil_robo]

If you like role playing, Plane Shift (http://www.planeshift.it)is highly recommended. It's not a full game as yet, but it's developing strongly.

[chakra_dude]

http://wesnoth.org/
The Battle for Wesnoth
The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.

Fight to regain the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate heir, or use your dread power over the Undead to dominate the land of mortals, or lead your glorious Orcish tribe to victory against the humans who dared despoil your lands … Wesnoth has many different sagas waiting to be played out. You can create your own custom units, and write your own scenarios – or even full-blown campaigns. You can also challenge your friends – or strangers – and fight multi-player epic fantasy battles.

http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/Screenshots



AND now the BEST part....
See your package manager, universe. It's inside the repositories :)

Thanks!

[noigeaR]

if you have a fast computer with working 3d acceleration and if you like first person shooters you can also try the quake 4 demo, the doom 3 demo or the full version of enemy territory.
they can all be downloaded from the idsoftware tracker using a bittorrent client.
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com:6969/

[xequence]

Good day to all. I was wondering if there are games out there that runs on Ubuntu without third party programs like Wine or Cedega?

Forgive the ignorance, i'm just a casual gamer (in Windows that is..) who would like some nice games to work in Ubuntu. I've been having fun lately playing with my Ubuntu box and I'd like to have more fun with a few running games.

Thanks for your time. :)


UT99, UT2003, UT2004, Doom 3, Quake 4, many others ;)

[kingsidy]

You could try doom 3. I have played soldier of fortuned, it is pretty good. You also have America's Army, it is free and pretty good too. Quake 4, and I am sure that there are several others. These are the ones I have played.

[scflymedic]

There's also America's Army and it's a free download!

Edit: Sorry, the link is americasarmy.com

[hericus]

Quake 1/2/3/4 is quite common. :)

[leech]

On the subject of games.... I was thinking earlier today, wouldn't it be nice if we could put installers of games into the repositories? Quake2 is already there (if you apt-get install quake2 it will also grab quake2-data which will then ask for you to put in your quake2 disk to copy the data files off for you, then it will create an icon in the menu, etc (though maybe only in the debian menu if you have that installed)).

I was thinking something like Neverwinter Nights could be just as easily a deb package. There is a HOWTO I wrote that is in this forum that uses a install script. It shouldn't be all that hard to turn that install script into a .deb and put it in Multiverse, would it? I know Gentoo has something like this, just an emerge away. I think this would make the question of "what games are there for linux?" a whole lot easier.

I do know though that due to some licensing issues, some games can't be done this way (Doom 3 comes to mind, in which they say that the installation method cannot be different or changed in any way.)

Leech

[siorai]

Check out the native section on this site: http://www.liflg.org/ The installers there make it dead easy to install quite a few games natively. I used the Doom3 and Quake2 installers from there and they worked perfectly.

The other two games I have installed right now are UT2K4 and Tribes2.

[Gustav]

I would recommend these games (that are in the repositories):

*Frozen-Bubble (off course)
*scorch3d (scorched earth in 3D)
*Freeciv (oh, it's great)

[arpunk]

bzflag and planetpenguin-racer, both in repositories, cool games.