Good games for ubuntu

[spyke01]

hi guys im new to nix gaming, i installed duke nukem, doom, and quake2 from synaptic along with alot of other stuff that doesnt show up in my menus or in the var/games folder. so i was wondering what are some good shoot em up games for nix, that dont require me to buy cedega

right now this ystem only has a geforce mx 440, a skt 478 celeron 2GHz, a 160GB hdd and builtin sound

soon ill be going to dual core with dual 6800gt video cards(if supported by ubuntu) and dual 320GB hdds

can someone please list off some games for these platforms.

[charlieg]

If in doubt, search.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=109039
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=112994

[Artificial Intelligence]

Check my sig.

[KingBahamut]

What Ai said....werd.

[joey111]

i like sudoku and chess games, there are a lot out there;tetravex is good too;

[spyke01]

thanx for all the posts guys, plenty of good games ^^

[Master Shake]

Chromium and Abuse are way excellent games. XZB is decent, but incredibly tough.

[aliencds]

Check my sig.

thanks im gonna check out AA tommorow appreciate the list

[njmf]

Chromium and Abuse are way excellent games. XZB is decent, but incredibly tough.

Chromium is great game, but only to play once.

Dear god, did you get somewhere in Abuse? :) It seems to me like fun, but controls are to weird, and I get kicked in first level like never kicked before!

[cgreen]

Not all shoot-em-up, but here are five games that have kept me out of bed on more than one occasion:

armagetron - 3D Tron-like high speed game

bzflag - a 3D first person tank battle game
Can be a bit buggy in solo mode (run via bzflag -solo n where n is the number of opponent bots)

frozen-bubble - Pop out the bubbles!
Perfect on occasions when the brain is just ticking over quietly

scorched3d - A 3D version of the classic DOS game Scorched Earth
Apocalypse mode may puke trying to find smoke-orange.bmp in which case fix it by adding a symbolic link from any other .bmp file in the same directory. In other words, paste these two commands one after the other into a Terminal session:

Note: If the location of the smoke-orange.bmp file in your error message differs from the path below then change it to use the path your machine reports instead!
cd /usr/share/scorched3d/data/textures/explode/
sudo ln -s exp00_10.bmp smoke-orange.bmp

planetpenguin-racer - another 3D racing game featuring Tux, the Linux penguin

Tastes good this Ubuntu, I think I'll have another cup.

[spyke01]

ive gotten:
planetpenguin-racer(used to play tuxracer on mandriva and winblows)
blob wars (metal gear solid with smiley faces
frozen-bubble
supertux(one of my favs super mario with tux)
xpenguins(little penguins running around the scrren)
tried to get doomlegacy running but couldnt, lxdoom sucks
tons of other ones
egboo looks good, kinda horrible controls

[ZylGadis]

Try Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, runs natively. The most intelligent shooter I've seen, even Flashpoint lags behind.

[Master Shake]

Dear god, did you get somewhere in Abuse? :) It seems to me like fun, but controls are to weird, and I get kicked in first level like never kicked before!

Once I fugred out the control scheme, I got a decent way in to sa spot that always kicks my butt.


Oh, and another vote for Metal Blob Solid. That's a good one.

Once I can figure out xmame in Ub, I'm gonna give it a whirl. I've got Mame32 in XP, and I love it a lot.

Is there a frontend for xmame? THat my make things a tad easier.

[Master Shake]

egboo looks good, kinda horrible controls

Understatement of the year award...


Egoboo is a mess, to put it charitably, but there's a decent game waiting to get out.

[lemsto]

Frozen-Bubble++

Wormux's also good game (Worms clone, with aliens Tux Foxy chikens [...] skins) but still not in universe !! :(
http://www.wormux.org/wiki/en/index.php
.deb files can be found in the download section...

[Master Shake]

I also neglected to mention Pingus!