Games for Linux

[LabR@t]

yes
yes

 

[DeeJay-Mo]

OpenArena is pretty good

 

[Skyboat]

If game developers used OpenGL more, rather than DirectX, would the games

a) Still look as good (no idea how good OpenGL is)

b) Be more easily ported to Mac and Linux?

Most definitely, I still remember the dominant OpenGL days strongly. The original HL1 too, had better OGL support than DX.

Kind of all changed after that (apart from id games)

 

[fester]

Urban terror quite a good free open source mp shooter that always has lots of busy servers .
http://www.urbanterror.net/news.php

 

[manveruppd]

I think there are Linux versions of the original Infinity Engine games....

 

[snowdog]

Openttd

 

[Schnippzle]

Openttd

Still needs the core files from TTD, fortunently I have those

 

[TaLLyJ]

CS1.6/CSS both work

 

[VeNT]

nethack

 

[Indy500]

Knights of the Old Republic (it uses OpenGL 1.4)

 

[Begbie]

beneath a steel sky?

 

[Dj_Jestar]

Still needs the core files from TTD, fortunently I have those

Which are free to download anyway.

 

[warnea1984]

Diablo 2. Just got it working on my ubuntu laptop.

 

[FatRakoon]

I myself have played Quake, Quake 2, UnReal Tournament 2003 and 2004 , Doom3 directly from Linux.

I have wined UT2003 and it plays pretty much the same as it does natively... I think there is a slight drop in performance but not enough to moan about, but I never compared.

Ihave recently seen info about the Dawn Of War series running under WINE but not tried it myself.