Ubuntu GAMES

Open Arena is the open source equivalent of Quake 3 Arena. Like Quake, Open Arena is a first person shooter that is heavily based around multi-player deathmatch arenas. ou fight it out in arenas, either online or against AI-controlled bots. There are several weapons you can use, such as the usual machine gun, shotgun, rocket launch and rail un. There are 4 modes you can play: deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag,and tournament.

As soon as you install the game, you have the option of playing the game in either single player mode or multi-player mode. The single player mode is good for players who are new to the game. It gives you a chance to get used to the fast-paced gameplay, and explore the many arenas. The AI-control bots are fairly ntelligent and can put up a good ight. There are about 20 maps which you can play through. These are the same maps that are used on multiplayer, so the single player mode gives you the chance to explore each map before you play online.



Finally, the multi-player - the main part of Open Arena. This game, like Quake 3, as
designed with a focus on the online mode. You can play either over a LAN or over the internet. When you join a match, it is incredibly fast-paced. Stand still for a second, and your head will be shot off. Grab a gun, run and fire. Open Arena equires
no real tactics; unlike Counter Strike, you just have to go with the flow.There are about 70 servers for Open Arena, which are all fairly active.
Each server has different maps to play on, and different game modes. For players new to online FPS games, it is not the best game to start out with. Many players are very fast, and have very good aim. I was on one server, where every time I spawned I would be shot by a rail gun. This happened 20 times in a row!Open Arena has an active community of developers, always busy developing new versions of the game. In the past, they have
added new game modes, new graphics, and new maps. The latest version of the game is
0.8.0. However, on the Ubuntu repos, the latest stable version is 0.7.7. I would recommend installing 0.8.0, because it has all the new content, and most of the Open Arena servers will be using that version. You will be able to download the DEB file from PlayDeb.net.
Open Arena is an excellent free alternative to Quake. It is very well developed, and the game is perfectly balanced. Graphics are very dated, but with most online FPS games, it's more important to have a high frame rate than good looking graphics. I
would strongly recommend this game to any hardcore Linux gamers, especially FPS fans.
However, I would not recommend this to gamers new to FPS, it is just far too fast.

Sistem Requirements:

Intel Pentium II 233MHz
64MB RAM
OpenGL Graphics Card with
32MB VRAM (3D acceleration
enabled)
300MB HDD space

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