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- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -8/+73I almost shot myself trying to install Linux.
Does that count as a first person shooter? - Narishma, on 10/08/2008, -4/+46Buried as inaccurate. These are open source FPS games. There are better proprietary FPS like the Quakes, Unreals and Enemy Territories.
- darkcrystal, on 10/08/2008, -4/+31Dugg for warsow. We need more players.
www.warsow.net - skywake, on 10/08/2008, -0/+23Where's UT?
- strevoir, on 10/08/2008, -1/+22*Enemy Territory: Wolfenstein*
- scabbers, on 10/08/2008, -1/+21Reads like a bunch of copypastas from Wikipedia.
- c0ldmetalz, on 10/08/2008, -2/+21Urban Terror!!
http://www.urbanterror.net/news.php
the best IMHO - inactive, on 10/08/2008, -5/+248? OMG Linux kick ass....
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -1/+18*plays Team Fortress 2 on Linux Mint box*
*laughs at Dystopiapanda when I tea-bag his corpse* - rabidmonkey1, on 10/08/2008, -1/+16A lot of these are cross-platform, not just for Linux. Granted, something like http://www.playdeb.net/ makes it ridiculously easy to install these and keep em up to date on Linux (well, at least ubuntu), but just about any platform can join in the fun. I highly recommend Nexuiz, if for nothing else but the grappling hook.
- dystra, on 10/08/2008, -6/+18in other words.....8 FPS nobody plays.
- madduffy, on 10/08/2008, -4/+15Valve Source games are playable through WINE.
- andrewtheart, on 10/08/2008, -3/+14...LOL
That was funny - and I use Ubuntu.
It's funny simply because installing Linux is incredibly easy these days.
Burn the ISO onto a disc with one of hundreds of free programs, pop it into your CD drive, reboot.
There may be some hardware incompatibilities but those are getting less and less pesky every day with distros like Ubuntu and it's Restricted Driver Manager.
Maybe you shot yourself in amazement at how far Linux has come in the past few years. - computershack, on 10/08/2008, -2/+12Buried for making Linux look gay and like it only has games that look like something you played on your NES.
As much as I don't really like Linux (mostly cos of the fanboism), lets be fair about it. Where is UT3, Quake 1/2/3/4, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Doom3? If you're going to do a list of the top 8 Linux FPSs, don't exclude the aforementioned just because you have to pay for them. They do more to show Linux as a viable gaming platform than any of that ***** (OpenArena excluded) does. - Vadi0, on 10/08/2008, -1/+11Savage 2: http://savage2.com
- d0nkeym0nkey, on 10/08/2008, -3/+12dugg for OpenArena
- cloudberries, on 10/08/2008, -4/+13Who cares what the gameplay is like as long as you can spend your hours staring at the next generation of Super-Detailed Hardass Space Marine With Large Weapon Character #244 (TM)? Look! You can make out all the individual hairs on his finely chiselled jaw. This game must be freakin' AWESOME!
Some of the most fun I've had playing games recently was with Geometry Wars. And that's just lines. Granted, good graphics are sweet, and I would give a small part of my left thumb to own a PC with enough spec to run Crysis at full-detail, but I wish game developers would spend just a little more time on playability and less on graphics. - jjbud, on 10/08/2008, -1/+9I cannot believe they would leave out Urban Terror, It is free, available for Windows, Linux and Mac, and there are more than 500 servers to play on. There is even a gaming league. Closest thing to CounterStrike you can get. Urban Terror should have been first on the list, but I will have to try out these others. This one is a MUST for everyone, go download it and I will see you on the servers.
STABBY - jaywalker, on 10/08/2008, -1/+8Before-the-Before-Last-Gen graphics.
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -2/+9And on Windows.
- tbredofsin, on 10/08/2008, -0/+6While I support Linux gaming and hope that it grows by leaps and bounds, I can't help but be entirely unimpressed by this. I'd be willing to bet there were eight better shooters released for Windows in the past year alone. Half of these games would look embarrassing (in terms of technology and art design) if they were released ten years ago.
- 16777216, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5Yes, but it's still kind of glitchy.
Oh!, You meant on Linux, Yep same there too. - OCPaul, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5Urban Terror Probably beats all those other games to be honest. These people making list always miss this game.
- pyrohotdog, on 10/08/2008, -2/+7Not a fantastic list, nothing I didn't already know of.... but dugg to raise awareness of the few badass FPSs available for FREE on Linux...
- MateFrio, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5+1 Urban Terror is the only FPS I play and I've tried all the others. Without it this list sucks.
- peterseb80, on 10/08/2008, -2/+7It's funny that you have to identify yourself as an Ubuntu user so you aren't digged down.
- prolog, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5Unlike utility programs, video games are not interchangeable. You can legitimately claim that OpenOffice is an adequate substitute for MS Office, since ultimately their purpose is functional in nature and as long as one isn't missing any vital features you can use either.
If someone loves to read Proust and you swap his copy of À la recherche du temps perdu out for War and Peace instead you can't expect him to be indifferent to the change. It's the same for video games, someone who likes TF2 or COD4 isn't going to see them as interchangeable with any of the games on the list. - sniperpants, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5Yeah, what about ET for linux? In my opinion, one of the most entertaining, fun games for Linux. V57!!!
- MrBrome, on 10/08/2008, -0/+5Don't miss True Combat: Elite, an ET mod which is a Counter Strike lookalike, only better.
- KaiUno, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4... out of 10.
- Swarmie, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4Narishma you are completely right!
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4I wonder how this didn't make the list...
- fuliginosus, on 10/08/2008, -0/+4Title is wrong. This article is about free/open-source fps games. It's not about best fps games for linux. There are more and better fps games for linux, they just are normal commercial games, like Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
- Stonekeeper, on 10/08/2008, -1/+5Dugg for trem, although I'd say it's mainly a strategy game. I'm addicted to the damn thing.
- jonshipman, on 10/08/2008, -2/+5There's eight! - Mac user
- godsdead, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3Ah, cool list, really shows some other games out there, seeing that i have my linux installed on an old machine, i might try some of these =]
- vulcanius, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3How many times now has this same set of games been in a list?
- bagboyrebel, on 10/08/2008, -1/+4Last time I tried it ran almost perfectly.
- Cenobite, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3As mentioned earlier in the thread, the title of the article is misleading as hell. This is a list of open-source FPSes, not necessarily the BEST ones on Linux.
There are also the Quakes, UTs, Dooms, Source games, Half Lifes, etc. - Swarmie, on 10/08/2008, -3/+6How about mentioning they were all free and lower quality than the proprietary options like Unreal Tournament and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars?
Stupid... - inactive, on 10/08/2008, -1/+4They mentioned some of the games have proprietary components though.
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -1/+4Actually I think that's what it is.
- cfuse, on 10/08/2008, -12/+15Linux + games = LOL.
- bluepill2, on 10/08/2008, -3/+6That's it? That's your 8 best games?
.......
[cue wah-wah sound]
Make fun of my Windows Vista all day long; I'll just be over here playing any amount of Valve Source Mods off Steam. - shakin, on 10/08/2008, -0/+3Tremulous = FPSS = First Person Strategy Shooter
- MacParrot, on 10/08/2008, -1/+3I guess what was really unfortunate (and says much about your skills) is that you missed.
- InorganicMatter, on 10/08/2008, -1/+3No Quake?
This list is a solid FAIL! - redwallhp, on 10/08/2008, -0/+2Dugg for Sauerbraten. Open source, runs on Lin/Win/Mac, has a great editor, plenty of multiplayer game modes, fast-placed gameplay... Try it.
- Twinnie, on 10/08/2008, -1/+38 'best FPS games for Linux'?
First of all the guy writing the article says he's only even played one of them, so how can the submitter say they're the best?
Secondly, they're just open-source/free, not necessarily Linux only games. - wonko33, on 10/09/2008, -0/+2Couldn't find 10?
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