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Gaming On Linux Is It Worth A Try ?2013-07-02 18:07:42 Osei Fortune

Is Gaming On Linux As Bad As People

Say It Is ? NoMost gamers would say gaming on linux is a waste of time or some mayeven say Linux ?? Whats that . Well about a few years ago i probably was inthe same position saying windows all the way and linux that os is a waste oftime LOL shame on me.But it wasnt till browsing the web and reading lots of reviews from first timelinux users and the advantages the NIX family (Unix/Linux) got over win-
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dows also it was about time to try something new . Mac OS hmmm dont

think I could have afford that without selling an organ and Microsoft hadrecently release their latest installment of windows called vista and bothknow how bugged out that was . LOL (facepalm)


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So after doing all the research possible i finally decided to give Linux a try

an it so happens the first Linux Distro I tried was Ubuntu . After the first

month using ubuntu only one thing the OS had me saying .

Mother OF OS Where Have You Been All My Life

Gaming On Linux its Alive Its Alive


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Well before i bore you anymore lets get down to business with the help of a

couple of people from the google plus group Gaming On Linux and a bit of re-

search we created a list of games to help with gaming on linux and make the

process easier.

Shank | Price $9.99 USD

Shank is the cult-classic revival of the sidescrolling beat-em-up.Play as Shank in an over-the-top grindhouse game, packed tothe rim with enemies, bosses, combos, and more. In the 2Dsidescroller beat-em-up embark on a brutal path of blood soakedrevenge as Shank battles his way through the criminal under-ground in his quest for retribution. Boasting fast-paced bloody

action, silky smooth controls and a signature pulpy grindhouse artstyle, Shank is a must-play for action fans.


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Shank 2 | Price $9.99 US

The fan- favorite 2D brawler is back as ex- mob hit man Shank returns toaction in Shank 2. With those closest to him under attack, Shank is onceagain forced on the offensive. Now he must put his trusty arsenal of hand-

guns, shotguns, automatic weapons, chainsaws, machetes, grenades, plusall-new weaponry and moves to use in order to protect those close to him.The original game set a new standard for its visual style and Shank 2 raisesthe bar. Shank 2 expands on the original games amazing combat system toredefine the 2D side-scrolling brawler.


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Team Fortress 2 | Price Free

Team Fortress 2is focused around two opposing teams, ReliableExcavation &

Demolition (RED) and Builders League United (BLU) competing for a combat-

based principal objective. Players can choose to play as one of nine classes in

these teams, each with his own unique strengths, weaknesses and weapons.

Although the abilities of a number of classes have changed from earlierTeam

Fortress incarnations, the basic elements of each class have remained, that

being one primary weapon, one secondary weapon, and one melee weapon


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Bastion | Price $14.99 USD

Bastion is an action role- playing experience that redefines storytellingingames, with a reactive narrator who marks your every move. Explore more

than 40 lush hand- painted environments as you discover the secrets of the

Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces. Wield a

huge arsenal of upgradeable weapons and battle savage beasts adapted to

their new habitat. Finish the main story to unlock the New Game Plus mode

and continue your journey.


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Minecraft | Price 19.95

Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built

structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players

worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things.

It can also be about adventuring with friends or watching the sun rise over ablocky ocean. Its pretty. Brave players battle terrible things in The Nether,which is more scary than pretty. You can also visit a land ofmushrooms if itsounds more like your cup of tea.


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Heroes Of Newerth |Price Free

Heroes of Newerth pits two teams of players against each other: the Legion and

the Hellbourne. Both teams are based at opposite corners of the map in theirrespective bases. Bases consist of buildings, creep spawn points, towers, a

hero spawning pool, and a central structure. The goal of the game is to either

destroy the central structure, world tree (Legion) or Sacrificial Shrine

(Hellbourne), of the opposite base or force the other team to concede. Players

achieve this by selecting heroes with unique skills to combat the other team.


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Dungeon Defenders | Price $14.99 USD

Dungeon Defenders is a Tower Defense Action-RPG where you must savethe land of Etheria from an Ancient Evil! Create a hero from one of four dis-tinct classes to fight back wave after wave of enemies by summoning de-fenses and directly participating in the action-packed combat!

Customize and level your character, forge equipment, gather loot, collect petsand more! Take your hero through multiple difficulty modes and challenge/

survival missions to earn more experience & even better treasure. Join your

friends with 4-player online and local (splitscreen) co-op to plan your strategies

together or compete in PvP Deathmatch.


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Alien Arena | Price Free

Do you like old school deathmatch with modern features? How about rich, col-

orful, arcade like atmospheres? How aboutretro Sci Fi? Then youre going to

love what Alien Arena has in store for you! This game combines some of the

very best aspects of such games as Quake III and Unreal Tournament and

wraps them up with a retro alien theme, while adding tons of original ideas to

make the game quite unique.


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Awesomenauts | Price $9.99 USD

The year is 3587. Conflict spans the stars as huge robot armies are locked in anenduring stalemate. In their bid for galactic supremacy, they call upon the most

powerful group of mercenaries in the universe: the Awesomenauts!

Awesomenauts is a MOBA fitted into the form of an accessible 3-on-3 action

platformer. Head out to the online battlefields together with your friends as an

online party or in local splitscreen, and never worry about having to wait for an

online match because of drop-in matchmaking!

Devise strategies as you upgrade and customize each characters skills to suit

your playing style


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True Combat | Price Free

TrueCombat pits two teams against each other, the Terrorists and the Counter-

Terrorists. Weapon availability depends on what side youre on

and what class you have selected. There are three classes, As-sault, Recon and Sniper. The Assault class get assault rifles andare basically standard infantryman. The Recon class uses lightweapons such as submachine guns. The Sniper class gets longrange weaponry to take out enemies from afar. The game at-tempts to stimulate realism as much as possible. Unlike mostshooters, there is no crosshair on the screen. To aim accuratelyyou must aim down the sights. The player can lean around cor-ners and while walking. The game implements AA or armament

availability to decide what weapons will be available to you,based on your performance. Poor performance will get you onlybasic weapons, good performance will get you a larger variety ofweapons. Gameplay is entirely online, though the player mayadd computer controlled bots to play offline


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Trine | Price $9.99 USD

Trine is a fantasy action game where the player can create and use phys-

ics-based objects to beat hazardous puzzles and threatening enemies. Set

in a world of great castles and strange machinery, three heroes are bound

to a mysterious device called the Trine in a quest to save the kingdom from

evil

The gameplay is based on fully interactive physicseach characters differ-ent abilities help the player battle an army of undead and defeat hazardouscontraptions. The player can at any time freely choose whoever is bestsuited for the upcoming challenge or puzzle: The Wizard is able to summonobjects to help solve puzzles and create new ways to overcome obstacles,the Thief uses her agility and dead-on accuracy to swiftly surprise the mon-sters, and the Knight unleashes mayhem and physical destruction whereverhe goes.


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Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory | Price Free

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a multiplayer game in which players wagewar as Axis or Allies in team-based combat. Its a team game; you will winor fall along with your comrades. The only way to complete the objectivesthat lead to victory is by cooperation, with each player covering their team-mates and using their class special abilities in concert with the others.


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Quake Live | Price Free

The gameplay ofQuake Live consists of players attempting

to frag more of their opponents than any other player or team in a givenmatch. This is achieved by navigating a 3D environment and shooting otherplayers with a variety of weapons, while collecting health, armor, weapons,ammo and various power -ups. As players get more advanced, they use

other tricks and techniques suchas rocket and strafe jumping.


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Machinarium | Price $10

The goal ofMachinarium is to solve a series of puzzles and brain teasers.The puzzles are linked together by an overworld consisting of a traditionalpoint and click adventure story. The overworlds most radical departure isthat only objects within the player characters reach can be clicked on.

Machinarium is notable in that it contains no dialogue, spoken or written,

and apart from a few tutorial prompts on the first screen, is devoid of under-

standable language entirely. The game instead uses a system of animated

thought bubbles.


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Shadowgrounds Survivor| Price $9.99 USD

Surviving is only half the game. The award-winning atmosphere and

gameplay mechanics of the original Shadowgrounds make a triumphant return

in this spin off/sequel armed with a slick new feature set! Shadowgrounds Survi-

vor tells the story of the last remaining humans on Jupiters moon Ganymede,

where the alien onslaught is in full force.


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0 A.D. | Price Free

0 A.D. features the real-time strategy gameplay components of building a base,

training an army, combat, and technology research. The game is about eco-nomic development and warfare. Wildfire Games aims to deliver an innovative

but familiar experience, focusing mostly on the military aspect of real-time strat-

egy. The game will pursue a sense of historical accuracy without damaging

gameplay. It also aims for a high degree of replayability by being easily

moddable and the formation of a large online community. The player will haveto build a city and an army following the rules of standard real-time strategy

games, collecting resources and constructing buildings. The game will includemultiple units and buildings specific to each civilization as well as both land and

naval units.


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Capsized | Price Free

Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and ex-ploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on amysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environ-ment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and es-cape with your lives!

Use your jetpack to fly through the alien jungle, and tools such as the Gravity

Hook to manipulate your environment to skilfully dodge and defeat attacking

enemies. You will be challenged with platforming, puzzle solving, and

deadly skirmishing, often all at the same time!


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Nexuiz Classic | Price Free

Nexuiz is an FPS game, heavily inspired by the original Quake games, even

running on a modified Quake engine known as DarkPlaces engine. It includes

thirteen weapons, 24 official maps and over 240 community created maps, as

well as 15 player models.

Nexuiz is primarily multiplayer (though it includes a full single-player cam-

paign, which allows one to play through the various multiplayer game types

and maps with bots), and allows for hosting and joining of games. It can also

support new gametypes, or whole conversions quickly applied to it (much like

Quake). Nexuiz supportsmost Quakemodifications (although with varying functionality). Currently

there are a few custom mods and maps used.


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SuperTuxKart | Price Free

SuperTuxKarts gameplay is similar to Mario Kart, but has become more dis-tinctive over time it also featuresthe Linux mascot Tux and The Mozilla Thunderbird is the race referee.


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Games To Look Out For

Planetary Annihilation | Price $40 +

Planetary Annihilation is planned to feature a planet-based map system, includ-

ing multiple star systems, different types of planets and asteroids. Players will

be able to conquer other planets and even entire systems on maps said to in-clude hundreds of worlds. These planets are also planned to be dynamic in

that they can be annihilated using asteroids, a major focus for Uber Entertain-

ment. The games creators have also stated that Planetary Annihilation will re-

semble something of the 1997 RTS Total Annihilation as its focus is more to-

wards macro gameplay as opposed to micro gameplay. In development up-dates, Mavor has commented that a million in-game units is a design goal of

the development team. It has also been hinted that Planetary

Annihilation will feature a commander-focused system, in

which the player loses when their commander dies.


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McDROID | Price Unknown

From the creator

Its the love child of my two favorite games: RTYPE and DUNE 2.

It is a very fluid hybrid of action strategy game that is challenging

to your trigger finger and your brain.

It demands you to manage resources, repair, upgrade, shoot atstuff, deploy turrets, put them on your back for hands on action,upgrade, run around, kite mutated snails eating on your all-important shuttle and off course jump. The soundtrack is a reallycool 60s music Maurice La Police recorded in Paris for us.

It starts easy like a tower defense but quickly becomes a tough ac-

tion strategy where you have to balance so many things that only

the most skilled multi tasker can handle it. Its something really

new.


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Final Thoughts

Thats is for our list of games for linux I hope they can help you change your

mind about Gaming on Linux . If this article helped you in any way please

share it with your friends and followers. Did we miss any games worth play-ing ? feel free to tell us in the comments below.

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