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We try in this section to list the real good games working under linux.

Contents 1 Arcade 2 Strategy 3 First Person Shooter (FPS) 4 Simulation 5 Useful Links

[edit] Arcade

• Tux Racer (commercial)
• Tux Racer (free and open-source)

[edit] Strategy

• The Sims (commercial) This Electronic Art's best seller is available for linux. There is even a Mandriva-based box.

[edit] First Person Shooter (FPS)

• OpenArena (in contrib backports since 2007.0)
• AssaultCube (may be provided by a popular 3rd-party repository - or not).

• Return to castle Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory (free, but not open-source) Originally designed to be a multiplayer addon of Return to Castle Wolfenstein by Activision, this multiplayer game is actually offered for free by id software.
  • You can download it on rtcfiles.com, 3gamers.com among others. There is also a bittorrent link: http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/BT/torrents/et-linux-2.56-2.x86.run.torrent

[edit] Simulation

• FlightGear A flight simulator. In contrib for years.
  • There are over 20,000 airports in the scenery set. Scenery includes all vmap0 lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, cities, towns, land cover, etc.
  • High number of aircrafts, from the 1903 Wright Flyer to the Airbus A320.
  • Interactive 3D cockpits.
  • Flight models can be laoded as plugins.
  • Accurate sky model, with correctly placed sun, moon, stars, etc.
  • Networking options.

[edit] Useful Links

• http://www.happypenguin.org/ - The Linux game tome - directory of Linux games.
• http://www.linuxgames.com/ - Gaming HOW-TOs & Some demos for linux
• http://frankscorner.org/ - Running Windows Applications and games on Linux using Wine and WineX?