Ten Days with Linux – Day 5

And Tux scores!!!

The fifth day (8th March) of creepyghost’s venture into the GUI Linux graveyard (although he is not too mcuh experienced with CLI based Linux either) had him sweating around trying to find some good games to play on Red Hat Linux 5 and which could act as alternatives to the ones commonly used in Windows. Here’s his  take on day 5:-

Day 5:-

Just spent half the time trying to find some good ones. He settled on Flight Gear and Urban Terror. While none of these games have top notch graphics right now, they appeared to be the best alternatives. For one who has become quite familiar with America’s Army, it is hard to adapt to an environment where players re spawn. Nevertheless, in no time at all, creepyghost was creeping around the map spooking the blue team and fragging them to hell (This might be an overstatement).

Similarly, while Flightgear is a nice flight simulator, it’s graphics compare the ground with an artificial carpet of grass used on cricket pitches with alien designs burnt into them. The control panel of most of the planes were similar. Nevertheless, that game being the only free alternative, creepyghost had to put up with it.

Anyhow, creepyghost soon got bored after crashing his plane while trying to land for the umpteenth time! Just how the hell do ya land this thing???

Anyway, its time to try Tux Racer… and some RPG games too…

As a summary, gaming on Linux still requires more attention, nevertheless, for the casual gamer, the switch to open source should pose no trouble at all on this front! The penguin scores here.