Installing Counter-Strike

After downloading and installing the game, this can be found inside the ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common directory.

This is a beta version, and it looks pretty good. I could notice that the main menu is capped at a certain resolution compared to the usual version for Windows, but the game itself seems to use whatever resolution specified by the user. As always, I’m glad to see games ported to native Linux. There was, however, a significant drop in FPS compared to the Windows version, but that may be because of the Intel drivers.

The server browser seems to work OK:

The game resembles an ancient warfare universe, much in the way Age of Empires series did. The new key features in this version include (from the changelog on the official website):

• a new, complete faction called Roman Republic, which comes with a new art set for buildings, units and ships
• a new combat system adding bonuses and weaknesses to units
• a new trading system, which allows you to choose which resource to be gained by a trader, available on both water and over land
• new random map scripts
• new animations for several ships, units and animals
• new AI improvements, including including a serious bug fix and performance increases
• four new music tracks and a re-done track
• many other bug fixes and minor features

Features & Gameplay
The game comes with 3D graphics using OpenGL, allowing you to zoom in/out and to rotate the image. After starting a new game only few options can be configured though, like enabling or disabling shadows, water reflections or the music. 0 A.D. features both single player and multiplayer, with the single player mode offering a skirmish-like mode, no campaigns being available at the current time. In single player you will fight versus qBot, the default A.I. used by the game. A scenario editor which can be started in-game via the Options menu is also available.

Main menu

The multiplayer mode features direct connection only, there doesn’t seem to be an Internet server, so you can either host a game or connect to another game by specifying the machine’s IP.

Starting a single player game

It can be ran in fullscreen mode or windowed mode using Alt+Enter to switch between them.

0 A.D. features a lot of maps, several factions like the new Roman Republic, Iberians, Celts or Hellenes, combat units, buildings for training new units and technologies, a trading system, and naval ships.

The gameplay is pretty much similar to the one of Age of Empires in that you gather food, stone, gold and wood, expand and upgrade your buildings and units, build up a strong army and defeat your opponent.

The new Roman faction (from the official screenshots)

Currently 0 A.D. doesn’t offer configuration options like changing the resolution, configuring keyboard shortcuts or changing the sound/music volumes. The available hotkeys are listed here.

You can use Alt+Enter to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode, or F2 to take a screenshot in PNG format.

Installation
Instructions for installing 0 A.D. in various Linux distributions can be found here. To install 0 A.D. in Ubuntu you can use the repositories provided by the official project by issuing the following commands in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install 0ad

Then run it by typing 0ad in a terminal.

To conclude, 0 A.D. has a pretty slow development rate, but once all the remaining features are implemented it should make a great, classy, real-time strategy game. Plus, it’s completely free.

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I think 1.10 is probably the most awaited release, and those of you who are fans of Wesnoth could follow its development by trying all those alphas and betas put out by the team behind it. Although I’m quite a regular player and I love this game, I preferred to stay back with 1.8.x and wait for the stable 1.10 to come out before having the real pleasure of playing it as a polished version (by the way, here is a review of an earlier alpha release).

Well, since it’s been out for over two weeks now and I couldn’t get the time to write a review, here it comes.

The main window stays unchanged in 1.10

For those of you who have no idea what Wesnoth is, it’s a 2D turn-based strategy game which takes place by default in a fantasy universe, offering six default factions, campaigns, single and multiplayer (both Internet and hot seat) modes. Players control armies and the battles take place on maps made up by hexagonal tiles. Various add-ons modify the game using the WML language (Wesnoth Markup Language) offering new maps, new factions, different game play,provides single and multiplayer modes. The possibilities are practically limitless, and the user-made content is great. There are popular maps like Creep War (with dozens of variants), Conquest (which modifies the gameplay completely), or eras that put the player in a an even more dynamic, more fantasy-like universe (take the Era of Magic for example). These are only few examples though, hundreds or maybe thousands of them are available on the add-ons server. If you ask me though, with few exceptions, I always preferred the default maps and era for a serious game. A ladder for statistics is also available, and the same goes for user registration, which can be done via the forums – you can register on the forum and use the same username and password in-game too.

Now let’s see what exactly changed in 1.10, and what new features were introduced.

There is a new mainline campaign, called “Dead Water”, which raises the number of official campaigns bundled by default to no less than 16, and that is without the introductory tutorial and the hundreds of campaigns available via the add-on menu. Dead Water revolves around the mermen race, and you will have to lead a young merman to ascend to his kingdom’s throne. This campaign is rated as intermediate difficulty level and contains 10 scenarios.

The new Dead Water campaign introduces mermen to the main line

New unit animations are available for the Saurians, part of the Drake faction. Also, new graphics for several terrain tiles were made and new terrain types were introduced. The new graphics include revamped grassland, bridges, as well as several new tiles. These new improvements really make maps and lightning look a lot more appealing to the eye. Slowed units are now tinted light blue.

A new feature called Planning mode has been introduced, and it allows to simulate unit movements and attacks, without actually doing it. You can toggle it by pressing P or set it in the Preferences to be enabled by default when the game starts.

A new option when creating a new game has been implemented, “Shuffle sides”, to let Wesnoth assign random sides to players when the game starts.

Except for those already known from previous versions, four new default maps come with Wesnoth 1.10, including 2p – Aethermaw, 2p – Arcanclave Citadel, 2p – Thousand Stings Garrison and 6p – Volcano. Maps which are already well-known from 1.8 and before have also received fixes and minor modifications.

The new 6p – Volcano map – notice the new terrain graphics making it more pleasing to the eye

The in-game editor also received improvements, like the possibility to open several maps at a time.

You can remove several add-ons at a time by using the new window that allows to check each add-on should be removed. This saves time compared to the old method, which only allowed to remove an add-on and then rebuild the cache each time.

Mass-removing of add-ons can be done easily now and in a fast manner

The music was also enriched with two new tracks.

Content creators will be glad to find out that major Lua and WML (the two scripting languages used by Wesnoth) improvements have been made.

There is also a WML plugin for the Eclipse IDE, providing features like syntax highlighting and autocompletion.

It looks like in Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha at least, the configuration directory is located inside ~/.local/share/wesnoth/1.10, while the preferences file can be found inside ~/.config/wesnoth/preferences. I don’t know if this is a Ubuntu-specific modification or this is how Wesnoth stores its configuration files now (as opposed to the usual ~/.wesnoth1.6 or ~/.wesnoth1.8 directories). At least for me, this doesn’t make it easier to access it, and the old style seems to be better.

The multiplayer server

I think that it’s impossible to list all the changes from 1.8 here, and I’m sure there is a good deal of them I’m not even aware of.

Wesnoth already built itself a great deal of popularity, and the community is great. There are the forums, the IRC channel (#wesnoth @ Freenode), the ladder third-party project, the user-made content and much, much more.

Wesnoth 1.10 is really an impressive release, with tons of improvements and new features. This can only add to the delight of the long time players and make new players curious to try it out.

MegaGlest is a free, open-source real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy universe, based on a 3D engine, with support for single player, multi player, and mods. It’s available on Linux, Windows, and, starting with this release, also OS X.

New in 3.6.0
The list of changes that come with the 3.6.0 version is rather long, including AI improvements, making it play smarter and to respond more quickly, 15 supported languages, OS X support, server mode allowing to host dedicated game servers, in-game team switching and pausing of network games. In addition to these, improvements have been made to the multi-player chat, mod menu, options for game modifications and total conversions, extended scripting support, balancing Romans faction gameplay, music presentation, low food indication, multi-player game configuration and automatic router configuration.

The minimum system requirements are:

• dual-core CPU with at least 1.5 GHz per CPU
• 1 GB RAM
• audio card with OpenAL support
• graphics card with OpenGL support

The first thing which stroke me when starting it was its interface, which somehow resembles the one found in games like WarCraft III. This may be only me, but it really gave me a comfortable feeling.

The interface is pretty intuitive, and all the configuration options are easy to find. MegaGlest offers a very wide range of configuration options, including video (screen resolution, fullscreen or windowed mode, effects), sound (music, game sound), keyboard (various keyboard shortcuts, including possibility to take screenshots). Screenshots are saved inside the ~/.megaglest/screens directory.

Configuration options

MegaGlest comes with a good number of maps, and more can be installed via the mods menu. Default factions include Egyptian, Indian, Magic, Norsemen, Persian, Romans or “Tech”. Single player offers 3 tutorials based on difficulty, 20 scenarios aimed from beginner to advanced, and the usual custom game mode.

Starting a new single player game

Multi player

The online server, listing available open games

Available game types

Installing mods in-game

The in-game camera allows to zoom in/out, rotate and change 3D view.

The game code is licensed under the GPLv2 and the game data uses the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license, making it completely free to use and distribute.

However, there was a downside I could catch, and that’s the impossibility to save the game. From the MegaGlest wiki: “MegaGlest does not currently support this feature, though the Glest Advanced Engine is able to save and load games.” This may not be so important for online games, but it’s a feature which should be available. Hope it will be implemented soon.

Installation
MegaGlest offers a nicely packaged installation binary which you can download from the official homepage (direct link here). Save the .run file to a location of your choice, then make sure to give it executable permissions (e.g. open a terminal, go to the directory where you saved it and type chmod 755 chmod 755 MegaGlest-Installer-3.6.0_i386_linux.run or right-click the file in your file browser and mark the executable tickbox). To install it just double-click the .run file or run it in the terminal, e.g. ./chmod 755 MegaGlest-Installer-3.6.0_i386_linux.run. The installation kit is only 223 MB in size.

You will also need libopenal to run it. To install it in Ubuntu this would be sudo apt-get install libopenal1.

MegaGlest allows you to install it with user permissions, so you can run it without root privileges and install it inside your home directory or any other folder where you have writing permissions.

Accept the free GNU General Public License

Choose the installation location

Installing

To run it, go inside the megaglest directory and double-click the start_megaglest binary, or in a terminal run it as ./start_megaglest.

Conclusion
To put it short: great game! Except for the game saving issue, MegaGlest has everything you would expect from a 3D RTS: single player via custom games and tutorials, good multi player (LAN and Internet, open games are available online at any time), addictive gameplay, a great deal of factions and maps, decent number of mods to choose and install directly in-game, good support for configuration. Overall, I am impressed with it, and this new release makes no exception. If you are looking for a strategy game on Linux, give MegaGlest a try, it surely deserves it.

In-game screenshots

sudo apt-get install wesnoth

AssaultCube
Being based on the Cube engine, AssaultCube is a very fast-paced first-person shooter with a gameplay that changes from mode to mode. There are the usual TDM or CTF modes, but also TOSOK (Team One Shot One Kill), KTF (Keep the Flag), OSOK, LSS (Last Swiss Standing) or even PF (Pistol Frenzy). It doesn’t have high system requirements and the online servers are most of the time filled with players.

sudo apt-get install assaultcube

Neverball
Neverball is a 3D action where you control a ball and you have to collect coins. You can start with a beginner level and advance to more advanced levels. Although the concept seems pretty simple, the game is not easy to master and it becomes addictive even in the first minutes of playing. Neverball allows configuration of sound, resolution, graphics details. It can be played in fullscreen mode too, and you can choose from various ball models.

sudo apt-get install neverball

Xonotic
Xonotic is based on Nexuiz, the result of a fork which aims to keep it free and open-source. Xonotic is a shooter with a fast game style, single player and multiplayer modes, lots of maps, models and weapons to choose from.

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Hedgewars
This is a Worms-like game, completely free and open-source, which keeps the funny atmosphere the original Worms had. Players control the so-called “hedgehogs”, which take turns, and they have entire arsenals at their disposal to blow their enemies off the orbit. A very funny and addictive game.

sudo apt-get install hedgewars

Warzone 2100
Warzone 2100 is a real time strategy game set in a future, apocalyptic universe, and it provides single player mode, multiplayer, campaigns and lots of maps. The true thing that sets Warzone 2100 apart is the unit/building tech tree, which can be upgraded differently using over 400 technologies.

sudo apt-get install warzone2100

Xonotic uses the Darkplaces game engine, an engine which started as a Quake modification, but it was under heavy development and new improvements were made. Currently the developers of Xonotic state that the game is “on the par with most commercial games from 2006-2007″. Which, for the Linux platform is pretty important.

Xonotic is a fast-paced shooter set in an unreal world, and comes with a wide range of weapons, maps, various player models and a whole bunch of community-created content. Its strong point is the multiplayer mode, however it also includes an instant action mode vs bots and a singleplayer campaign with bots support.

Here’s how Xonotic 0.5 looks like:

Xonotic is full-featured and provides ambient music, keyboard configuration (including switching from fullscreen mode to windowed-mode in-game, without restarting the game), various graphics effects, player models, weapons and maps. The toggle fullscreen option works like a charm, while screenshots can be found inside the ~/.xonotic/data/screenshots/ directory. I wasn’t able to take screenshots of the configuration options though from within the game, so I had to use an external application for that.

Configuring Xonotic

To install Xonotic 0.5 in Ubuntu 11.04, download the zip package from the official website, uncompress it and run the appropriate executable (e.g. ./xonotic-linux32-glx, ./xonotic-linux-glx.sh.

MegaGlest is based upon the original Glest engine, but offers a lot of new features and capabilities, extending the original Glest (which is rather poor in options in my opinion) to a whole new game, including support for graphical resolutions, new factions, tech trees, tilesets and maps. It is available for Linux and Windows and it’s licensed under the GPL v3, while the game data is licensed under another permissive license, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.

Minimum system requirements

• 1.5 GHz CPU
• 1 GB RAM
• OpenGL 1.4 supporting graphics card
• OpenAL compatible audio card

Features

MegaGlest has support for single player (custom game or scenario) and multiplayer over Internet or LAN. Chatting is also supported.

The 3D graphics engine allows to zoom in/out, rotate camera and change the 3D view angle by pressing the mouse wheel.

MegaGlest runs by default in fullscreen mode, but you can switch between fullscreen and windowed mode with the Alt+Enter keyboard shortcut.

The in-game interface will show you available mods (including custom tech trees, maps, tilesets and scenarios) and offer you a button to download them directly without any hustle.

The sound part is done pretty well, including ambient sounds, unit sounds and background music.

However, one major drawback is that MegaGlest cannot save games. This shouldn’t even be called a feature, since it surely should be a must-have for any RTS game.

Installation in Ubuntu

Go to the official website and download the installation script, which is called MegaGlest-Installer-3.5.2_i386_linux.run for the current version. Make it executable (chmod 755 MegaGlest-Installer-3.5.2_i386_linux.run) and run it. The graphical installer allows you to install the game as normal user in a location of your choice.

The next step is to install OpenAL. Open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install libopenal1

Now all you need to do is create a symlink (shortcut) to point to the libopenal.so.1 file. To do this, type in a terminal:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0

You will need to provide your password. Now just run MegaGlest by changing the working directory to where you installed it and typing ./megaglest.

Settings menu

Graphical installer

Warzone 2100 is a free, open-source, cross-platform 3D real-time strategy game available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, which is distinct because it offers a pretty different gameplay than the usual RTS games.

The version I’m going to talk about is 2.3.8, the latest release at the time of writing. Warzone 2100 is in continued development, improving with each new major release. For only a 57 MB tarball, this game really offers more than enough features and playability, not to mention the minimum system requirements, according to the homepage:

• 1 GHz CPU
• 128 MB VRAM
• 100 MB hard disk space
• OpenGL 1.4

Features

Here are some of the main features:

• 3D graphics, 3D engine allowing to zoom in/out, rotate the map at 360 degrees and change 3D angle
• runs in fullscreen or windowed mode
• single player and multiplayer support
• single player campaigns
• huge number of units and upgrades
• units can be customized in every way possible by applying different technology upgrades

The action takes place in an apocalyptic future, after humanity was pretty much wiped out by nuclear war and oil is the primary resource for energy.

What really makes Warzone 2100 pretty unique is the upgrades system, which allows to fully configure units with technology updates. The number of upgrades is huge, and I really mean huge (if you don’t believe me have a look on this page on website, and these are only the turrets upgrades).

Warzone 2100 is pretty rich regarding configuration, and it allows to configure video performance, screen resolution, fullscreen or windowed mode, sounds and music, change keyboard shortcuts, mouse settings, AI difficulty and scroll speed.

The official website comes with a pretty decent archive of user-made content, maps and mods, a guide which covers all the aspects of the game, and the community forum. A separate random map generator (included in Warzone Map Tools) is also available here.

Installation in Ubuntu

There is a PPA for Warzone 2100 but it currently has no packages, and the official website offers only a source tarball. However, here are instructions to compile the latest version from source in Ubuntu 11.04:

Download the source tarball from the official website (direct link here). Open a terminal, go the folder where you saved it and uncompress it using:

tar -xzf warzone2100-2.3.8.tar.gz

Next let’s install the needed dependencies to compile it:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get build-dep warzone2100

Then go to the uncompressed warzone2100-2.3.8 directory and issue the usual commands:

./configure
make
sudo make install

Run it by typing warzone2100 in a terminal or by pressing Alt+F2 and typing warzone2100 in the run box.

More screenshots

First of all, Hedgewars resembles the original Worms game more accurately than WarMUX, and I’m not referring to playability, which is great for both, but only to the way weapons and characters look like, and also to the in-game configuration and sounds. Here’s how the last Hedgewars release, 0.9.14.1, looks like:

The game highlight features:

- single player and multiplayer (online or LAN)

- bundled map pack

- wide range of weapons to choose from

- in-game fun sounds and in-game music (several entertaining soundtracks)

- possibility to configure teams, weapon settings, fullscreen/windowed mode

Hedgewars allows you to configure it in pretty much the same way the original Worms did: you can configure teams, weapons (weapon set, probabilities, ammo and also weapon delays), change screen resolution, run it in a window or in fullscreen mode, enable or disable music/in-game sounds.

Online playing is straightforward – connect to the official server, chat, choose a game and play:

Weapons include the usual bazooka, grenades, cluster bombs, dynamite, happy birthday cake, kamikaze, or even seduction, a weapon which will make the enemy hogs jump towards you (used best to make them jump into a gap or whole).

Default weapon set

I found the background music to be actually great and really entertaining, and the in-game sounds made by the hogs are pretty funny too.

All-in-all, Hedgewars is great. It succeeds in recreating that special feeling you had when playing the original Worms game, and it does it actually better. Great configurability, nice sounds and great music, both single player and online playing support, these are its strong points. Give it a try if you haven’t already!

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Sauerbraten is the continuation of the original Cube game, which had its last release in 2005. Sauerbraten takes a different approach as opposed to AssaultCube, in that the environments in which the action takes place and the weapons are rather unrealistic.

Sauerbraten comes bundled with a huge number of maps which cover almost any environment possible: there are space maps, city maps, castle maps, all of them more or less realistic, with a high texture detail. The game features seven weapons: chainsaw, pistol, grenade launcher, rifle, rocket launcher, chaingun and shotgun.

The rocket launcher

Except for the single player and online multiplayer, there is also a series of campaigns. Although the AI is not very smart, the campaigns can produce a pretty good experience due to a high number of monsters that spawn on the map (the game includes 8 types of monsters).

The gameplay is somewhat different from the one found in AssaultCube, and so at the start of a round you get all the weapons, but you will have to pick up ammo packs to use them. Other items include the usual armor (100HP, absorbs 40% damage), heavy armor (200HP, absorbs 50% damage), quad powerup (damage four times bigger), health boost (which adds 10 HP which will last until the current map ends). Regarding modes, except for the usual DM, TDM and CTF, Sauerbraten introduces the so-called “Capture” mode, in which the goal is to capture and holding bases. In this mode the most time a team took hold of bases wins at the end of the game; if one team captures all the bases (which are initially neutral) it wins automatically. Holding a base gives ammo at certain amounts of time; capturing a base can be speed up if more players on the same team are within a certain radius of it.

A classic Instagib map

The background metal music is quite entertaining and, in combination with the highly paced rhythm of the game, produces a really dynamic gaming experience.

Regarding configuration, Sauerbraten is very rich. It runs in either fullscreen or windowed mode, offers many configurable graphics effects and it also includes an in-game editor for the autoexec.cfg file.

A weak point may be the fact that there are only four player models to choose from in multiplayer, and their look kind of lacks imagination.

Overall, I think Sauerbraten’s strong points are the fast pace, which makes you want to be always in motion, the detailed and very interesting maps, cool music, high playability level. All these ingredients make up a good action game on top of a great engine.

Download Cube 2: Sauerbraten

Suicidal thoughts put in practice

For those who never played Worms-like games, here’s what WarMUX is about. It’s a turn-based, team game, taking place on various 2D maps, with each team formed by 1 or more characters which you will be able to control, one at a time, when your turn arrives. You can move your characters around and choose from a wide range of weapons to exterminate your enemies. In WarMUX each team can have a minimum of one and a maximum of 10 characters, and the game also offers various configuration settings before the game starts, settings which will have an impact on the game (like gravity, duration of a turn, enabling/disabling character switching and so on). The game ends when all of the enemy teams’ members are dead.

Main menu

WarMUX takes a funny, yet clever way of naming teams and characters, which are inspired from various free software projects, applications, programming languages or even mascots (like the Firefox Team, or the GNU Team, or the PHP Team — of course, the Tux Team is also present). However, if you’re not comfortable with the default teams, you can create your own. There is no Super Cow, but there is a Super Tux. A maximum of four teams are allowed, and the game is free for all.

The in-game help menu shows how to use the keyboard shortcuts:

Online server

The options menu – here you can create new teams, configure resolution, sound settings, and miscellaneous settings

The game comes with quite a large pack of maps, a wide range of weapons to choose from, it offers music and character/weapon sounds. I liked that the sound when the player’s turn starts is borrowed from Wesnoth‘s turn bell sound, another (quite popular on Linux) open-source game.

Creating a new game – you can assign a side to AI by clicking on the icon below the team icon:

Notice the available arsenal – bazookas, grenades, mines, dynamite…

After a game you are presented with team statistics, like most violent character, or most useless, or most accurate etc. and also with team evolution graphs.

WorMUX comes translated in 36 languages, it can be played in either fullscreen or windowed mode, and has support for screen resolutions varying from 640×480 up to 1280×1024. The 2D graphics do not require hardware acceleration and the background music is relaxing.

One minus I could catch regards the in-game character animations, which should be worked out to make the characters more fun and realistic. Other than that WarMUX is really a great and fun game to play, especially for those looking for a good replacement of Worms on Linux.

To play WarMUX, you only need to download the Linux standalone binary and it should work out of the box.

AssaultCube takes place on realistic maps and includes 12 multiplayer game modes, including the classic DM, TDM, CTF or Survival, 24 maps (and more available to download), 8 weapons to choose from and various pickup items. The game doesn’t offer a storyline (and I believe most multiplayer shooter don’t even need one), and it offers two different teams, the so-called Cubers Liberations Army (CLA) and the Rabid Viper Special Forces (RVSF).

The interface of the game is a little unintuitive and it lacks several features which would be more user-friendly (e.g. menus accessible only from the keyboard, or the online server which can drive away a first-time player until he can actually select a game to play on). But once the settings are applied and you’re connected to the game, the fun begins.

AssaultCube offers a fast-paced experience at a low amount of resources (as low as Pentium III and above according to the homepage) and there are enough busy servers to choose from online.

The weapon range varies from the classical knife (and by the way, a knife kill counts two frags) to sniper rifle, shotgun, pistol or grenade. The recoil for all the guns is pretty high, so short, controlled bursts is the way to go. Just as with the knife, a headshot from the sniper rifle will also count two frangs instead of one.

There are 12 multiplayer game modes. Here is a brief description for each of them:

• Deathmatch – the classic FFA (free for all)
• Survivor – round-based FFA
• Pistol Frenzy – FFA mode with only pistols, knifes and grenades
• Last Swiss Standing – round-based FFA with only knifes and grenades
• One Shot, One Kill – as the name suggests, one shot is enough to kill the opponent; FFA with 1 HP for each player, a sniper rifle, knife and no pickups
• Team Deathmatch – two teams which fight each other, the winning team is the one with most frags at the end of the game
• Team Survivor – just like TDM, only round-based
• Team One Shot, One Kill – two teams, each player starts with 1 HP, sniper rifle, knife and no pickups
• Hunt the Flag – two flag bearers, the team which frags the enemy flag bearer and collects the flag scores, your own flag must have a bearer
• Team Keep the Flag – one flag, grab and keep the flag for 15 seconds for your team to score
• Keep the Flag – one flag, FFA, grab and keep the flag for 15 seconds to score
• Capture the Flag – the classic CTF, collect the enemy flag and bring it to your base to score; your own flag must be in your base

Except for these, there is one multiplayer cooperative mode and three singleplayer modes against the AI (Bot Team Deathmatch, Bot Deathmatch and Bot One Shot, One Kill).

AssaultCube is a great game, and very addictive. Its strengths are the vast amount of gaming modes and the fast-paced rhythm. The only problem I could find annoying was navigating through menus and the server browser, which makes it very hard to choose a game due to a pretty uninspired color scheme.

To install, you will need SDL 1.2, SDL_image 1.2, OpenAL, SDL_ttf 2.0. On a Debian/Ubuntu system, these should be fetched by issuing the following command in a terminal:

apt-get install libsdl1.2debian libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libopenal1

Official website

Game introduction

Download AssaultCube

Download user-made content