Gifts for Gamers: Some End-of-Year Recommendations, Part 2
More games for Linux and open source - a large choice for every taste. Strategy, chess, and more.To be continued.
Strategy
Warzone 2100
GPL, activated 3D graphics, http://wz2100.net
Originally released 1999 as a commercial real-time strategy game from Edios Interactive, Warzone has been further developed by a horde of volunteers under the GNU license. Unlike its competitors in the same genre, Warzone 2100 allows for individual unit design with varied unit characteristics and tactics.
LordsAWar
Free, 2D graphics, http://www.nongnu.org/lordsawar
The turn-based strategy game is still in its early development stages. The object is to create armies in cities to conquer neighboring cities and send heros on quests for treasure.
LGeneral
Free, 2D graphics, http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LGeneral
Friends of the turn-based strategy game Panzer General would feel at home with the LGeneral clone. As general, you guide your troups across hexagonal battlefields.
MegaMek
GPL, 2D graphics, http://megamek.sourceforge.net
Likewise with a beehive playing field, MegaMek is an unofficial version of the BattleTech board game, with overdimensioned robots pulled into battle.
Lux
Commercial, http://sillysoft.net
The strategy game is loosely based on the Risk board game, with some extensions. Taking over the world involves aligning your troops across 700 maps, including phantasy worlds
NAEV
GPL v3, activated 3D graphics, http://code.google.com/p/naev
Unlike Elite, this space trading and combat game has a bird's-eye view. The object is still to conquer large galaxies.
Privateer: Ascii Sector
Free, 2D graphics, http://www.asciisector.net
The game reduces the concept popular in Elite and Privateer to its graphic minimum. The space conquering simulation works exclusively with ASCII characters, with a considerable retro effect.
Mechanical Tower
Free, activated 3D graphics, http://www.tdb.fi/mechtower.shtml
Robots gone haywire storm a tower and you must set traps to destroy them before they do the same to you.
BattleDuel
Free, 2D graphics, http://terstiege.de/battleduel
In a mountainous landscape, opponents try to out each other with fixed cannons. They take turns firing, but need to reckon with wind and ballistics.
Tiffanys
GPL, 2D graphics, http://tiffanys.sourceforge.net
A simple chess game with multiple game modes.
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