Armagetron Advanced
http://www.armagetronad.net/
Armagetron is a multiplayer game in 3d that attempts to emulate and expand on
the lightcycle sequence from the movie Tron. It’s an old school arcade game sl
ung into the 21st century. Highlights include a customizable playing arena, HU
D, unique graphics, and AI bots. For the more advanced player there are new ga
me modes and a wide variety of physics settings to tweak as well.
Battlestar Galactica: Beyond the Red Line
http://www.game-warden.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3502
• Powered by the revamped Freespace 2 engine
• Entirely stand-alone, Freespace 2 not required
• Accurately detailed high-resolution ship models
• High quality, originally engineered audio
• Authentic, original in-game soundtrack, in addition to pieces by Bear McCreary and Richard Gibbs
• Original characters and voice acting
• A three mission single player campaign depicting never-before-seen eve
nts, interwoven with and true to the series’ storyline
• Head online and go head-to-head with your friends—and foes—in intens
e multiplayer missions including Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, and others
• Exciting Viper combat with authentic weaponry and flight controls
BZFlag
http://bzflag.org/
BZFlag is a free online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank battle
game. The name originates from “Battle Zone capture the Flag”. It runs on Irix
, Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OS X, and many other platforms. It’s one of the mos
t popular open source games ever on Silicon Graphics machines and continues to
be developed and improved to this day.
Cube 2 “Sauerbraten”
http://sauerbraten.org/
Free single and multiplayer first person shooter game with some satisfying fas
t oldskool gameplay. A large variety of gameplay modes from classic SP to fast
1 on 1 MP and objective based teamplay, with a great variety of original maps
to play on.
Level editing has never been so much fun: a press of a key allows you to modif
y the geometry / textures / entities in-game, on the fly. Even more novel, you
can make maps together with others online, in the unique “coop edit” mode.
Cube
http://cubeengine.com/
Cube is the original game that started it all. Though it has been surpassed in
almost every way by Cube 2, it is a game in its own right. Most importantly,
it comes with over 100 maps, most of which are not available in Cube 2, with e
xtensive single and multiplayer content.
Cube is also smaller in every way, in download, in hardware requirements (runs
well on older video cards!), and in source code (the absolutely tiny code bas
e is a very easy start for those wishing to experiment).
It also has some unique engine features such as the high precision dynamic occ
lusion culling, and its heighfield based level format.
Digital Paint’s Paintball 2.0
http://digitalpaint.planetquake.gamespy.com/files/
Paintball 2.0 is a fast-paced first person game with capture the flag, elimina
tion, siege, and deathmatch (free-for-all) styles of gameplay.
Flightgear
http://flightgear.org/
FlightGear Flight Simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform, coopera
tive flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire project
is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.
The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulat
or framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development
and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user
application.
Frets On Fire
http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/
Winner of the Assembly Demo Party 2006, Frets on Fire is a music video game th
at uses the keyboard to play along with scrolling on-screen musical notes to c
omplete a song. The player has to imagine the keyboard as a guitar and pick it
up to play. One hand will be used to press the ‘frets’ (F1 to F5) and anoth
er will be used to press the ‘picks’ (Shift or Enter). Colored markers that
appears are to be played by pressing ‘frets’ of the correct color and ‘pick
s’ at the correct moment. There are also song editors and tutorials featured
in the game. This game is really addictive.
Gillo
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gillo
Two player game in a 3D ellipsoid playground. Players are cars with a magnetic
director, able to attract or reject a ball in order to throw it through a goa
l placed in the center of the playing field. It sounds easy… but remember th
at reality is fuzzy!
Glest
http://www.glest.org/en/index.html
Glest is a free 3D real time strategy game, available for several operating sy
stems.
The core game allows the player to take control of two completely different fa
ctions: Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and
Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield.
Very cool and complete warcraft-like strategy game, pity there’s no multiplaye
r yet.
ManiaDrive
http://maniadrive.raydium.org/
ManiaDrive is a free clone of Trackmania, the great game from Nadéo studio, a
nd is an arcade car game on acrobatic tracks, with a quick and nervous gamepla
y (tracks almost never exceed one minute), and features a network mode, as the
original. Lots of crazy driving involved.
Neverball / Neverputt
http://icculus.org/neverball/
Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out.
Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill
.
Neverputt is a hot-seat multiplayer miniature golf game using the physics and
graphics of Neverball. Current version includes 75 Neverball levels and 62 Nev
erputt levels.
Neverball and Neverputt are known to run under Linux, Win2K/XP, FreeBSD, and O
SX. Hardware accelerated OpenGL is required. A 500MHz processor is recommended
.
Planeshift
http://www.planeshift.it/
PlaneShift is a Role Playing Game immersed into a 3D virtual fantasy world whi
ch is fully free to play. Fully free means you will have no surprises of premi
um content which will limit your gameplay or unbalance the game. There are no
limitations in skills, ranks, abilities, items you can gain with your free acc
ount. There are no time limits or additional constraints.
The virtual world is persistent, and this means you can connect to it at any h
our of the day and you will always find players and NPCs wandering the realms.
You will be able to disconnect and reconnect again as many times as you like
because your character is stored on the server, so you will never have to worr
y about saving the game. A player can start from humble
beginnings and advance to greatness in whatever path they may choose.
Racer
http://www.racer.nl/
Racer is a free cross-platform car simulation project (for non-commercial use)
, using professional car physics to achieve a realistic feeling and an excelle
nt render engine for graphical realism. Cars, tracks and such can be created r
elatively easy (compared to other, more closed, driving simulations). The 3D,
physics and other file formats are documented. Editors and support programs ar
e also available to get a very customizable and expandable simulator. OpenGL i
s used for rendering.
Savage 2: A Tortured Soul
it is a fast paced strategy shooter that takes team bas
ed game play to another level. Each match is a war for dominance where two tea
ms of 5 to 32 players attempt to destroy each other. It will take more than gu
ns to finish the job. Assume your position as a fighter, armed with swords, gu
ns, and magic; or take the field as a support character that
builds, heals, and resurrects fallen comrades.
Feel like bringing out the big stick? Become a siege unit like the Behemoth (a
huge animal biped descendant of elephants that takes down buildings using an
uprooted tree) or the battering ram to destroy enemy buildings. Always thought
you were a natural born leader? Take control as the leader of the action, the
commander, who builds, researches, expands, and tactically strategizes your te
am’s efforts.
Scorched 3D
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
Scorched 3D is a 100% free turn-based artillery game modeled after the classic
DOS game Scorched Earth ‘The Mother Of All Games’. Operatable across all op
erating systems. What started as a 3D landscape generator has now become a coo
l 3D game that requires skills to master. Players are supposed to take turns h
oming in to hit the target by adjusting the angle, rotation, power and a weapo
n of choice every other turn. Hits and kills will generate income for you to b
uy better weapons and items. Note that items are as important as weapons.
SpringRTS
http://spring.clan-sy.com/wiki/SetupGuide
* Large battles limited only by the power of your computer; support for up to
5000 units.
* Large, highly detailed maps in which to wage those battles, fully 3D with de
formable terrain, forest fires, dynamic and reflective water, and custom skybo
xes.
* Several camera modes, allowing for anything to be viewed from almost any ang
le.
* Fully 3D combat in land, sea, and air, with realistic weapon trajectories.
* Many different mods, some of them originally from Total Annihilation, and so
me made just for Spring.
* Compatible with unit files from Total Annihilation, allowing 3rd party units
to easily be moved into Spring.
* Complex 3rd party AIs, some of which are quite good.
* An extremely powerful GUI, designed to minimise unneccesary micromanagement.
* Frequent additions and bugfixes.
The Open Racing Car Simulator
TORCS is an open source 3D racing simulator using OpenGL technologies. It is r
unnable on all Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX and Windows platforms. There are 50 diff
erent cars, 20 tracks and 50 opponents to race against. The multiplayer mode c
an accommodate up to 4 human players. Several of the simulation include damage
d models, collisions and aerodynamics like ground effects, spoilers, etc. Deve
lopment is currently being carried out to enable online racing mode.
Tremulous
http://tremulous.net/
Tremulous is an open source team-based FPS (first person shooter) with a game
play that is similar to Gloom (a Quake 2 mod) and Natural Selection (a Half-Li
fe mod). The game features two teams, humans and aliens, each with their own s
trengths and weaknesses. The game has been downloaded over 200,000 times and w
as voted “Player’s Choice Standalone Game of the Year” in Mod Database’s “
Mod of the Year” 2006 competition.
TrueCombat: Elite
http://www.truecombatelite.net/
TC:Elite happens to be a total-conversion modification of Wolfenstein: Enemy T
erritory by Team Terminator and Groove Six Studios. The game is free and playa
ble across all platforms. Notable features include iron sights aiming (no cros
shair), multi layer object penetration, letterbox / wide screen view modes, la
g compensation, client side bullet prediction and support for PunkBuster, the
anti cheat software.
Urban Terror
http://www.urbanterror.net/
Urban Terror could best be described as a Hollywood tactical shooter; it is re
alism based to a certain extent (environments/weapons/player models), but also
goes by the motto “fun over realism” (fast gameplay and lots of action). This
combination of reality and action results in a very unique, enjoyable and add
ictive game.
Urban Terror is available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh. The current versio
n of Urban Terror is 4.0. Currently working on 4.1.
VDrift
http://vdrift.net/
VDrift is a cross-platform, open source driving simulation made with drift rac
ing in mind. It’s powered by the excellent Vamos physics engine. It is release
d under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2. It is currently available for
Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows.
arsow
http://www.warsow.net/
Warsow is a free standalone first person shooter game for Windows and Linux.
It is based on the Qfusion 3D engine (a modification of the Quake 2 GPL engine
), and aimed on the competitive scene, or the e-sports community.
The base gameplay is focussed around the art of movement, meaning moving, spee
d and tricks play a big part in the gameplay. Besides this, mapcontrol, aim, t
eamplay and fragging skills play their role too.
* Standalone game for Windows and Linux
* 3D Engine based on Qfusion (a modification of Quake 2 GPL engine)
* eSport oriented FPS
* Fast-paced gameplay focused on trix (trick jumps) and art of move
* Complete Power-up System including Weak and Strong fire mode for each weapon
* Cartoonish graphics with celshading-like_but_not_Manga style, mixing dark, f
lashy and dirty textures, matching with action full of fun and speed
* References : Quakeworld, Quake3 CPMA, Jet Set Radio, Speedball.
Warzone 2100
http://wz2100.net/home
Warzone 2100 is a real-time strategy game, developed by Pumpkin Studios and pu
blished by Eidos-Interactive. Although comparable to other 3D RTS games, it do
es contain some features that are unique. These include various radar technolo
gies, a greater focus on artillery and counter-battery technologies, as well a
s a different vehicle design method.
Wolfenstein: Enemy-Territory
http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/enemyterritory/
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was originally planned as an add-on for Return to
Castle Wolfenstein, but soon became it’s own game, a separate entity with ful
l single player, multiplayer, AI opponents and teammates! Well that didn’t hap
pen and what we got, while less than planned, is amazing…and free!
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is a free, stand-alone multiplayer only product,
which means it’s for online play only, but all you need is what you download.
You do not need anything else to play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, than what
you download for free. No Return to Castle Wolfenstein, no additional file pac
kages or monthly charges, just one phat lump of action.