One of my favorite games, Savage 2, is now available with no cost involved.
It has quite a unique gameplay and cannot be classified as belonging to a specific genre. The game is made up like this: There’s two teams fighting each other: humans and beasts. Each team has a headquarter the other team aims to destroy. (No surprises so far.) Each team has one commander and a bunch of “normal” players. The commander views the game from bird’s eye perspective like in Warcraft 3. The units he sees are partially under his control. The other units of his team are played by actual players. The players play in either first or third person mode.
It is a very strategic game and often one genius idea has a heavy influence on the outcome of the match. There’s quite a few more aspects I like about the game, but I don’t want to make this posting too long.
Just head over to the downloads section and get it for your architecture (Available for Windows, Linux 32 & 64 bit, OSX).
(I usually don’t do advertising for commercial products, but this one is an exception since it’s one of the better games for linux.)
| 9 comments | Dec 22, 2008 2:36:00 PM | games |
It looked good, but sadly Savage 2 does a immediately a segfault on startup on my Ubuntu 8.10. No idea why. I dropped it. Going back to Nexuiz, which works very well…
Hm strange. Did you download the correct version for your architecture? Verify that the installer is not corrupted.
I just tried it on intrepid, no problems. (I had it running on different distributions and architectures).
@sebsauvage: Post on the forums, they have a dedicated linux programmer so issues are solved in an efficient manner.
@op: what’s your nick?
Yep I picked the right one. I also made sure the download was correct. The installation went very well, but the game did not. Maybe my graphic card ? (Althout all other games work, compiz too).
Well, nevermind.
@Vadim: “dennda”
can i has deb repository?
@name:
As far as I know, there is none. The installation process is fairly simple though. Just download the binary, make it executable and run it. You can specify where to install the game. The installer then installs to that location. Another folder ~/.savage2 is created that contains the necessary configuration files for your individual user.
If you find a deb repo let me know.
10x for the info! i was searching the net for a new game to play because it’s summer break now and i stumbled upon your blog. i will try the game
Great, thanks. One of my best friends would pay for this info. I´m not a fanatic about it, but i know my friend has a lot fun getting to know news and improved tools in gameplay. So, I send this link to him, he will celebrate it. Thanks!