Free Games!

Well, I'm kinda totally into Linux these days (thanks to this awesome phenomenon called Kubuntu Gutsy), and, kind stumbled upon couple of awesome games:

(1) Nexuiz [v. 2.3.3], a game based on the legendary (sorry I've been watching too many episodes of How I met you Mother lately) Quake Engine, is a FPS multiplayer death-match all-hell-break-loose kinda game, a la Quake (no surprises there, eh?). The maps and the textures are pretty amazing, and though they could have been a bit more serious when coming up with the way the bots look, any Quake veteran worth his salt will tell you that that's the last thing one looks for in such games. What matters is the gameplay. And that's where this game scores:

(a) The weapons are just too awesome! Every weapon has a primary and secondary way of using it, which kinda doubles your arsenal and stretches out your horizon of strategic possibilities like anything (I particularly like the rocket launcher, where you can blow up the rocket mid-way during it's trajectory by a simple right-click...talk about remote-controlled rockets!!).
(b) The maps are wayyy better looking than Quake. The shadows and the textures are pretty awesome too, and really doesn't eat up much of your graphics resources.
(c) In every other aspect, it is at least as good as (if not better than) Quake!

(2)Opera Liero X, one of the very few games ever which I really got hooked on to. It's all about a few worms having an almost infinite range of weapons (from Mega Nukes to Bazookas to UZIs to even axes and baseball bats) using ninja ropes to swing around and 'cause carnage with a lot blood (which can be upto some 5000% !!) and explosive sounds..it's kinda cute, kinda funny and kinda unimpressive at first sight (if you are one of those high-end graphic freaks, this will really disappoint you..kinda looks like a DOS game!). But believe me, gameplay-wise, I've never come across a game till date which even closely matches the level of adrenaline this one can rush into your veins..and it amazingly addictive! Heck, there are even Liero world championships and pro Liero players out there!

And the best part about these? They are Open-Source and Free (in every sense of the term)!! And they're running awesomely on Linux...feels great!