Re: OT: America's Army
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 16:04, Cam Ellison wrote:
> * Bijan Soleymani (bijan@psq.com) wrote:
> > breno.moiana@partekforest.com writes:
> >
> > > >> They already have. Quake3, Unreal, etc. There are tons of non-free
> > > >> games available.
> > > >
> > > >Yes, but I'm saying, more of them.
> > >
> > > Specially, more variety. Why do they port mainly FPSs? Many people
> > > don't like FPS's that much, and would like to play *Crafts natively,
> > > or Vice City, or The
> >
> > There's a free warcraft game. Freecraft I think. It has it's own
> > artwork, but can use the warcraft 2 artwork. It's even a Debian
> > package I think.
> >
>
> Yes, on both counts. My kids play it regularly. The developers have
> apparently been shut down by a cease-and-desist order (late last
> week), so that's likely another dead end.
It's terrible to see them do that, but I guess that was to be expected
from blizzard. They shut down a free battlenet engine a while ago too.
Well at least the game is still part of Debian, for now...
Bijan
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