How do I install the first-person shooter genre, Doom3 video game under Ubuntu Linux?
Doom 3 is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by id Software. It was first released for Microsoft Windows. The game was later adapted for Linux, as well as being ported for Mac OS X.
- Any Linux Distribution.
- 3D Video card with OpenGL acceleration support (min 64M ram)
- ALSA and OSS sound backend.
- Linux Kernel v2.6+ and glibc v2.2.4+ is recommended. (part of most modern Linux distro)
- DOOM3 PC retail Windows version DVD / CD.
The following instructions are tested on both Fedora 10 and Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (but should work under any Linux distro) using nVidia Quadro FX 570/PCI/SSE2 256MB RAM 3D accelerator card.
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World of Padman is an open-source, cartoon-style first-person shooter game available for Linux too, besides Windows and Mac. It is a wonderful standalone game based upon the Quake 3 engine.
World of Padman (or WoP for short) features a cartoon-style approach, with maps, characters, weapons and sounds all based upon the Padman animation series. For example, the weapons include Punchy, a funny puppet used for close combat (which will also allow you to move faster), the Bubble G, which shoots bubble gums, or the Splasher, a sniper-equivalent from other games. World of Padman also includes four different player models, each with several other colour customisations.
One of the drawback is that currently (as of patch 1.2) single player mode hasn't been implemented yet, instead WoP servers are usually crowded and you can get playing online in seconds.
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