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I keep my old WinXP partition around just for games since Windows still beats out Linux on game support. But, lately Linux is getting more games. The big ones that I know of being the Unreal Tournament Series and Doom 3. I've been playing Doom 3 a bunch lately and it's fairly enjoyable. I say fairly because, while it's very high on the creepy factor, it still seems to be lacking in story line, which is really what makes me stay up late playing a game. In all fairness though all the Doom games are known more for mindlessly blowing the bejesus out of everything that twitches vs storyline, so I'd say it lives up to it's namesake. Even so, there are elements that remind me very much of System Shock 2 such as PDAs with the audio logs and E-mails laying around. In System Shock 2 these were used very heavily to fill out the story and kept me on the edge of my seat but this isn't done in Doom 3. Even so, I don't like to play late at night with the lights off. It wigs me out just a little to much. Really though, I probably shouldn't compare it to System Shock 2 since since both are games with different goals. It's not really an apple to apples comparison. Still, Doom 3 is good. I need to make a little more time to play.

As a side note, since I'm blabbing about Linux and games I saw here on Linux Gazette about a two retro style adventure games called The Labyrinth of Time and Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb released by Wyrmkeep Entertainment. I played the demos of them a little and they look to be fun. Plus the price is nice at $20. They both play on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Besides these I've heard of netPanzer, Frozen Bubble, and BZFlag for Linux.

What other good games exist that are native to Linux? It would be nice to reclaim my WinXP partition.