BZflag

[Maz]

Ok game, although getting killed all the time is a bit frustrating
Graphics are not top notch, but it doesn't really bother.. This is something you can spend some mins/hours when you just wish to do some shooting =)


Screenies, DLs and more info can be found from:
http://www.bzflag.org/screenshots/

Published under GNU Lesser Lisence.

[Maz]

I have tested this on Linux (Fedora Core 5). Technically it worked OK, after I managed to find decent drivers for my graphics card. (ATI RADEON 9800). Without them the game was like a snail in a tarpit... Even moving the mouse at the menu window was impossible due to the lag.

Well, however I feel this game is medicore. And I sucked at it. But when I visited some online servers, I saw them were full of ppl all the time. So I assume this game pleases some of us. So score 4 is deserved IMO.

[Drasir-Vel]

For those who think playing this game online against other players is too hard, there is a way to play singleplayer against bots. It's not very straightforward. This article covers how to do it on the different operating systems: http://my.bzflag.org/w/Single_Player_Mode
For the majority who use Windows, what you have to do is basically edit the shortcut to the game and insert the line "-solo 08" after the destination in the destination field. "08" is an example of the amount of bots you define in the game. So if you want 4 bots you should write "-solo 04" instead.
In the game itself you then need to start a local server and join that.