Although I’m a cyber cafe owner but I am not a games freak, but Glest had caught my eyes 3 years ago, when I started osscc.org. Glest is a good 3D real time strategy game, the game is still under good development progress. You can play Glest on LAN or single player also. Although Glest is not as advance as Warcraft III, but I really enjoy playing it some time, even those kids when we did an exhibition last year gave us a positive feedback when they play Glest on our diskless linux gaming system using DRBL.

Installation

Installing Glest on Ubuntu Linux is far too easy, open your terminal and type the following command:

# sudo apt-get install glest

Glest is a free 3D real-time strategy game, where you control the armies of two different factions:Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield.

Glest is not just a game, but also an engine to make strategy games, based on XML and a set of tools. A few mods already exist.

Mega Glest

Their other project called MegaGlest seems doesn’t  has so many progress since they registered the project at SourceForge.net on Jan 22 2010, and is described by the project team as follows :

“Currently there is no active development of the real time strategy game glest. This project aims to improve the game and its content. It already has a lot more content than the original game and contains bugfixes and improvements.”

And the stable release of MegaGlest is version 3.3.3 and can be downloaded from here : http://glest.org/glest_board/index.php?topic=5283.0

Glest Development Team

Glest is made by a bunch of friends, most of them from Spain. If you wish to contact them, please send an e-mail or post on their board.

Martiño Figueroa. Glest game, engine and tools coder.
MS in Computer Science by the University of Coruña (Spain). e-mail.

Glest Official Website : http://www.glest.org/

Glest Blog : http://glestblog.blogspot.com/

Glest Forum : http://glest.org/glest_board/

SAVAGE: The Battle for Newerth
Choose to be a commander and you will play an in-depth RTS managing the stronghold, or choose to be a warrior and you will play an intense game of first person combat. With the creation of a new game play genre, RTSS (Real Time Strategy Shooter), Savage expertly redefines the first-person shooter and real-time strategy genres by combining elements of both into one cohesive experience. As the commander in RTS mode, you will tackle resource management, develop a robust tech tree, plan your assault and lead real human players into battle. As a warrior in action mode, you will master many unique weapons, powerful units, and siege vehicles to fight a fast paced battle.

Set in a unique fantasy world eons from now where Humans and Beasts battle violently for their very existence. Savage transports PC gamers to the next level in multi-player gaming. Choose to fight on the side of HUMANITY, armed with science and technology, or take the side of the BEAST HORDE, masters of nature and magic. Each race has its own style of battle, its own leader, and its own way to victory. Which side are you on?

Minimum System Requirements:
Windows® 98, ME, 2000, XP or Linux
Controls: Mouse and Keyboard
CPU: 600 MHz processor
Memory: 128 MB RAM
Drives: 4x CD-ROM and 600 MB Hard Drive space for installation
Video: GeForce or Radeon series graphics cards
Online Connection: 56k modem

Recommended System Requirements:
Controls: 3 button mouse with a scroll wheel
CPU: 1000 MHz CPU or better (subject to change)
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Video: GeForce4 or better (OpenGL compatible Video Adapter)
Online Connection: Broadband (Cable Modem, DSL, or better)

If you are new to Linux Operating System such as Ubuntu, and you are games freak especially Real Time Strategy games such as Command & Conquer and your problem is, there is no C&C that was build for Linux, then you might to consider trying Warzone 2100 as an alternative to C&C.

Warzone 2100 is a 3D real-time strategy game that was released in 1999. It’s source code was liberated in december 2004, and their current release is 2.3 beta version.

It’s good start for FOSS community to bring users and cyber cafe owner’s to try out this game for marketing Linux and others Unix Like Operating System as gaming platform.

And if you interesting to setup such linux diskless gaming client using DRBL, you might to consider installing Warzone 2100 into your DRBL server, I’ve try Warzone 2100 playing on my diskless gaming client and it work perfectly without any problem at all either network gaming or campaign.

More info:
Website : http://www.wz2100.net
Forum : http://forums.wz2100.net
Project Page : http://sourceforge.net/projects/warzone2100/