[Pc_Support] Great Classic Games for $3-6: Unreal Gold and Freespace ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

If you have a legacy Windows 98 gaming box (like I do), or a Linux
system, you should check out a pair of great, classic games for $3-6
at GoGamer.COM ...

$2.90 Unreal Gold:
http://www.gogamer.com/Unreal-Gold-Edition-PC-Blow-Out-Deals_stcVVproductId4761575VVcatId444790VVviewprod.htm

And $5.90 Freespace (don't let the "Descent" name fool you, it's a
better 3D "freespace" space shooter than the gameplay in the "Wing
Commander" series and _nothing_ like the "Descent" cavern shooters):
http://www.gogamer.com/Descent-Freespace-with-Bonus-Silent-Threat-PC-Blow-Out-Deals_stcVVproductId4759634VVcatId444790VVviewprod.htm

If you have Linux, get the installers from here:
  http://icculus.org/~ravage/

I run them on Linux and have full 4-axis (pitch, yaw, roll and
throttle) joystick support (for Freespace).  The only downside of the
Freespace installer is that it doesn't have music (full speach/sound
effect though), although newer CVS builds do.

The actually look _better_ under Linux than the originals under
Windows because they are build against the newer UT/Freespace 3D
rendering game engines and use OpenGL.

Freespace is damn fun to play, and has an excellent storyline.  As I
said, if you liked the Wing Commander series, Freespace takes the
cake.  No, no Mark Hammil or Tom Wilson, just digital actors with a
good, dynamic story-line.

Freespace 2, if you can find it, is even better.  I particularly like
the re-introduction of "flak guns" so you can't just "get close" to a
cap ship and assume it can't hit you.  Far more realistic IMHO.