Playing on GNU / Linux: Urban Terror

Good Shooter games in DesdeLinux We have already seen a few, examples of them are Alien Sand, Assault Cube, Open arena and the jewel in the crown, the game that I present to you today: Urban terror. According to Wikipedia:

Urban terror, commonly abbreviated urT (to avoid confusion with UT Unreal Tournament) is a total conversion of the Quake III first person game developed by Silicon Ice, now known as FrozenSand. Introduce elements of First Person Games in a more realistic environment. The game itself is free of cost, but Frozensand maintains the rights, no unauthorized modifications or sale are allowed, the game uses the ioUrbanTerror engine which is based on ioQuake3 distributed under the GNU / GPL license.

Urban terror it is designed to be played online. The only way we can play or test it locally is by creating the server ourselves.

I must say that I was quite surprised how good the graphics look, although that if it lacks the realism that it has for example, Assault Cube. I mean that in the latter, when firing the gun it "culeteees" so hitting the target is more difficult.

Game modes

• Capture The Flag (CTF): The objective is to capture the flag of the opposing team and take it to the home base.
• Team Survivor (TS): Eliminate the players of the opposing team, until there is at least one survivor of the own team or time runs out, in that case it is a draw. It is managed by "Rounds" at the end the team with the most rounds (Won) wins the map.
• Team Deathmatch (TDM): Eliminate the players of the opposing team, the difference with Team Survivor is that in this mode the player is reborn. The team that has eliminated the most opponents wins when the time is up.
• Bomb Mode: Similar to Team Survivor, with the difference that one team has to activate a bomb at the enemy base and the other team has to prevent this from happening.
• Follow the leader (FollowTLead): It is similar to Team Survivor. It consists in that the leader must touch the enemy flag that is in random positions. The leader enters automatically with Kevlar Vest and Helmet. The leader rotates.
• Free for All (FFA): It is not played as a team, it is an individual mode where you have to kill all the other players. The winner is the one who has killed the most rivals.
• Capture And Hold (CapnHold) It consists of two teams that must take possession of a certain number of flags distributed throughout the map. If a team takes all the flags it will score 5 points in its favor. The winner is the one with the highest score.

You can get more game data, weapon details and more at Wikipedia. Still I love how it looks, and the graphics with my Intel® HD Graphics 4000 It is going quite well, so I saved myself from simpler games with online mode and that previously recommended (this for example), now I definitely prefer Urban terror 😀