Red Eclipse is a first person shooter game open source and cross-platform (GNU / Linux, BSD, Windows and Mac OSX), Red Eclipse uses the OpenGL API and is based on the Cube 2 Engine modified to offer a fun and dynamic first person shooter game.
Includes a large number of maps and it comes with modes like DM, CTF or Defend and Control, in addition to firing weapons, you can organize mines or pick up two grenades and effectively kill the bots and engage in close combat when you get close to your enemies.
System requirement
The game is not very demanding in terms of requirements, anyone with a 256 MB internal graphics can run this title without problems. Since most motherboards from 2007 onwards have at least.
To run the game without problems you require:
- Disk space: 650 Mb.
- Ram memory: 512 Mb.
- Video Memory: 128 Mb.
Install Red Eclipse on Linux
The game we find it in the appimage format, we just have to install some dependencies before it:
For Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives
sudo apt-get install git curl libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0 libsdl2-image-2.0-0 libsdl2-2.0-0
Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS and derivatives:
sudo dnf install curl SDL2 SDL2_mixer SDL2_image
Finally just we must download the Red Eclipse appimage from its download section, the link is this.
Done the download we must give execution permissions to the downloaded file with:
sudo chmod +x redeclipse-stable-x86_64.AppImage
Y finally We install Red Eclipse on our computers with this command:
./redeclipse-stable-x86_64.AppImage
Its source code can also be downloaded from the official website and it offers the latest version.
How to play Red Eclipse?
The first that you should know is that you are going to use the keys W, A, S and D which will control the player's movement. For the weapon, we use the right mouse button and for firing it we use the left mouse button and the mouse wheel to change weapons.
When you start the game we will be shown some options among them to play online or offline or else you will play with the game settings. To start the game immediately without problems:
Lo recommended is they click practice offline and here you choose a game mode and also a map or we also have the random option, at the end of the configuration we click on START.
In Red Eclipse we have four basic game modes you can choose from:
Fight to the death
In Deathmatch it is basically to kill drones or bots only. And depending on the map you choose, there will be two teams or four teams in which case you will play alone.
Bomber Ball
In bomber, in this game mode we must first navigate the location of the bomb and deliver it to the enemy base.
Here we must basically take care that the bomb does not explode before taking it to the enemy base, because there is a timer in it.
To block the bomb only for the members of your team, keep the F key pressed. During the game you must watch the time so you must hurry or we can also pass the bomb to your teammates to restart the timer.
Capture the Flag
Capture the enemy flag and deliver it to your base to score points. This is a classic since you must organize your team to have who takes the offense and who defends, the strategy is clear and in this game mode I assure you you will have fun.
Defend and control
In this game mode there will be multiple points for the players of each team to control or overthrow their enemy's point. However, it takes more time to topple an enemy's point than to conquer an empty point.
It only remains that you enjoy the game, personally I have not tested if you can use a joystick, so I will be informing you soon if it has this support.