I'm looking for a good free game for linux. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Tell us what type of game you're looking for. Strategy, simulation, arcade?

strategy or sim or even somthing like Counter-Strike

I just got done playing RTCW (Return to castle wolfenstein), It kicks on my RedHat box. Quake series also runs great on linux. Just make sure you can get accelerated grafix drivers for your video card.
Here's my spec's
Tri boot win98+win2k+RedHat 7.2
256mb ram
32m GF2mx 400
3Com 10/100 NIC
15g HD

I have redhat too and I can run the 3d games no problem, but I need to find them to play them.

I did find RTCW MP Demo but I can see any servers? Do I have to do anything special to see the servers, like open a port or something?

loki has some good 3D games

Is it just rumor, or did I hear correctly that loki went down the tube? I think i still have a loki demo cd from an older mandrake 7 set I bought... I've not heard much about RTCW, is it a POST-Doom release? I'll have to find that...Right now i'm still surfing for herring in Tux Racer! LOL

I heard that too, but i just checked the loki website and they still seem to be in business. RTCW is a new game that came out in November. It's built on the Quake III engine, runs very good under linux as long as you have the correct drivers.

http://www.activision.com/games/wolfenstein/home.html

You can download the Mutiplayer demo here:
http://www.3dgamers.com/games/returnwolfenstein/

be careful with Quake3 based engine games..they can vital linux files..they did to me.

come on, dont be daft, it didn't mess anythign up... you did it yourself. I know the daft things you were doing to try to get it working on irc. Saying daft things like that is just going to put people off. Quake is perfectly sound on linux.

Maybe for you, but this is a fair warning for Mandrake 8.1 users.

Thanks for the info hanz! I appreciate it and the links...Per loki? Perhaps someone bailed them out? Who knows...

Haven't played any games since Doom & Doom II on windoze. I'm not much into games, but I did like those 2 because you just walk around and shoot everything that moves. Is RTCW like that? Or what Doom-like games are for linux. And can doom be played on linux? What about that game with the 60's chick on the motorcycle on the box? can't remember the name of it

rtcw and quake are very similar to doom, esp as they were written by the same company (well wolfenstein WAS id, is it still?) those three games were pretty much al in a row... w/ quake being the nicest, but the new wolf game uses the quake engine and it's looooovely. anyone know if there's a single player linux demo available??

Id have written free linux binaries for doom and quake, so you can play the full games on linux, assuming you've got the old originals. if not you can still get demos. www.idsoftware.com i guess

no idea who the 'chick' was... roadrash?

freeciv.org is supposed to be a good strategy game.
I personaly like teg it's a risk clone for the computer the site is teg.sourceforge.net