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Gaming has come a long way in Ubuntu and there are some really good ones. OpenArena is one such game for Ubuntu (Linux). OpenArena is a violent, sexy, multiplayer first person shooter based on the ioquake3 fork of the id tech 3 engine. It has many game types beyond deathmatch and a lot of characters. You can run/play it on processors as slow as a Pentium 90MHz with 32MB of RAM, but it is recommended for at least a PII 233MHz processor, with at least 96MB of RAM, for any playability.

Install OpenArena in Ubuntu

Following are the simple steps to install OpenArena in Ubuntu.

1. Go to Applications > Add/Remove

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2. In the search box search for openarena.

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3. Select the game.

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4. Click apply to download and install OpenArena

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As the game is around 300 odd MB, sit back and relax while the game is downloaded.

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Have fun shooting around!

Home Page

http://openarena.ws/

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Chuckles

Looks a bit like UT2004 but not much like quake to me
Chuckles

Looks a bit like UT2004 but not much like quake to me
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