You mustn’t forget that this is not the product of a company, that this is not a game for the bleedy edge of graphics cards.

Haven’t you noticed that, compared by today’s open source standards, this game looks fantastic? The music is very impressive as well. And we needn’t mention that even though the gameplay is kind of a ‘rip off’ of X-Com, the concept is proven and works. Better taking that than reinventing the wheel and making a lot of mistakes along the way. They’re going the safer path and there’s nothing whatsoever wrong with that. Subtract some points for originality, but that wouldn’t harm the game at all.

That was one very strange review there.

I didn’t really have a choice in the matter, what with running PPC/Linux on an iBook to play it, but I had like a 5 minute issue with fixing the makefiles to handle a ppc compile, and copying my new improved binaries into the unzipped game dir, and it worked flawlessly.

Can’t say I tried sound though, what with having my laptop muted most of the time anyway, but it turned out to be surprisingly enjoyable for a tech demo.

– vranash

By all means, discussion, opinion, dissertation, and constructive criticism of the Technical Demo ought to be promoted. But please don’t overlook the fact that the UFO developers are offering us an inside look at their concept-in-development, and any discussion of the project this early on ought to focus primarily on the potential of the game. If this cannot be done, then I strongly believe that it ought not to be “reviewed” or editorialised at all.

LinuxGames.com: please live up to that promised of “For the People” and support the Linux gaming community rather than unfairly judging it. These types of pre-release, alpha, or early beta games need to be either “previewed” or written as a “first look” article. Absolutely no good comes from needless or unfair negative PR. These games need to be nurtured and promoted first, lest they die out — and only once the community has nurtured them to stable, mature, or advance releases should we begin to “review” them.

The music is great by the way. Better than in some commercial games.

I don’t even care about the review… I read it and it didn’t sound as negative as you all think. You guys act like the man just set your mother on fire.

Also, it’s great to see people assuming that a “crappy linux install” or a “misconfigured system” is the cause of the problems the reviewer had with the game. Here is some news for you… you’d better be [b]absolutely positive[/b] that the problem is a misconfigured install before releasing anything. Assuming things is never a good practice for people who want to put out a quality game.

I appreciate Linuxgames doing reviews of games that otherwise may not get reviewed. And I appreciate that it can be hard to find Linux games that are at version 1.anything. :) But at least try to stick to games that claim to be somewhat functionally complete.

Honestly, this site has been very poor for the past few years, and this doesn’t raise the quality one bit. It wasn’t even a full page review, and to be quite honest, most of the problems experienced by the reviewer have more to do with his install of linux than with UFO: AI issues.

Jarrod