Air Combat
Version: 3.42 Web: http://bit.ly/LinuxAirCombat
Adecade ago there was a beautiful flight simulation game called GL-117, but it hasn’t seen any updates for a long time. To the joy and happiness of many Linux users, the fork called LinuxAirCombat ( LAC) has emerged. The two games are still very similar, although LAC is a more feature-rich.
You control an aircraft armed with machine gun and, occasionally, missiles. LAC maintains the tradition of GL-117 by greeting novice users with introductory tutorials, including basic flying skills (avoid hitting mountains otherwise your plane will blow up, etc), targeting, shooting ground objects and completing simple missions. There’s a vast list of progressively harder missions that follow once you’re ready.
LAC has lots of advantages over its predecessor in many regards. There’s five-tiers of graphics setting. The first two are quite basic and the rest supplying great detail—make sure to increase the default settings to see water reflections, leaves on the trees and clouds.
LAC has a broader selection of both historical and modern aircraft than GL-117, such as P51, P38, A6M2 and B17 from the WWII, as well as the more recent F-16 jet fighter. Many real-world features have been added to make flying more realistic, such as stalling out on low speed; reducing the throttle with heavy cargo load or with full fuel tanks; and darkened vision in accelerated state, etc.
LAC also includes a network mode that enables you to make joint strikes with your friends against the enemy team and talk to your buddies via the preconfigured Mumble VoIP app that runs on the game’s web server.
“Networking capabilities bring LAC to new heights.”