Warzone 2100
Version: 3.2.2 Web: https://wz2100.net
Sometimes, we get tired of solving puzzles and want to blow stuff up, especially on the post-nuclear landscape of the future. Warzone2100 is a perfect playground for endless warfare, in which you can show your skills in tactics and strategy. The game is a classic top-view RTS that features high-quality graphics and sounds, and also demands some thinking in order to survive.
The classic human vs AI campaign starts with a group of trucks and an oil pool nearby. You need to construct an oil derrick, a power generator and a research facility that will help you recover technologies from the artefacts your trucks find around the map. New technologies enable you to design new armed vehicles and produce them in factories. The general goal is to build more armed units in less time, in order to be prepared for the real fight with your enemies. This is nothing new for anyone who’s played RTS games before, but there are few open source titles for Linux that deliver high-quality graphics, sound and gameplay. Terrain objects are finely detailed, camera movement is natural and smooth, and it’s a pleasure just to travel around a map and discover artefacts.
For newcomers, Warzone2100 offers a very good voice-guided tutorial that helps you dive into the mechanics in minutes. In real missions, the key to success is in the rapid building of many factories and power plants, to help you recover in case an enemy destroys your units. Consequently, to defeat your counterpart, you should target his infrastructure first, maybe even by a flanking movement around his main troops and avoiding direct confrontation with his main forces. Warzone2100 can carry you away with military strategy for long hours, and we were happy to discover this beautiful game.
“It’s a pleasure just to travel around a map and discover artefacts.”