Westwood Studios made quite a lot of games like Dune II and the Command & Conquer series but they also made an RPG called Nox, that now lives on with the OpenNox game engine. OpenNox just recently had a new release, and the project is now open source too under the GPL!
Released originally in the year 2000, Nox was received very well by the gaming press at the time and lives on in the hearts of many gamers. Thankfully now though, OpenNox gives you a fresh way to play it on modern platforms like Linux and Windows. OpenNox is a fully-featured game engine reimplementation too supporting the original features plus plenty of enhancements including: improving modding support, higher resolutions, much better online play and more.
Like other open source reimplementations, it does not include copyrighted assets and so you do need to own a copy of the game to play it which you can buy on GOG.com.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: dpanterI never played Nox back in the day, worth a go 22 years later?I would say yes, it's quite a unique game. Doing it myself currently.
And with the three very distinct classes even worth multiple playthroughs.
I would strongly recommend not setting it to 1080p, though, as your character will be abysmally tiny on the screen.
Put it to 1600 x 900 at max.
Last edited by TheSHEEEP on 20 June 2022 at 12:41 pm UTC
BunchOfAtoms Jun 20, 2022
TimeFreeze Jun 20, 2022
Quoting: TimeFreezeAnyone know how to actually run it? Bought the game, extracted OpenNox inside of the GOG installation but when i try to open the game nothing happens.There seems to be a regression in the latest release, see here on my report.
TimeFreeze Jun 20, 2022
Quoting: Liam DaweQuoting: TimeFreezeAnyone know how to actually run it? Bought the game, extracted OpenNox inside of the GOG installation but when i try to open the game nothing happens.There seems to be a regression in the latest release, see here on my report.
Thanks! Now its working appreciate it.
But good to see it's properly fixed already.
Avehicle7887 Jun 20, 2022
Looks like this is my excuse to playthrough this game.
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