2009/2/1 Kai Blin <[email protected]>: > On Sunday 01 February 2009 20:11:33 Seth Shelnutt wrote: >> Dan, >> >> As far as games go, off the top of my head there is WoW, and Guildwars. >> Battlefield 2/2142 both seem good choice. Counter Strike: Source and COD4 >> are gold rated. Lastly Crysis is gold rated too. There is an issue with >> punkbuster but that only effects online play. > > You do need to take the German youth protection law into account, though. I'd > stay away from shooters, I guess.
A lot of the Casual games work (e.g. from Oberon Media and PopCap Games) such as Westward III, Chuzzle, Bejeweled 2 and Peggle, but then again a lot don't :( - the AppDB has an entry for them. With WoW I spent my free game period downloading the ~8 GB worth of data :(! The other Blizzard titles (Diablo 2, StarCraft and its expansion, Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne expansion [1]) work. Other than that, Cepstral SwiftTalker (a text to speech program, with various voices) works flawlessly (if you disable pulseaudio; with pulseaudio it can lock up if you stop then play some text). But then they also have a (command line) Linux version. [1] I have had it crash sometimes between levels, but haven't had the time to track this down or try the Warcraft 3 save race condition game patch. - Reece
