
Choosing Player lets you set your player name and gives you a choice of gender in a various garb for both Red and Blue team play. Clicking setup from the opening screen allows you to tweak your settings for Controls, Player, Game Options, or System. The opening screen, shown in Figure 1, offers you the option of playing the game, setting it up, starting a game server, viewing previously saved demos, or leaving the game. Urban Terror provides a clean, easy interface for both game setup and game play. There are other fixes mentioned in Ubuntu forums. My workaround was to set my desktop resolution to 800×600, start the game, adjust the System settings for 1280×1024, exit, restore my normal desktop resolution, then start the game again.
URBAN TERROR GAME MODE DRIVER
I did, running on Ubuntu 8.04 using a restricted Nvidia driver with a resolution of 1280×1024. To get started, download the Urban Terror ZIP file, unzip it, and execute the appropriate binary in the Urban Terror directory that you created as you decompressed the downloaded file.ĭepending on your distribution and X Window configuration, you may run into an “Out of Range” problem when you start the game. Earlier versions of the game required a copy of Quake III in order to play, but the game now runs on a modified version of the free ioquake3 engine. Urban Terror 4.1 is a cross-platform - Mac, Windows, and Linux - free software game developed and maintained by Frozen Sand, LLC. You’re fighting terrorists in Algiers and other locations around the globe, and you’re using realistic weaponry to do it. While the first three sport other-worldly, sci-fi-style opponents, Urban Terror goes for realistic opponents - as realistic as today’s headlines. Now we can add Urban Terror to that list.


Over the past two years, I’ve reviewed free software first-person shooters including Tremulous, Alien Arena, and Nexuiz - all top-notch games.
