Deep breath,

Soooooo I'm a Linux user at home and I'm a gamer. Linux is undoubtedly shit for games unless you want to play emulators or retro DOS and Windows titles (which I do).

There are however a smattering of Linux native ports available and a while back I downloaded the demo client of Enemey Territory Quake Wars (ETQW), just out of curiosity you understand.

Thing is. I'm enjoying it rather more than I thought I would. Now I never picked up Call of Duty 4, so I don't have that benchmark to compare against, but ETQW seems to get a lot of things bang on the money.

There's a good mix of classes, objectives and equipment. There's a simple levelling system, which gives you enhancements (e.g. faster lock-on time for the rocket launcher). The demo level itself is pretty big and has a really interesting mix of indoor and outdoor environments, infact as level design goes it's excellent. The demo level is designed with a number of 'choke points' and objectives, which one side has to complete and the other side has to thwart.

I feel dirty.