Red eclipse is a free FPS for single player and multiplayer (First-Person Shooter) by Lee Salzman and Quinton Reeves for PC, this game is multiplatform so it can be run on Windows, Mac and Linux.
This game is based on the Cube 2 engine to provide players with an attractive and balanced game. The game also allows players to execute actions such as wallrun / kick, jetpack, and impulse dash.
Also, Red Eclipse features a built-in map editor that allows players to create their own maps and collaborate with other players online. Overall Red Eclipse is a challenging and interesting FPS game. Creating a game that allows players to get a feel for the part and immerse themselves in it.
About Red Eclipse
Red Eclipse is a fun FPS (First Person Shooter) with parkour boosts, and more. There is an infinity of possibilities, being possible to play offline or online multiplayer with many servers.
The development of it is geared towards balanced gameplay, with a general theme of agility in a variety of environments.
Red eclipse has several game possibilities: Death Match with additional configurations such as Death Match with teams, or each one by itself, in the best Quake Arena style and even a medieval combat mode.
Includes a large number of maps and comes with modes Like DM, CTF or Defend and Control, in addition to shooting weapons, you can organize mines or collect two grenades and effectively kill bots and carry out close combat when you get close to your enemies.
In the game you can use many of the weapons to achieve your goals Of which are pierce, impale, scramble, riddle with holes, char-grill, plasmify, electrocute, pzap, obliterate and more.
With them you can annihilate your enemies, all weapons have been carefully balanced from community feedback after more than 5 years of development, just relax and have fun.
How to install Red Eclipse on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and derivatives?
System requirement
The game is not very demanding in terms of requirements, anyone with a 256 MB internal graphics can run this title without problems. Since most motherboards from 2007 onwards have at least.
To run the game without problems you need:
- Disk space: 650 Mb.
- Ram memory: 512 Mb.
- Video Memory: 128 Mb.
The game is found in the appimage format, we only have to install some dependencies before we must execute the following command:
sudo apt-get install git curl libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0 libsdl2-image-2.0-0 libsdl2-2.0-0
Finally, we only have to download the Red Eclipse AppImage from its download section, the link is this.
Once the download is done, we must give execution permissions to the downloaded file with:
sudo chmod +x redeclipse-stable-x86_64.AppImage
And finally we install Red Eclipse on our computers with this command:
./redeclipse-stable-x86_64.AppImage
As well it is possible to install this game with the help of Flatpak packages, For this, it is necessary to have the support to be able to install applications of this type in our system.
Already having Flatpak support in our system, just open a terminal and run the following command in it:
flatpak install --user https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/net.redeclipse.RedEclipse.flatpakref
With this we will have already installed the game in our system.
In case you already have this game installed, you can update it with the following command
flatpak --user update net.redeclipse.RedEclipse
Now you can enjoy this great game by launching it from your application menu, in case you can't find the launcher you can run it with:
flatpak run net.redeclipse.RedEclipse
How to uninstall RedEclipse from Ubuntu and derivatives?
In case you want to remove this game from your system, you can do it as follows.
Si you installed from AppImage, just delete the AppImage file you downloaded.
Now I knowi installed from Flatpak, you must open a terminal and execute any of the following commands in it:
flatpak --user uninstall net.redeclipse.RedEclipse flatpak uninstall net.redeclipse.RedEclipse
And ready with it, you will have already eliminated this game from your system.