Well, I am back from holidays and I wanted to get a game review in. The game I have decided to review is called Circus Linux.

I have only tried the 1 player challenge. I found it really hard which makes it was not very fun to play. I will try to get someone else to play this one with me for the 2 player challenge of the 2 player co-operation mode… my friends that are gamers should be willing but I am not so sure about this game will be any fun for them.

These days I have only wanted to play games on my computer so on my holiday break from school I have not installed any distros on a virtual machine, but don’t fret there will be distro reviews coming soon.

First off let me tell you where I got the game: Synaptic Package Manager.
Second the game has a pretty small download: which is great!
Third it is in the games menu…. No surprises there. 😛

In this game you play as clowns… which is pretty goofy. Not only that you have two clowns which one starts out on the little lever that throws the clown on it to the balloons that are flying across the top of the screen. The other clown bounces off of either one of the cubes on either side of the screen.

So as you have to make the lever move you need to move the mouse. I found that with my fingers on the trackpad that I have gone off the screen a lot and have made the clown fall flat on the top of its head. I hope they will make the game go up to the panel so that it is not that hard to go off the screen and make sure that the lever goes to where your mouse left the screen.You get 4 lives.

The more balloons you hit the better score you will get.

After a few tries this gets boring as it may have been a bit to challenging to play.

Overall I just could not find a way to like this game.  It is nice that there are games for Ubuntu, but you have to try and make this fun to play.

If you like this game please comment as I could try and find a way to like it.

Ryan Orser