Lugaru HD

Lugaru (pronounced Loo-GAH-roo) is the predecessor to Overgrowth. It is a DRM-free, third-person action game available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. The main character, Turner, is an anthropomorphic rebel bunny rabbit with impressive combat skills. In his quest to find those responsible for slaughtering his village, he uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy involving the corrupt leaders of the rabbit republic and the starving wolves from a nearby den. Turner takes it upon himself to fight against their plot and save his fellow rabbits from slavery.

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Lugaru is also available to buy on Steam.

Videos

While the above video demos the graphics and gameplay of Lugaru, the following video will give you more detailed instructions on how to play. The learning curve to Lugaru is steep, but this video should help a lot. Be sure to subscribe to Wolfire's YouTube channel!

Screenshots

  1. Lugaru: a rabbit with a sword stands on a snowy slope as a white rabbit tumbles through the air, spraying blood.
  2. Lugaru: a masked rabbit delivers a high flying kick to a brown opponent while a white rabbit lies on a stone floor.
  3. Lugaru: a wounded rabbit holding a sword stands in front of a gray rabbit flipping upside down in a desert canyon.
  4. Lugaru: a crouching bloodied rabbit holding a knife stands over a defeated gray wolf on rippled desert sand.
  5. Lugaru: a masked brown rabbit with a knife strikes a white rabbit in green trousers, who falls back on a stone floor.
  6. Lugaru: a masked rabbit flips through the air beside a stone wall above a dark rabbit and a white rabbit in teal.

Technical Features

  • Fast terrain engine with texture blending, footprints, and transparent fog
  • Unique fast-paced combat system with weapons, attack reversals, and counter-reversals
  • Skeletal animation with rag-doll physics and hand and face expressions
  • Motion blur and many other effects

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More info

  1. Lugaru: a blue-clad white rabbit with a bloodied face fights a brown wolf on a snowy plain beside a stone block.

Lugaru's primary feature is its unique combat system. Instead of relying on confusing button combinations to perform moves, Lugaru's moves are all logical and context sensitive. For example, if an opponent aims a roundhouse kick at Turner's head, you can crouch and then stand up under the attack to grab your assailant's leg and kick him away. If you try and punch an opponent and he tries to throw you over his shoulder, you can crouch to roll painlessly out of the throw. This new combat system makes fights look and feel much more intense and believable than in any other game. You can see it in action with the gameplay movies above.

  1. Lugaru: a brown rabbit stands on a grassy hill beneath a large tree, with a bloodstained knife lying in the grass.

However, if straight close-range combat with hands, knives, swords and staves is not your style, you can also use stealth, but you have to be smart about it. If you cut a wolf's throat, be sure to wipe the blood off your knife or another wolf might smell it. Enemy rabbits have very keen hearing, so be sure to walk quietly, and kill enemies before they make too much noise or run to alert their friends. Also, if they do bring their friends, don't expect them to stupidly take turns fighting you. It is not unusual for one enemy to sweep your feet out from under you and another to smash you while you fall.

  1. Lugaru: a brown rabbit stands over a fallen gray rabbit in purple trousers on desert sand, a sword through its chest.

Because of the emphasis on gameplay, the graphics are designed to let the game run as smoothly as possible. It should run at full speed at full detail on any system with a 700 MHz processor and Geforce 3 or better graphics card. It should run acceptably on any system with a 300 MHz processor and Rage 128 or better graphics card. While models do not have as many polygons as in some new commercial games, there is an unprecedented amount of detail where it actually matters. If an enemy shatters his staff on your skull then your vision will unfocus slightly for a few seconds. Jumping through trees creates a shower of leaves (and snow if it is in a cold area). Landing an especially solid blow to the head can spatter blood on the wall and knock out a couple teeth. If you throw a knife into a wolf, blood will drip down his fur as he yanks out the knife and uses it against you. It is even possible to smash enemies so hard into walls that the surface cracks. Motion blur makes fast movement easier to track.

Mods

Several amazing people have gone in and created completely new Lugaru campaigns, which we believe are actually better than Lugaru itself. Tim Soret created the HD texture pack, for example, which is now included in Lugaru by default! Here are some of the most popular. More can be found on the Wolfire Forums.

Lugaru: Temple by Silb

  1. Lugaru: Temple by Silb

Welcome to Lugaru's unofficial expansion pack. Unofficial, but free.

It includes 31 maps, 85 rabbits and 15 wolves on the receiving side, plus 4 different player characters. All this wrapped up in a large campaign, complete with scenario and dialogues. Read more

Download Lugaru: Temple mod (1.9 MB)

Lugaru: Empire by Jendraz

The island of Lugaru is embroiled in civil war. Led by the freedom fighter Lucius, the rebels have been fighting a losing battle to throw off the Imperial yoke. And now it seems the Emperor has unleashed a new weapon upon the rebel forces...one which may lead to the destruction of all who inhabit the island... Read more

Download Lugaru: Empire (1.6 MB)

Lugaru: Reluctant Assassin by Lotus Wolf

In this Campaign we will follow Vincent Hirem, an ex-assassin, on his journey through a rebellion against an oppressive Imperialist government. When fate meets with his closest friends, he reluctantly resumes his life as an assassin and his new target is the Imperialist leader. Read more

Download Lugaru: Reluctant Assassin (1.5 MB)

Lugaru: Ancestral Tales by kehaar

Even as Turner seeks revenge for the killing of his family, an ancient and deadly danger is uncovered. All but forgotten, it threatens the future of all the races... Read more

Download Lugaru: Ancestral Tales (5.2 MB)