http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5292
------- Additional Comments From kde@3danim.de 2007-27-01 10:50 ------- This one is actually solved quite easily: You need to run the game from the directory it was installed in. Otherwise it will have trouble finding its language file and therefore show the empty message box.
If you do that, the error message will probably tell you that DirectInput could not grab mouse input. After running 'wineprefixcreate' you should however be able to start the game.