Games Download: Dec 18, 2009

Far Cry 2: Fortune's Edition

Far Cry 2: Fortune's Edition [Game Download]

Includes Game + Fortune's Pack. Far Cry 2, the next-generation first-person shooter, will take you deep into the most beautiful but also most hostile environments in the world: Africa! More than just a visual and technological achievement, Far Cry, the true sequel to the award-winning PC game, will provide you with an unprecedented gaming experience. Caught between two rival factions in war-torn Africa, you are sent to take out "The Jackal," a mysterious character who has rekindled the conflict between the warlords, jeopardizing thousands of lives. In order to fulfil your mission you will have to play the factions against each other, identify and exploit your their weaknesses, and neutralize their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning and, of course, brute force. OPEN WORLD - The extensive artistic research combined with the next-gen engine will allow you to explore over 50Km2 of seamlessly rendered African landscape. No game has ever provided such freedom of movement! DUNIA ENGINE - The Dunia Engine was built specifically for Far Cry® 2 by the award-winning Ubisoft Montréal development team. It delivers the most realistic destructible environments, amazing special effects such as dynamic fire propagation and storm effects, real-time night-and-day cycle, dynamic music system, non-scripted enemy A.I. and much more... REAL-TIME IMMERSION - Real-time story telling, systemic auto-healing, minimal in-game interface are just few of the features that will make you feel the tension of being alone against barbarous warlords that threaten thousands of innocent lives. WEAPONS OF CHOICE - Choose from a wide range of weapons to make your way to your primary target. Meet the fight head-on with your machine-gun, go berserk with your machete or make stealth kills as a Sniper. If you feel that the atmosphere is not warm enough, light up your flamethrower and let your enemies and everything around them feel the heat.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Risk II [Game Download]

By harbqll - reviews

Be sure to download the free trial version first to check for compatibility. This game (which I loved to play on my old computer) will not run on my vista machine, even in compatibility mode for XP SP2.

Supercow [Game Download]

By Don Walton Jr. (Albuquerque, NM United States) - reviews

The overall game premise is simple: collect coins, destroy enemies. It is very similar to Super Mario Bros., but with more focus on exploring and coin collecting. Supercow is a very competent attempt at a simple side-scroller for the whole family. It's great to wind down with after a day of shooting terrorists on Modern Warfare. Supercow is gorgeous to look at, and was lovingly crafted from start to finish. Great voice acting helps flesh out an unnecessary plot of sorts, as does a gentle learning curve and loads and loads of levels to explore. It's biggest weakness is also its greatest strength, and that is the simplicity of the gameplay. You simply walk and jump. Easy to love, but not much meat to it. I would love to see this developer try their hand at a dense, fully funded, sidescrolling console game.

Holly: A Christmas Tale [Game Download]

Grab a cup of cocoa, put on your favorite Yuletide music and play this wonderful new hidden object game, guaranteed to fill you with the spirit of the season! As you help Santa find the items he needs to complete his rounds on Christmas Eve, you'll be asked to perform a variety of tasks using some innovative search techniques! There are more than 1,000 festive items to find as you follow along with Holly's amazing story! Download this dazzling new holiday classic today!

Pacific Storm [Game Download]

On December 7, 1941, a major part of the U.S. Pacific navy stationed at Pearl Harbor was assaulted by Japanese planes. Take part in all major Pacific battles of World War II in Pacific Storm, a game that's a mixture of real-time strategy, war-game and simulator. All major and important sea battles of World War II, which took place in the Pacific Ocean, are included and you can play either for the USA or Japan. Mine the resources, train various units and retaliate... Sink'em all!

Around the World in 80 Days [Game Download]

By Nuknuk (Springfield, VA United States) - reviews

This is great game adaptation from the classic book by Jules Verne, "Around the World in 80 Days". Another game from the mold of Bejeweled, Big Kahuna, Jewel Quest, Rise of Atlantis, etc. But with the classic background and wonderful story theme, this is a winner. Every time you finish a round it flips a page on the book, feeding a piece of the story as you continue your travel.

Graphics is superb with great details. The background music is soothing.

When you get a power hammer, it actually lets you know which tiles can be removed. The tiles will shake and makes it easy to see if your selection is strategically what you want to remove, or decide to pick another set of tiles. I just wish that you can carry over the power hammers when you finish a set of tiles to the next round.

Cradle of Rome

By J. Hanney (Woodland, CA United States) - reviews

I have played Cradle of Rome for months now after downloading it from [...]. What a pain that website is! They constantly want to upload advertising to my machine every time I want to play my game. So being able to pay only $7.00 from Amazon and not have to put up with all i-Win's hassle is WONDERFUL. I paid over $20.00 to download it from them. They cheated me once, but never again.

Campfire Legends: The Hookman [Game Download]

By Zirena "Gamer and Book Lover" (Texas, USA) - reviews

I bought this game based on the fact I enjoyed playing the free demo and that the game had gotten good reviews (both on this site and elsewhere). I wasn't disappointed in the beauty of the game nor the scare factor. The scenes are beautifully rendered. It is a spooky, creepy game as well, and there were a few times the game made me jump in my seat. It is also a nice mix of hidden object and puzzle games. However, I did have some minor technical difficulties with the game slowing down and almost freezing at points. And my biggest complaint is that it was incredibly short! There are only three changes in location. The story is not well-developed, due in part to the game's length. If they had added more to the story line and added additional locations it would have been much better.

The Magician's Handbook II: BlackLore [Game Download]

By LH422 (Washington, USA) - reviews

The second in the series, Magician's Handbook II proves to offer a significant challenge to hidden object lovers. The objects are tough to find- this is a game that takes some time and some skill. Hidden object lovers who find other games too easy will likely not be disappointed by this one- those who find other games too difficult will likely want to choose something else. This game offers amazing artwork, very detailed scenes, lots of gameplay and lots of challenge. Well worth it.

Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos [Game Download]

By P. B. Sharp (Las Cruces, NM) - reviews

A master criminal who is seeking out and attempting to destroy classified data cuts a wide swath across the world. You frantically chase him from Moscow to London to New York to Tokyo and many more locations, frenetically searching for clues via hidden objects. And these objects are devillishly hard to find in the extremely cluttered environments you bomb into.

The art work is really stunning and the hidden objects are well integrated into each location so you're going to have to hustle to find them all before time runs out. If you can't beat the clock you have to repeat that whole level with an entirely new set of objects. The mini games are the usual- finding differences between two pictures, locating anachronistic errors in a scene, unmasking ten birds on the Statue of Liberty, etc.- but they're nicely done.

Interpol is cloak -and -dagger and the sounds and music, appropriate to each location, will help you get immersed in this fine adventure. I loved it!

Ghost Town Mysteries - Bodie [Game Download]

By Kevin A. Richardson "krichardson1232" (san francisco) - reviews

This is one of the better hidden object games around. Lots of levels, some a bit repetitive, but overall creepy and just plain fun. The sound is extrordinary, the story is great, and although the graphics could be sharper in places, the overal game delivers some chills and plenty of addicitive fun. Raise ghosts as you re-assemble their tombstones - explore 13 haunted homes and some creepy photos. And ultimately solve who killed a little girl - I bought this game - and it has an exciting ending (the last levels are very fun) which made the whole thing very worth while and good scary fun in the dark!

Magic Encyclopedia [Game Download] <-click Download..

By P. B. Sharp (Las Cruces, NM) - reviews

"Magic Encyclopedia- First Story" was for me a fine example of serendipity because I did not expect a game of this caliber. The graphic scenes, all hand-painted, are absolutely beautiful. And the puzzles are challenging, fun and not all that easy. This is a feast for the eyes as well as the brain.

"Magic" is that species of hidden object game in which pieces of various items are scattered around the environment. -the motif is similar to the Mortimer Beckett games. The objects in their entirety that need to be found are pictured at the bottom of the screen but you have to hunt all over for the often weeny pieces of that object. When you have collected the entire item, say, a hammer or a shield, it goes in your inventory and you have to decide what to do with it as each object fits back into one of the scenes in a specific place, in other words it integrates and performs a function.

Many of the scattered pieces cannot be found until you successfully solve a mini-puzzle, and these puzzles are original and intriguing and challenging. In one you have to connect a series of pipe pieces so that none of the segments drip water- it's a leaky pipe to begin with. It took me many tries to solve this one but when I finally did essential information appeared, allowing me to proceed. All of these unusual mini-puzzles require solving, you can't skip them or you're dead in the water! They're timed, too, but not horrendously so. You can do them! There are many walkthroughs on Google if you get stuck!

You are guiding a young girl on a quest to find her brother and thwart manifestations of evil along the way as you careen from one exotic place to another- Mayan ruins, an English castle, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece. You visit an African shaman and a Native American wigwam and a spooky graveyard and many more colorful locations. Hints are readily available for each environment but you have to earn them.

CAVEAT: The cursor behaves rather erratically in this game. I had thought the problem was with my set until I read other peoples' complaints. There are times when it is very hard to control the cursor and it can be very frustrating. However, I enjoyed the game enough to put up with this annoyance and still award the five stars.