Sauerbraten (Cube 2)

Sauerbraten is a freeware first person shooter that can be played in multiplayer or single player modes. My first impressions were excellent, the game is pure eye candy - especially for a freeware game. However, when you first start the game you are dropped into a map (Episode 1) with no monsters, no other players, no exits, no nothing. You have to bring up the menu for more advanced options - the menu itself even looked nice, it just hoovers in 3D space.

Being a FPS fan I was right at home, the game was responsive and pretty immerse right away. The in-game music is some pretty decent thrash metal which really sets the mode. I actually found the game fairly difficult in single player mode - not enough ammo by far. But there is a wide array of weapons at your disposal and an array of bad guys to bring the smackdown to. Small negative - having enemies run blindly toward you is a little 1990's.

Eye Candy.

Summary: 

Bring the smackdown, ignore the badly designed UI.

Where Can I Get It?

http://sauerbraten.org

SGR Rating:


80%

About Crayon Physics Deluxe

An ingenious video game that looks like it was designed by a third-grader.

The annual Game Developers Conference is a chance for all the major players in the video-game industry to show off their flashiest new titles. Attendees at February's meeting, for instance, were treated to a sneak peek of the upcoming Gears of War II, a richly detailed sci-fi action game that appears indistinguishable from a blockbuster sci-fi movie. The game has subtle lighting and shadow effects, water that ripples and splashes properly, concrete walls that crack and crumble to reveal the underlying rebar. To top it all off, the guy leading the demo had his character pump bullets into an enormous cube of meat, which was authentically elastic and viscous in response to the fusillade.

Despite that absurd graphical overkill, or maybe because of it, Gears of War II wasn't the talk of the show. Most of the chatter was about a game called Crayon Physics Deluxe, which didn't get a glitzy demo on a huge video screen in front of an audience of thousands. Why all the love for a game that looks a bit like something your third-grader might ask you to stick up on the fridge? Watch the embedded video below, and you'll understand.

Full Article @ Slate.com: http://www.slate.com/id/2186848/

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Leprechaun Loot Slots

Here is something for St Paddie's Day! Leprechaun Loot Slots / Pokies 6.01 is simply a 20 payline slot machine game with a Leprechaun and Irish theme. It works just like a real slot machine game with the pulling and the chinging. You can't win any real money (more is the pity), but you can win plenty of virtual money to impress everyone. Like the pokies? You'll like this game.

Sure, it's a grand little game if you like this kinda' thing.

Summary

Slot machine in green. End of story.

Where Can I Get It?

http://www.top-shareware.net/leprechaun_loot_slots_pokies.html

SGR Rating


55%