Archive for December, 2007

Where did the time go?

MorrowindIt’s Christmas and just like everyone, even I’ve got more time than usually. Of course I spend quite much time with my parents and sister, but there’s time for gaming too. And so I blew of the dust from my Morrowind CD.

Do you at least remember that game? You know Oblivion for sure. And before The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion there was TES: Morrowind. I’ve never played it very much. I always got stuck after few hours, but because I finished Oblivion with both datadiscs, I told myself why don’t give Morrowind one more chance?

In the times Morrowind was released I had just old 433MHz Celeron with Riva TNT2 and so I even could’t play at home. It was the same thing like with Crysis now. And we all were excited by Morrowind’s graphic same way. It was fantastic. So realistic!

OblivionBut what about now. It looks terrible…And the same thing about the gameplay. I couldn’t find out how to do the easiest things. I tried what I did in Oblivion, but it didn’t work. Actually there’s really big step between Morrowind and Oblivion. But there are old games that I can play again and again and even if they are old, they still look great.

So I ask myself - what’s the thing that makes some games so unforgettable? Where is the magic?:o) And will we remember and PLAY games like Crysis or Assasin’s Creed?

Turbocharged Penguins - pinguins can fly!

Turbocharged PenguinsDon’t you believe pinguins can fly? Well, with a little help they actually can! And in this game your task is to provide this little help to these small animals.

Of course, just like in many other games, your mission is to get as high score as you can. And to get more points you must get your pinguin higher. But how to do this? It’s very easy - you must just click your pinguin and don’t let him get out of the screen. From the beginning it’s quite easy because you can fall just down but as you go higher and higher, there are no walls on the sides and so you can lose by getting too much right or left too.

As you are flying you can find some additional help - little balls, that provide you some boost for your pinguin’s speed when you use them. So if you are not affraid of hights, try this game in your browser

Dolphin Olympics 2 - great acrobatics game

Dolphin Olympics 2My first thoughs of this game when I saw it’s name were that it sounds quite interesting. Olympic games with no people but many lovely cute dolphins. Well even if the game is still about something else, I still like it.

There is only one discipline - acrobatics - you can play it for hours and hours and try to get higher score with your dolphin. Of course you can get score by doing tricks. More difficult and nice tricks mean more score. But you can’t get the highest score just by doing one trick! And so as your dolphin gets faster and faster by doing funny things, he can jump higher too and travel even into space (and use stars for your tricks;o)

If you want to try how high score you can get, play this game in your browser and if you think, you’re better then us, post your score to the comments:oP

Are you bored with golf?

GraviteeTry planetal golf! What it is? Well, try to put golf and planets into the mixer and mix it for few minutes. And you’ll get Gravitee - golf in the space where gravity of planets affects your ball!

Your task is pretty easy - you’ll get a ball and a hole on some other planet. And as in normal golf you must get the ball into the hole. But there are some difficulties of course - every planet has different mass and you must count with it. Fortunatelly you can have a little (well…BIG) help from beginning, because you can turn on the ball trace drawing so you can see how much do planets affect your ball. But if you’ll turn this of…whoa:o) Now it’s something else. And don’t even try to turn off mass indicators too;oD

Sounds good? Actually it really is! Play this game in your browser right now!

Heroes of Might and Magic : Kingdoms

Heroes of Might and Magic : KingdomsDo you like Heroes and Might and Magic (or just Might and Magic series)? And do you like online gaming? We have got great news for you!

Ubisoft is going to run new HOMM on-line game with sub-title Kingdoms. But don’t think, you’ll play another World of Warcraft, just in an other world! This game can be played in your browser and you’ll be allowed to play it absolutelly free. Rigt now it looks there will be many differences between classic HOMM series and this online one. But of course you’ll have to do still the same - trade, fight and collect.

If you are bored of all other online games, try to read about HOMM : Kingdoms at official homepage and look forward at it as I am:o) First betatests are goint to start in the beginning of 2008

Telescope Game: small logical flash game

Telescope game

I am not really sure how I came to site of one vendor of vacuum cleaner, but when I see the game section on this site I tried it. You know, classical advert games are very bored and I was surprised to see this small logical game.

It is quite simply: you have ball, hole and bunch of telescopes and you need to move the Ball to the Hole. There is a lot of levels, good luck ;). Check it here.

BTW you can find one more good arcade game on theirs site too.

Aquaria: Underwater Fantasy Game

AquariaOne of the best looking indie game coming. Aquaria will be release this Friday and I can’t wait until I try it. I am little bit worried about game play, but 7 minutes long in-game video (see it here) convicted me to try the demo, after they released it (for minimum).

In this game you will explore beautiful underwater world, cast spells, do some fighting (and you can kill fishes with enhanced stone (see the video ;)). Also some boss and fighting with them was included and the story too.

They have really cool screenshots, see this page.