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Colin McRae Rally 2005

Description

The fifth iteration of the rally racing game inspired by the “Flying Scotsman”. Choose from over 30 car models. The detail and physics are improved, and more playing modes are available, including a new around-the-world career mode. Weather conditions and rally courses can both be customized. Network play supports up to eight players with split-screen. As always, the menu design is clean, and the tracks are dirty!

As with previous games in the series, Colin McRae Rally 2005 is presented as a realistic rally simulation, with players participating in rallies consisting of 70 stages spread over nine countries. There are over 30 cars available. There is also a revised graphics and damage engine that enables paint scratches on the car, and a new ‘career’ mode where the player starts out in the lower club leagues and works their way up to compete with Colin McRae in his 2004 Dakar Rally Nissan Pick-Up. In ‘Championship’ mode the player takes the role of Colin himself competing in six rallies using any 4WD car. The game’s graphic engine allows for more realistic damage effects, like broken glass and doors falling off, and a blurred vision effect if the player comes into contact with a hard object. The damage system has similarities to the Destruction Derby one, as a damaged radiator will stall the car, and make it need to restart the engine. A slight level of customization is the ability to put your name and nationality on the window. …

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Command & Conquer – Renegade

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The First Tiberium War between the GDI and the sinister Brotherhood of Nod is nearing its end. In an attempt to revert the scales of war to their favor, the brotherhood kidnaps top three Tiberium research specialists. The GDI commando Captain Nick “Havoc” Parker is sent on a mission to rescue the scientists. As he battles the forces of the Brotherhood on the way to his objective, the Captain discovers the abductors’ true intention, and realizes that the outcome of the entire war depends on the success of his mission.

Command & Conquer: Renegade is a first-person 3D shooter set in the Command & Conquer universe. Game progression is mission-driven; most missions have primary, secondary, and tertiary objectives. A few drivable vehicles are available. Though the gameplay does not deviate from traditional FPS formula, scripted events and some of the mission objectives share common themes and features with the real-time strategy games of the series. The multiplayer emulates RTS gameplay to a larger extent, putting players in control of either GDI or the Brotherhood forces, and requiring them to harvest tiberium in order to upgrade the armies. …

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Command & Conquer – Generals

Description

A new chapter in the Command & Conquer universe, set somewhere in the 2020s, pits three sides for global domination: the United States of America, the People’s Republic of China and the Global Liberation Army (GLA).

Generals features real world (renamed or slightly altered) weapons combined with quasi-high-tech ones, new control schemes and a fast-paced multiplayer. Generals is the first game in the Command & Conquer series not to include FMV or pre-rendered cutscenes between missions, and was also the first C&C game without the Westwood Studios label (although the development studio was initially called Westwood Pacific before being merged into EA Pacific). It uses a full 3D environment powered by the SAGE engine, a modified version of the W3D engine previously seen in C&C: Renegade. …

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Command & Conquer – Tiberian Sun

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Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun is a real-time strategy game and the direct sequel to the original Command & Conquer, set in the year 2030.

The Earth is now heavily contaminated with the alien crystalline substance known as Tiberium and is becoming less habitable with time, while new life forms have formed in areas of serious contamination. While the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) still has a technologically advanced arsenal, it is also tasked with Tiberium research and abatement. The Brotherhood of Nod suddenly re-emerges from hiding, and its leader Kane, believed to have been dead since the assault on Sarajevo in the First Tiberium War, unveils himself to General Solomon on GDI’s orbital station Philadelphia. As Nod’s sneak attacks start scourging the world like decades prior, GDI prepares for self-defense. Meanwhile, survivors of Tiberium mutation who call themselves The Forgotten live separated from society, but are about to become relevant for both GDI and Nod efforts.

Tiberian Sun debuted an isometric engine which combines the use of 2D sprites with 3D voxels (short for volume elements). There are even larger differences between the two playable sides in terms of gameplay styles and visual design – GDI prefers brute force while Nod specializes in hit-and-run tactics and the element of surprise. Some of the technologically advanced units include hovercrafts, subterranean flame tanks (aptly named “Devil’s Tongues”), mechanized walkers, etc. Each side now also has multiple support powers at their disposal, and some of the special technologies have direct counters – stealth units can be discovered by mobile sensor arrays, while subterranean units can be directed further from sensitive areas with concrete pavement. The campaigns, similar to those in preceding titles, have side missions which can aid in resolving main missions (e.g. destroying a nearby outpost will reduce the size of the enemy army in the main mission). …

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The City of Lost Children

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The City of Lost Children is a PC adventure game based on the French film of the same name. The game was developed by Psygnosis and released in 1997.

The game takes place in a dark and surreal world where a mad scientist named Krank is stealing children’s dreams in order to prolong his own life. The player takes on the role of Miette, a young girl who has escaped from Krank’s clutches and is on a mission to save her friend, a little boy named One.

The game is played from a third-person perspective and features a variety of puzzles and challenges that the player must solve in order to progress through the game’s story. The game’s world is filled with strange and mysterious characters, including a talking flea, a giant cyclops, and a pair of conjoined twins. …

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Country Justice – Revenge of the Rednecks

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Country Justice: Revenge of the Rednecks is a first-person shooter similar in themes and humour to the Redneck Rampage games. In the Yahoo Country in Mississippi, Steve Earl is informed by his cousin Ellie May that her goat Dixie has been stolen. Steve and Sheriff Cletus set out to search for it, but right at that moment the entire county is affected by nuclear waste, dumped in the river by a scientist, mutating all animals and turning the humans into zombies.

Starting from the main, trailer-infested village, the player can attack mutated goats, cows and horses, as well as the zombies with weapons such as a fists, a baseball bat, a pistol, a rifle, different types of shotguns, an M16, a crossbow, dynamite, and a spraycan that becomes a flamethrower when used with a lighter. The action takes place both indoors and outdoors. There is a fixed mission path, but most of the environment can be roamed freely and it covers a lot of terrain with meadows, rivers, bridges, various small buildings, towns and small sites with crashed cars. Earl can travel around using different vehicles such as four-wheelers, pick-up trucks, air boats and semi-trucks. His main truck can be tuned at the local gas station or garage. When driving, the perspective is changed to third-person, except when Steve is in the back of the sheriff’s truck manning a machine gun. …

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Croc 2

Description

Croc is on a quest to find his parents. However, Baron Dante has kidnapped the Gobbos kings. Croc then turns his attention to rescue all of the Gobbos kings.

You travel across 48 levels in this free roaming 3D game. You have to beat all the levels in a village (except the secret level) to move on to the next one. In each village, (except the 4th village) are 5 regular levels, 2 bosses, and 1 secret level. Regular levels are levels where you just beat them and get certain items in them.

Bosses are levels where you go through one section then fight a monster at the end. Secret levels are levels where you collect the jigsaw piece. Once you collect the jigsaw piece in all 4 secret levels and defeat Baron Dante, Swap Meet Pete will take you to the lost levels. …

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