Enigmata Space Shooter Online Flash Game. An epic space adventure game. Fly through 20 levels, gather powerful weapons and ships!
Description:
Use your car to drve around the field and kill unsuspecting players. Kill as many as you can by ruthlessly pummeling them over and grinding them into the ground. Have fun!
A version of the classic Tetris game
Description:
Pop bubbles? Yeah, I know how to do that. But the whole glob moves every time I hit it! Oh noes! You’ll have to use strategic thinking, bud.
Instructions:
Left click to shoot.
Smash all stones and blocks, pick up power ups that fall down and keep the ball in the field until all the bricks are destroyed.
Feel like a great adventurer clearing up the nuclear world of traps, lasers, fire-balls, missiles and bomb together with game! Prepare to smash your way through a wild and crazy game, excellent 3D models and radiant level design. Move your bumper to the left and right to do this – that’s it. The new bonuses are as dazzling to watch as they are helpful. So download your free trial version now!
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| Description: | Ready for more of the pure tilty bike stuff? Outfit your rider and bike in your favorite colors and get tilty, baby! |
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| Instructions: | Up/Down for gas/brake; left/right for tilties |
Nazis and necromancy mix once again in this flawed but fun sequel.
The Good
- Fantastic boss fights
- Dramatic battles, featuring plenty of blood
- Solid online play offers lasting value
- The guns are fun to shoot.
The Bad
- Boring story told by mediocre-looking cutscenes
- Inconsistent level of challenge
- A bunch of little issues add up over time.
The setup for this historical/sci-fi mash-up is typical Wolfenstein whimsy, shouldered by the ever-capable B.J. Blaskowicz. This returning hero has spilled his share of Nazi blood, so who better than B.J. to protect the residents of the city of Isenstadt (not to be confused with the Austrian city of Eisenstadt) from the ongoing onslaught? Isenstadt is the headquarters of several resistance groups that seeks to wrest the secrets of the supernatural from the hands of the Schutzstaffel. It seems the Nazis are up to their old tricks, this time harnessing the powers of a mystical force called the Black Sun for the usual take-over-the-world kind of evil. If you know the series, you know not to expect much substance or surprise, though it’s too bad there isn’t more to draw you into this kitschy fiction. A lot of this has to do with the technology powering the game. Wolfenstein looks a bit aged; the prerendered cutscenes look overcompressed and facial animations are stiff. These second-rate assets, along with unenthusiastic voice acting, are distracting and make it hard to get invested in your fellow insurgents. Wolfenstein’s story is a throwaway that boils down to a simple premise: Throw a bunch of Nazis into the occultist blender and see what cockamamy concoction pours out.
As it turns out, this concoction doesn’t offer many surprises. Though you’ll get tastes of role-playing elements and paranormal wizardry, Wolfenstein sticks to the trusty run-and-gun formula that has worked so well for shooters over the years. And it does it well, sending you into country farms, sprawling airfields, and secretive corridors to see how well you can fend off the soldiers and various anomalies it flings toward you. Your tools of destruction are solid. Traditional World War II weapons, such as the MP40 SMG and the Flammenwerfer, feel excellent, so even if you run out of ammo for the more powerful firearms, you’ll never lament falling back to the simpler choices. But the better half of your arsenal is essentially snatched from an alternate reality. Of these options, you’ll quickly grow fond of the Tesla gun, which fires electric streams in various directions at once, and the Leichenfaust 44, which is a heavy weapon that instantly vaporizes standard enemies. As you explore Isenstadt and complete missions, you’ll earn money and find bags of coins. You can then spend these spoils on upgrades for your weapons, such as diminished recoil or greater damage. While some weapons are better in certain circumstances than others, there’s really no weak banana in this bunch.
The action itself is rudimentary as far as first-person shooters go. There is no cover system to grapple with; you won’t peek around corners, slink in the shadows, or pilot vehicles. You can, however, enter a parallel dimension called The Veil. When you activate The Veil, the world is shrouded in a shimmering cloak. In it, you can run faster, and enemies glisten, making them easier to target. Odd creatures called geists also float about, shocking nearby enemies if you shoot them down and even creating fearsome webs of electricity in tandem with neighboring geists. More importantly, entering The Veil lets you perform three potent powers: slow down time, surround yourself with a bulletproof shield, and empower your own bullets to do more damage and pierce paranormal force fields. You can also purchase upgrades for Veil powers just as you do for weapons. Eventually, you might be turning adjacent enemies into pillars of ash when you suppress the flow of time or deflecting bullets back toward your foes when in the safety of your shield.
Similar powers have appeared elsewhere; if you’ve played either Ubersoldier game, for example, it’s hard to dismiss the similarities as mere coincidence. Yet contrived or not, you’ll need to make frequent use of The Veil. Wolfenstein is challenging when you don’t use it; in spite of his regenerating health, B.J. is rather fragile. The game often pits you against a healthy (or unhealthy, in this case) number of Nazi soldiers and ninja-speed sorcerers, so you’ll need to stay on your toes and charge up your Veil energy reserves whenever you see an energy deposit’s telltale shimmer. That doesn’t mean your adversaries are very smart. Soldiers often won’t react to a grenade thrown at their feet, don’t always care when the Nazi standing right next to them gets shot, and generally seem unconcerned with preserving their own lives. The challenge comes from sheer numbers–and from time to time, it will come from cheap attacks that can lead to frustration. Cloaked sorcerers and fleet-footed vixens can sneak right up and kill you in a slash or two–an occurrence that can be hard to avoid if you fail to glimpse them by chance or miss the sound effects that signal their presence. Dealing with one-hit-kill surprises like that isn’t much fun, and there are a few other sudden arrivals that are almost impossible to prepare for, such as rocket-spewing meanies flying about.
With a carefully balanced blend of action and exploration, Shadow Complex is Super Metroid for a new generation.
The Good
- Dozens of power-ups to find and collect
- Unique use of perspective in combat
- Optional challenge rooms to test your skills
- In-game notifications keep it competitive with friends.
The Bad
- Getting from one end of the massive base to the other can be a pain
- Aiming doesn’t always work the way it should.
Set in the world of Orson Scott Card’s Empire novel–though you would be hard-pressed to ever discover this unless you happened to read the game’s description while downloading it–Shadow Complex is the story of a couple in the wrong place at the wrong time. When Jason Fleming and his girlfriend, Claire, go on a spelunking trip in the mountains and accidentally discover a secret underground base, they run straight into a radical organization that calls itself the Progressive Restoration. With Claire captured, it’s up to Jason to find a way to storm the Restoration’s stronghold and rescue her. Though the story of Jason’s mission to save his girlfriend is poorly integrated (a shame, considering it builds upon the work of an award-winning author), it is really secondary to the action and exploration, both of which are brilliantly blended to create a fun and addictive experience.
Starting out with only a flashlight and his quick wits, Jason must search through the expansive underground facility for weapon and equipment caches to arm himself. Though you’re initially restricted to a small section of the Restoration base, each new ability you obtain expands this area. This, in turn, lets you find even more weapons and power-ups; thus, you are constantly rewarded for your efforts. In addition to illuminating your way through the darkness, your flashlight will reveal the weaknesses of destructible doors, crates, and vent covers, making it easy to tell which areas you’ll need to revisit. And with the map screen and its helpful–yet optional–prompts, you’ll rarely be at a loss as to where you need to go next. Retracing your steps and backtracking is a necessary part of your adventure, and though it’s generally just a minor inconvenience to get from one location to another, Shadow Complex could have benefited from something like the teleport rooms seen in every Castlevania game since Symphony of the Night. This is especially true in the latter parts of the game when a major route is off-limits for story purposes. That said, the constant thrills of finding the dozens of power-ups, exploring every nook and cranny on the map, and pushing your completion percentages all the way to 100 are more than enough to keep you going.
As you infiltrate the Restoration’s base, you’ll encounter legions of heavily armed soldiers and do battle with their powerful battle mechs. Though the game is a 2D side-scroller, the graphics and environments are all rendered in 3D, which leads to some unique tricks with perspective where soldiers routinely patrol and attack from inaccessible areas in both the foreground and background. Generally speaking, dealing with such foes is as easy as using the right analog stick to paint your laser sight across them and squeezing off a few rounds because the game usually knows when you’re trying to aim at foes in other planes. However, sometimes it simply isn’t possible to do so without adjusting your position because your laser sight refuses to reach into the background, which can be irksome, especially when you’re taking cover behind crates or a blast shield. Precision targeting can also be used to pull off headshots for maximum damage or to interact with the environment in a variety of ways: You can shoot down overhead power cables to electrify nearby enemies, explode fuel canisters, shoot down the explosive tiny robots that patrol the walls and ceilings, and more. And for added variety (or if you want to keep things quiet), you can sneak up and take out soldiers with an impressive melee attack or use an unlockable powerful ground pound attack to simply vaporize them.
However, the real thrill of combat in Shadow Complex doesn’t come from the small-scale hallway fights but the huge set piece battles. The Restoration knows that you’re loose in their base, and they send everything they’ve got after you, from mobile powered suits to spider mechs. Each of these boss battles is enormously fun and often surprisingly interactive with the environment, such as a mech encounter in which you goad your enemy into blowing open a series of water mains and drowning itself. As you progress deeper into the base, these conflicts intensify, culminating in an epic final battle. Outside of the boss battles, the turret sequences are also a pleasant surprise. While they’re often boring affairs in most games, getting behind a stationary cannon on the Restoration’s base is an absolute treat. The camera shifts, and you can mow down wave after wave of your enemies in an unexpected way–likely cackling to yourself the entire time.
Shadow Complex’s developers found a way of making the single-player game extremely competitive, as if it weren’t fun enough already. Upon completion of the game, which can take as little as an hour (for a highly skilled individual on subsequent play-throughs) or as long as 10, you’re awarded with a numerical score based on a number of factors, which is tracked on a leaderboard. There are also a number of other, more specific leaderboards available for tasks, such as the number of enemies you’ve finished off with melee attacks, the number of headshots you’ve performed, or the number of soldiers you’ve made scream as they die. Thanks to helpful in-game notifications that pop up every so often, you know exactly where you stand with these tasks in comparison to your friends, and working your way to the top and staying there can be difficult but rewarding in its own right. And if you want to compete in ways that are more skill-oriented, you can work on achieving the highest scores and the lowest times in the challenge courses, which are virtual-reality simulations that teach you how to maximize your various abilities and apply them in ways you may never have thought of otherwise.
Constructed using Unreal Engine 3 technology, Shadow Complex looks fantastic, from the wooded surface areas to the rippling water found in underground reservoirs. Enemy rag-doll effects, explosive physics, and fluid dynamics are all on full display, and blasting a guy off a ledge so he falls screaming to his death never ceases to amuse. Each area of the base is sufficiently varied and brilliantly paired with an admirable soundtrack. In one eerily beautiful portion of the game, you traverse a flooded section of the base. As you push past the free-floating corpses within, a somber theme underscores the emotional poignancy as you realize the extent of the destruction.
By focusing on the core themes of exploration and high-intensity combat while treating you to lush graphics and multiplane complexity, Shadow Complex is an excellent current-generation take on a classic gaming genre. There are enough secrets hidden in the Progressive Restoration’s massive underground facility to keep you going for hours on your first play-through, but with the four difficulty settings, competitive leaderboards, challenge rooms, clever achievements and bonus objectives, you won’t want to leave it at that. Ultimately, Shadow Complex is the sort of game that you can come back to again and again, and at 1,200 Microsoft points ($15), it’s a gem that you shouldn’t miss out on.
Winter has come early this year in Gotham City.It’s barely October and the streets are already buried under heavy blankets of snow bringing nearly everything to a frozen halt.
What is happening?
Has the climate been altered forever?
Controls:
Up Arrow Key – Jump
Down Arrow Key – Dodge
Left Arrow Key – Run Left
Right Arrow Key – Run Right
Ctrl – Punch
Up Arrow Key + Ctrl – Jump Kick
Space Bar – Use Batrope, activate switch and use elevator
