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Red Faction: Armageddon continues the story of Red Faction: Guerrilla , but in a very different tone. Taking down a tower The beginning of the game is wonderful. You get pretty much the game stuff as Guerrilla - great destruction with the hammer, explosives everywhere and much more. And plenty of choices on how to kill your enemies. The graphics feel improved and everything looks great. Destroying building seem to be a little bit better, too. One of the first surprises is the nano forge. While you could use the nano rifle on Guerrilla to kill and destroy, this version of it magically restores man-made structures - such as stairs and floors. That is a big help for the level designers, as fully destructible levels can easily end up as levels that you cannot complete - something that happened quite a bit on Guerrilla when I damaged a building a little more than I intended. You have plenty of extra weapons too, such as shockwave (stuns and damages nearby enemies), im...

Steel Storm is an old-style, top view shooter. The graphics and sounds are adequate - and there are plenty of destructible objects in the environment whose sole purpose seems to be exploding. The gameplay is OK for a few minutes, but I found wondering around shooting baddies while dodging their fire gets boring fast. The levels don't seem to help - looks like it takes a while to get anywhere. And the game hits on one of my pet peeves - teleporting enemies on scripted moments. The weapons seem to be completely generic, with no strategy involved. Overall, really not recommended.

Dead Horde is a top view, arcade style Zombie killing game. The graphics and sound are adequate. My problem with it was the gameplay, which mostly consists of holding the trigger (and all you need is point in the general direction - no precision required) and shooting at small groups of zombies while running in the other direction. That is pretty much it. There is not much strategy involved, and for me, not much fun either. You can also buy upgrades at a shop. While they do make some difference, it is not as much as I'd like. The game has vehicle sequences. One felt like a bonus round, where you went around running over groups of zombies with an Humvee.  Another was a simple "puzzle" - you get into a forklift to raise a metal structure. The problem was - the first time, it didn't show me the control system (up and down arrows). So I was going around trying to figure out what to do. The second time I entered it displayed the controls. Personally I'd just go w...

E.Y.E - Divine Cybermancy is an indie RPG FPS with a heavy cyberpunk style. While it does look interesting on the surface, it mostly feels like a mod made into a game. The graphics and sound are good (I'd say excellent for an indie game). There are some quasi-comical moments in the tutorial start - for example, a few times you'd get referred for a short video which could much better be expressed as 3 or 4 phrases (the basic movement tutorial or basic weapons, for example). Your missions consist of killing, hacking (which has a somewhat clever mechanism) and other mayhem. Personally I really didn't like the overall gameplay. Specially how enemies seemed to pop from anywhere...

Faerie Solitaire is a Solitaire game (my favorite is the Spider version that comes with Windows 7). The gameplay is quite simple - you have a foundation card that you must match with a lower or higher card. There are a few variations added to this - for example, frozen cards that must be defrosted with a special card before playing, or cards blocked by thorns, which you unlock by clearing a rose column. You can also buy extra powers, such as extra undo or seeing blocked cards. The gameplay is reasonably fun, since there is a bit of strategy to the game. There is also an attempt at story, but it is very minimal - it looks like they had a checklist with a Story item, and had to uncheck it. The graphics and sounds are acceptable. I do wish that it took the music off seriously - the music when a hand is over still plays... There is what feels like a side game with pets that are hatched from eggs. They don't seem to apply to the actual game - you just get the resources to g...

RuneSpell: Overture does not fit in the regular game genres. It is a poker game with battles decided by card matches - much like Puzzle Quest. In a very similar way, you also get a number of other cards and allies that you can use during the game. There is some strategy involved in which cards/allies you choose for each battle. Graphics are pretty good, but what surprised me the most was the quality of the music. I imagine many won't appreciate it, but I really loved the orchestral epic theme. I very much enjoyed the unusual gameplay. I recommend checking out the demo.

I just removed Addthis from my site  after realizing that their script was, by far, the largest object in the main page. Got my main page from 4s to 3.2s. And according to their stats (for my site), there really was no point in keeping it there... I'm keeping Google +1, however - it is tiny and may have direct effect on searches.