Good Free Games

Cleaning up

Extraboom — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:09:25 +0000

I wasted my time downloading & “playing” Duty Calls. I never played CoD, so I didn’t find it amusing, or fun. So, it gets the axe!

If you see a game on this site that’s shut down or is just plain bad, please let me know I try to keep everything fresh.

Working on a Browser Football Game

Extraboom — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:35:14 +0000

I’m working on a mini football game that will be played in-browser. It will likely use Ajax for any animations, and possibly real-time updates of stats, etc. My idea so far is to just do offense at first, and if that goes well, I’ll work on adding a defense. If I had to guess when it’d be ready for any type of open testing, I’d say December… because I’d rather be playing games most of the time, than making them – at least for now.

Overview: You are the owner. You get 11 players – each having their own skills (haven’t decided if I want to add levels (MMO-esque) to the players or to the owner. You call each play and try to get a touchdown. I do plan on having a leaderboard so you can try to be #1.

Suggestions and feedback are welcome!

Project Blackout Review

Extraboom — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:02:04 +0000

Project Blackout is a free FPS game with several modes and maps. It has many ranks like most FPS games these days. You can buy various guns, armor, characters, etc. using in-game credits or points ($). Below are the different game types:

Deathmatch - Red vs Blue til time runs out or # of kills is reached
Eliminate - Eliminate the other team, with no respawn til the next round.
Bomb - Red team tries to plant a bomb or eliminate the blue team. Once planted, Blue team has 30 seconds to defuse it. Several maps to choose from.
Defense - Offense vs Defense. Keep the enemy from destroying your 2 tanks (located in different locations). At the time of this review, there is only 1 map for this mode.
Destroy - Destroy the enemy’s helicopter or generator. There are currently 2 maps available.
Challenge (play vs AI) – start off against low level AI. Every 20 kills, the difficulty goes up. Good for practice or if you’re bored.

In addition to these, when you create a room, you can limit what weapons and accessory items can be used, so if you like to camp.. err snipe, you can make it so you can only use rifles. You can also choose whether grenades or handguns can be used.

While PB may not have quite as many options as older FPS games, the gameplay seems to be smoother & less clunky, and maybe a little less chaotic. One thing I’d recommend – be sure to disable the voice-overs (not sure the exact term in the options) or you’ll hear someone yell grenade every time a grenade is thrown — and that’s about every other second.

Alliance of Valiant Arms

Extraboom — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:41:31 +0000

Of all the games currently on this site, AVA has the highest rating (3.5/5). I’m a big fan of FPS games, but I have never played it! So, my goal is to play it and if it’s better than other FPS games that are listed on the site, then I will add it as the Featured Game that appears at the top of each page.

On a side note, I may have the Featured Game rotate in the future.