Prepare to exercise your brain,
The Locked Box is here, the latest in
The First Door Series. And as well as what I have no doubt are mind twisting puzzles, this one incorporates some nice flash sights and sounds too - it really does look great and I can't wait to try out some of what effectively appear to be mini (almost
point'n'click) games spread around the desktop that is the playing surface. Anyway before I head off to play I'll hand over to the mysterious First Door for their intro:
Things began again at midnight. Something different needs to be solved; something new needs to be opened. This time it is not a door, but a box. After the last quest, the path was severed; the trail destroyed and left dangling. Without a path to follow, the quest has changed, the quest has become about finding the next step. Discover the secret projects The First Door was working on and hope that he has left us a clue about what to do next. Go to his hiding place, he has left you a message. Will you listen once again?
[
subbed by The First Door & Jazelock].
Destination Death is an educational
point'n'click game from
The BBC in which you are supposed to be learning French, German and/or Spanish as you play (as far as I can tell, other than the language obviously, the game seems to be the same no matter which language you pick). I choose to play in French and have worked out I'm in an airport (durrrr), and I'm waiting for my sister, but there seems to be some sort of problem with the aeroplane and/or airport. I'm now trying to scrape my knowledge of French from the back of my brain to work out more. What I do know though is that I love the stylised black, white and red graphics [
subbed by leah].
O Cofre combines some fine graphics and sounds to produce a great
point'n'click sequel to
O Quarto (select a resolution size on
the linked page to start the game). The aim of the game is to escape once again, if only that lady hadn't closed the weird bank vault door thing, and also, you'll soon find out, to be beware of the dog. I've had to restart this one a couple of times already... [
subbed by f00].
Rat Room 3, the latest in the
Rat Room Series, features a whole labyrinth of rooms to escape, however they all look identical so it feels like you are
point'n'clicking around the same room over and over again. Confusing and frustrating [
via Nicop].
Escape Military School using your
point'n'click skills in
Escape Culver, be warned though
Lisa provides these words of caution:
This game tends to be a bit "buggy" (i.e. some can see the codes and others can't, also sometimes you are unable to go left or right to change rooms) and some may have to restart the game.
Fortunately we all love a challenge [
subbed by Lisa].
The latest game in the
Wanpa Quest Series shuns the obvious name of "Wanpa Quest 5", instead it's called
Wanpa Quest Another 1. Well why not? Why bow to convention? Anyway, whatever the name, it continues the theme of tricky
point'n'click puzzles and impenetrable Japanese text [
subbed by purdey, laserleaser, carm, Cruzinn, Escaper, Andiar, suki & winniethepooh].
5 Minutes To Kill (Yourself) has an unusual (and somewhat sick) theme, and comes with a huge great big "don't try this at home kids", or indeed "don't try this in the office big kids", caveat. The twisted back story of this
point'n'click game is that you are working in an office when a surprise meeting is called for five minutes time (I
hate that). Unable to come up with any of the suitable excuses for non-attendance that we all use in real life, the only obvious course of action is to take your own life before the meeting starts. Thus hilarity ensues as you use objects around the office, and bait your co-workers, into doing you some harm [
subbed by meltz, JonB & ***].
PS. Oh, I forgot to mention, as well as the whole suicide theme which won't to be everyone's taste, I should also point out that this game is presented in isometric layout and uses the cursor keys for movement, which I know for
a lot of you is #1 crime against humanity. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Back before I got addicted to point and click games racers were my game of choice, from
Pole Position on the
Atari, all the way through to
Metropolis Street Racer on the
Dreamcast, and just about every incarnation of
Gran Turismo on the
PlayStation(s).
So, anyway (*snaps* out of dreamy like reminiscences), my point is that it was with this in mind that I eagerly loaded up
PACE - Pursuit Accross Europe a freebie web based racing game from BMW. And I wasn't disappointed. The racing in the game is pretty good, especially considering cursor keys aren't the most responsive way of controlling this kind of game. And although the "in race" graphics aren't the best (they're fine, just not
great) the cut scene graphics are fantastic, with a nice stylised look. Add to that an atmospheric sound track and you're immersed. The only minor down point is that you have to register to progress any further than the first couple of levels, which I know bothers some of you, personally though I don't mind this. All in all a great game [
found at Jay's].
Stealth Hunter come with an array of keyboard commands (no point and click here) and a large dollop of
Metal Gear Solid, through 22 levels of stealthy infiltration, neck snapping (possibly not one for the younger kids) and explosive planting [
subbed by winniethepooh].
At World's End is a promo
point'n'click game/interactive web site thing promoting the
new Pirates Of The Caribbean film. The not very difficult goal is to collect the coins from the pirates for Jack, and in the meanwhile (and no doubt this is the creators ultimate goal) you see short trailers and peeks of the film-to-come [
subbed by atir].
Makibishi Comic takes some truly stunning Japanese comic art (I would go so far as to use the phrase
visual feast), some nice sounds, and plenty of things to
point'n'click, and wraps it all up into a game that's an absolute pleasure to play. I think the goal is to find some hidden characters, but really this game is about the journey, and not the destination. Oh, and crucially for your enjoyment there's a Japanese
and an English version [
subbed by winniethepooh].
