How to Beat the High Cost of Gaming, Part Two


After a week of enticing releases, and an approaching holiday gaming deluge, gamers may not have the funds to fuel their gaming habits. Currently, the quality of browser-based titles now rivals (and frequently, bests) some of the filler found on the Xbox Live Arcade and Wiiware venues. Why spend $10 on Screwjumper!, when you can play a much better game on nearly any computer for free? So in our effort to bring inexpensive gaming to the masses, we proudly present four games that cost nothing.

Puttbase
Developer Jayc Santos synergistically combines miniature golf with the physics puzzles of The Incredible Machine. Against the clock, players use various pieces such as springs, curves, and blocks to guide a golf ball into a hole. Levels have multiple solutions, and gamers are graded on time taken, amount of distance the ball travels, and unused pieces. Puttbase has the addictive quality that can keep gamers focused on their monitors for hours.


Rose and Camellia
With a beautiful hand-drawn look and baroque soundtrack, stand far above the typical trappings of a flash game. Calling Rose and Camellia a slapping game would be a great injustice- it nearly rivals a fighting game in timing and complexity. Utilizing a time bar, players initiate a ‘slap’ against the opposition player with a mouse click, before sweeping the mouse across your opponent’s face. Player then must quickly prepare to evade a retaliatory swing, but making another similar mouse gesture. Enemies have weak spots that can induce a ‘Critical Slap’.


Coign of Vantage
Wonderfully named CoV puts your spatial and hand-eye coordination skills to the test in this uniquely challenging game. Players move the mouse to rotate a starfield of pixels into a 2D piece of pixel art. Players start with thirty seconds, and are given additional time for every correct solution. Coign of Vantage manages to be both engaging and surprisingly relaxing.


The Last Stand 2
Players are pitted against an infinite assault of marauding zombies in this bloody title. Players gun down the approaching undead, and between rounds scavenge the city for weapons, traps, and survivors. Few games can match the thrill of goring zombies with bullets while they are ensnarled in a bear trap. We couldn’t imagine a better recreation of Romero-inspired action in a browser game.

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Posted by DesertEagle at 8/27/2008 4:40 PM
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