Truth be said, both Football Manager 08 and the Orange Box are excellent games with decent price tags, that are absolutely worth every penny you decide to spend on them, though -frankly- paying isn’t necessary if you want to enjoy a few hours of quality gaming. Especially if you are into shorter, quirkier or rather old-fashioned affairs and don’t expect top production values. So, uhm, without further ado, here are six of the very best freeware offerings around:

Jet Set Willy Online

Remember Miner Willy and his 8-bit platforming adventures? Mathew Smith? Why, of course you do and now you’ll get to relive them in an insane MMO platformer/collect-’em-up in a vastly expanded mansion. One of the best games ever, really.

A Tale of Two Kingdoms

A vast and incredibly polished (for freeware standards, that is) fantasy point-and-click adventure game with lovely 2D graphics. Oh, yes, and it will definitely remind you of them Sierra classics.

Prototype II

Classic R-Type style shoot-’em-up action sporting a ton of options and frenetic action. Not very easy to beat.

Knytt Stories

A cult classic. Simple mechanics, excellent music, great pixel art graphics, smart puzzles, intuitive controls and a brilliant editor make this lovely indie offering a necessary download. And wait till you see what the KS community has come up with.

Gun Mute: A texty shoot-em-up

A brilliantly written piece of interactive fiction that goes easy on genre beginners. Oh, and you get to shoot a lot of stuff in a steampunk/Wild West hybrid sort of setting. Lots of robots are also featured.

Cube 2: Sauerbraten

A proper FPS with impressive graphics, oldschool gameplay, that’s running on its very own, very current-gen graphics and physics engine. Single and multiplayer options are also provided.

Posted on June 25th, 2008 by admin