Dynamite Jack

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Take one part stealth action game, but give the protagonist an unlimited supply of bombs, and you end up with something close to Dynamite Jack. It?s a top-down 2D puzzle/action game where you play a space marine trying to escape a mine after ditching that whole captivity thing. Being chained down ain?t Jack?s bag, baby. Jack likes to blow stuff up

It’s also easy to lure the guards into bomb traps that eliminate them completely. Press the bomb button once to place the bomb and then hit it again to blow it up. This prevents you from placing multiple bombs all over the place but allows you ample time to walk to the other side of the level if you care to. The guards and other enemies won’t even notice if they’re standing directly on top of one.

Dynamite Jack is not something that’s going to test the limits of your graphics card, but its simple aesthetic and finely-polished effects are attractive. It runs great and the controls are spot-on. The game does a great job introducing new mechanics, environmental elements, and enemies at a steady pace but the repetitive nature might wear thin pretty quickly. The easily-tricked AI is probably the game’s biggest detriment, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not fun seeing what sort of traps you can set. There’s still a thrill to be had by narrowly escaping the guards and slipping between beams of light. Some might even say that when Dynamite Jack is at its best, it’s a blast.


System Requirements:
OS:Windows XP SP 2 / Vista / 7
Processor:Intel Core2Duo 3 GHz
Memory:2 GB RAM
Graphics:Shader Model 3 with 512 MB VRAM
DirectX®:9.0c

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Rigonauts

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Rigonauts: Broadside is the fantastic building battle game from Engient. Snap together the ultimate vessel and send your crew of Hobs into battle. With a well designed ship and a clever plan, your crew will smash and blast past an assortment of strange and dangerous foes. Of course no single plan survives the enemy and each tactical tweak will bring you closer to victory.
Each of the game’s levels requires you to outfit your ship with enough offensive and defensive materials to ensure victory against the enemy’s ship before it destroys yours. The game gives you many different weapons to choose from, such as cannons and lasers and defense materials made out wood, metal, and even bone, each of which is weak to certain ammo. The game never fully explains what each weapon does, how it behaves, or the benefits of using some materials over others, so you are basically left to experiment and try things out on your own. Unfortunately, despite enemy variety and a plethora of materials that become available as you progress through the game, we found that most of the 30+ levels can be quickly cleared by building the same rinse-and-repeat ships. Some of the most difficult enemies can be defeated by abusing this method, so it takes away from the fun of building different ships.

While there are plenty of things to do to prepare for battle, direct control is out of your hands once you’ve finished building. During battle, all you can do is sit back and watch the action unfold. Being a spectator feels good when you see your design choices pay off, but like any soccer fan watching a match heating up, you might start yelling at the screen when things don’t look good. Thankfully, the game lets you speed up the action or stop and go back to the drawing board whenever you want. Simply watching may not seem like fun, but the objective of the game focuses more on strategizing rather than combat, so the experience is satisfying.

System Requirements
* OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
* Processor: Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.4 GHz / AMD Athlon XP 2500+
* Memory: 1 Gb
* Hard Drive: 250 Mb free
* Video Memory: 256 Mb
* Video Card: nVidia GeForce 6600 / ATI Radeon X1300
* Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
* DirectX: 9.0c
* Keyboard
* Mouse

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Iron Brigade

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Protect humanity from the evil Monovision menace in this Tower Defense Shooter from Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Productions. In Iron Brigade (formerly known as Trenched,) use a combination of mobile firepower and stationary defenses to turn the tide of war in our favor. Customize your trench with thousands of possible loadouts. March side by side with allies from around the world as you fight your way through Europe, Africa, and the Pacific. Join The Mobile Trench Brigade!

Iron Brigade takes place in an alternate world, where 1940s-esque soldiers pilot giant anthropomorphic machines called Trenches in an effort to fight a madman and his army of constructs. Part third-person shooter, part tower defense, Iron Brigade challenges you to fight wave after wave of enemies in a variety of stages. Sometimes you're defending one position, other times you're defending multiple, but the goal is always the same: deploy turrets and use the guns on your mech to blast the holy hell out of anything you see. Collecting the "scrap" the enemies drop when they die allows you to deploy additional turrets (or emplacements), which look great as they fall from the sky before they drill into the ground

A big part of the fun in Iron Brigade is figuring out the right mech for the level at hand. Picking a chassis changes the amount of guns and emplacements you can bring, so once you've figure out your play style you have to decide what armaments suit the enemies ahead. If you want to play it like a shooter, pick a chassis that allows you to take a host of guns , supplementing your combat weaknesses with one or two emplacements. If you're more the sit back and watch type, you can take an engineer chassis with hardly any weapon slots and a bunch of emplacements, to create a network of turrets to hit your foes. Sometimes it's fun to bring an assault mech outfitted with six shotguns, while other times I felt like a badass when I'd manage to construct a mech that could fight long range, short range and everything in between. It makes for a lot of replayability, as you can play levels super aggressively one time, or more strategically later.

System Requirements:
OS:Windows XP SP 2 / Vista / 7
Processor:Intel Core2Duo 3 GHz
Memory:2 GB RAM
Graphics:Shader Model 3 with 512 MB VRAM
DirectX®:9.0c

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Tower Wars

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“Hello there, good sir! Or is it madam, perhaps? Well, that’s neither here, nor there! Matters of far greater importance are at hand! It would appear that, through the peculiar optical contraption that you’re staring into, you have managed to find yourself here! Where is here, you ask? Why, in the midst of Tower Wars, of course! I must say, it’s jolly good to have you on board! We need all of the fodder…. ERRR… HELP… yes, yes… all of the help we can get.”

Tower Wars is a new and unique spin on the competitive multi-player tower defense genre! The game combines elements of tower defense, real-time strategy, and all-out multi-player mayhem to bring you a completely unique experience, delivered with a fun and funny not-so-old world style!
In other words, you need to constantly have men slaving away in your mines and soldiers rushing out to their doom, and that's on top of watching how the enemy is strategizing and making sure they don't break through your defenses while your back is turned.This is what sets Tower Wars apart from other TD games - its passion for total mayhem. There's never a dull moment and your mind has to be totally focused on the job at all times. If you let just one area of play slip, then everything else will go down the drain, no matter how much effort you're putting into it.
Fortunately, there's a lovely matchmaking system in place that pits you against online players that are around the same skill as you. It works incredibly well too, as I found all of my matches were relatively well paired while still forcing me to really work for the win. Online matches can be played 1v1, 2v2 or 3v3, although the latter two are where the game really shines. Players work together to build towers and send out units, and each has their own separate upgrade trees, meaning that if just one player isn't being speedy and strategic enough, the whole team will go down. Working together to make sure this doesn't happen is great fun, and piecing together tactics, such as having one player send out healer units while another sends out an army of brutes, is the key to victory.
Key Features:

  • Play Tower Wars online in 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3 ranked or unranked matches!
  • Build and upgrade unique towers, creating lengthy mazes to punish incoming enemy units!
  • Upgrade, assemble, and unleash multitudes of specialized units in massive attack waves!
  • Unlock and upgrade technologies to bolster the stats and functions of your units and towers!
  • Compete in the online leaderboards!
  • Steam! Features include achievements, leaderboards, matchmaking, and stat tracking!
  • Need a break? Play one of our offline classic tower defense maps for a quick Time Trial diversion.

System requirements:
√System: Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7
√ Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo at 2 GHz, or AMD Athlon 64 at 2 GHz
√ Memory: 2GB
√ Video Card: Video Card with 512MB dedicated memory and DX9.0c support (Shader Model 3+) *Video cards with shared memory technology are not supported.
√ Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
√ Hard disk: 1.5 GB

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