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NagiQ 2: Treasure Hunt. However, when DirectX 9. Most XP games have the appropriate DirectX software included. When you install a game and it asks if you want to install DirectX with it, it's safe to do this, as the latest version of DirectX won't be overwritten. If a game does not have the appropriate DirectX software included and the game does not start, but it does show a DirectX related error message, you can try and install DirectX 9. Go to our DirectX 9 download and installation instructions page.
If DirectX related error messages keep showing, you can find out what is wrong exactly by starting the DirectX diagnostic tool. Press the Windows key and R which opens the "Run" window , type in "dxdiag" and press enter.
When you're asked if the program should check if your drivers are digitally signed, you can press the "No" button. When the diagnostic tool is running, you can click on one of the tabs, or click the "Next Page" button to see if there's an error and what it's about. Games relying on DirectDraw run extremely slow. More about this can be found here. Furthermore, there are Windows XP games out there that support only a limited resolution, like x or x Typical desks nowadays have high resolution LCD screens on them, supporting a much higher resolution.
It would be unfortunate to play your Windows XP favorite in a lower resolution, wouldn't it? There's only a few things you can do here: check if you can edit the game configuration which usually is stored in a file and see if you can change settings manually, or search the internet to see if there's a patch or a mod for the game, which allows you to set a higher or customized resolution.
Some patches or mods also include high resolution textures for FPS games, which make the game look even better than the original, while maintaining the original gameplay. When you start a game and it says it needs Windows XP to run, you can try starting the game in compatibility mode.
Tits, insane levels of gibbing and some cool gameplay ideas make up for rather unimaginative level design, muddy graphics and occasionally frustrating and unclear semi-puzzle elements. The basis for another horrible Uwe Boll movie. WWII game that started a rampage of sequels, now blown out of proportion. Innovative and interesting for its time, often disregarded, but still a whole heap of fun. The United Offensive expansion pack is pretty good, adding a few new weapons as well as another set of American, British, and Soviet missions.
But it is the best WWII shooter ever made, and the online community is still one of the best, especially since it's been years since the MW crowd has been around. Horror FPS about some Irish paranormal investigator investigating occult happenings at an estate of a friend. Features lots of Lovecraftian horror and other typical occult supernatural things. You can use guns and magic.
Single player campaign covers Normandy to the final defeat of Nazi forces in Germany from the American's perspective.
Known for its destructible terrain, intelligent infantry squads, and use of tactical elements such as suppression, cover, and territory control. Opposing Fronts adds a lot of new Stuff, while Tales of Valor is a bit lackluster. Highly recommended by the RTS crowd. An open source game engine for FPS games, named for its use of textured cubes for level building.
Now on its second iteration. A version of Cube is available for the iPhone. Very fast paced gameplay, so, increasingly, it's becoming more and more popular among ADD riddled children.
Official site. The player strategically places can't stress how important planning is here units like radar stations, naval fleets, and - most importantly - missile silos, then engages in at first conventional warfare and then global thermonuclear war. Get the upper hand by destroying your opponents' military capability, and win by inflicting the most megadeaths - civilian deaths, in millions - relative to megadeaths suffered.
Deeply atmospheric, even with only simple s-command-center-style vector graphics. Also has a pretty active Steam group named DefconNukan , so if you ever have an itch for a game, go there.
Comes with 2 game modes: Fortress mode where you set off with a bunch of dwarves to make your fort in the wilderness, and Adventurer: A roguelike with no purpose yet. Addictive gameplay, very in depth damage system even keeps track of how much damage each FINGER receives , and a game so confusing to newcomers it is recommended to read MagmaWiki thoroughly before playing, or watch the tutorial videos like 51ppycup's YouTube.
It's definitely the most complex game you've ever played, and probably the most complex game you will ever play. It's worth the endeavor though. Similar to Dungeon Keeper. Fun and quirky management game with a cartoonish style similar to Team Fortress 2. You must go about your plans for world domination while averting attention from the rest of the world. Carve a secret lair out of a mountain on a deserted island giant skull shape and volcano not included. Notable for its humour and references to the spy drama genre, most specifically the James Bond movies.
Neat campaigns, with three based on historical events and one very good future sci-fi campaign. There is still a small active multiplayer community. Nice soundtrack.
The Art of Conquest expansion pack adds new civilizations, units, campaigns, and an extra Age past the Nano Age. On par with Rise of Nations. Third in the Escape Velocity series and first to be released for Windows, EV Nova is a Space Trading and Combat game with addictive mechanics, tons of ships and upgrades, and a huge galaxy to explore, trade with, or conquer. The game features six different major storylines and several sub-stories, several factions and quite a lot of fun.
Plug-in support also allows you to play the first two games in the series - Escape Velocity and Escape Velocity Override - using the engine. Ambrosia SW. Play through the life of a hero, from idyllic childhood, to heroic youth, to heroic not-as-much-youth. A less-than-serious action RPG by Peter Molyneux back when people still took Peter Molyneux seriously , in which your appearance changes according to your morality and your skills. Hyped to all hell, but still fun. The soundtrack by Russell Shaw is the stuff of legend.
FPS set in a tropical island paradise. Challenging with some interesting gameplay concepts: sneak past the guards, kill them and shoot your way through the rest of the now-alerted base, or find an armed vehicle elsewhere to massacre everything. Made in Germany; you know the Germans always make good stuff. Game gets a lot worse after you meet the overpowered mutant monkeys. Scary FPS by the company that made Blood. You play as a member of an fictional elite special forces team and are called in to contain a mysterious supernatural phenomenon.
Your character has superhuman reflexes, represented in gameplay with a slow-motion ability. Good atmosphere with very well-done thrills, nice combat with satisfying-to-use weapons, and brilliant AI make the game quite tense and exciting. Very customizable, allowing adjustment of various graphical settings and keybinds to your liking.
There is a multiplayer version versus other players which is free, but likely empty. Has two expansion packs "Extraction Point" and "Perseus Mandate" not made by Monolith, but are still decent with true-to-the-original core gameplay. Too bad the sequels were rather disappointing.
Also on Xbox and PS3. Steam GOG. Open-world fighter simulation. In space. Plenty of replay value and a relatively smart plot to go along with it. An indie platformer with an interesting premise: the main character is a 12 pound sack of tar, who can make himself hard, sticky, or slick. Tons of secrets and extra content add onto the already enjoyable gameplay and music, increasing playtime a bit.
Newcomers will probably find the controls and the character's movements cumbersome and awkward, but you'll get used to it. Good for killing a boring afternoon. War has decimated the land, Orc Hordes are invading human territory and the king of the land needs a lot of ore to forge enough weapons for his army to stand against this threat.
Prisoners from all over the empire are imprisoned in a large magical sphere where they have to work in the mines for the king.
You are thrown into the sphere to give a letter to the high mages, this letter may be the turning point on the war against the Orcs. Rock-solid RPG. After the first game, you awaken in the tower of an old friend of yours as you discover that the cave in which you fought the final boss of the first game collapsed killing you.
You awaken without powers, and now you must reobtain them while a new evil rises Be sure to get the expansion Night of the Raven, it rebalances the whole game and adds lotsanew stuff. You play as Tommy Vercetti, a career criminal and opportunist involved in a drug deal gone wrong - and now you're pissed and want your money back.
Set in 80's Miami, with all the awesome music and awful fashion it entails. Decades after the Black Mesa incident, the Combine rule the Earth and drain it of its natural resources. But the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. Takes place during WW2 and allows you to pick any fucking country that existed during that time except shitty ones like Liechtenstein.
Build huge panzer armies and fuck shit up, deal with dissent in your nation if you screw up, research bigger and badder tanks and planes, and generally have fun conquering the world.
As of now, the sequel Hearts of Iron 3 is a bugfest- Paradox likes to rely on its mod community to finish their games for them. Awesome game, I can't believe it's not on here already. You are basically some surly English commandos tasked with killing Nazis and blowing shit up. It's mostly a stealth game, but shooting everything that moves is also a viable strategy.
The campaign is actually really long, and takes you from North Africa to the Czech Republic. Before each mission you choose your loadout, including tools compass, wire cutter, aqualung , weapons American, English, German, Russian are all here , and even your uniform.
You also pick 4 commandos to make up your squad, who are good at some things but not others, though you'll probably find yourself using the same 4 guys over and over, unless someone gets killed they die more or less permanently. As a hitman, you sneak into It's a masterpiece. Play this shit, for real. For some reason, this game was overshadowed by its sequels but it really shouldn't.
In terms of story, gameplay, soundtrack and atmosphere, Hitman 2 really beats the competition even to this day. Also on the PS2, but the PC version controls are so much better. Pretty much the same as above, but it's an older game. Probably the most grimdark Hitman released. Has some amazingly atmospheric levels and music. See Homeworld. Over a century ago, the Exiles returned to their Homeworld, Hiigara.
Follow them once more in their quest to stop the savage and determined Vaygr from conquering the galaxy. Retaining the atmosphere of the first game, Homeworld 2 adds new gameplay elements, such as fighter and corvette squadrons, upgrades, and capital ship hardpoints, modules, and subsystems, adding more variety to gameplay like disabling a Battlecruiser's engines, for instance.
The game also has a good modding community. It was inspired by an earlier game known as Carrier Command Realtime Games, The latest patch also adds in more maps, planes, and new static campaigns based on theoretical and real events. The community has also modded it to cover jets up to , including some Korean and Vietnam era planes such as the Mig and the F, the mod pack also redesigns the game's main menu to look better, and organizes planes based on their respective nations.
Many standalone skins and jets have been added, including the MiG and the F For a guide on installing the latest mod package and IL-2 , even with the Steam version, see this thread. The best Jurassic Park game out there. You're in control of John Hammond's organization and you have to build a theme park - with dinosaurs.
Loads of attractions and tons of details which make up for an awesome and fun experience. If there's a tornado coming the next month, activate emergency mode immediately and hope that the tourists run out fast enough.
Yes, they're that slow and if a tornado catches them it'll wreck your entire economy. Also on the PS2 and Xbox. GTA-like game that takes place in the USA in the 30s and tells the story of a beginner in the world of crime and his carrer in the ranks of the Mafia.
An undercover cop finds himself framed for murder and thrown right in the middle of a drug conspiracy, just as New York is being ravaged by its worst blizzard ever. This noir-styled shooter was one of the first games to use bullet-time as a core gameplay mechanic. Tense story, cool action set pieces, and graphics that still manage to convey the gritty atmosphere make this worth checking.
Humble Steam. Has many changes, but still stays true to the original game in terms of gameplay, story, characters, and atmosphere. Takes place two years after Max Payne; you're in a hospital, and it seems that you did some bad shit in the recent past. You make an escape, and spend half of the game flashing back to what happened. Not going to spoil anything. The gameplay is the same, but improved.
More balanced weapons, better bullettime. You still need to save the game constantly like your life depended on it. Like Call of Duty 4 , it was an FPS trend-setter: from time to time you are followed by a group of allies who do nothing but die pointlessly, you fire from an MG42 while defending some house, and so on.
It was created with Steven Spielberg, so plenty of action and top-notch voice acting, even by tomorrow's standards. The soundtrack accompanying the Nazi-killing goodness was recorded by the Seattle Symphony and it's gorgeous. The Spearhead expansion pack is pretty decent, but Breakthrough is mediocre. Part of the team who developed this game later worked on Call of Duty.
A very popular roguelike, with good reason. There are hundreds of coded interactions within this game, many of which are beneficial, many more so of which are deadly.
Pick a class and deity, then prepare to dive into 50 or so levels in search of the Amulet of Yendor. Each step brings you closer to victory No save system, folks, except for reloading a game in progress. Official website. Did you like the Baldur's Gate series?
This is the spiritual succesor taking place in the same world. Unlike the classical CRPGs from Black Isle the gameplay is a bit different: You only play one character and depending on the add-on have either one or two sidekicks. But just like Baldur's Gate you have a gazillion possibilities when it comes to character customization Classes, races, skils, feats, weapons, spells, you name it! The story of the main game is your standard run-of-the-mill fantasy story, but the interconnected story of the first and second add-on really shine!
There's also a ton of decent free campaigns Check out Darkness over Daggerfold made by a team featuring the producer from the Baldur's Gate add-on Throne of Bhaal! Since they stopped selling these they also deactivated the license check, so you can play them for free, and the Diamond Version from Gog.
Everything great about the original is back. NOLF 2 delivers everything a sequel ought to; new weapons, more expansive levels, and even quirkier characters than before. The missions are a lot less linear, and the skill point system offers incentive to gather intel and complete the optional quests.
Enemies include ninjas, mimes, and human cubes. Like the first, its unlikely to get a re-release since no one knows who owns what. NOLF Revival. The year is , the environment has gone to shit, the world is under a single government, and the police is divided between hiding the truth from the people and hunting down terrorists. That is, until a cop realizes that she is being deceived as well.
A then-unique mix of beat 'em up and third person shooter, perhaps a better Ghost In The Shell game than any game officially bearing that title. The graphics have aged quite a bit, but the action is still very fun. Bungie's last game before selling their souls joining Microsoft. Doesn't work right on modern systems, so be sure to get the AE update. You, your girl, and a sparkling Ferrari. A full tank, good music, and the endless road before you.
No speed limits. Classic FPS set in fantastical supernatural occult settings varying from citadels and churches to graveyards to gigantic castles and beautiful palaces to dark caves, cold cities, and theatrical auditoriums. A HUGE variety of enemies from the typical occult skeletons to Lovecraftian monsters and a vast array of unique weapons to fight them.
All you really need to know is that there's a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning. GOG Humble Steam. You play as one of three doctors, each with their own morals and practices, and each trying to find the cure for a virus infecting a small town. Unlike most games, there is a heavy emphasis on survival, and the choices you make can have long-reaching effects. Each time you play the game things might happen completely differently based on what you do.
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