If there were awards for weird originality, then Pozzo - Jello Crusade, would surely win. In this game, you play the role of a janitor named Pozzo who works for a jello restaurant.

His dream is to save enough money to escape the hell he finds himself in but unfortunately his manager has found out that the local health inspector is dropping by for an unscheduled check. Your task is to clean up the entire premises of rotten jellos but here's the catch - Pozzo has no limbs and can't help eating all the jello he finds (I told you it was weird).

Pozzo cannot retrace his steps once he has eaten jellos off a tile which is about the only little "challenge" that the game seems to offer. However, the levels are quite imaginative even if the graphics certainly are not. New blocks and tiles appear from time to time which attempt to block Pozzo's way. In later levels, you have to be much more careful about the routes you take as the pitfalls grow deeper.

Poor graphics and a dodgy soundtrack combined with a bizarre concept make Pozzo - Jello Crusade one of the more unusual and less satisfying puzzle games out there.

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Have you ever wanted to play a joke on someone in a chatroom by pretending to be someone completely different?

Unless you're a ventriloquist it's not easy but AV VoizGame allows you to do so specifically in online chatrooms. AV VoizGame allows you to change your voice as you speak through a microphone in realtime to confuse the hell out of your online buddies or opponents. If you're playing multiplayer online role playing games, then you can really have some fun confusing your opponents or just generally mucking about.

If you want to relive your favourite gags, AV VoizGame comes with an inbuilt recorder which records your voice for. If you want to keep it hidden on your desktop, you can also do that by making the skin transparent. However, at almost $30 to upgrade, it seems a bit of a steep cost for a simple voice modulation software.

There's not much point to AV VoizGame other than playing jokes on online opponents and while it is a lot of fun, it's questionable whether it's really worth $30 to upgrade.

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A very long time ago a dragon named Bolgrot arrived in the eternal Province of Amakna. The young Rykke Errel was the only one with sufficient courage to face the terrible creature. Instead of reducing him to dust as he could easily have done, the dragon prostrated himself before the young paladin and swore allegiance to him.

Rykke met Helséphine, a young enchantress, and fell madly in love with her. When he introduced Helséphine to Bolgrot, Rykke could not have imagined what would happen.
The dragon, mad with rage, slew the sweet Helséphine and flew far away, ravaging everything in his path. Rykke threw himself into the pursuit of the dragon. When he found him, the two former friends clashed in a titanic struggle. Using his weapons and his magic, Rykke managed to strike down the dragon; however, mortally wounded, the young hero died soon afterwards.

Seeking an explanation for the sudden violence shown by Bolgrot, the sages of Amakna discovered in the dragon’s entrails 6 strangely coloured eggs that they called DOFUS. Consequently, it was discovered that when these eggs were reunited their power was absolute. Absolute, but also unstable. The sages took the wise decision to keep these terrible relics a closely guarded secret.

During the centuries that followed the secret of the existence of the DOFUS was so well guarded that it was eventually forgotten altogether. But one accursed day, the guardians of the secret discovered that the DOFUS had disappeared. The news was not slow to spread, arousing terror and covetousness.

It was not long before numerous adventurers arrived in Amakna, attracted by the prospect of glory or plunder. The destiny of Amakna from the on became uncertain, and the appearance of many unknown and terrifying creatures added to the confusion.

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Metin2 is a new online role-playing game in which you enter a world of fantasy in the Eastern world and attempt to become a grand master.

You can use a range of martial arts in your struggle against the dark forces of the Stones Metin.

This classic role-playing game is based online with different classes based on various martial arts weapons. You can use swords, spears or bows and over time, your aim is to become the most powerful warrior in the Orient. Graphically, the game is steeped in Oriental symbols with some fantastic buildings and backdrops although it's the excellent soundtrack that sticks in the mind. The battle scenes are also pretty memorable as you take on warriors from other empires in your quest for dominance of the continent. You can switch between a mix of martial arts from what seems like kung fu to taikwando and karate.

If you like kung fu and martial arts games, then you'll love this - great graphics and a great soundtrack mix to make it a beat-em-up classic.

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If you've ever dreamed of moving to the country and living the simple life, then Farm Frenzy 2 might give you a taste of what you can expect.

Farm Frenzy 2 sees you assume the role of a budding farmer who starts with nothing and must build a successful business by managing lifestock and producing goods to export for money. It's all set in a wonderfully colorful cartoon world with great sound effects and a cracking hillbilly-style soundtrack.

Farm Frenzy 2 starts with you rearing a few chickens to produce some eggs and the levels progress to the point where you own bakeries, factories and keep cows, pigs and other animals. Each extra level adds one more thing to think about than the last, whether it's shipping products into town, flying resources in by plane, or caging and selling the pandas (?!) that prey on your animals. After a few levels things can get pretty frantic.

Luckily, the controls in Farm Frenzy 2 are simple and largely require nothing more than pointing and clicking on a part of the screen you want to apply an action to (i.e. clicking the well to fill it up, clicking an egg to collect it, etc.)

After a while, Farm Frenzy 2 starts to get a little too difficult to keep up with and after playing a few levels your head gets a bit scrambled from all the fast-paced action, the infectious looping soundtrack and the sheer repetitive nature of the game.

Farm Frenzy 2 is very well presented and great fun to play, although enjoyment quickly turns to frustration as the levels get more hectic.

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The story behind Tabula Rasa is certainly not original: alien race invades Earth; Earth is in danger; you're the only one who can save Earth from ultimate disaster.

Leaving simple plots aside, the truth is that Tabula Rasa is a must-have for RPG lovers. It's role-playing at its finest, a state-of-the-art adventure with a huge universe to explore and of course, lots of action. Because RPG is not only about learning professions and casting spells!

Tabula Rasa is set in a somewhat catastrophic future, right in the middle of a war between humans and the invading alien race, the Bane. As part of the human army, you'll have to fight against all sorts of alien creatures and step by step, regain control of your dear old planet.

Like in any other RPG game, Tabula Rasa is heavily based on quests: missions in which you're given a certain objective and for which you're properly rewarded. As you progress through missions and kill enemies, your character will earn experience points and go up levels.

The good thing about Tabula Rasa is that in spite of being an RPG game – which could make you think it's all about rolling dice – it has loads of action, battles, very realistic explosions and a wide array of weapons to choose from.

Another thing I especially liked about Tabula Rasa is the fact that it runs quite smoothly, despite its high system requirements. Tabula Rasa uses the standard RPG keyboard combination (WASD) plus mouse, so that you'll get used to it in a couple of minutes, and the game's graphics are simply gorgeous.

Tabula Rasa takes you to a violent, uncertain future in which fighing a dangerous alien invasion is your only way to survival.

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We're in the 22nd century and the human race is in trouble. This is the main setting of Space Siege, an interesting mixture between RPG and action games.

Space Siege creates a dark, oppressive atmosphere inside the last surviving spaceship after the massacre that wiped out the Earth. You're the only one capable of confronting and defeating the Kerak, the invading alien race. For this reason you'll be assigned several different missions in Space Siege, in which you'll have to explore unknown areas, collect mechanical parts and kill loads and loads of enemies.

The graphics in Space Siege are excellent, especially as regards light and shadow effects. The space environment somehow reminds me of the Alien series: a gloomy spaceship full of dangerous creatures in which you need to explore in constant tension.

As for gameplay, Space Siege is played very much like role-playing adventures: you use the mouse for everything (moving, killing, interacting with objects…) and use keyboard to change perspective. It's somewhat hard to get used to it, especially if you come from action games, but the worst is definitely having to repeatedly click on an enemy in order to kill it.

Space Siege is an original and attractive mixture of action and RPG elements, set in a gloomy space atmosphere.

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I've never played a game named after a bone before, but was pleasantly surprised by what Tibia offered. The plot is not a whole not different from your standard role playing game. You're a knight, or a druid or a sorcerer or a paladin and must explore a mystical world solving quests and building up your skills and weapons.

There are plenty of zones to explore, although you'll only be able to access some of them if you're a Premium subscriber. The game is pretty easy to get into, even if you've never touched an MMORPG before. The inventory is quite straightforward to understand and the battle system is highly intuitive. Graphically, the game reminds me a lot of Ultima, which is no bad thing, because although it's colourful and detailed, Tibia doesn't put a massive strain on your system resources.

One of the few things that annoyed me about this game was the fact that you lose your skills, experience and even levels when you die, making it very frustrating having to build all this up again - only to lose it all over again.

As a result, Tibia is a highly enjoyable game if you have the patience to come back and build up your skills again whenever you die.

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Who hasn't dreamed as a child of being a merciless pirate setting sail across the seven seas in search of fortune and glory?

Now is your chance to bring those sweet childhood memories back and pretend you're a pirate, though this time the game takes place in your web browser and you have to compete against other players from all over the world.

Seafight is an original RPG online game, both in its main plot and its general concept. On the one hand, unlike other role-playing adventures, Seafight is set in a pirate environment, with sea battles, cannons, treasure islands and mercenaries drinking rum in the pub while they wait to be hired for their next adventure. On the other hand, the whole game is played online, on the Seafight website, without having to install anything; a quick, free user registration will do.

As for the game itself, despite its originality, I must say it's a bit disappointing. Maybe I imagined something different and therefore Seafight fell short of my expectations, but the overall impression is one of confusion and network issues. The interface is cluttered with images and graphics, which is probably why the pages take a while to load. Also, I lost connection to the server a few times while testing the game, something I found disappointing.

Other than that, I thought the pirate environment was quite appealing. I also liked other features such as online combats with other players, quests to improve your experience level and the possibility to customize your equipment by buying or upgrading ships, acquiring new weapons or hiring your crew. If Seafight could improve its interface and fix connectivity issues, I'm sure it would be a great game.

Seafight is an original RPG online web game set in a pirate universe, where you can do quests, battle against enemy ships controlled by other players and grow in experience and treasures. Unfortunately its interface is a bit too confusing and the connection is not as stable as expected.

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XfireTM is a free tool that automatically keeps track of when and where gamers are playing PC games online and lets their friends join them easily. It works regardless of game type, server browser, or gaming service that a player is using.

Xfire eliminates the hassles of running multiple programs like IRC, instant messengers, or in-game friends lists to keep track of when and where a gamer's friends are playing. It supports the best and the latest online PC games including server and non server-based first person shooters, real-time strategy, and role playing games.

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Quest Creator is a role-play game creator in which you can easily design your own adventures in mythical, medieval settings.

Using preset or custom characters, set up worlds in which you control the plot, action, and difficulty of the game.

A variety of graphic images are included for you to use with Quest Creator such as these enemies: slimes, orcs, goblins, ogres, trolls, skeletons, zombies, dragons, and many, many more.

You can play your own games or have your family and friends join in. Create your own fantasy world today!

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There was a time when point & click games were really popular, but now it seems that they're not that trendy anymore. However there are companies like Frogwares that still believe in this genre, and keep on publishing conversational adventures.

This is the case of Dracula: Origin, a vampire game that follows the traditional point & click pattern and presents you with a truly Gothic adventure full of mystery, romance and terror, in a gloomy environment.

Though I personally don't enjoy this kind of games that much, I must admit Dracula: Origin looks pretty impressive. The game stands out for its highly detailed graphics in the design of characters and especially in the recreation of environments. The sense of realism makes the game experience even more pleasant and rewarding.

The story is also quite an interesting one. You play the role of Van Helsing, the famous scientific whose main aim in life is to destroy the so called Prince of Darkness. Your objectives will then be exploring all the locations you visit, talk to other characters, gather different objects and try to get hints from them all that could take you to Dracula. Like in similar adventures, gameplay is basically reduced to using your mouse to move your character, use objects in your inventory, talk to other people and other actions.

Dracula: Origin will surely please fans of this genre. However it also requires a lot of patience, so if you're not really into conversational adventures maybe you should look elsewhere.

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Role-playing games are usually set in medieval environments and feature knights, trolls and all sorts of mythological creatures. But some other RPG titles stand out of the crowd and offer an original setting along with some unique features.

This is the case of Wonderland Online, a role-playing adventure with an extensive social component, Japanese-style characters and environments and a turn-based combats that reminded us of pure RPG games. The first steps involve, as in any other RPG game, choosing a server and creating your character. You'll spawn in a ship that's unfortunately bound to sink, after which you're rescued by a nice castaway and the real adventure begins.

Wonderland Online features a bit of everything: doing quests to obtain rewards, killing enemies to gain experience points and progress through levels, learning skills, developing professions and, of course, meeting other players from around the globe. All these elements make of Wonderland Online a really attractive melting pot for all sorts of players, whether they like to wander around chatting with people or they prefer to focus on the development of their character.

I liked the game's visual style a lot. Characters - and even more, objects – are designed with great detail, with a nice isometric perspective. An important drawback to this design, however, is the fact that the text in the chat window is ridiculously difficult to read and doesn't get better even if you change the font color.

Other than that, I found Wonderland Online quite entertaining and addictive. In fact, I had to make an effort to stop playing and start writing this review. One final tip: don't feel overwhelmed by the amount of information you're presented with during the first few minutes of gameplay: the game is really easy to control and besides, you can always ask other players for help.

Wonderland Online includes traditional RPG elements (skills, professions, turn-based combats, resource management) together with social networking characteristics and a very original design. All these features make of Wonderland Online an MMORGP that's definitely worth a try.

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I must admit strategy games are not exactly my cup of tea, but I do appreciate good strategy titles when I find any. And Sins of a Solar Empire is one of them.

This adventure will please strategy fans for sure, as it includes all the typical elements you can find in this game genre: resource management, merciless battles and smart planning to take your empire to the highest level. But don't be fooled by this apparently traditional scheme: being set in outer space, Sins of a Solar Empire is quite original for a strategy adventure.

This particular setting means that every element in the game is related to space. So, instead of using regular soldiers, horses, combat units or even tanks, you manage spaceships. And instead of conquering towns and villages, you take over planets. Graphics are just fine, certainly not as detailed as other strategy games that are set in historical environments though.

Sins of a Solar Empire features single player and multiplayer gaming modes (though the demo only lets you play the first one). Solo gaming presents you with a series of scenarios and various challenges, including typical strategy elements such as diplomacy alliances, research and development of new strategies and a rather unconventional black market where you can trade crystal and metal without following the legal procedures. As you can see, there are many elements to be taken care of, which means that the game may feel a bit overwhelming at the beginning. This confusion is particularly noticeable when moving around the playing area, because maps are quite large and you can easily get lost.

Even if you're not a big strategy fan, you'll appreciate Sins of a Solar Empire for its original gaming environment. If you like strategy, you should definitely give it a go.

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Next Element is a free, quite addictive and logical game that will entertain you from the very first time you start playing it. You take the role of a furry, hairy monster that has to clear all the cells behind him, from start to finish on a special board. The tricky part is that you can walk on each cell no more that the number of times written on it. After that the brick will disappear and if you're not careful, you will not be able to reach the finish.

I liked the simple graphic design and the fast loading. Another good thing is the availability of a free version of the game for Windows Mobile and Pocket PC. It's really a funny, easy to play game, suitable for when you have 10 minutes spare time. Unfortunately it's not possible to disable the music, which is repetitive and annoying. You can however just temporarily disable the sounds in Windows of course.

Next Element is a funny, entertaining logic game with 30 tricky levels of which, I can assure you, the first 7 are possible. Help the hairy monster to find his way to the finish, clearing all the cells behind him.

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Imagine you've turned into a Zombie and lost your wife and now you have to find her again. Sound like an unlikely scenario?

Well not in Cry of the Infected where you play the role of Robert, a man trying to find his missing wife in a city torn apart by the zombie outbreak. You are constantly pursued by teams of soldiers that are running amok while the zombies attempt to take over town. Robert is confronted by the apocalyptic state of his city which is on the verge of tearing itself apart which is why everyone is turning into zombies. The game takes the format of a first person role playing game and features some pretty basic but fun 3D graphics. There are 13 levels of action although the developers say that playing time is a maximum of a few hours with an alternate ending possible if you find a mysterious secret weapon. It's obvious that the developers have kept detail down to a minimum - there's not much in the way of anything but soldiers and zombies running around but at least this makes it easy to play and follow. However, it would have been considerably better if they'd put a bit more effort into throwing in a few more detailed graphics and a slightly expanded plot and narrative.

A fun and simple zombie game although you won't need more than a few hours to complete it.

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I'm I big football fan so naturally I'm starting to get excited about the forthcoming European Championships in Switzerland and Austria.

As always with big tournaments like this, I'm warming up for the big event by playing soccer sims. As always, it's EA who have the official licence for the tournament. And, as always, I came away from the game feeling a little disappointed that the developer still has the freedom to release yet another slightly-tweaked clone if its long-running FIFA game, knowing that punters will snap it up in the hoards amid the excitement of another major championships.

Essentially, it plays virtually the same as FIFA 08 (and, no doubt, very similar to the next version of the series) aside from a few tweaks. For instance, there's a new 'flick' mode for free kicks (and penalties), where you control the power and swerve of the shot using your right-analog stick. It's a novel idea and one that attempts to address one of the few areas that no football sim has yet to do perfectly. It's certainly an improvement, but is for me, too fiddly and difficult to get master.

Other new additions are in-game player ratings which update in real-time depending how each individual is performing, and improved collisions, trapping and goalkeeper AI. You even get to see the managers' reactions to goals, free kicks and near-misses, which I thought was quite neat.

Aside from the gameplay changes, there are a couple of new game modes. Captain Your Country sees you take the role of your team's skipper and influence the other players while you're out on the pitch, and there's a new online mode called Battle of the Nations.

Of course, all the official stadiums, real players, kits, balls, haircuts, etc. are there and the game features 52 European teams. "But there are only going to be 16 teams at the Euro Championships" I hear you scream. Well, EA has decided to allow you to go through the rigours of a qualifying campaign instead of just competiting in the final tournament. I guess it helps to add more depth and longevity to this title, but the qualification is finished now so it's not that realistic. Why couldn't we have had this game two years ago, when qualifying got underway in real life? Not in keeping with the Electronic Arts marketing plan, I imagine.

UEFA 2008 provides a great way to warm up for the European Championships. However, if you already have FIFA 08 I wouldn't bother buying this one as well. It offers little more in terms of gameplay and will be out of date by August.

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If you like Manga comics and cartoons then you'll love this game which takes Manga style characters and puts them in a never ending fantasy world.

For starters though - there's no Manga style sex and porn involved although there is plenty of Manga style action. Lunia is basically an action-packed arcade game that you can play entirely by keyboard if your fingers can handle it to create all manner of combination attacks as you slice your way through the kingdom of Lunia. The game is split into various sections and stages - Main Stage, Side Dungeon Stage, and Raid Dungeon Stage with Raid Monsters. The game combines 2-D background and 3-D characters which give the game it's distinctive "Manga" feel. This is combined with the "Animatic Cinema System" which make-up an important part of the story along with 10,000 real-life impact sounds for punch and kick. There is no faulting the gameplay or graphics but it is the huge size of the download file that's the biggest download. You'll probably spend the best part of an afternoon just waiting for it to download but some things are worth waiting for.

A superb action game that will have Manga fans addicted from start to finish - a pity about the huge file size.

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X-Moto is a challenging open-source 2D motocross platform game where realisitic physics effects play an all important role in the gameplay.

You need to take your bike to its limits to make it over the obstacles to become one of the fastest finishers and progress a level.

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I'm sure the dream most CSI fans share is to be able to join Grissom's team and take part in their exciting adventures.

This is precisely what you can do in CSI Hard Evidence, a point-and-click adventure in which you play the role of a newcomer in Las Vegas Crime Police Labs, who joins the CSI squad for an evaluation period. The game follows the traditional scheme in conversational adventures, with some cinematic scenes after which you take control of your character's movements. Graphics are just fine – not brilliant at all – and though CSI characters are recognizable, they're far from being perfect digital replications.

As for gameplay, I must say I found it a bit boring. Maybe because I expected something else, maybe because I'm too used to action-packed third-person shooters... in any case, CSI Hard Evidence develops at a slow pace, presenting you with searchable scenery and plain dialogs. Even the search for hints is too easy, as you're told which tool you need in each moment.

Despite being based on the successful TV show CSI Las Vegas, the game is too slow and ends up falling short of expectations.

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