Clusterball is an online aerial sport in which you compete to collect chains of balls. You fly a ship over an open landscape, in which you can pick up balls from designated tracks, which form a visible chain behind the ship. The chain allows other players to assess the value of another player's ball chain, both in the game environment and on the radar screen. As it increases in length and value, the chain increases the ships drag factor, gradually slowing it down. The balls in the chain represent only a potential score. They are then flown through the ring shaped goal in the Clusterball arena, so they disappear and get converted to points.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000, 64 MB of RAM, Pentium II-233, DirectX.
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DEMO
http://www.clusterball.com/
Touchdown!
RUGBY 2001
Rating: ****
Rugby 2001, from the stable of EA sports, boasts of 20 real international teams with 600 players and actual player statistics. The game has pretty good graphics and works on a new 3D engine that gives you better and clearer graphics. The game also replicates players' attributes giving you actual characteristics of players such as height, weight, etc. The different camera angles that the game sports (around 12 angles) brings a kind of realism to the gameplay. With the excellent graphics rendering, you can actually see the grime and dirt as the players rough it out. The sound effects are equally excellent-the grunts of the players and crowd exclamations have been taken from real games and sound very much authentic. The tackles and takedowns look so real that you almost feel thankful you are sitting in front of your computer and are not out there! The game has seven game modes, some of which include World Cup, Tri Nations and Six Nations competitions and also realistic play-by-play commentary. The game is suitable for multiplayer gaming and allows two to four players to play on one computer. If you enjoy sport games and would love to play rugby without all the rough and tumble of the actual game, then you are quite likely to enjoy Rugby 2001. Weak hearts might prefer soccer, though!
System Requirements: P-II, Windows 98, 32 MB RAM, DirectX 7, DirectX compatible soundcard.
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http://www.easportsrugby.com
More blood and gore
Quake III: Team Arena
Rating: ****
ID Software has just released its latest mission pack for Quake III Arena which is called Quake III: Team Arena. Team Arena differs from Quake III Arena in that the latter was a multiplayer deathmatch focused game, while Team Arena is essentially a multiplayer teamplay focused game. It has five gametypes of which four are essentially teamplay and one is deathmatch. The game play is, as usual, full of action and gore which all Quake addicts enjoy. One of the teamplay modes, called Harvester, requires players to pick up a skull from a particular point in the map and carry it to a stone in enemy territory to score a point. In the teamplay mode, the player has to team up with either other players or with arena bots. The deathmatch mode is a one-on-one game against an arena bot. The game also boasts of a few new weapons, one of which is the proximity mine gun which fires small mines that stick to floors, walls and even players and explode when someone comes near them or when a certain amount of time goes by. The game also has all new team powerups and some new awards. Team Arena is an expansion pack for Quake III: Arena and requires you to have Quake III Arena already installed in order to play it.
System Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT, Pentium 233 MHz MMX with 8 MB video card or Pentium II 266 MHz with 4 MB video card, 64 MB RAM, 25 MB HD for game files plus additional 45 MB for Windows swap file, Quad Speed CD-ROM, Direct X 3.0 (or higher) compatible soundcard, Microsoft compatible mouse and driver.
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DEMO
http://www.quake3arena.com/tademo/
Screamer 4x4
Screamer 4x4 is a rally-style, off-road simulation where one mistake will find you rolling down a cliff face. Your mission is simple: race over a variety of courses, driving from point A to point B, passing through gates that define the route that you must take. Finish in the top three and move onto the next race. Sounds easy, does it? Well why don't you try driving up sheer vertical cliffs, trekking it across uneven ground at high speeds, navigating through water, and dropping down into deep crevices-all while trying to maintain control of your 4WD and keeping your eye on the time. The limitation in this demo version is that you can race for eight minutes only. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 95/98/Me, 32 MB of RAM, Pentium 200, DirectX 7.0, Direct3D.
Venom is a tactical 3D action game which has you blasting wicked aliens off the Earth. Alien forces have taken control of a military base near Tashkent, Uzbekistan. There are nuclear missiles on this base, which the aliens intend to launch. The base lies underground, below mountains, so an air strike is impossible. You and your troops will need to get to base through the sewer system. You will not be able to remain unseen a long time, and aliens will likely block the main door to the missile shaft after any alarm sounds. You'll need to get to the missiles first, because their identification numbers are needed to cancel the launch. This demo allows you to play on three maps; two single player maps and one CTF map. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: : Windows 95/98/Me, 32 MB of RAM, Pentium 200, DirectX.
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DEMO
http://www.gsc-game.com/english/venom.htm
Wraiths: Extreme A-Grav Racing
Your father was a Wraith pilot... One of the best human pilots ever. That was before the Black Leagues' Protos project -a project that spawned the creation of the worlds first artificial pilot and the worst among them was Cyber. Cyber killed your father in his very first race. Your brother tried to exact revenge and was killed too. That loss triggered the demise of Team Wraith. Now you have a chance. You have been approved for training as one of the last remaining human pilots in the solar system. You'll have to win your way to the top before you get your chance at revenge. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Pentium Class 300Mhz Processor, 48Mb Ram, DirectX Compatible 3D accelerator with 8MB or more video RAM, DirectX Compatible Sound Card, DirectX 7 or Higher.
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Demo
http://www.wfront.net/
Chakravyuh v1.01
An Indianised storyline, 3D graphics, and the tag of being one of the first shooters in the market, cannot save Chakravyuh from being a half-hearted attempt that fails to woo the game playing community in India. The plot reads like something from a typical period Bollywood flick. The Asura king Mahachandaal goes about plundering all forms of life on earth, aided by his powerful army. You play the part of a messiah, chosen to come to their rescue. Kill the Asuras and challenge the devil Mahachandaal after breaking through his mystical Chakravyuh.
