Five Fun Games: A Gooey Puzzler, Sidescrolling Shooter for Experts, Soccer for Arcade Footie Fans and More
12:24 pm, October 9th, 2009, Cate Defrise
Here’s this week’s selection of games from Mac Games and More that will take you into the weekend. The picks include a lego-like construction puzzle using goo balls instead of lego pieces, a side-scrolling shooter to take down all of your enemies, a kickin’ top-down perspective soccer game and more.
 Escape the Museum – Museum-phobic players of hidden object diversions can breathe a sigh of relief because the object of this game is to get out of the museum, fast! While Susan Anderson and her daughter, Caitlin were meandering around the museum, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake shook, rattled and rolled the city. They somehow get separated and it’s pure chaos in the shattered museum. Your mission in Escape the Museum is to not only help Susan to reunite with Caitlin but also to navigate the crumbled building locating a collection of artifacts scattered over 60 levels. Escape the museum offers a very long game play and features adventure and puzzle elements, which add considerable variety in the game. Download it
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| World of Goo – My mom pronounces the word, “good” as “goo” because of her thick accent. So, when I hear “World of Goo,” a puzzle-y construction game, “good” does comes to mind but here it’s an understatement. World of Goo is rather a world of greatness. Getting your hands on black (or green), sticky blobs of jiggly goo has never been more entertaining. Using realistic game physics, build structures so that a required number of goo balls can get sucked up into an escape pipe. In a style that reminds me of Cartoon Network colliding with Edward Gorey, World of Goo offers clever writing, whimsical graphics, music and effects, and thoughtfully designed, complex levels. Download it
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 Jets N Guns Gold – Guess what this game involves? Right. Jets and guns! As an award-winning action side-scrolling shooter, reminiscent of arcade games, Jets n Guns Gold embraces a few simple concepts: kill, destroy and explode. You play as a fighter pilot in space who has to take down an entire army of enemies by yourself. You probably don’t need to be warned that there will be blood and gore and as soon as you begin you will love every minute of it all. Make sure to take advantage of customizing your ship, arsenal and their capabilities. Massive destruction is alarmingly addictive. Download it
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 Kickin’ Soccer – There aren’t many casual sports games for Mac but I don’t think it’s because of a lack of interest. There’re just hard to find! Luckily for gamers in search of something retro, sporty and fun, there’s Kickin’ Soccer. For the true footie fan, Kickin’ Soccer takes you back to the top down perspective arcade games that were so popular in the 80s. Yup, this is when games involved more key controls and coordination! Slide, pass, dribble and shoot using simple combinations (arrow keys, z and x). The game features one and two-player modes, including an “arcade” mode where players compete one match at a time, and a “cup” mode that lets you play one country’s team (from a roster of 16), each with specific skills, trying to win the World Cup. The two-player mode lets you battle it out with another opponent on the same keyboard. Download it
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 Emerald City Confidential – In this city of Oz, you won’t find the lollipop kids or singing, dancing munchkins. Oh my. And you won’t need to follow the yellow brick road but you will run into the Scarecrow, Lion and Toto. That being said, they’re not exactly how you remembered them during your childhood watching the story of a Kansas girl realizing there’s no place like home. Here in this Emerald City, you play Petra, a detective on a job to solve a mystery and unravel a conspiracy. Follow a case through five chapters full of puzzles, witnesses, suspects, and allies in this twist on a timeless classic. Download it |
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Didn’t think much of the demo of Escape from the Museum, but World of Goo was brilliant! I bought that about 5 mins after playing a demo. The team are so cool you can download the Mac, Linux and Windows versions for the one fee!
Support the indie developers, they need it more than corps like EA!
Fuzzypig, on October 9th, 2009 at 2:03 pm