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Games on the Cheap 7(March 14, 2005 as Chosen by Omni) |
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Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive (PC)
Genre: Strategy Hours of Play: 30+
Assuming the role of a dusty wild west A-Team in this team-based strategy game offers a lot of challenge against a rugged backdrop of hi-res artwork featuring dry canyons, decrepit towns, and dark riverboat casinos you hunt down the evil El Diablo. The difficulty level is a little unforgiving at times and sports a few too many "perfect solutions" but the environments are open enough to offer a lot of lateral thinking.
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Beach Spikers (GC)
Genre: Sports Hours of Play: Unlimted
A volleyball game in this day and age that doesn't feature gratuitous breast jiggling? While it's going on three years old, Beach Spikers is a great beach volleyball game that concentrates on actual volleyball and some technical aspects that others in the genre (Outlaw Volleyball, DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball) have not addressed.
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| Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions (XB)
Genre: Racing Hours of Play: 15 - 20
The first Xbox game to make me say, "Wow!" Unlocking the more desirable vehicles is a task unto itself and I would have loved a "free ride" option instead of sticking to each mission objective, but Wreckless still mananges to offer some fun, particularly if you dig the Burnout series.
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Day of the Tentacle (PC)
Genre: Adventure Hours of Play: 20+
Full Armchair Empire Classic Review
No small paragraph can possibly encapsulate an adventure game such as Day of the Tentacle, which featured a purple tentacle and a trio of time travellers. As a sequel to the classic Maniac Mansion, this title mixed great graphics, hilarious animation, an easy interface, hummable tunes, and some of the best lines in gaming (particularly if you have the CD version). At a time when adventure games were king, Day of the Tentacle demonstrated the best of the genre. Must have.
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