I decided to post most of this weeks games in one go as I think I’m still in need of some quiet time away from the computer. It’s figured significantly for far too long. My children are on half term this week, so apart from interacting with them more I’ve also promised they could play some online games and have also set up some of my own games for them to play on the internet together. One of their favourites is Serious Sam 2, which is even more tongue in cheek than it's predecessors.. I was going to post several marble games this week, but someone else posted one of them last week, so I’ve decided to save the rest for another week.
The following game is a single click adventure game called Fate by Numbers, is on the lines of East Side Story, but instead uses actual video footage. I was quite impressed with it when I checked it out and though it would be great for the free games project. I realize some are not going to be able to download it due to its size and others because you need a reasonable computer to run it. If your computer is older than around five years it’s likely you won’t be able to run this, but if you’re not sure you can check the specifications below. There is a smaller 800Mb download that is lighter in content and there’s also a patch available that fixes some incompatibility issues with Vista. These are available from the developer’s home site where you can also find links to additional reviews of the game.
I ‘may’ add a few small games later in the week to compensate for the large size of this file. I’e posted quite a few hefty files this week.
Fate by Numbers: 1.2Gb
Fate by Numbers is a Full Motion Video adventure game filmed against a green screen and featuring 3D pre-rendered backdrops. The adventure games includes over an hour of HD-video with professional actors accompanied by a soundtrack written for the game. Private eye Alice Sanger is assigned to get a briefcase, but quickly finds herself immersed in a web of corruption and shadowy motives. It becomes personal when she finds out that one of mysterious people behind the briefcase is none other than her ex-husband whom was declared dead several years ago. What follows is a mysterious journey through the layers of a future metropolis with BladeRunner film noir influences.
Fate by Numbers was made as a graduation project for Communication and Multimedia Design (Avans) in Breda, the Netherlands. Revival is the name of the fictional company behind the game, set up by four students. The game was made on a shoestring budget.
The purpose of the game was to make a FMV-game to satisfy old school adventure gamers and introduce new players to the genre. But also to see if it is now possible to make a game using technology previously only available for big budget game companies.
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OS requirements for Fate by Numbers:
• OS: Win98/Me/2000/XP and Vista using a patch available from the home site.
Minimum requirements:
• Processor: 2.2 GHz
• Memory: 512 MB
• Video: 32 MB
• DirectX 9.0c
Recommended requirements:
• Processor: 2.7 GHz
• Memory: 1 GB
• Video: 64 MB
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Resources
Follow this link to the developers home page
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