Among The Best Games For PC, The Top Free Game Is A Bossa Nova Noir Called Gravity Bones
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Among The Best Games For PC, The Top Free Game Is A Bossa Nova Noir Called Gravity Bones
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Though its several years old now, this great bossa nova noir game, Gravity Bones, still remains our number one pick for among the best games ford PC in the free category. It is a short standalone game in which the first person player seems to be some kind of secret agent.
The game has only a couple levels. Experienced gamers will likely be able to play through in about 20 minutes. Personally, after the third bird, I was stuck for a while myself, but that’s just me. The whole thing has a mission orientation and the first level is almost a tutorial for the second more elaborate level. The learning process is nicely integrated into the first level. It comes in a zip file and needs no installation. It requires about 20MB of disk space.
Fine and good, but why do I rave about it so, you might ask. The great fun in this game comes from both its experience-based playing method as well as its strikingly realized aesthetic world. Calling this a first-person game, while accurate, doesn’t do justice to its originality. This one is kind of a new genre all of it own: bossa nova noir!
It does have a story, but delightfully not one of the color-in-the-lines type stories that are so common in today’s gaming world. Like a great avant garde film, the story emerges impressionistically and is subject to a whole bunch of interpretation.
Just a few brief moments after starting, the player is injected right into the action. You discover yourself stepping off an elevator amid some sort of Euro-spy scene. Even as the elevator descends (which is kind of funny, down from where exactly are you coming?), you’re aware of coming into dressed guests of some black tie cocktail party. The fete is spread out over a series of terraces overlooking breathtaking vistas of a mountain enveloped lake. A cool bossa nova sound track accompanies your meandering through the crowd of squares (inside joke). You’re initial mission has already begun.
This first level, really more a test run, is rapidly completed. Then you’re coming off a second elevator and things are a little more elaborate and complicated this time, as you have to find your way through back corridors and across catwalks on an ominous and stormy night.
Incidentally, one of my few complaints about this game is that I could have done without the clue cards. They at least should have been optional. On the first level I ignored the protruding card corner and simply wandered around the party. Eventually I stumbled upon the briefcase necessary to complete the mission. That was way more fun.
A special word has to be said about the aesthetics of the game. They’re almost worth the price of admission alone (even if the admission wasn’t free!) I love that the creator passed over the standard polygon “realism” so run of the mill in today’s games and chose instead a bold creative vision. It’s both beautiful and fun. There’s an element of self-mockery in the whole spy thing, but it never falls into cloying irony, which would have ruined the fun of it for me.
This game is delightful in both it brevity and creativity. It’s a real treat that is still our number one choice among free games for the list of best games for PC .
The game has only a couple levels. Experienced gamers will likely be able to play through in about 20 minutes. Personally, after the third bird, I was stuck for a while myself, but that’s just me. The whole thing has a mission orientation and the first level is almost a tutorial for the second more elaborate level. The learning process is nicely integrated into the first level. It comes in a zip file and needs no installation. It requires about 20MB of disk space.
Fine and good, but why do I rave about it so, you might ask. The great fun in this game comes from both its experience-based playing method as well as its strikingly realized aesthetic world. Calling this a first-person game, while accurate, doesn’t do justice to its originality. This one is kind of a new genre all of it own: bossa nova noir!
It does have a story, but delightfully not one of the color-in-the-lines type stories that are so common in today’s gaming world. Like a great avant garde film, the story emerges impressionistically and is subject to a whole bunch of interpretation.
Just a few brief moments after starting, the player is injected right into the action. You discover yourself stepping off an elevator amid some sort of Euro-spy scene. Even as the elevator descends (which is kind of funny, down from where exactly are you coming?), you’re aware of coming into dressed guests of some black tie cocktail party. The fete is spread out over a series of terraces overlooking breathtaking vistas of a mountain enveloped lake. A cool bossa nova sound track accompanies your meandering through the crowd of squares (inside joke). You’re initial mission has already begun.
This first level, really more a test run, is rapidly completed. Then you’re coming off a second elevator and things are a little more elaborate and complicated this time, as you have to find your way through back corridors and across catwalks on an ominous and stormy night.
Incidentally, one of my few complaints about this game is that I could have done without the clue cards. They at least should have been optional. On the first level I ignored the protruding card corner and simply wandered around the party. Eventually I stumbled upon the briefcase necessary to complete the mission. That was way more fun.
A special word has to be said about the aesthetics of the game. They’re almost worth the price of admission alone (even if the admission wasn’t free!) I love that the creator passed over the standard polygon “realism” so run of the mill in today’s games and chose instead a bold creative vision. It’s both beautiful and fun. There’s an element of self-mockery in the whole spy thing, but it never falls into cloying irony, which would have ruined the fun of it for me.
This game is delightful in both it brevity and creativity. It’s a real treat that is still our number one choice among free games for the list of best games for PC .
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Among The Best Games For PC, The Top Free Game Is A Bossa Nova Noir Called Gravity Bones
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