40 Stories 305Mb
This free game has been generated using the Unreal 3 Game Engine and Unreal Development Kit. It has been developed by over 60 California Chico State University students in their Applied Computer Graphics, Computer Science, and Recording Arts departments. It is a very high quality game in all respects!
“In 40 Stories, you play as Anita Hent, a disgruntled technical support employee who is on a mission to leave her office. In Anita’s haste, she runs into the megalomaniacal Professor Darius McDoogle, who zaps her with his reality altering Quantum Stabilizer, which then gives Anita the power to clone herself. Anita must now traverse her ever changing office building with the help of her very own Fanboy and escape McDoogle’s grasp.” Can you escape from the office and regain your sanity...?
The ‘stories’ refers to 40 floors that you have to try to escape from. There’s an extra challenge in that you can clone yourself, and in fact need to do so to solve some levels! This is complicated by the fact that you and your clone move at the same time and you need to get both yourself and the clone to escape! So you need to choose - and time carefully when or if to clone yourself!
Before proceeding, you do need a fast computer and a decent modern graphics card to run the game. The recommended specs (Dual core CPU, 2Gb RAM and 250Mb shader graphics card) are a little high and it will probably run ok with a slightly slower machine and slightly less powerful graphics card. It does need 500Mb hard disk install space. You may also need to download the June 2010 Microsoft Software Development kit (SDK) 572Mb from Microsoft (free) to update some DirectX runtime drivers and reboot, if you get a dll error when you try running the game (Though a system reboot after installing the game might do).
...So you’ve met the crazy professor, and can create duplicates of yourself, but it’s not going to be easy to escape each level and duplicating yourself just adds to the difficulty! The exit is mostly locked and to unlock it and get there you have to click, push, and find all the right places. Each level/floor represents a small maze with logic obstacles. Timing is very important as well and you might well miss things by seconds!
This is a great 3D maze game, and the puzzle challenge can be extreme! The power of cloning yourself can be very useful, but at the same time complicates things! The ability to clone yourself is a great enhancement to the gameplay! And something unique and innovative!
The floors are themed in one of five different themes, which you will encounter as you proceed through the game! There are also 17 amazing songs, that can be downloaded separately as well.
This is an absolute blast ! It has a wonderful look to it and it's clear that an amazing amount of thought and care has gone into it!
A patch is due out shortly to correct a few minor bugs that could crop up while playing. If you have a high enough spec PC and enough hard disk space, this one is most definitely recommended!
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