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<title><![CDATA[By: Lockett]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/jacks-sokoman/#comment-41263</link>
<description><![CDATA[You have to try a few times, but they eventually load.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:20:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lockett]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Seby]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/jacks-sokoman/#comment-41159</link>
<description><![CDATA[I am not able to see all the comments. Why?]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:30:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Baka]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/jacks-sokoman/#comment-41016</link>
<description><![CDATA[I think that playing sokoban with time limitations is not a good idea anyway.

Yet another free alternative:
http://www.mtg.sk/rva/
"(WinSoko) 32 bit version 2.22.1 for Windows 95,98,Me,NT,2000 and XP, over 500 rooms from various Internet resources included, 246kB. Solutions can be saved, replayed and compared to find the best one, direct access to any room allowed. Rooms created by user can be added to stored ones."]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:52:55 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Jack's Challenger]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/jacks-sokoman/#comment-40969</link>
<description><![CDATA[Complete waste of time because it's unplayable! And Jack's a bobblehead--well, bobblebody (annoying)!

Magnussoft should be arrested for pretending to be a game company. I can't believe they can't even make a simple Sokoban-like game.

2 thumbs and 2 big toes DOWN! Even D*****Games puts them to shame!!!]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:57:25 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Concerned]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/jacks-sokoman/#comment-40956</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bad or bloated games that are free, still are bad/bloated.
If there are better alternatives, freeware or commercial, the company should know &amp; do something about it!
Same with male Republicans, they are still incompetent, it's just that now, the people are aware of it!
Merry Christmas everybody.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:22:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Lockett]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/jacks-sokoman/#comment-40950</link>
<description><![CDATA[My review of Sokoman:

I saw this game on the site and had to ask myself how someone could misspell Sokoban.  Since the game was from Magnussoft, I already had low expectations, but I downloaded and installed it anyway.

When I ran the game, I was greeted with a logo screen that seems to have been made in the mid-90s.  Rainbow-y lasers zip around the screen, etching out the word "MAGNUSSOFT" in large, blocky, dated-looking rainbow letters.  A silver swoosh then encircled it like Saturn's ring, before it faded out.  Add to that the horrendously low resolution, and I literally thought that I was playing a game ported from DOS.

Then came the main menu.  The "help" section was text-heavy, which is odd, considering that Sokoban is one of the simplest game concepts in the world.  I didn't bother reading it, but I'm sure that more than a few grammatical errors would have appeared if I had.  The only way to get out of it was by hitting the "back" arrow repeatedly.  There were quite a few pages of "help", so I just clicked repeatedly until I got back to the main menu - and then the game exited.  Perplexed, I ran it again, and found a "back" arrow on the menu, as well - it was the exit button.  Already this game has points deducted for bad menu navigation and graphics, but there's still hope for the gameplay, right?

The answer is an emphatic NO.  It seems that Magnussoft recycled the engine from Squiek, meaning that Jack(s?) will either move one square at a time, two, or none at all, depending on how many quarter-seconds you hold down a directional key.  In a game like Sokoban, where precision is necessary, the controls are almost unuseable.

That brings me to my next gripe - Jack(I'll leave the s out) can only push a crate if you hold down the directional button for one second.  Any less and he won't push it at all, any more and it jumps two squares forward.  Again, this completely kills the game's playability.

The graphics are a weird jumble of 3D and 2D tiles and objects, Jack walks perpendicular to the ground, and the title on the menu screen is in over-smoothed 3D.  When I say "over-smoothed", I mean, "so high-poly that it looks like goo".  That wouldn't be so bad if the letters weren't wood-textured and externally lit.

The music wasn't all that bad, compared to the other games that I've gotten from this site - it was the same boring techno drone that we've all come to expect.  As for the sound effects, though, I ended up muting my speakers.  There are literally three sound effects - walking, pushing, and dying.  I ended up using the "die" button a lot, because of the impossible situations that I kept gettin into - and I heard the same constipated grunt every time.  Ecch.  The walking effect sounds like tap shoes on linoleum, and the pushing sound is a stock stone-grinding noise - which is odd, because neither the crates nor the ground are stone.  Weird.  There's probably a sound effect for when you complete the level, too, but I never got past the first one.

As for the theme, well, apparently it takes place in some kind of mine.  I'll give it points for originality.

My overall score for this game is four and a quarter out of ten(four for gameplay, three for graphics, two for sound, and eight for theme).  Bottom line:  With all of the freeware Sokoban games on the web, with better graphics, sounds, and control, it's a wonder that Magnussoft is still in business.

Small side note:  Apparently Magnussoft spent thirteen years working on this game.  How they managed to screw it up so bad is beyond my understanding.

&gt;Happy Dae

This game is free, and horrible.  I'm not telling you not to appreciate it, but you're telling me not to criticize it?]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:38:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lockett]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Happy Dae]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/jacks-sokoman/#comment-40937</link>
<description><![CDATA[Games are just games.  Free ones are even worth less.  Worthless?
Well, the SIZE does seem inordinate to me.  There are so many better uses for my hard drive.

Still, if you would complain about a FREE game, you would likely vote for some female Democrat, too, right?]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:43:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Laverne Reynolds]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/jacks-sokoman/#comment-40934</link>
<description><![CDATA[Well I don't have time to play it for long right now but the controls seem to work fine for me.  I have XP pro on an HP.  It did hang up when starting the first time ... perhaps due to my internet radio taking a lot of resources ... but it's working fine now - even with my internet radio going strong!

BTW ... totally off topic ... is everyone (or anyone) aware that Pandora lets you create your own radio station with music that suits your tastes!  And pick and choose what it plays!  http://www.pandora.com/  FREE   I have 3 stations now for my differing moods.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:13:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laverne Reynolds]]></dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Tamarra26]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/jacks-sokoman/#comment-40932</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sorry I forgot HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2 ALL!!
Tamarra26]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:04:03 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Tamarra26]]></title>
<link>https://game.giveawayoftheday.com/jacks-sokoman/#comment-40931</link>
<description><![CDATA[Not so fond of the past "Jacks" games so I will be skipping download today. Magnussoft: please consider useing a different logo screen, as this is what causes your games to be so large in size. Not a big problem though, Just alot of dial-ups won't even attempt to try a game of this size, so untill dial-up is no longer on market, please consider.(Just my opinion) GGOTD: Please keep up the good work. I love this site and have kept and bought several great games you have offered. Thank you so much for this everyday.  Will be back tomorrow.
Tamarra26]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:00:58 -0500</pubDate>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamarra26]]></dc:creator>
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