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Sorry for the very late review. I'm not getting informed of any of the Falcoware games until the games go live and quite often i'm not able to start a review until later in the day for various reasons. I much prefer playing and writing up these reviews in the evenings, which due to the above reason I'm not able to do. I would score this game a 6 out of 10 and recommend anyone who likes old school shooters like Doom 1 and 2, Castle Wolfenstein or the early Quake games download this. It's not brilliant, but it is playable and can be reasonably challenging to slower players. :)

If today's game doesn't appeal to you, there's another freebie on offer over at Good Old Games. A horror game called SOMA. You can find details over in the forums HERE

Cemetery Warrior 2

In Brief

A budget Painkiller like First Person Shooter.

Installation:

Cemetery Warrior 2 downloads to a 20.6 MB zip file that unzips to three files, (a setup.gcd security wrapper, the set-up file and a read me). Those with multiple hard drives can save games on any drive they wish by replacing the C drive with whatever drive letter they wish the game to be installed to or if you have multiple hard drives you can save games on any drive you wish by replacing the C drive letter in the path with whatever drive letter you wish the game to be installed to. The newly installed game is 59.2 MB in size. The game installs to the following path by default:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Cemetery Warrior 2

However, if you prefer a different path for installation for example I use G:\Games\ name of game instead of 'C:\Program Files (x86)\MyPlayCity\name of game'. You can edit the default path when the Setup - Cemetery Warrior 2 - Select Destination Location window appears.

Five shortcuts are installed to the desktop, four of which can be safely deleted (i.e. Falco Space - Online Game!, FalconLine Online Games Website, FalcoGo WebGL Games! and Free Games Downloads!). If you don't want to install the games shortcut to the desktop during installation, just make sure the install desktop shortcut is unchecked when the 'additional task's window appears; you will still get two of the other Falcoware shortcuts installed (i.e. FalconLine Online Games Website & FalcoGo WebGL Games shortcuts). Also, if you don't like icons installed to the quick launch task bar, make sure you also uncheck the appropriate checkbox when the 'additional task's window appears (after the Select Start Menu Folder window).

Introduction:

Cemetery Warrior 2 3D is a first-person shooter. Working in the graveyard, it is difficult to stay mentally balanced. On each grave is not just a name, but a story behind it. I never believed in souls or ghosts, so working in a cemetery was just a job, digging on and on. Everything was very easy, but some higher power decided to punish me for such frivolity, my lack of respect for the dead. Along came another sunset, and a wide variety of creatures began to appear over the graves. Souls of the dead with disfigured faces had somehow materialized in this world. How dare they? This is my graveyard, and I'll send you back to hell!

Edited reference accessed HERE. 28th December 2018

The Game:

Cemetery Warrior 2 has limited options, just basic resolution, music and sound sliders with no others. The control's are basic with just WASD for movement, Space for jump (not even needed in this game), ESC to return to the menu, mouse axis for turning and the mouse wheel to select different weapons (once you've picked them up). Depending on how many weapons you've found you can also select weapons via the numbers keys.

The first cemetery has 5 levels called rooms; each successive level has more monsters to kill and from the third level you can pick up a second weapon (dual rifles), which appears to be more accurate when firing at monsters from further away. The only issue with the rifles is that you expend cartridges much faster, so keep an eye on the amount of ammo you have for that weapon. It's the best weapon to use against one of the monsters (which I call the mole) that is introduced in the second cemetery. As each level is cleared, you have to walk through a glowing cross to pass to the next level. Before you do that I would suggest you first skirt around the control point and pick up any ammo that is available. Ammo for the machine gun has a folded belt of ammo and the rifle has a small pile of magazines, later you get a rocket launcher and ammo for that looks like large fat bullets.

Try to avoid parking yourself near a spawn point otherwise you'll be overwhelmed fairly quickly. The ideal place early in the game is as far away from a spawn point as possible and with as much visibility of the cemetery as possible so that you can see monsters coming at you from a distance. In the second cemetery, parking yourself in one spot isn't an option as the cemetery's appear more like arena and monsters spawn from multiple places. Every time I tried to hold my ground I was soon overwhelmed and died regularly.

Once you've cleared the first cemetery (I think it has five levels, but I wasn't counting) you will come across a bright glowing aura that takes you to the next cemetery. As soon as you pass through this you can pick up the two previous weapons you found in the first cemetery and are introduced to a rocket launcher. Once you've picked up all available ammo pass though the control point to start the level. the first level in the second cemetery is really small and relatively easy to overcome. The newly introduced rocket launcher only gets four ammo canisters initially, but more do come later. Once you've picked up all available ammo from a level, no other ammo re-spawns, but I think that if you die any remaining ammo remains and you'll find new ammo spawns in the level. The more you die, the more ammo you can end up carrying. If like me you don't like dying frequently make sure you make every shot count otherwise you may run out of ammo before you've destroyed every monster on that level. If this happens, there's no knives available to use as a last resort, so the only option is to die.

There are no health packs to regenerate health in any level, instead you recoup all lost health when you pass through a control point at the beginning of each level. Also, ammo is not carried forwards from one cemetery to another, but they are from one level to the next in the same cemetery.

If you are using a multi screen set up, this game is almost unplayable because the mouse isn't bound to the game. When I started playing, the game kept appearing to crash, but what was happening, whenever my mouse went over to the next monitor the game would close to the task bar. On opening it up I'd invariably lose some health as it would take a moment for me to regain control. To play the game effectively I had to open up the display settings and from the multiple displays drop down menu option select ''Show only on one''. This messed up my desktop initially, but once I'd finished with the game and returned to the ''extend these displays'' option, the desktop on all monitors were returned to before I made the changes. It's just a little annoyance, but still shouldn't happen in a game such as this.

Throughout the first cemetery there are only two monster types a hulk/tank (as in Left 4 Dead) like thing with a weird face and werewolves. The latter are harder to kill due to their speed and irregular patterns of movement. After you've cleared the first level in the second cemetery, a new monster that is mole like appears and is much harder to kill than the other two again due to how it moves around. You can see it coming towards you by trails on the surface of the cemetery floor. when it appears it jumps into the air and you are hit by rocks that remove some health from you. My tactic up until this point had been to secure a spot and defend it, but this new mole like creature was so hard to hit I had to keep moving. If I stayed in one spot it would target that area. Moving frequently saved me from being it countless times and in this way was able to survive the level. Hitting the mole was in my opinion just lucky shots as it moved much faster than the other two monsters. Around level three of the second cemetery another monster was introduced, that was easier to kill than the mole. This was easily recognizable due to its green color. It also jumped at you when it was about 5 yards/meters away from you. Shoot it before it gets near, otherwise it becomes more difficult to kill you. It can also jump behind you.

Most of the short reviews over on Steam complained that this was far too short a game, taking from between 40minutes to an hour to complete the game in its entirety. I disagree. I played the game for a couple of hours and still didn't manage to get to the end of the second cemetery. From some images that i found on Google Images there looks to be at least one more enemy (female in appearance). There is no indication online as to how many levels the second cemetery has. I couldn't pass the fourth level as I was killed time after time. I gave up in the end, but will return at some point to see if I can beat it.

Whiterabbit-uk December 28th 2018

Conclusion:

Cemetery Warrior 2 is another retro inspired run and gun horror game. I've played many of these over the last 25 years. This game pays homage to games like Doom 1 and 2, Quake, and my favorites the Painkiller series and Serious Sam. This does not hold a candle to any of those games but it is a playable game, at least in short bursts. Levels are quite short compared to any of the games I've mentioned previously. According to the community there's no more than an hours worth of game play at the most, but I dispute this. If you are a young and experienced player, you may beat this in quick time, but the average player, or an older player with slower reaction times would struggle to complete every level so quickly. Even if you did complete it in less than an hour, and even if you'd paid full price for this game I think its still fairly reasonably priced for what you get. And, considering you can get it via Steam for £0.40 at the moment and here for free today, there's no doubt I'd say download and play this game if you are at all into shooting games. Compared to all the above named games its definitely a little Meh!, but it's passable.

Other Reviews and Videos of Cemetery Warrior 2:

You can see other comments of Cemetery Warrior 2 HERE.

You can see several in-game videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE (русский), HERE, HERE, HERE & HERE.

Suggestions:

After you've had an opportunity to play today's giveaway please take a few moments to give some positive or negative feedback; for example, what you liked or disliked about the game, or how it could be improved. If you don't like the genre at all, please explain why and if any, what improvements would change your mind? If you don't have time to post a comment today, please do so at your convenience, thank you. If you wish to post a review or comment about the game later, you can access the comments section by going to the game giveaways home page, then scroll to the bottom of the page where it says Archives and select the date the giveaway was live (giveaway days are in bold type). This will open the appropriate page for you to post your comment or review. Alternatively, you can google the name of the game and include Gamegiveawayoftheday in the search. This should give you a list of links to whenever this game was given away.

If you miss today's game giveaway you can always get the game via MyPlayCity 24/7 HERE; or If you prefer to purchase the game you can get it HERE via Steam.

Problems getting the game to work:

If you're having problems installing or activating or getting Cemetery Warrior 2 to work please visit the FAQ's Thread HERE and read through the communities comments because sometimes fixes have already been posted, for example, a common issue seen since the Themida wrapper was introduced three years ago is that some community members installation of the game are blocked by their security because Themida code has been known to hide malware, (usually an error message is flagged for example 'The executable is corrupted' even though in reality it is not); so as a precaution some anti malware programs will block and even delete the suspect installation files even though the files (i.e. the setup, read me and setup.gcd files are actually totally free from malware. This issue can be solved either by rebooting your computer in safe mode with networking or a quicker method is to temporarily turn off your security software to allow the installation. You could also try white-listing the setup.gcd file. In the almost 12 years this game giveaway site has been operating there has 'never' been a game given away that was infected with malware.

If for any reason you want to contact the giveaway team, for example, you have a game to offer the community, or are unable to download the latest game or other issues that the FAQ's thread or these comments don't cover or solve you can do so HERE

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Falcoware for giving away Cemetery Warrior 2 and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing other ways to get free games.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

If Cemetery Warrior 2 doesn't interest you, but you still hanker for something new to play, you'll find details of some game deals whether they be sale items, indie bundles or games being given away for free HERE (I've not updated the thread in a while, but most of the links still take you to the latest deals).

The rest of the information that used to be posted in the game review can be found in the forums HERE. Finally, check out Delenns threads for details of other free games and offers HERE and elsewhere in the game discussion forums HERE, (usually on the first page of the game discussion forums).