Cemetery Warrior 3

In Brief

Cemetery Warrior 3 was a Greenlight project released on Steam Feb 2017. It's a Doom like First Person Shooter, with updated graphics. You don't get a Steam key, instead you get a download link sent to your email (check your spam folder for the email). This will give you a download of the games executable, which can be installed on any computer any time. On the Steam page you get a warning that the contents of the game may not be appropriate for all ages. Although released on Steam, this is not a Steam game and is run as a free standing game with no registration necessary.

Installation:

Cemetery Warrior 3 downloads to a 55.7 MB zip file that unzips to a read me file and a setup executable. Those with multiple hard drives are able to save games on any drive they wish. The newly installed game is 119 MB in size. To install the game, extract the contents of the archive to a dedicated folder and run Setup.exe. The game installs to the following path by default, but can be changed by the user if preferred:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Cemetery Warrior 3

Five shortcuts are installed to the desktop, four of which can be safely deleted (Falco Space - Online Game! - Онлайн Игра!, FalcoGo WebGL Games - 3Д Онлайн Игры!, FalconLine Online Games Website, Free Games - Бесплатные Игры!). You need to check the shortcut checkbox if you want a shortcut to the games executable placed on your desktop. As with other Falco games and similar to the way MyPlaycity games work, your browser is opened to their site every time you close the game down, and when you first install the game. This does not affect your compter apart from opening your browser. The adware is totally innocuous.)

Introduction:

Cemetery Warrior 3 is a dynamic and exciting 3D first-person shooter with great graphics, lots of weapons and various monsters. You will explore an ancient monastery and its dungeons. On the way, you'll meet crowds of monsters and giant bosses. As always, your faithful companions - a machine gun, shotgun and grenade launcher will help you drive on! Hundreds of years ago the Holy Order of Friars built a monastery above a portal that connects our world with hell. They vowed to pray every day to restrain the forces of darkness, to keep them from escaping to the outside. For many years you were the leader of the Order, and when you became an old man, you fell asleep and went quietly to the Lord, leaving the holy craft your brothers. However, after a couple of years the monks betrayed their oath. They made a pact with Satan for worldly pleasures and enjoyments. Now their prayer is directed to the call of the son of Satan – Zeksus, and they themselves are turned into hideous creatures. Sacred power brings you back, so you can get things in order! Almighty has bestowed upon you again youth and strength! And this time, the weapons! Lots of weapons!

Edited reference accessed HERE. 29th December 2017

The Game:

Review 1:

Initially found the game very frustrating. with no health packs apparent in the first stage, that is until I managed (after a few attempts) to pass the control point once I'd cleared the first room. I died numerous times so never progressed very far, so cannot say what the later levels look like apart from those posted on YouTube (see videos links below). At the start of the game, your only weapon is a chain which feels really sluggish to wield. You have to get close up and personal to kill the attacking enemies. If you manage to clear the first room, you then need to walk onto a control point that looks like a group of glowing flames with skull faces. Your enemies seem to have a much longer reach than you, so trying to avoid getting hit seems really hit and miss, which probably explains why I kept dying. The game is Doom/Wolfenstein/Painkiller like in its appearance/weapons etc, but any resemblance to those games ends there. Your health is regenerated when you pass a control point and once you've got your first weapon ammo becomes readily available. Other weapons include a shotgun and rocket launcher. Your first gun, a weird looking machine gun (probably Painkiller influenced) is awarded after you've cleared the second room. Once you've earned a gun, avoiding losing health is much easier and progress is swifter, though enemies do spawn from more points so you need to watch your sixes (back) to survive.

Whiterabbit-uk 29th December 2017.

Other Reviews and Videos of Cemetery Warrior 3:

You can see Steam community reviews of Cemetery Warrior 3 HERE . There are several in-game videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. I've not wached all of these videos, so don't know whether any innappropriate langauage has been used? You can also see a slide show of almost 50 in game images HERE.

Conclusion:

If you've played the original Doom, Wolfenstein, Painkiller or the early Serious Sam games, you'll probably enjoy playing this game. I've played all of them and still do occassionally. Sadly this doesn't come close to the enjoyment I got out of playing any one of them, perhaps it's almost as good as Wolfenstein, which for those not in the know was the first commercially succesful game of this type; released way back in the early 90's (though the original Wolfenstein games i.e. Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein both top down 2D games were released in 1981 and 1984 respectively. For free, and even if you decided to buy it (it's on sale over on Steam at the moment for £0.39/$0.49) it's an okay purchase. I wouldn't feel ripped off for that price. Whether I'll return to the game in the near future is another question I cannot answer at this time. I did buy the game via Steam when it was released earlier this year, but this is the first time I've actually had the oppertunity to play it. Overall I would score this a generous 6 out of 10 and that's only becasue I'm a fan of those early retro shooters that Cemetery Warrior 3 was influenced by.

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 at a later date, 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 up 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 the giveaway doesn't grab you, then please move on to the next giveaway, or check out the forums HERE, HERE and HERE, where a few members of the community post details of various free games and free game sites as well as links to various indie bundle sites etc; you never know, you may find something that really interests you.

If you miss today's game giveaway you can always get the game via Steam HERE.

Problems getting the game to work:

If you're having problems installing or activating or getting Cemetery Warrior 3 to work please visit the FAQ's Thread HERE. 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 Games for giving away Cemetery Warrior 3 and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing other ways to get free games.