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Game Giveaway of the day — eXtinction

eXtinction offers gamers an action-packed arcade experience. Players advance through 30 levels and defeat six savage bosses as special agent Nick Naster, a space pilot who has had top training in a multitude of modern weaponry. Naster loses his family to an alien virus known as Zeta 2, which mutates humans, and thus volunteers for the eXtinction mission. He must now wipe out all vestiges of the plague with the help of nine weapons including a chaingun, magma cannon, missile launcher and photon thrower.
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eXtinction was available as a giveaway on July 13, 2007!

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An exciting game where you act as a soldier facing other soldiers in the city.

You are Nick Naster, the most talented and well-trained Special Agent of the Interplanetary. You are chosen to stop a massive alien invasion and viral plague in your home system Zeta 2. Intelligence reports indicate that the alien virus has spread across the planet, infecting and transforming human troops into hostile mutants. Exposure to the planet's atmosphere will result in immediate infection and reinforcements are not possible. You are provided with the last drops of an experimental antidote that has been completed only minutes before the destruction of the Zeta 2 bio lab headquarters. All data and antidote reserves were lost.

Your mission:

  • Find your way trough six Cities;
  • Recover remaining data units and unfinished probes of antidote;
  • Neutralize any opposing alien treat;
  • Destroy six gigantic class-3 symbiotic organisms, halfhuman, half-machine, that are the carriers of plague and alien technology necessary for invasion completion;
  • Prevent a global eXtinction of all known worlds.

You have been provided state of the art technology. With your afterburner installed in your backpack, you can deploy nine powerful weapons: uzi, shotgun, chaingun, lasergun, plasma gun, bio gun, missile launcher, magma cannon and photon thrower. You are your planet's only hope.

System Requirements:

Windows 98/Me/NT4.0/2000/XP; 600MHz+ CPU; 128MB RAM; 32MB 3D Graphic Card (Open GL); DirectX 8 or greater; Sound card

Publisher:

Xing Interactive

Homepage:

http://www.merscom.com/games/extinction.php

File Size:

416 MB

Price:

$9.99

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#154

Hi really enjoyed reading your post.
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Reply   |   Comment by Greg @ Read Coffee machine Reviews  –  14 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#153

This game was by far the best dl since I've started visiting this site. I would say that it is well worth the $10 that the company is charging. What I would have liked, is if the company would have allowed some sort of compatibility with controllers and game pad. I have not found a way to allow mine to work with this game.

Graphics are good
Action packed game
May be difficult if you don't have a mouse (or you're not acquainted with the touch pad)
Lots of blood

10 out of 10

Reply   |   Comment by Pl  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#152

Love this game!!

Reply   |   Comment by David  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#151

I enjoyed the first half of the stage, then my eyes & fingers started to get numb, due to the repetitiveness of every single level.

Reply   |   Comment by avalanch  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#150

show de bola o jogo

Reply   |   Comment by LR  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#149

Too large. The deadline should have been later. I tried downloading, but didn't manage because of the deadline. I hope this games returns to gaotd soon.

Reply   |   Comment by Gustavo  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#148

It runs so slow I can't even play the game. It's a shame, there a lot of good reviews for this one.

Pentium 2.8GHZ
1GB RAM
Win XP
ATI Radeon X550

Reply   |   Comment by jcka  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#147

Well I think this is a great game! It would be far more fun in 3D action though. Had taken 3½ hours on my 256kbps DSL connection. Which is only 6 times faster than dialup. I live in the middle of nowhere and I am lucky to have DSL at all. And yes, serious gamers mostly use game controllers. It would have been nice if this game did too.

Merril (#33)? It isn't the music that is so big! There are two movie files that add up to about 70MB. The music is much smaller. The most of it is the data for the game itself. And no, a half of a GB isn't too big. As most great games are this size or larger. And 320GB hard drives are cheap, and I would never fill it up. So size isn't a problem.

Yes jcka (#128)… It runs slow on my HP desktop too!

HP AMD Athlon 1.2 GHZ
512MB of RAM
Windows XP Home SP2
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 (64MB installed)

According to the documentation, toggling the vertical sync or whatever they call it is supposed to help that under Video Settings under the game. But my HP, that option is grayed out. And I can't click on the new game option as the pointer only updates like every 5 seconds or so. While it runs fine under my Gateway laptop.

Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/512MB
Windows XP Home SP2
Intel® 910GML (64MB shared)

Reply   |   Comment by BillW50  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#146

I had to "download" this game seven times, because your @#!$ servers were so slow and inefficient that the files were corrupt. I finally got a good copy with 17 minutes left in the giveaway time frame. I activated the "exe" file, and it finished with 3 minutes to go... then I ran "setup" and it finished three minutes past the allowed time and the window popped up saying that the game was no longer available! I give the game 8 and this site which used to be great no deserves a minus score!!!

Reply   |   Comment by Ron  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#145

Would have liked to have tried this one out, but my attempt to beat the clock and download this finished approximately 2.5 mins after the 24hour time limit! It seems it was faulty somehow too - the darn file wouldn't even open, never mind install. Oh well, it's consigned to the bin now after all that. Still I'm sure there'll be something else I can try sometime soon. Thanks anyway though, and kudos to you for supplying a good run of much less childish and kiddie friendly games recently!

Reply   |   Comment by WbbbyWunda  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#144

i have play the game for and hour and it is fun so tanks for the game

Reply   |   Comment by kenneth  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#143

I have DSL, but for that amount of space, I'm not gonna download it, even tho I like to try everything GAOTD offers. See you next time, fellas... and thanks for all the goodies I already have.

Reply   |   Comment by Mamoo  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#142

GOTD, hows about a good download accelerator give away? :-)

Can anyone recommend one?

Reply   |   Comment by Kenny  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#141

I know the file is 416MB but it is definetly WORTH the download. Please download and activate before it expires. Yes, its a shock that this game is only $9.99. I gurantee that you will love this game, even if you play it at the easiest difficulty level.
By the way, its an RPG.

Reply   |   Comment by Junaid  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#140

This game doesn't appear to have gamepad support, otherwise it would be perfect. I'll try to get proficient at using keyboard and mouse commands, but I'm better at games like this with a gamepad. Merscom, you continue to impress me!

Reply   |   Comment by Craig  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#139

Wow! Installed this, started it planning on playing for just a few minutes to check playability before setting it aside. That was 4 non-stop hours ago!

Reply   |   Comment by awfullyquiet  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#138

This game started out well. The engine is nice and smooth, as are the controls. The music and art, while generic, are also nice.

I can't stand the gameplay though. Action seems to boil down to just plowing enemies while they plow you, with pretty much know strategy or skill involved in the gameplay. Level design is incredibly bland and is just a bunch of platforms placed above and below each other. Enemy design is also just as bland and random. All the key huntin' doesn't help.

So, a nice engine and art direction, great controls (I enjoyed flying around and aiming with the mouse), but the game design is ultimately had a slopped together feel to it, and feels very amateurish. Not a keeper, in my opinion.

Reply   |   Comment by Cycle  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#137

Sax!!! It's 416 MB ~ 20800 Viet Nam dong, how can I download it

Reply   |   Comment by Sammy  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#136

i'm download this game by using IDM!!
i want to ask everyone in this site about the validity of the game!!if i install the game, and my PC must connect to the internet??
thank u!!

Reply   |   Comment by hendrik  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#135

WOW This game is AWESOME guys!!!!
Anyway i neither balieve that this game is avaliable to buy for only $9,99. Imo is one of the best games that GGOTD gave up. It's a realy cool game :)

Reply   |   Comment by moi  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#134

Very good job, GAOTD :D

Downloaded and *installed* very well. Unlike TankCommander recently this game featured a simple and clean Winrar SFX and custom installer which did not abused the C:\ drive without to ask but installed directly to the drive i wanted it to.

Installation: 9.5/10

Just another point GAOTD team: please don't drop any further comments which are *not* spam related. Else it would look much too suspicously like comment censorship.

Reply   |   Comment by Freakazoid  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#133

Hello,

I don't know how people with high speed connections get it faster than the 200 Kb/sec that my computer downloaded it. My connection is way faster than that 4Gb/sec, so it must be the server that is setting the speed limit, not mt connection speed.

Then again, I never got or used those download accelerators that are out there because I don't trust them. I downloaded it maybe 10 mins after it came out. I don't know if that is good or bad. I mean, are there a lot of people waiting for the games to come up and download it?

It looks that way because the main download site was full and I had to use the mirror link. I set the install and went to bed. I installed/activate it this morning without a problem other than the fact that it says that music was not available.

Fubar on comment #27 said the same thing happened to him. I don't really care, I usually turn the music off in games because they tend to destroy the suspension of disbelief. I thought that it was my computer's fault, but i tried half a dozen games, from Alien shooter to Half Life 2 and the music worked fine on them. I am curious though, did you find what was wrong?

I read people's comments about their hardware being inadequate for this type of offering, some even in a complaining tone. I don't think that having only small games here would be fare to those who are keeping up with tech advances. My HW is 1 year behind and I have no problems.

I am a gamer. I started with pong, synclair, Wolf, doom, ... I HAVE to keep up with tech to feed my habit. I make very little money (I'm on Soc. Sec.), but I pay $40 a month for cable broadband. I don't even get cable TV.

I helped Valve with the Steam translation so they gave me a few games for free, I save $10 a month to buy a game if I really really want it. If not, I play the ones I have until the prices go down which they always do. Hardware is cheap if you upgrade a bit at a time.

I know my priorities.

Reply   |   Comment by the Gamer w/o money  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#132

what is the password. it's asking me to put in a password to extract.

Reply   |   Comment by Johnathan  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#131

HELP

The game downloaded with no problems. The startup to the game looks good, good graphics but when it gets to the section where you actually start playing I cannot read any of the words.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Alien

Reply   |   Comment by aliennut  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#130

Just downloaded @ 652 KB/s using Free Download Manager, took less than 10 minutes (i have 6Mbit broadband).
Haven't seen the game yet, i'll let you know

Reply   |   Comment by Yellowkid  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#129

This game is a winner. Great retro, side-scrolling game with updated 3D graphics.

Reply   |   Comment by Musseau  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#128

Whew! 1 Hour, 29 minutes....mirror site with DSL. Game sounds interesting....and even tho' it's a HUGE file...and takes FOREVER to download, I'm still appreciating it VERY much as it's FREE! Thanks!!!

Reply   |   Comment by Momto6  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#127

Downloaded and installed with no problems. however when I try to play, it runs extremely slow, almost as if my PC doesn't have enough power, but I have much more than the system requirements. Anyone else having this problem?

Reply   |   Comment by jcka  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#126

Wow! Fabulous graphics. Cool game. This is not your ordinary online game -- it is really first class.

Reply   |   Comment by Karen  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#125

#73 wrote "For those of you with Dialup just go and get a free download accelerator.... It might take 1-2 hours...." Try 26 hours with an accelerator with 8 connections! The only other option to a 44Kbps dial-up speed out here in the boondocks is satellite internet. But, the two available providers limit your downloads and then put your account at a penalty speed for the rest of the month if you exceed the limit.

Not that I'm complaining about the dowload size - I don't want to fill up my external HD with this game, but I'm sure others will enjoy it immensely.

Reply   |   Comment by Deborah  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#124

I see complaints about how big the game is and people having to uninstall it. For gods sake people go buy a harddrive who here can't afford 50 bucks for an 80GB Hdd? Honestly it's not like you are spending the money buying the games... so BUY A HARD DRIVE. =P

Reply   |   Comment by Dragon  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#123

I thought it was a first person shooter...
not really
it is kind of like alien shooter....
2d shooting
and....there are many games that go over 400mb
some go over 1-3gb

Reply   |   Comment by mike  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#122

Wish you guys would repost Atlantis Quest and Snowy's lunch run, my computer crashed and I lost them....

Reply   |   Comment by sean vater  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#121

Thanks GAOTD, with my 8MBit Internet it took ~15 Minutes on your servers with only half speed (400-500 kbs).

Screenshot looks great, i will install it soon and try it.

Reply   |   Comment by MaTi  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#120

For those of you with Dialup just go and get a free download accelerator, if you get one that partitions the download you should have no problem getting this game. It might take 1-2 hours, but theres always a price you pay in life, is there not?

LOL, Care to tell me where this magic accelerator is located?

but theres always a price you pay in life, is there not?

Good Grief, what words of wisdom, you're my hero. *rolls eyes*. Thanks for the life lesson, I really needed that.

Reply   |   Comment by Kenny  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#119

A quality game. Equal parts metroid (the map exploration) and duke nukem (the violence). Not for everyone, and a large download, but if you're not on dial-up and you don't mind blood (which can be turned off in the options, but let's face it, it's still a violent game) it's certainly worth a download.

Thanks, GOTD, and good work, Merscom!

Reply   |   Comment by Isaiah  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#118

Geez, I'm glad you guys have dial up and just because I said I was disappointed because I have 56k and can't get the game, doesn't mean I'm complaining about anything. I shouldn't have to explain a thing but they just don't have anything other than dialup in my area.

I only wish that GOTD would work out something to make the activation available for an extended time for 56kr's, it's probably not that hard to do. It's a simple and reasonable request. Is that ok with everyone??

Reply   |   Comment by Kenny  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#117

What a fantastic game. I was going to buy myself a game the store this weekend but thanks to GOTD I got this quality game for free! Its graphics are silky smooth and super cool. Controls are very responsive and love the violence level in that game too. Im tired of kiddie games. Reminds me a lot of Contra.

Reply   |   Comment by Jason Carver  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#116

The graphics are all screw up on the game for some reason...I have downloaded the newest direct x 10 & installed and it tests fine...have downloaded the game twice and it installs with no prob..the movie looks good..but then the start menu of the game is all geometric shapes or something...game will start when i hit the top button..but it still looks funny too...any help here?

Reply   |   Comment by clay  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#115

Pretty good game.
Does anybody know how to get the music to work? Don't tell me that big MP3 folder is there for nothing.

Reply   |   Comment by Alvin  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#114

Downloaded this for fun, it's actually pretty playable. There are some niggles, but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Thanks. :)

80: You need to find keys throughout the level, use the M-key to get an overview map which will help you locate them.

Reply   |   Comment by fluffy bunny  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#113

good work, i download it. thx all people this proyect.

*sorry my english, i speak spanish :)*

Reply   |   Comment by eduardo  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#112

I've installed the game but when I try to run it I get a "Runtime error '425' ActiveX component can't create object." I have no idea why with WinXP, 3GB P4 and Radeon X300 series video. Anyone have any thoughts/suggestions?

Reply   |   Comment by arb  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#111

Took two tries , first time was corrupted. Second time no problems. It downloaded in one hour and eithteen minutes. Impressive graphics. Merscom has really given away great quality games. Thanks.

Reply   |   Comment by heln  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#110

F-Secure stopped the installation. File "we28F.tmp" not trusted. Any other having problems?

Reply   |   Comment by LU  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#109

The problem with the server persisted for 5hrs and still doing so. It should have ended since then. Other downloads were all fine. It's just that game's that's taking so much time. Please do something about the server. Wish i were not in that little island where the telecom services exploit us consumers by giving us their so-called broadband which really resembles my old dialup.

Reply   |   Comment by Vivekh  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#108

Thank You! Great game, something like Duke Nukem: The Manhattan Project.

Reply   |   Comment by Kosh777  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#107

Very nice game, I'm downloading it now.
I'm using Internet Download Manager. Less than 20min download.

If you have a dial up connection, if your a student you can go to school if you can and download, then use a usb drive or a CDRW or something.

Or a library close by, it should have usb and burners.

That's what I did before while I was still at school.

Reply   |   Comment by devin  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#106

I have downloaded this game twice. I'm not on dial up, I have broadband, but the download speed ranges from 8 to 20 Kb/sec... far slower than my system capability!

The downloads took 4 hours and 3 hours... and both times the files were corrupted and would not install. GGOTD needs to break these large files into pieces for two reasons... 1) so that even those on dial-up can enjoy them, and 2) so that their inadequate servers can keep up with the demand.

Reply   |   Comment by Ron  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#105

By the way, referring to my comment #83, I have Broadband and the wireless only PC connects through a router which is connected to the cable modem. Rich

Reply   |   Comment by Rich  –  17 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
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