Horror Windmill 2

In Brief

This is the 29th game we've been given since August last year that was created by Jurij and distributed by Falcoware. The Falcoware installer has been removed from the game, so there are no in game adverts when you boot the game up, and your browser will not be redirected to Falcoware's site when you close the game down apart from the first time when the game has finished installing. The four non-game shortcuts that are installed to the desktop are internet shortcuts and do not affect your system. They can be deleted with no effect on the game. See the results of my virus scan at the end of this short review.

The game is based around the Unity engine and is a first person zombie/monster shooter that give you a selection of several weapons, which can be accessed via the mouse wheel or the number keys. The game is basically a copy of Horror Windmill, the game we were given five days ago. The only difference is that it’s set at night and there are a few different monsters included, also, it doesn’t appear to give you any grace period between waves.

Game play is similar to most of Jurij's previous giveaways, where you explore and attempt to survive a single arena, where monsters attack you in several waves. At the end of the last wave (eighth) it resets to the first wave. Each wave consisting of increasing numbers of monsters. Once you've figured out where all the ammo and health packs spawn, it's easy enough to survive until you get bored. Unlike most of these games from Jurij, you start with an ample supply of ammo right from the outset. The first health pack gives you 20+ health, thereafter you get 25+ health.

Key bindings are not editable; also, unlike most of Jurij's games you can't access the key bindings via F1, but they are standard FPS key bindings i.e. WASD or Arrows for movement, space for jump, mouse wheel for weapon selection G for grenade, C for crouch, R for reload. To gauge the size of this arena, If you run around the perimeter, it takes about 60 seconds.

I actually liked this one as it was more open than most of Jurij’s previous titles, plus it had a hill with a windmill on that could be used as a vantage point, so you could see more or less the whole arena; plus the lighting was decent. You can adjust the quality of the graphics from low, medium and high. It’s mainly down to shadows and shading. I would recommend saving this particular game for coffee break only sessions otherwise you'll probably find the game play becomes very repetitive and ultimately a tedious grind. If you leave the game it always resets to the first wave when you start it up again. The video quality settings (accessed via the Esc key add shading and shadows the higher the quality you select.

If you don't have many FPS/zombie games and/or you missed the first one last week, it's probably worth downloading, but don't expect Battlefield/Call of Duty graphics.

As with many of these unity games, there are some bugs, for example there are places that the monsters cannot move to if you are standing in particular places. It depends on where the monsters are with respect to the invisible nav-mesh that dictates their movement. This can be used to your advantage at times. One place to stand if you don’t want to get attacked is at the top of the hill near the back of the windmill where the rocks are. You start out with an adequate supply of bullets and ammo and health pack respawn frequently; always in the same spot. You can boost your health to a maximum of 200 and the maximum ammo you can hold is 1000. Also, you can walk under water in the deeper parts of the lake. Thankfully it's easy to get out despite the steep sides.

You can see a video of game play HERE.

The latest games from Epic Games includes two games Absolute Drift; an excellent minimalistic top down drift game and even better Rage 2; a superb post apocalyptic first person shooter, with the ability to drive vehicles in an open world. {Created by one of my favourite game studios (Avalanche Studios with ID Software) I'm playing two of Avalanches games at the moment (with friends) called Second Extinction and Generation Zero; they are also the creators of the fantastic Just Cause franchise}.

Please see Delenn's threads for Steam and Non Steam freebies HERE and HERE respectively. It’s worth adding these to your favourites and checking regularly for available freebies. Most are only free for a specific time. If you miss the deadline you’ll miss out. Once added to your account, it’s yours to keep.


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Notes on Security

I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game and it found zero hits from 62 antimalware engines. The downloaded executable may include some low level adware that only opens your browser to Falcowares home page after the game has installed, but does not inject any malware into your system. When your browser is opened to Falcowares home page it earns them some money, part of which is given to the developer of the game for allowing the game to be given away free. You can see the results of the scan via the following link:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/1c1b52f60cc169f95cdc579faafbc57f6abec7bc57cb321bb9d77205d37b0267/detection