Great game, good graphics. Works well on vista 64 bit. I would recommend a chance to replay a level, but I still like it.

Installs and works fine on laptop running WIN 8 Pro x32.

It installed with no problems on my win 7 machine. It is a LOT better than the other sky taxi's but I just wish I didn't have to put my own shortcut on my desktop (I read your comment about getting it if you buy the program), but I just wish since we don't get tech support from alawar that at least they would give us the shortcut on desktop. Anyway played till level 8 and I love the game. Great graphics, it's certainly a good old retro game which I still love. Think I'll go and try alawar's gamebox. I do love most of their games but out of all the taxi game I have to say this one it the Best!


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Thank you for your feedback. :)

il gioco non parte neanche:va in crash , in Win7 , con Microsoft Security Essenzial ;la sicurezza non la posso togliere, non essendo esperta. .Eliminato. Mi spiace ,ne faro' a meno.

Update: I'm getting the same problem with Sky Taxi 3, it installs fine on my Windows XP Laptop SP3, but won't actually play. The program crashes on starting it, generates an error message, and that's it. I will take advantage of it's portability and try it on a different PC.


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What was the error message you were getting? Also check your event logs.

I love platform games. Sky Taxi 2 installed on my Windows XP Laptop SP3, but wouldn't actually play. I'm hoping to actually be able to play this one! :-)

Dear Wabbit,

What a fun game. I was bouncing all over the place..just with the keyboard and that was crazy. Coins/cakes were flying..... and we got..portals..funny crazy transporters. Bouncing on the robbers was the best. Now I need to get out the joystick of the gaming pad and seriously kick some butt....Nah! Think I will try it with just the key board first...See what happens.

This is one of those games you can play for a bit just to relax. Pretty graphics, okay music(just turn it down) and bounce. Almost makes me want to get out one of my Super Granny games..LOL

Thanks Alawar and GGOTD for the fun game. Thank you Wabbit for the review and I hope things are better at your house.


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Thanks Delenn, better than last weekend. :)

I love platform games. They take me back to my youth. The graphics are good as is the gameplay. It installs and plays fine in win 7 x64 and Win 8 X64 (at least on the win 8 I am running as a virtual machine under VMWare Workstation.)

Thanks GGOTD and Alawar for a great game. I just wish that the mouse were a little larger, easier to see (as in the Turtle Odyssey and Supercow games. I like side scrollers, and wish there were more of them, and fewer HOGs. BTW, I get "Fashion Craze" as the free game in Alawar Game Box.


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Thanks for the update re Alawar's Gamebox. Been having problems with it for ages.

@Mike Kay (currently #10) - if you want to spam your desktop and/or Start Menu with needless shortcuts, you can do it by yourself (in case you forgot how to do it, Stephen wrote this in his review). If a game creates shortcuts, it pretty much always adds registry entries and if (or rather when - this is Windows as you stated) you reinstall the system, you lose it for good, which means it's not a real giveaway, it's more like "borrow for free until your system self-destroys". The kind of giveaways like today's are real giveaways, they are effectively portable versions of the game and yours to keep. I would love to see only this kind of giveaways from now on. Sorry if anyone thinks it's off topic, but I just can't stand it when someone calls a huge positive a "problem", for crying out loud! Thank you very much Alawar Games and GGOTD for the way this thing installs!

No prob Win 8 x64 Pro. Full screen, music sound options, play difficulties. Decent for freebie. Adults would find it fairly repetitive going I imagine. Just ran thru some early levels for giggles. PS there is a special Halloween bonus per the little fairy
thing if complete all levels, 144?, at 100% if that pushes your boat.
Tip didn't come in till after a few levels at 100%. Later w/ boredom causing rush just to finish a level 100% became uninteresting.
Thanks. 8/10 kids, 7/10 big kids.

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Thanks for the feedback Beergas

Dear Moderator,

I did turn off the security stuff before I wrote to you the first time. It still didn't work. Thanks!


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Hi Terese,

Did you check the FAQ's I posted over in the Game Discussion forums? You may find another fix there.

Did you try re downloading the game? The copy you initially got may have become corrupted.

OOOOPPPS! That's supposed to say "get off OF it." HEE HEE!

BOOOO! We JUST HAD this game with the lil armadillo bouncing of the heads of the big ol' robot monster bad guys just a few weeks ago.

If that is what "RETRO" means, then BOOOO RETRO!

If we gotta repeat games then let us REPEAT THE BEST GAME EVER TO SHINE ON A COMPUTER SCREEN - FISHDOM!

RERUNS SUCK! Well, except reruns of Gilligan's Island. NOW, that's a GREAT IDEA for a game. Drop seven (7) dumb people on an island and have them get off on it. GET TO WORK ON THAT.




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Hi Swamp Thing, this isn't a rerun. We've never had Sky Taxi 3: The Movie. what we got several weeks ago was Sky Taxi 2. :)

I really enjoy these Sky Taxi games. Thank you for having it as today's choice.

As far as Ive seen so far alware is a great game company. Their games have only ONE problem, you have to go find them after you install them. This is windows, the game should put a shortcut in your start menu (not startup, the thing you get when you click the button to see your software) and on the desktop. You can delete it but it should be there.

As to the game itself, its fun.




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Thank you for your feedback Mike, usually these games do place a shortcut on the desktop and in the start menu. If you purchased this game you'd get the shortcuts.

A lot of game giveaways install like this.

Installed fine here Windows 7 and 8 Worked on both when I installed on Win 8 I installed in compatibility mode for 7 and it runs great with Win 8 speed. Great game also brings back Good memories of times gone by.


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Thank you for your feedback. :)

Sky Taxi 3 will not install on Windows 7. The setup file crashes and closes.

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Hi Terese, the game installed with no problems on two of my computers running Win 7. There's possibly a conflict with something you are running. If you are running security software that may be the problem because the giveaways now come with a security file within the setup.gcd file. As the giveaways have never given a bad file in the six years they have been operating. I'd say it's a safe bet that you can turn your security off temporarily while you install the game. Once it's installed the setup.gcd file can be deleted; the game should work fine even with your security turned on.

Several other community members have had the same problem, and have managed to install the game once they've turned their security off temporarily.

Doesn't work on Win 8. Tried various compatibility modes and running as admin. No joy. Deleted. Too bad.


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Thank you for your feedback Walter. That's a pity. It's not that old either. The second one was released in 2010, and this one 2011 and number four last year. Strange that it doesn't work.

In generally, I love all Alawar games.
If they create a installer software or their addons with apps as Steam or BigFishGames also weekly more than 50 percent discounts, I will buy their collector editions.
I recommend that it may be good idea at new age!

Works on XP SP3. I think given the system requirements the real issue may be if it works on later Windows versions, in particular 8. Good graphics, nice 3D effect - the background moves more slowly than the foreground, creating an illusion of depth. I like the idea of extra bonuses which aren't always obvious to find (or present in every level for that matter). Even if the arrow points you to the taxi you should still take a good look around the level and make sure there is no stuff left to collect. The game recognized my joystick without a glitch, but only the first 2 buttons work. I would like an option to reconfigure controls. I may jump with a button on the joystick's handle (though not the one I have to use now - the one I shoot now with instead), but I would prefer to shoot with a button located on the base. Now I confused the 2 buttons (both on the handle) a few times and jumped instead of shooting at a bandit. It may be possible to work around it with a joystick mapper like JoyToKey (didn't try), but it would be nice to be able to do it within the game, without the need for third party software running in the background. Overall a very nice, addictive game. Thumbs up from me!





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Thank you for your feedback Joe

What a nice retro game is this.
It's very nice that the mouse can be used to let him jump and run around, as I never liked the keyboard based games.
Although it will take a few levels to get used to letting Mich what I want ;)

The only thing I found a bit annoying in the first levels is the very big 'sign' that tells you what to do in that level.

Worth a download!

Thanks GGOTD and Alawar for another nice game




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Thank you for your feedback Irene

Just to let everyone know, I was not up at 4.25 am (yawn), my time in the UK is 4hrs later than shown 8.25am.




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:)

downloaded with no probs on Vista 64bit, great follow on from Sky Taxi 2, good clear graphics, nice flowing game with plenty to do so you don't bored, grandkids will love this one then again so do I, before anyone moans about something, try first then comment if you don't like it, fair do but there will be loads who will praise this game. Alawar as usual have given away another cracker, keep up the good work, and as for you Whiterabbit, I have to ask where are you based and what time do you get up to write the reviews, not complaining as you do a great job keep it going. Have a nice day everyone and enjoy to-days game, I know I am going to be playing this one for ages.


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Thank you for your feedback Kev :)

Request to the community, if you are interested in getting a legal copy of the recently released game (released last month) Dead Space 2 at a knock down price check out the Games, Games, and yet more Games plus Download, Installation & Game play Problems section below

Sky Taxi 3: The Movie:

In Brief:

The third in the Sky Taxi series. Sky Taxi 3: The Movie is a sidescrolling and colorful platformer with 0ver a hundred levels of running, jumping and bouncing off the heads of enemies. The game features simple controls (movement by mouse), colorful graphics, and tons of secrets! It’s a captivating and relaxing game with many secret rooms and hidden bonuses.



Installation:


Sky Taxi 3: The Movie downloads to a 97.9 MB zip file that unpacks to a read me and a wrapped setup activation file (the orange colored file with the key symbol), plus there's a setup file with security (setup.gcd) that's protected from being hacked. This file may case some security software to alert the user to a possible malware attack, but it will be a false positive.

The game giveaway team check all game giveaways for malware using several well known anti -malware suites. There has never been a game giveaway infected with malware since the project started back in Dec 2006. Some community members have been having problems installing games since the security software was added. It's been found that turning off your security or configuring it to accept the setup.cgd file sorts the problem out. The installed game is 93,9 MB in size. and installs to:

C:\Games\Sky Taxi3

by default but can be changed to suit whatever your wishes are. There is no uninstaller, but this game is free standing so to delete just remove the installed folder from your hard drive. No shortcuts are installed so you will have to create your own which as most of you know is easy an easy process (right click on the games executable then select ‘Send to’ then from the drop down menu select ‘Desktop (create shortcut) ’). If you want to create a start menu/programs folder you’ll need to find the appropriate folders via your account. Once the game is installed you can delete the giveaway setup files.















I've only tested the game on Win 7 this time around, Anyone running Win 8, Vista or XP, please confirm whether this game works Thanks.



If you miss the giveaway or have problems installing the game, it is available 24/7 from MyPlayCity HERE

Introduction:

Take part in a spy adventure with Mr. Mich in Sky Taxi 3: The Movie! The superstar mouse in a luxurious white sparkling tuxedo will go through all the obstacles to punish the evil. The mouse is brave and handsome, charming and dexterous. What can be better than trying the job of the super agent in the real missions! There will be hideous monsters round the corner, every step is endangered and there are lots of treasures to gather - what a lot of work! The journey is still entertaining and speedy. Every new level is more complicated and challenging, every new enemy is even more vicious and die-hard than the previous ones. They hold shotguns and carefully patrol every single spot. So be aware of them and jump on the creatures to destroy them quickly. You can also use the weapons as you walk - shoot and be precise. Sky Taxi 3: The Movie is a story-based adventure with a thrilling plot for those who adore action and riddles in one game. The route arrow will show you a better way to get into the sky taxi after accomplishing the level and there is nothing impossible for such a risky and daredevil little mouse. Every mission brings you closer to the general battle against the boss. That is going to be a challenge! For sure you are never bored when there are so many coins to collect, sweets to pick up and notorious gangsters to fight ahead! Sky Taxi 3: The Movie boasts its excellent graphics and the action takes place in various up-to-date locations, so the decorations are gorgeous. As well as the plot.

Reference accessed HERE March 2013

The Game:


Like other platform games such as Alex Gordon, Supercow or Super Granny series, Sky Taxi 3: The Movie featuresover a hundred levels filled with loads of enemies and obstacles. You defeat them by jumping on their heads or using the weapons that you can pick up on your jouney. As soon as you annihilate the enemy, you often get a bonus. But be careful because some times bombs are left behind with the bonuses that could explode and cause you to lose one of your lives.

The game contains loads of bonuses. You collect coins, sweets and power-ups as you work through the levels. The game’s Help shows the possibilities of bonuses such as superpowers. For example, “Time Bonus” freezes all the enemies for a set time, “Fly Bonus” lets you fly and “God Bonus” makes you temporarily invincible.

Sky Taxi 3 also includes lots of hidden items and secret areas. Sometimes you need to find a special path or door to enter a secret room. It may contain treasure chests, coins or sweets. Try jumping on all of the clouds because it often leads to a secret place or hold “Hearts” that give you an extra life. But don’t overdo the jumping and hopping! If you fall from a high cloud, you might get hurt. :)

Game play is achieved via your mouse, with movement achieved by moving your mouse pointer in the direction you wish to go. The Left mouse button controls your jumping. sometimes you'll need to get an extra boost to jump over obstacles by using the jumping platforms. ?These will be obvious. You also have to teleport from one place to another to progress. to do this stand in front of the door and click your right mouse button to transport to the other side of the obstacle. It's a simple as that. :)






Reference accessed HERE March2013

System Requirements:


System Requirements:

Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista/ 7

CPU: 800MHz

System RAM: 256Mb

DirectX version: 8.0 or higher












Video & Images:

You can see a slideshow of over images of Sky Taxi 3: The Movie showing the menus, tutorial screens and game play etc HERE.


You’ll also find several videos of game play HERE (walkthrough spoiler), HERE (Bosses), HERE (Secrets & Help part 1), HERE (Se4crets & Help part 2)
and HERE (final).




Music:

If you want to change the music you'll find it via the following path:

C:\Games\Sky Taxi 3\WORLD\MAIN\music\x.ogg

Rename and then convert your MP3's or other music files to the ogg format, then swap them over with the ones you want to change. I'd keep backups of the originals until you've checked that the game runs smoothly and that the music change has worked. You'll need to rename the files you are going to use to the ones present in the music folder, which are music0.ogg to music 17.ogg

Conclusion:

A colorful platformer that'll keep the whole family entertained over the weekend.






Scoring

Game play – 8
Graphics – 7
Audio – 6
Re-playability – 7
Originality – 7

Total = 7 out of 10








Problems:

If you are posting late in the day I would also suggest posting in the main giveaway forums in the game discussion section. If you've installed the game but it won’t work for some reason, it should still be registered, so someone may be able to help at another time. Unfortunately if your problem is actually installing it then once the giveaway period is over there’s nothing that can be done until the game is given away again (though that isn't guaranteed). It’s always worth checking out the free games sites as sometimes the games we get here are also available for free from them. MyPlayCity has the most with over 600 games to choose from.


Today's game is available from MyPlayCity HERE

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Games, Games, and yet more Games plus Download, Installation & Game play Problemsl>:



If you have any problems installing or getting to work today's game please go HERE for help.


I purchased a second copy of Dead Space 3 from GreenManGaming last weekend with the intention of giving it to a very good friend of mine, but discovered he'd already purchased it. They have refused point blank to give me a refund. So I am going to sell it to the highest bidder. Any reasonable offer will be accepted. The game was released only last month and is presently £39.99 on Origin and £34.99 from GreenManGaming (with a 20% discount voucher). The code is an Origin code. I will add a Steam code for ArmA III lite for free (which gives you access to the alpha stage of ArmA III until the 19th June 2013). Please leave your emails for me if you are interested and I'll email you as soon as I've seen your offer. If it's reasonable the first to offer will get the deal. (I'll delete all emails before moderating so that they are not seen by the public). I've posted a thread about the game over in the forums where you can see information, images and video of the game:


http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/65366

If you're looking for something other than today's game check the didimatic site via THIS link for some brilliant deals.

There's over 100 games and/or dlc's on sale over on Steam at the moment, with a big Ubisoft sale on., Each day there will be different deals. You'll find all the deals via the Specials tab on Steams front page HERE. There's a free weeknd and sale for Ace of Spades and the 24hr deal is Train Simulator 2013 with 75% off ((Only one of the 100 plus dlcs ar eon sale, to purchase all of the dlc for this game will cost you around £1400) To be honest I think the latest copy of Trainz is better value for money. You get a lot more rolling stock with the game (several times more). The graphics are almost as good and there's only about 5 dlcs to buy if you want the full content. Train simulator 2013 does have a few free dlc's, but the content is rather sparse if you just purchase the basic game, then again, with 75% off, its okay. :) The other weekend deal is Little Inferno, released around December, with 60% off




You'll find many more game deals from Gamersgate, Gamestop, Greenman Gaming and GOG; all of which you can find via the Didimatic site, which I've linked to above (apart from Greenman gaming - GMG). There's a brilliant offer over at GMG with Bioshock Infinite. If you pre-purchase it you get two other games for free. The first Bioshock, plus a choice from several other games including Bioshock 2, Spec Op's: The Line, Civilization V, Darkness II or Mafia II, All these games are excellent. I'd recommend Spec Ops: the Line or Mafia II. If you like driving games then go for Mafia, if you like horror go for Darkness II. That said, Steam also have a brilliant deal on this game, with a free giftable copy of Bioshock, a free dlc, loads of TF2 items and if they reach the final target the latest game in the X-Com series totally free as well. GMG also have an excellent Indie sale on, with loads of decent titles reduced significantly.

There's a 20% off coupon that can be used with most digital downloads via GMG. You'll find all the deals from GMG HERE:



To be honest there are too many game deals around too list them all. Just visit the sites I recommend above and I'm sure you'll find something that suits you for a decent price.


The usual monthly free game from Alawars game box is now Sheep’s Quest! (though I'm still getting Sprill despite having deleted and reinstalled Game box) You may need to reinstall game-box if its still showing the previous game. It's supposed to change every month, but some community members are seeing the same game for months on end. Dido suggested that you reinstall game-box to fix the problem. Reinstalling game-box shouldn't affect any previous freebies. :). (You need to install the free Game-box from Alawar to access the free games, which for newcomers change approximately every month). If that's not enough, check out the Game Discussion forums HERE for details of other games either free or on deals such as the Indie Game bundles (of which there are at least four live at the moment, and all of which contain some excellent games - see below for links and details); or check out the four day sales at IndieGameStand.

The latest IndieGameStand game is Super Tower Rush (less than a day left before it changes) . You can pay less than a dollar for this game, but if you want the extra's (usually game music, manuals etc) you have to pay the average price which stands at $1.35. There's also several indie bundles over at Indiebundle.org. Each bundle has three games and costs $5 each.



The Bundle Stars: Fire and Ice bundle includes Tiny Troopers, Adams Venture 1 & 2, plus one more to come later all Steam keys. Airport Control sim, Darkness Within, Darkness Within 2, Firefighter plus another unamed title all Desura keys. Also If you missed previous bundles they are still available at a slightly higher price, but still bargains} over two weeks left on this deal (the best one IMO)

The Humble Bundle with android 5 includes Beat Hazard Ultra, Dungeon Defenders + All DLC, Dynamite Jack, NightSky, Solar 2, Super Hexagon all Steam keys plus drm free copies and music for most of the games. Just over three days left on this bundle.

The Groupees WadjetEye Games bundle virtually all of their games. If the bundles sell 400 the latest game will also be included. Only two days left on this deal.



There's a new Indie Royale: The Thoughtful Bundle now active that includes Snapshot, Cognition: Episode 2: The Wise Monkey, AaaAAaaAaa: A Reckless Disregard for Gravity (one of my favorite Indie games - I have an unreleased level editor for this game), Fiel;d runners and Snuggle Trucks.



You can get most of the above bundles for around $5 give or take a few dollars.

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A Request for helpl>:

Developers rely on good feedback to improve their games. If you download this game please take some time once you’ve played it a while to leave some constructive feedback either positive or negative. The more constructive feedback we get, the more likely developers are going to give more games away. The giveaway site already has a very good standing with the search engines. Developers want their products out there on the WWW, this site has the potential to do that. The game giveaway project gives away on average between 9 to 17 thousand downloads for each game depending upon what genre and how obscure the game is. That’s a lot of homes these games are being downloaded into and a lot of 'potential' cash that’s being lost by the developers. If we get better games because of better feedback, the community are likely to continue to benefit from the generosity of the developers. Satisfied community members are then more likely to visit the home sites of those developers and purchase games that they may not have bothered with before they discovered the developer via the game giveaway site, thus giving the developers more incentives to give away even more decent games.

Please leave some feedback once you've checked the game out. It can be positive or negative, but please explain what your reasons were for the feedback you post. You could also leave suggestions for improving the game, for example, this game could do with more block types for the levels editor, add more power-ups, describing the ones you think would be suitable, add some mini games (which seem all the rage in some arcade games now) or enable the user to be able to change the in game music easily.

Thank you in advance to all those who take the time to post a constructive comment.

Regards

Whiterabbit aka Stephen

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