Special Forces Attack :

In Brief:
A First Person arena shooter. Unfortunately I was unable to take any screen captures of this game with the programs I'm using at this time. I've only just reinstalled Windows a couple of days ago and have not installed all the applications I usually use. If I get time I'll post some images later.

The Game:
This has the makings of a decent arena shooter and is by far the best of the arena shooters we've received over the last year; however, the pistol is way under powered. I stood directly in front of enemies and pumped a full magazine of bullets into the enemy and they didn't die , by the time I'd dispatched three of them I'd lost almost all of my health. The sniper rifles scope is also way over powered so you have difficulty actually seeing your target unless you are spot on. I found forgoing the scope more effective and was able to kill three enemies with one mag of 30 rounds. Either from a distance or close up. Still very underpowered for a sniper rifle. The only decent weapon is the shotgun, but even with that weapon you have to be pretty close to kill your target with less than three shells. Still, I enjoyed playing this game. Initially, it was a challenge, at least until I found the ideal weapon (i.e. the shotgun). Another problem with this game, I never found one health pack in the good forty minutes I played this game, so never got past wave four before losing all my health. There are two modes of play normal (labelled Start) where you have to fight off six - seven waves of enemies, with a limited supply of ammunition. You have three weapons to choose from initially, the pistol, shotgun and sniper rifle which you can select via your mouse wheel. I always died before running out of ammo, so cannot say whether there is a resupply if you exhaust your supply? Apparently as you progress through the levels more weapons become available, but I cannot confirm this.

The second mode is called survival and comprises of 1000 waves. Each of the three weapons has a large amount of ammunition:

Pistol - 1200
Sniper Rifle - 30000
Shotgun - 8000

Each wave has the same number of enemy combatants i.e. 7 enemies to kill (in both modes), at least the first five waves do (I never completed wave five and each of the waves preceding this had six or seven waves. From the developers page over on Itch.io I surmised that there are ten levels to the game, each with several waves of enemies and from the limited number of images I found, it looks like there are different arenas to explore and attempt to survive in for example a forest area (as can be seen in the games main menu; unfortunately, each time I've tried to survive I get no further than level five before I've lost all of my health.

Conclusion:
The game would be much improved if ammo (in the main mode) and health packs were spawned occasionally as well as making the pistol and sniper rifle more powerful and improving the field of view of the sniper rifles scope. Also grenades are usually a feature of FPS games. We have none in this game. There is a 'sit' command, which seems entirely out of place in an arena shooter. This could have been used for Grenades perhaps? All that said, I still quite enjoyed the short time I played this, and will be keeping it for ow, at least until I've managed to see the other levels; and also for the challenge of surviving for as long as possible. It's almost impossible not to lose health, so I very much doubt trying to survive for 1000 waves in the survival mode is nigh on impossible. The bots are too accurate with their shots. Even when constantly moving I was getting hit regularly. Still, I'll give this one a 7 out of 10 for effort and potential. I do hope the developer updates this game to include some of the suggestions I've made above. Oh yeah, nearly forgot, the game was created using the Falco engine.

Control:
WASD or Arrow keys = Movement
L. Control = Sit down (why?)
L.Shift = Run
LMB = Fire weapon
RMB = Scope/iron sights
F = Flashlight
Space = Jump

Notes on Security
I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game and it found zero hits from 52 antimalware engines. The downloaded executable may include some low level adware that only opens your browser to Falcoware's home page after the game has installed and places four shortcuts onto your desktop (which can be safely deleted once the game has installed). The installation does not inject any malware into your system. When your browser is opened to Falcoware's home page when the game has been installed, it earns Falcoware games 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/ce35d39804d9dcc069c1ea16d4f07f81b21cf645ce027300ed0f9dd7ca42312c/detection

Other Free Games:

The latest game from Epic Games are Hell is other Demons an action-platform shooter, with Rogue-lite elements and Overcooked! 2; Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons … it’s time to save the world (again!); both will be available next week Thursday 17th June at 4pm UK time/11am EST

Also from Epic, If you play online with friends there's a decent PvE/PvP free FPS game called Scavengers with a coop mode (I checked it out recently and it looks fantastic as well as plays well) and you can still get the clicker RPG Idle Champions as well as other multiplayer games. I've been posting redeemable codes for free chests that contain various buffs and other items for Idle Champions (time limited for 5 to 7 days from the day of posting) over in the forums HERE. They contain various items that boost your heroes abilities and health as well as affect your group of heroes in game, for example potions that boost health or DPS, contracts that can improve armour or weapons already used by the heroes or other contracts that add specific amounts of gold to your bank as well as items of jewellery, armour or weapons that buff your characters stats. I don't usually play clicker type games, but this one is well supported by the developer and has a massive following. I'll be posting codes for as long as I continue to play the game. I've posted some help sheets and links to a game wiki via the above link as well

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To those who contributed to the Indie Bundle for Palestinian Aid over on Itch.io, they raised $899,963.91, which was a great achievement.

You'll find hundreds of freeware games of all arcade and indie genres on Itch.io and Caimans Games as well as other sources. Please do check out the game discussion forums for older posts HERE (the sticky section is useful). Many of the earlier posts may be out of date with respect to the links I and others have provided to the free games; however, you only need to know the name of the game to find most of them via other sources. Many of those games from 2008 to around 2017 were posted as part of a project to supplement the lack of weekday games when the game giveaway went to weekend only games around Easter 2008 (mainly instigated due to the financial crisis of 2008) until November 2018 when Falcoware stepped into the weekday slot; however, from around 2015 onwards we did start to get the occasional Steam key for various games offered as limited giveaways, with a restriction on the number of keys available (anywhere from 25 to 2000+). These included over 60 decent AAA games and indie arcade games ; for example some of the better AAA games included , lucky Warhammer: Vermintide 1 & 2 plus DLC for version 2; Dreadlands, Mount & Blade: Warband, Immortal Unchained and Conan Exiles.

I've not posted details of any Indie Gala freebies since my older computer went on the Fritz back in October last year. Since then Indie Gala have added quite a few more free games, some of which are definitely worth downloading. You can find the latest freebies HERE and their showcase list, which includes all the freebies still current; (many of which have been included for a couple of years now) HERE.

It’s worth adding these links 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, they are yours to keep. :)