Ultimate Puzzles: Animals 2

In Brief

Not sure what's happening today. The images at the top of the page indicate a combination of two games i.e. Puzzle Animals and Puzzle Animals 2. It appears we have been given Puzzle Animals, not Puzzle Animals 2. You can see both games via videos of game play HERE and HERE that shows the difference between the first and second in the series.


Ultimate Puzzles: Animals is from the same series as Ultimate Puzzles Nature that was given away on the 1st February. It's a jigsaw puzzle, created using the unity engine. When you open the game you will see a hand with a left and right arrow. To see the other jigsaw images you just have to click on the image and drag it to the left or right to reveal the other images. As with the one given away at the beginning of February there only appears to be four images to complete. I suspect these are the only images you get with this game though I may be wrong?

Each of the four puzzles is made up of 16 square pieces. which are placed on a 4 x 4 grid. You can turn each piece by clicking on it to bring it to the right orientation. Once a puzzle piece has been placed in the correct position, it locks in place. If you try to place a piece on an element of the grid that it desn't belong on it will jump back to the periphery where other pieces are located.

These puzzles are very simple and are probably only suitable for younger children between the ages of 6 to 8 (maybe with adult supervision). An adult could easily complete the whole game in around 10 to 15 minutes at the very least. It took me just under two and a half minutes to complete the picture. (2 min's and 20 sec's) and I was taking screen captures which added to the time.

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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If you want a brilliant but very cheap FPS game, Operation Flashpoint, released in 2001 and renamed ArmA: Cold War Assault, is on sale for only £0.69 It's a massive game with an open world feel, but with loads of missions, and the ability to drive vehicles and fly helicopters. It includes all the original expansions. You'll find it HERE, better still you can get the original, plus ArmA Gold Edition (contains ArmA 1 plus expansion called Queens Gambit and ArmA 2 with all dlc's. ArmA 2 is still an amazing looking game and has hundreds of Steam workshop items available to download for free once you have the game. You'll find the ArmA X: Anniversary Edition HERE, for £5.99 (I paid that for just one of the four DLC's for ArmA 2 when they were originally released. It's still one of my top five FPS games ever and is more a true simulation than an arcade shooter.

If you want the latest ArmA 3, which has amazing graphics that are up to date you can get it for 75% off for £5.99 HERE. There are hundreds of workshop items available for free, though may of them require various dlc packs for them to work. But there are still a massive choice just for the base game. There are quite a lot of dlc's for the latest game, most of which are also on sale; however, the base game is still an amazing game and for the discount price amazing value.

Notes on Security

I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game and it found zero hits from 59 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/60d73a81a256aab2caea3001ba5e2bb22e6afa3d37d72ef5537fb92067b46445/detection