World of Dangers

In Brief

This is the 26th 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. 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 eighth wave 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 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.

I've suggested lots of times over the past several months since we first received a Jurij game that the developer combines all of the different games of this type he's created with a single level into one game where you progress from one level to the next , this would make the game much more interesting and give a sense of achievement as you progressed from one level to the next.

If you don't have many FPS/zombie games, it's probably worth downloading, but don't expect Battlefield/Call of Duty graphics.

Today is the last chance to grab a free copy of the latest free games from Epic Games. The first one has been given away previously called For the King. It's a procedurally generated game with a challenging blend of strategy, turn-based combat, and roguelike elements.

Also available for free until this afternoon at 4pm UK time 11am Eastern)is the excellent Metro: Last Light Redux which you'll find HERE. (The game is one of my favourite post apocalyptic survival games and second in the Metro series; based on the stories written by the Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky ), The Metro series is the spiritual successors to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series (Shadow of Chernobyl (2007), Clear Skies (2008) and Call of Pripyat (2010). From This afternoon (4pm UK time, 11am Eastern) we will be getting Halcyon 6 Starbase Commander; a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.

Notes on Security

I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game and it found zero hits from 60 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/64e4ff7bed47d2c628a4e9eb1fb15900b18713731f99f60cbbd90f3da6811def/detection