Gaming

Streets ahead in terms of design

Advantages: Good design, well visited
Disadvantages: None

Lionhead.co.uk is the online home of Lionhead Studios - Peter Molyneux’s new company after he quit Bullfrog after becoming increasingly fed up of the way he had become out of touch with the programming side of the company. He has some of the industries brightest minds at his side, and a revolutionary flagship game ready for release - Black and White. Altogether, the company is shaping up as a force for the future. I could sit here and harp on about ...
...but then that isn’t what this review is all about. Let’s look at the site. The first thing you’re presented with when you load the page up is a simple flash animation with the Lionhead logo, and the customary choice screen between Flash and non-Flash sites. I can’t vouch for the quality of the non-Flash site, since I haven’t actually ever visited it, but I’m sure it’s just the same as the Flash site without the animations - isn’t that what non-Flash ...

Excelle 15.01.2001 · Read full review
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Review of lionhead.co.uk

Free games

Advantages: The games are free and it features some great games and the layout and design is fab.
Disadvantages: Two small catches.

...free, and the case of freeloader.com it's absolutely true! This website offers top PC games to download, for no cost to you! And we are talking top games, even though some are old but it's none of your shareware rubbish! Star billing is the fantastic gangland getaway game GTA London 1969 (the original Grand Theft Auto is also available).Other big name games you can get for the asking include futuristic roadwar racer Hidden & Dangerous and that sublime ...
...games on there and once you downloaded them you will see why. Games: There is a lot of games some java and some top notch games. There are also bringing out some new games in 2002. There is imformation on all of the games and there is 5 game sections. Downloading: Dowloading times are kept to a minimum because the games code is divided into convenient-sized 'episodes' which you download as you need them. This is useful as maybe you just want to ...

ciao007 05.12.2001 · Read full review
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Review of freeloader.com

NeoPets

Advantages: Fun games
Disadvantages: Too large, addictive

I used to play NeoPets a few years ago when I was a lot younger. I must say, I really, really enjoyed it too, but that might be because I was so young. I know for a fact if I was to play it now it would become quite tedious and boring very quickly as it pretty much designed for kids and young people. In NeoPets you pick a futuristic pet (usually based around a mythical creature or wild animal) and you get to name it. You must then look after it by ...
...can keep you entertaining for hours. But that's just the thing. There are too many things to do on this site as they have expanded it so much that you could spend days on it and still not of experienced everything they have to offer. Overall, I think NeoPets is a good website for the kids but if your an adult I would stay away. ...

BenC93 09.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of neopets.com

King.com is a scam

Advantages: fun games
Disadvantages: trumped up investigations and stealing money from customers

I had been playing on king.com for years for free. Every visit I was encouraged to "transform" my free account into a cash account by giving them money. I don't know why but I recently did just that. I gave them some money and in return got some additional cash to play with for joining. Shortly thereafter I started seeing notes when I was playing games that I wasn't allowed to play multi-player games because they were "investigating" me. So I sent ...
...e-mail. They in turn gave me back my original deposit and closed my account. The funds they had given me as an "incentive" were taken, as were my winnings. King.com is a scam! The games are fun but I sincerely wish that I had never given them money. ...

freakycat7 21.07.2009 · Read full review
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More than just games.

Advantages: Nicely done. Great games, great idea. Love the "players".
Disadvantages: Many games are unfortunately unavailable to mac computers.

I found about miniclip.com from a few of my friends, we can play on there in our spare time. There are loads of different kinds of games on there, ranging form action and adventure games, to 5 minute games. Many of the games are very addictive, and fine for children of any age. If i child was to play on a game which was not suitable (there are very few of these) they would first have to confirm their age and i think that's a great idea. Miniclip ...
...One other great feature of miniclip.com is the "players". These are just accounts which you can join for free (create your own avatar) and earn rewards. You can play against people from other countries on many of the miniclip games, and get "trophies" for them - which will be displayed on your "player page". Last of all, there is a game / application called "sketchstar". This is great! You create your own mine-movies, and watch other peoples form ...

frett21 06.10.2009 · Read full review
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