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Battlefield 2 Demo - Awesome squad based first person shooter with unique commander mode, which allows you to command other online players adding to the element of strategic warfare. Kewl Vehicles and VOIP add to the many outstanding features in this eye candy of a game.
 
ChronX

Online card game and you start with one of 3 starters or a starter deck of 60 random cards from the 1st edition.

In order to be able to trade or play skill games or get prizes from tournaments you need to register for a one time payment of $16 and you end up keeping the starter deck, get 700 random commons and uncommons from the first 3 sets, plus a extra 250 great commons and uncommons from six of the seven sets (the 7th was just released and hasn't been added yet to the deal).

Currently they are getting more people to host tournaments since it has been a bit inactive so come help a bit. 😛

Think of Magic: The Gathering Online but funner. 😀
 
Can anyone recommend some good, free games to play on a laptop while on a car trip?

I'm looking for games that don't require much mouse movement (that means no FPS) since i'll be in a car, and using a mouse with be a pain. I have a Dell 8600, with a Radeon 9600pro in it, so it can handle almost anything u throw at it. And remember, no internet while in the car 🙂

 
Originally posted by: cw42
Can anyone recommend some good, free games to play on a laptop while on a car trip?

I'm looking for games that don't require much mouse movement (that means no FPS) since i'll be in a car, and using a mouse with be a pain. I have a Dell 8600, with a Radeon 9600pro in it, so it can handle almost anything u throw at it. And remember, no internet while in the car 🙂
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Turn-based games would work well. Try FreeCiv.
 
Here's a fun one that actually pulled me out of guild wars, Shot Online, it's an mmorpg golf game. It's still in beta, and there are options to buy things, but a great game nonetheless.
 
If it hasn't been said before...

Freespace and Freespace 2 are both free now and can be downloaded on torrent.

The code was relased to the public and now mods are being developed for it including updating the graphics.
 
For those of you with ut2004 (yeah, not free unless you have that game, I hope i don't get flamed for posting it here :S ) :

carball @ www.carball.net -- very fun game. Also has a league and a consistent community, unlike the rest of ut2004 😉
 
Hmm.. I can't believe I never saw this before!

For those of you who ever played Master of Magic - it's probably going to get remade. You might want to touch up on the game with this surprisingly recent Clone

OpenTTD rocks by the way.

Kristopher
 
The Zork Trilogy is NOT freeware. Activision made downloads of the games available as a promotion following the release of Zork Nemesis. The downloads contained the following license:

GRANT. Activision, Inc. ("Activision") hereby grants you a non-exclusive license to use the accompanying computer game, Zork: The Great Underground Empire, provided that you may not:

a. modify or create derivative works based on the Game;
b. copy the Game (except for back-up purposes);
c. rent, lease, transfer or otherwise transfer rights to the Game;
d. or remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Game.

I host a DOS games website that offers free downloads of shareware and freeware programs at http://www.classicdosgames.com, so I need to be sure that all of my downloads are legal. Following an article in which C|Net claimed that the Zork Trilogy had been released as freeware, I phoned Activision's legal department to ask if the games were really free when the license clearly states that the game can't be copied. They replied:

Back when we released either Zork: Nemesis, Return To Zork or Zork: Grand Inquisitor (all of which were back in the mid 90's), Activision did a sort-of "promotion" to help boost interest in the "new Zork" title. They released for a very short time, the three (3) Zork titles for D/L off their website.

As the "new Zork" title fazed away, Activision removed the titles from their website. Hence, the user could no longer download the games.

Since then ALOT of people have READ INTO this as being that we've essentially given these particular titles away, and that we have no interest in them. (ie- "Hey! They're giving it away.")

This simply isn't the case.

You'll also note that MOST, if not ALL of the Infocom titles are considered to be Public Domain as well, which also isn't the case.

They also said that they "reserve all our rights to pursue any legal measures we deem appropriate against the offending site(s)." I contacted C|Net and they contacted Activision to confirm. They removed the link with the following explanation:

Editor's note: CNET has been advised by Activision that the company's release of the original Zork titles was a limited promotion, and that the company "has since removed them from that 'free' status." As such, we have removed the download link that was originally presented here.

Since the article demonstrated interest in legally obtaining and playing the game, I decided to create a petition to convince Activision to re-release the Zork Trilogy, either for sale or as freeware, at http://www.petitiononline.com/Zork/. I hope any fans of the series will sign it. To see my petitions to revive other classic games, please see http://www.classicdosgames.com/petitions.html
 
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