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10 greatest Friday Flash games

Posted on 15 May 2008 at 17:53

No matter how much you enjoy your job, there are times when you'll find your fingers drumming against the desk and your attention drifting toward the window as boredom takes hold. It's for these moments Flash games were invented. Read on to find out the reasons why this month's <i>PC Pro</i> may be a few days late through your letterbox.

1 - FANCY PANTS ADVENTURE
Fancy Pants Adventure is a shockingly lovely game that you'll have played for 10 minutes before you even bother looking at the instructions. Beautifully animated and executed, and possessing a genuinely fancy pair of pants, every element is dripping with detail. Essentially it's a platformer with generous helpings of Mario and Sonic thrown in, but nobody ever asked what the Mona Lisa's purpose was, because ultimately it was just so much fun to stare at. This is the same.

2 - BOMB BILLIARDS
Bomb Billiards is a pressure cooker of a game and certainly not one for anybody with anger-management issues. The task requires you to pot all your balls before the timer runs down and they explode. As the levels ramp up, the time slips away, obstacles are introduced and hair gets torn out. Usually frustrating, but always compelling.

3 - ZOMBIE WARS
Zombie Wars does exactly what it says on the blood-smeared tin. You wander around a small landscape fending off hordes of zombies. The more you kill, the better weapons you get, until you're building bases with turrets and fighting off the devil himself. Expect destruction, gore and giggles. As a side note, the developer was once a designer with the late, great Bullfrog studios, creators of Syndicate and Theme Park among other landmarks. If that doesn't convince you to play this, nothing will.

4 - THE LAST STAND 2
Our second zombie offering, The Last Stand 2 gives you 40 days to cross a zombie-infested US and catch the last boat out. During the day you forage for new weapons, search out survivors and lay the traps that'll keep you from becoming zombie-food, but when the moon rises the dead walk and it's up to you to man the barricades and survive the night. It's a fantastically structured game, equally tense and action packed as the levels progress. Much like life at PC Pro actually.

5 - STUNT DIRT BIKE
The game that's caused the most swearing in the PC Pro office, Stunt Dirt Bike requires you to traverse an obstacle course with either a dirt bike or quad without sending your poor rider crashing headfirst into the floor. In the words of our esteemed laptop reviews editor, it's "devilishly tricky" and only gets trickier when your goal switches from completing the course to completing it with a good time. Definitely one for those who don't know where the brake-pedal on their car is.

6 - DESKTOP TOWER DEFENCE
Desktop Tower Defence turns your humdrum desk into a battlefield under constant siege from creeps, which you must fend off with a range of death-dealing towers. Killing the swarm brings gold which can buy new towers and upgrade existing ones. Before long, Desktop Tower Defence will have you thinking like a roomful of generals, strategically placing towers, creating killzones, and laughing manically as your plans for desktop domination come to fruition.