GameTap Thursday: Agent 47 causes an Emergency

by Alexander Sliwinski { Oct 4th 2007 at 2:55PM }

As Agent 47's first adventure enters into free games rotation on GameTap this week, maybe it's good you learn how to handle what's left in his wake with the new subscriber game Emergency 3. Emergency is an RTS where you'll handle various scenarios using several emergency response units. The real sleeper standout this week is Penumbra Overture: Episode One. The "episode one" bit will indicate to you that this game is shorter than it should be, but this first-person action adventure actually ends up delivering in unexpected ways. The new subscriber games this week are:

Clockwork Knight (Saturn) - A side-scrolling platformer about a toy solider saving a clockwork fairy princess. If you didn't have a Sega Saturn -- and really not too many people did -- it might be worth checking out this quirky little-known title from when side-scrollers were en vogue.
Emergency 3 (PC) - If you can get past the interface and some irritating AI, there's actually an interesting game here. A variety of scenarios and real-world aspect make it different than the RTS' we're used to.
Penumbra Overture: Episode One (PC) - It's supposed to be a three episode game, but we're not holding our breath. Definitely check this one out, maybe if enough people play it GameTap will fund the other two episodes.

After the break we have GameTap's updated list of free games. There are 27 new titles which have entered rotation and beginning this week we are bolding the new ones for easier reference. Ghosts N' Goblins (not to be confused with Ghouls N' Ghosts which is subscriber only) and the classic Final Fight are definitely worth a free spin.

1. Hitman: Agent 47
2. Colin McRae Rally 2005
3. Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2
4. King of Fighters 95
5. Tomb Raider: Legend
6. Bloodrayne
7. Sensible Soccer 2006
8. Disciples II: Rise of the Elves
9. realMYST 3D
10. Samurai Shodown
11. Twinkle Star Sprites
12. Ghosts 'N Goblins
13. Neo Turf Masters
14. Restaurant Empire
15. Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition
16. Space Invaders
17. Mega Man: The Power Battle
18. Fatal Fury
19. Metal Slug
20. Fast Lanes Bowling
21. 1941
22. Baseball Stars 2
23. Captain Commando
24. Zoo Keeper
25. Rainbow Islands
26. Bust a Move
27. Buku Sudoku
28. Bubble Bobble
29. Rampage
30. Ikari Warriors
31. Shock Troopers
32. Final Fight
33. King of the Monsters
34. The Last Blade
35. Defender
36. Root Beer Tapper
37. Zoo Empire
38. Joust
39. Black Tiger
40. Elevator Action
41. The New Zealand Story
42. Mercs
43. Myst Online: Uru Live

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Word of the street(IDF-Digital Ruler). @ Oct 4th 2007 3:14PM

Clockwork Knight? Holy crap my Neverwinter nights Nickname was stolen.
How I want to check it out.

Shadow Hog @ Oct 4th 2007 3:21PM

Clockwork Knight 2 was better... Wasn't that on the list a while ago? Wonder why it was pulled.

Elyscape @ Oct 4th 2007 3:30PM

Frictional Games, the guys behind Penumbra: Overture, ran into some financial problems as a result of getting screwed by their publisher, as I recall. As a result, they announced like a month ago that they were condensing the final two episodes of Penumbra into a single, more complete episode called Penumbra: Black Plague.

ShadowXOR @ Oct 4th 2007 4:09PM

Penumbra is not a trilogy, it was announced that it is only a two part game, the second (and final) part is coming out shortly.

zero @ Oct 4th 2007 5:41PM

I know it didn't get a lot of press, but Real Myst was actually pretty neat. It was a huge improvement over the original. For most people it had been long enough since their first run through original Myst, that Real Myst seemed almost like a totally new game.