GameTap Thursday: Cradle of Rome's Astro Fury

GameTap's big news this week was that Fallout would be showing up sometime in the near future, but that future isn't now. This week's new additions for gold members are a pretty standard puzzle game and shoot 'em up; however, freeloaders should take full advantage of Deus Ex joining GameTap's gratis lineup.

Astro Fury (Windows) - Arcade style top-down shoot 'em up with vibrant colors.
Cradle of Rome (Windows) - A puzzle game.

Due to an overzealous spam filter or something, we didn't receive the updated list of free titles for the service this upcoming week, and therefore can't place the list after the break. For now, feel free to browse through the free section of GameTap's site and we'll add our list as soon as we get it.

Update: This week's free games list can now be found after the break.

1. 2020 Super Baseball
2. 1942
3. 1943: The Battle of Midway
4. 1st Division Manager
5. Art of Fighting
6. Bagh Chal
7. Ball 7 Deluxe
8. Baseball Stars 2
9. Baseball Stars Professional
10. Battle of Europe
11. Bee 52
12. Black Tiger
13. Blast Miner
14. BloodRayne
15. Brian Lara Cricket 2007
16. Bubble Bobble
17. Buku Kakuro
18. Buku Sudoku
19. Bust-A-Move
20. Cannon Fodder
21. Captain Commando
22. Captain Dynamo
23. CJ in the USA
24. Cj's Elephant Antics
25. Colin McRae Rally 2005
26. Colony 7
27. Commandos 3: Destination Berlin
28. Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness
29. D.N.A.
30. Daikatana
31. Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
32. Defender
33. Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
34. Disciples II: Rise of the Elves GOLD
35. Dj Puff's Volcanic Capers
36. Elevator Action
37. Fast Lanes Bowling
38. Fast Lanes Pinball
39. Fatal Fury
40. Final Fight
41. Football Frenzy
42. Futoshiki
43. Ghosts N' Goblins
44. Ghouls N' Ghosts
45. Grand Prix Simulator
46. Grell and Falla
47. Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
48. Hitman: Codename 47
49. Ikari Warriors
50. Ingenious
51. Jaws Unleashed
52. Jewelcraft
53. Joust
54. Kamikaze
55. King of the Monsters
56. King of the Monsters 2
57. Kizuna Encounter: Super Tag Battle
58. Lara Croft's Tomb Raider: Legend
59. Lazer Force
60. Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2
61. Liquid Kids
62. Little Puff in Dragonland
63. Lunar Rescue
64. Marine Park Empire
65. Mean Machine
66. Mega Man: The Power Battle
67. Mercs
68. Metal Slug
69. Metal Slug 2
70. Miami Chase
71. Mig-29 Soviet Fighter
72. Motocross
73. Mr. Robot
74. Murray Mouse: Supercop
75. Mutation Nation
76. Nemesis of the Roman Empire
77. Neo Turf Masters
78. Olli & Lissa 3
79. Poltergeist
80. Prehistoric Isle in 1930
81. Prince Clumsy
82. Pro Boxing Simulator
83. Pro Skateboard Simulator
84. Psychonauts
85. Puzzled
86. Qix
87. Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2
88. Rally Cross Simulator
89. Rampage
90. Rastan
91. Real MYST
92. Restaurant Empire
93. Return of the Invaders
94. Robotron 2084
95. Rogue Trooper
96. Root Beer Tapper
97. Sam and Max Season One: Episode 4: Abe Lincoln Must Die!
98. Samurai Showdown
99. Second Sight
100. Sensible Soccer
101. Sensible Soccer 2006
102. Shock Troopers
103. Slightly Magic
104. Son Son
105. Space Invaders
106. Street Fighter II: Champion Edition
107. Stuntman Seymour
108. Super Seymour
109. Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers
110. Surakarta
111. Texas Hold' Em Poker
112. The King of Fighters 95
113. The King of Fighters 96
114. The Last Blade
115. The New Zealand Story
116. Thief: Deadly Shadows
117. Tilt
118. Twinkle Star Sprites
119. Vampire Savior: The Lord of the Vampire
120. Vulgus
121. Warlords Battlecry 3
122. War and Warriors: Joan of Ark
123. X2: The Threat
124. Zoo Empire
125. Zoo Keeper

Reader Comments (14)

Who cares what other games there are? DEUS EX!

I'm very disappointed by this service when I tried it.

If the client decides that you do not meet the requirements for the game, you are turned away right away and is not allowed to even download and see if the game works on your own.

In my case, I'm denied downloads because the client doesn't detect my processor (AMD 64 X2 6400+) or my operating system (Windows XP x64).

I haven't used it for a few months, but its never done that to me. it showed me a warning list, with the non-compliant parts highlighted in red, but it still always let me play the games.

Email them, or go on the forums. They are (usually) pretty good at responding to issues.

Nope, checked the forums, they had a 24 pages long thread about how Gametap does not support 64-bit OS's.

I think my processor problems might be fixed by perhaps setting affinity to one core only for the client, but since I still won't be able to initiate a download I can't verify this.

Deus Ex is one of the best games ever. Everybody that hasn't had the chance to play it should take advantage of this.

Has Deus Ex been patched to be Windows XP friendly? Or has it always been? I have my old box copy somewhere at my parents place, but I only ever played it on a Win 9x system.

If it is, I may finally do the bootcamp thing and buy XP. Haven't played Deus Ex in years... Or Black & White :(

I've never played Deus Ex on any other OS than Windows XP. Mind you, I'm using the "Game of the Year Edition", but I think the only difference is that "GOTYE" comes prepatche staight from the box.

Cool, thanks a lot. I think I'm officially sold!

Its worth signing up for the free version simply for Psychonauts. But I also enjoyed Rogue Trooper, Colin McRae 2005?, Hitman 2 and Commandos 3. (tomb raider legend not so much, but at least it was free).

If you want to catch up on a few slightly older games for free its worth it. (Deus Ex and Thief 3 are great too, but I've already played them. Plus Daikatana!!

I just signed up the other day, and first game I went for was Daikatana :D

It seems like a great service... can't believe it took me this long to try it out. I was just about to go straight for the subscription (so I could try Beyond Good and Evil) before I noticed you can only go for the subsciptions if you live in the US or Canada :(

Does anyone know if Beyond Good and Evil is available on any other digital distribution site?

Beyond Good & Evil is on Steam for $9.99.

Don't know if Steam has strict region restrictions of not, never really used it... But it's there :)

Deus Ex a Masterpiece that was never repeated.

Deus Ex is on my top 10 of all time list (and I've been gaming since 1984). And yeah, nothing like that came out since. Those were the days of Thiefs and System Shocks and small, independent studios pushing the envelope. Today's games are getting more and more shallow, even the highly decorated ones like BioShock don't come close.

I'm playing Vampire: Bloodlines at the moment and it has some similarities. Its not as good as DE, but its pretty cool. It seems to be a love it or hate it game, and it has a few more traditional RPG elements than DE... but it has a kind of similar feel. (maybe just due to being a FPRPG).

I'm playing it with the latest fan-made "plus" patch, which apparently adds a fair bit of extra content, but I never played it without so I can't say what the original was like.

If you don't go in expecting DE you might enjoy it (or hate it ;-) )

GameTap Thursday: Cradle of Rome's Astro Fury

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