18 Wheels of Steel Pedal to the MetalWith
the new expanded business features 18 WOS: Pedal to the Metal expands
on the classic game and keeps all the elements that made it a great game
to start with. You can work your way up from workin’ for “the man” to
being “the man”. This game is simple to learn and can be played by
virtually anyone. This is definitely one of the best in the series. With 18 Wheels of Steel: Pedal to the
Metal, you have only one goal: make it in the world of long-haul
trucking! Accept jobs and move cargo all across North America – Canada,
the United States, and Mexico. It’s a race against the clock because for maximum profit you need to get it there on time and undamaged. 18 Wheels of Steel: Pedal to the Metal is a
very realistic tycoon-type trucking simulation game which mixes the
best of two worlds: business and driving! Once you make a little money, upgrade your
trucks, take on more lucrative jobs, and much more. Live out the
quintessential rags-to-riches story! Start Small and Work Your Way Up! You begin your first game as a low-level
trucker – just an employee working for the Man. As you move along,
successfully completing deliveries, you’ll soon have the means to become
an owner operator of your own truck! The fun doesn’t stop there, though: keep
on doing what you’re doing and you just might make it all the way to the
top to become a company boss and build the largest trucking company around! Once you’ve reached the pinnacle of the
profession, you have the option to start new games at any of the three
levels, providing the most varied game experience. A Very Realistic Trucking Simulation with Sharp Graphics and Lifelike Physics! 18 Wheels of Steel: Pedal to the Metal is a
game that’s easy to learn and fun to play, but at the same time it has
lots of elements which let you feel like you’re really driving an 18
wheeler. Watch your brake fluid level and your fuel
tank – it wouldn’t do to run out of gas in the middle of nowhere!
Adjust things like traffic density, police activity, and fatigue effects
to fit your preferences. Cool Details Your trucks are visually detailed and
handle like real big rigs, and there’s an almost endless expanse of
beautiful natural landscapes. But wait, what are you admiring the scenery for? You’ve got a deadline to meet, get a move on! For that matter, what are you reading this for instead of playing 18 Wheels of Steel: Pedal to the Metal? Download it now!
System= Pentium III CPU 1.o GHz RAM= 256 MB Size= 85 MB Video Memory= 32 MB OS= Windows 98, XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8
Knight Rider
might not seem like the most obvious licensed property to base a game
on. When you get right down to it, the original 1980s television show
was about a talking, crime-fighting car that could do tricks. The car in
question was KITT (the Knight Industries Two Thousand), and it could
get up on two wheels, jump over things, and perform other ridiculous
feats that were usually specific to the plot of any given episode. And
developer Davilex has tried to implement these car tricks in Knight
Rider for the PC, making for a strange game that’s almost like a cross
between a traditional racer and a platform-jumping action game.
The levels are laid out like stunt courses.
Knight Rider has two types of missions: those that require you to race,
and those that require you to explore. In this respect, it is similar to
SCi’s violent car-combat game Carmageddon 3. It is also similar to
Carmageddon 3 in that the racing sections are fun, but the exploration
sections are tedious. Unfortunately, you often have to do both in any
given mission. Knight Rider isn’t a bad game–it’s just too short and too
repetitive. Most missions will require you to chase a helicopter or
another car, drive around a compound and scan buildings, or both. The
game is full of time limits, requiring you to “Stop that helicopter!” or
“Get to the transmission station!” in some short period of time. It’s
usually not very difficult–in fact, for some reason, the time limits are
really only a factor in the training missions. The “hard” difficulty
setting makes things a little more challenging, but on the easy or
normal settings, you can finish all the game’s missions in one or two
tries.
System= Pentium III CPU 733 MHz
RAM= 128 MB
Size= 154 MB
Video Memory= 16 MB
OS= Windows 98, XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8
Need for Speed 4 High Stakes
It plays very much like Need for Speed 4, but with some extra play
modes and one big added feature. I reviewed Need for Speed 4 more than a
few months ago and loved the game. It had a few shortcomings, but they
were minor and insignificant compared with the outstanding gameplay and
graphics. When I first played Need for Speed 4, I thought it was vastly
superior to Need for Speed II. Now that I’ve played the next Need for
Speed game, High Stakes, I have to ask myself: Does it surpass the third
installment as easily as the third surpassed the second? Not exactly.
That doesn’t mean the game is bad or even worse than Need for Speed 4.
It just isn’t a huge leap in terms of graphics and gameplay.
Those who buy this game should realize that it plays very much like Need
for Speed 4, but with some extra play modes and one big added feature.
The biggest feature added to the game is car damage, which we’ve all
been crying for since the inception of this fine arcade racing series.
I’m happy to say that on this count, the game benefits greatly from
damage modeling. All cars have ratings for body, engine, suspension, and
handling. Too many bumps, scrapes, and crashes will bring those ratings
down. At first, the damage is subtle, but once you start racking up the
collisions, you’ll see the car’s body start to warp, the windshield and
windows break, and the engine start to smoke. Tires will be off kilter,
and you’ll notice the performance of your car suffering commensurately.
There is no way to fix your car during a race, so you are in a bind
should the damage be extensive. There is a status window on the top
right corner of your screen, though, so you can monitor your damage and
respond accordingly. You might want to be less reckless if you see the
red damage-indicator bar overtaking the blue status bar. For Need for
Speed purists who don’t want to play with damage, this option can be
toggled off.
System= Pentium III CPU 600 MHz
RAM= 196 MB
Size= 162 MB
Video Memory= 32 MB
OS= WIndows 98, XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8
WINRAR 4.20is
a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size
of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded
from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
Changes in RAR compression RAR general compression algorithm is
optimized for better utilization of several processor cores. While some
speed gain is possible even in single processor mode, best results are
achieved in multi-core environment. Speed gain depends on data type and
average file size. Several cores are utilized more efficiently when
compressing large files. WINRAR 4.20 had to increase memory
requirements to achieve higher compression speed. General RAR
compression algorithm allocates about 120 MB comparing to 40 MB in
WINRAR 4.20. WINRAR 4.20 text compression algorithm
cannot utilize several CPU cores efficiently, so its performance in
multiprocessor environment is much lower than for general algorithm.
Also its decompression speed is much lower than in general algorithm
regardless of CPU number. So we decided to disable the text algorithm by
default. If you need maximum possible compression ratio for plain text
data regardless of speed, you can enable the text compression in
“Advanced compression parameter” dialog. Press “Compression” button on
“Advanced” page of archiving dialog to access it. You can also change
this option permanently in default compression profile; In the command
line mode the text compression can be enabled with much switch. “Fastest” (-m1) compression mode also
supports several processor cores now. In 4.11 it could use only a single
processor core. WINRAR 4.20 general decompression algorithm speed is
slightly improved,though not same extent as RAR compression. RAR
decompression is not able to use several processor cores, so its
performance does not depend on a number of cores. Changes in ZIP
compression: now ZIP compression supports
several processor cores resulting in noticeably higher performance in
multi-core environment. Single CPU ZIP compression is also faster than
in 4.11; Memory use for ZIP compression is increased to about 15 MB. Recovery volume creating and processing
can use several CPU cores resulting in higher speed. Though, typically
hard drive seek speed is a limiting factor for recovery volumes, so this
gain is most noticeable when working with solid state drive. Now the
allowed value for -mt switch is 1 – 32, not 0 – 16 as before. “Find
files” command can search data in 7-Zip archives. Previously “Find
files” did not support .7z archive format. Windows 2000 is not supported
by WINRAR 4.20 and WINRAR 4.20 self-extracting modules anymore. “Save current settings” button in
“Advanced SFX options” dialog is now available only when converting an
existing archive to SFX. Options saved with this button are applied only
to convert to SFX operation. If you create or update SFX archive, only
SFX options stored in default compression profile are used. Options
saved in “Advanced SFX options” dialog are ignored for these operations.
Need for Speed: Underground (NFSU)
ffis the seventh racing game in the Need for Speed video game series
developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts in 2003. NFS
Underground remakes the series’ formula completely with a heavy
emphasis on tuner culture and a storyline-driven career mode. All races
take place in a generic city at night. Rather than exotic cars,
Underground featured vehicles associated with the import scene.
Underground was commercially successful, and inspired a sequel. Import
racing fans should definitely check out Need for Speed Underground.
It’s hard to talk about an import car racing game without mentioning the
movie The Fast and the Furious. The movie put as much of a spotlight on
tricked-out cars as it did on its cast, and the resulting effect caused
a huge surge of interest in the import racing scene. In the wake of the
film, a number of other properties have risen up to try to claim a
piece of the lucrative scene as its own. Need for Speed Underground is
EA’s attempt to get involved, and it’s mostly a success. Need for Speed Underground contains a decent-sized car roster. Right off
the bat you’ll find a Honda Civic, which is one of the more popular
rides in the scene. But the inventory doesn’t stop there. You’ll also
find a VW Golf, Acura Integra, Toyota Supra, S2000, Ford Focus, Dodge
Neon, Mazda Miata, and a few more. Though the different cars are rated
in handling, acceleration, and top speed, in practice the cars don’t
drive all that differently, especially once you’ve purchased some
upgrades in the career mode.
System= Pentium 4 CPU 1.4 GHz
RAM= 256 MB
Size= 179 MB
Video Memory= 32 MB
OS= Windows 98, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8
