10 older PC games that captivate and now

The graphics in these projects, perhaps even obsolete, but remained important - thought out gameplay.

1. Thief: Deadly Shadows

Thief was one of those games that turned the art of stealth in. It is there for the first time have the opportunity to listen to the steps, carefully look at the corners and get rid of the light sources.

The main character - a thief, and his specialization unties your hands. The game encourages blatant theft: the more ukradosh, the more items you can buy before the next mission.

Despite the outdated graphics, in Thief and 20 years later, a pleasure to play with intuitive mechanics. The main thing - do not forget to put the unofficial patch TFix. It fixes a lot of mistakes and helps to play "make friends" with modern systems.

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2. Grand Theft Auto III

The first three-dimensional GTA - one of the most influential games in the industry. After her action games in an open world have changed a lot.

A huge living city, with dozens of high-grade radio, a lot of weapons and models of cars, as well as the plot, a decent crime thriller, players struck in 2001.

Action perfectly passed and now, although a very small detail drawing and angular models can deter some players.

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3. Heroes of Might and Magic III

Third "Heroes" came out in 1998 and immediately won love gaming community. The fighting delayed the development of the city's own mechanics involved. Each passage of a strategy different from the previous one due to the set of available characters and the types of creatures.

Heroes of Might and Magic III as the players ran in memory that she still occasionally drop a thousand people. The only pity is that the HD-re-release has turned out not to be very successful. But instead, you can buy the original with all the additions.

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4. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2

The second part of the strategy, which takes place in an alternate universe. Einstein built a time machine and killed her with the help of Hitler. World War II was not, the Soviet Union increased its firepower and attacked the United States. Super-soldiers in fur cap and destructive airships "Kirov" attached.

Over the 19 years that have passed since the game's release, the strategy has changed little. Therefore, all the basic mechanics of Red Alert 2, and will be apparent to the modern player. Only have to put a small fan-made patchThat the project was working steadily on new PCs.

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5. deus Ex

Deus Ex - it is an iconic action, one of the pillars of immersive sim genre. The action takes place in the near future. Kiberimplanty become commonplace on the streets scurrying RoboCop, majority of people below the poverty line - in general, cyberpunk.

The main character - special agent JC Denton - with the help of his superhuman ability to fight the terrorists and at the same time unravels a government conspiracy.

If not for the outdated graphics and interface, the game could easily pass for a modern, because the game design of such projects has not changed over the years. You can pass the levels in several ways: secretly, With the battle by killing enemies or avoiding them.

The player develops a character, depending on your preferences, and then uses novopriobretonnye capabilities to perform tasks.

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6. StarCraft

StarCraft - a product of the era when strategy We were on top. In the game everything well: a nice animation, exciting plot, thought-out multiplayer. She did not like except that those who do not like Microcontrol, because here we have to click a lot.

Though even for these people in StarCraft features a stunning single player campaign with interesting characters and unexpected twists.

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7. Baldur's Gate II

One of the best CRPG ever. This is a very deep and thought-out game in which easily disappear for a few dozen hours. Hundreds of characters, a lot of quests, companions with different specialties and interesting locations.

The pace of the game is not as fast as in many modern designs. But if you find time to grasp, it will be difficult to break away.

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8. diablo II

Reference action-RPG Diablo 2 is fascinating in its simplicity. It does not have to choose answers in dialogues, solve challenging puzzles, and use tactics. Only "zaklikivat" hundreds of enemies, collect loot with them, to sell unnecessary items and to buy necessary.

This is partly why the game is nice to look even 19 years after its release. Such addictive gameplay and charm two-dimensional graphics can not be resisted.

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9. Half-Life

Half-Life in 1998 was very different from all the other shooters. It was plot, Riddles and even action-packed scenes - anything like it in the industry then still have not seen. Thanks to this game in the modern first-person shooters have a large-scale staged moments, epic videos and characters with the written characters.

Valve still does not throw his first hit. Steam-version of Half-Life works fine on Windows 10 and supports all popular approval.

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10. Quake II

Despite the influence of Half-Life, at its core shooters for decades have not changed. They still need to be able to as soon as possible to direct weapons to target and shoot as accurately as possible.

In Quake 2, except that the mechanics, almost did not. Is that sometimes you have to press the button to open the door, but to pick up ammo and first aid kits.

Chic soundtrack gives meditative gameplay. The perfect game to disable the brain and make a massacre in the virtual world.

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