January 14th, 2010

Free Online Space Games

As we already found out by playing lots of free online flash games, the topics of this kind of games are really diversified, and they are practically covering every possible domain. There are racing games, sport games, fighting games, educational games, 3D games, multiplayer games and so on. Some of them are really silly and funny while others are more serious and educative. Most of them are having fictional characters but there are also many games that are inspired by the real life. So you will find all sort of famous people in the flash games such as politicians (for example Barrack Obama, George W. Bush) or singers (Britney Spears, Madonna and many more) or actors (such as Brad Pitt, Will Smith and so on). The action of these games can take place in all sort of places, from land to water or air, but there are some games that are happening on other planets or in space. So today we are going to talk about some free online space related games. Some of them will take place in space, or on other planets, but some can happen on Earth and still be related to aliens, space crafts and stuff like this.

So we’ll begin with a game just like this (that takes place on Earth but has something to do with the space) and we’ll choose the “Obama Alien Defense”. As you already figured it out, you will play with the famous president of the United States of America – Barrack Obama and your goal will be to kill all the green and ugly aliens. You have to use the arrow keys to move Obama, and the Z key to shoot at aliens. Also collect weapons and coins as you advance in the game, and raise the United States flags to save your progress. The intro of the game is quite nice, presenting Obama watching this video game, and suddenly he is transposed into the game and begins the adventure. The graphic of the game is simple but quite nice, and both Obama and the aliens are looking good. There will be all sort of aliens, and also many levels so you can have a lot of fun playing this game.

The next space related game that we’ll play is the one called Gravity. In this one you must guide your space ship safely through all of the missions. You will first see an introduction movie showing you that the planet is being under attack, and you are the only hope to save it. Use the arrow keys to control the space ship. The red arrow will always point towards the planet and the gravity will pull the lander towards the planet. You will see a display with the remaining time and distance from the planet. Before beginning the first mission you will be shown what to do: first take off from the landing pad, and fly to the pad on the right. Considering the length of the trip you may want to pack a snack. The first mission will be quite easy, and you will have to fly just a little distance. But in the next mission things will get complicated because you will have to fly from one pole of the planet to the other, and then return to where you started. Be careful how you use the thrust of the space ship, because it can easily gain speed and go far away from the planet. Or it is also possible to gain speed towards the planet, and hit into it, and in this case you will have to start the mission all over again. Our advice is to fly as slow as possible, and keep a distance of about 100 m from the planet. In this second mission it is recommended to fly on the left side of the screen, when going down and also when returning back, otherwise you could hit into that big blue stone. Also be very careful at the landing, because you will not want to destroy all your hard work to get there, and then start all over again. In the third mission you will have to pick up a fuel cell form the landing pad marked in blue and deliver it to the pad marked in red. The ship only has fuel left for 80 seconds, so you will have to hurry up. To make things even more difficult there will be two big and green aliens sitting right next to the fuel cell. So after all this is a really fun and addictive game, that will keep you busy for a lot of time. Good luck!

The next game we’ll play is called “Space fighter rebellion”. Here you must destroy all the meteors before they destroy you. Use the arrow keys to move and the X key to shoot. You can launch a plasma bomb with the space bar or quite the game with the Q key. To be honest the game is really annoying because the space ship is very hard to control. It will easily gain a lot of speed and move from one side of the screen to another. If you go into one of the edges of the screen you will appear in the opposite edge and so on. So you will need a lot of patience for this game and you will have to control the space ship with slight moves.

So let’s play one more game, and we’ll take the one called Space hopper. Here you will hop from planet to planet and collect bonuses while avoiding the alien life forms. Use the left and right keys to go around planets and the up key to jump. Jump near a neighboring planet to catch it’s gravity and hop to it. Collect all the stars to open the black hole, and go through the black hole to reach more levels and find your way back home. Also collect red stars in order to get extra points. Certain elements will harm you and lower your health meter so watch out where you step. Some planets will have different proprieties such as gravity or slipperiness. This game looks really good, has a nice music and it is also fun to play. So good luck!

So these were just some of the many free online flash game that are related to space, aliens, space ships and stuff like this. But there are so many more others, who are just waiting for you to try them and then to share your opinions with us :). Have fun!