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Toxic Games’s latest launch takes you to a secret passage where you have to work your way down by moving blocks

Q.U.B.E. short form for Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion is the latest launch by Toxic Games. The game takes you to a secret passage from where you will have to find your way by solving puzzles and moving blocks. When you play this game you will experience a sense of nostalgia especially if you have played the Valve game, Portal in the past. However, the games are not similar in any regard except that they look very similar.

Disappointingly, although Q.U.B.E. belongs to the puzzle genre, it fails to create the kind of intriguing and fun world that Portal or Valve created. In Q.U.B.E. there is no story created and therefore you will feel as though you are playing for no reason or goal. Mystery blankets the game right from the beginning, while it may generally be a good thing it somehow does not work in its favor. In the sense, while playing the game you are suddenly introduced to a character without any information such as name or background of the character. You are just able to see the character and therefore have no idea as to why you are there in the first place and what you are supposed to do.

You find yourself waking up in an elevator moving downwards and all you know is that you are slipping on a pair of super-gloves that have penlights at its tips. And then you may find yourself in this sterile facility that has stark white walls. The room is filled with colorful intermittent blocks which can all be handled differently. For instance, the blue blocks can be stepped upon in order to raise it in the air and the red blocks can be raised by touching them with the super-gloves. There is a nice tutorial that the game takes you through. The tutorial explains everything you need to about the game.

Q.U.B.E really shines with its puzzles that have been worked out logically. The puzzles are very challenging to keep you intrigued to continue to the next level, but never a headache to solve. Plus, the game does such a fantastic job in training you on the basics that you will find yourself playing like a pro in no time. You can never get bored with Q.U.B.E. because the puzzles keep changing constantly. You are constantly put through various scenarios, plus new block types are always being introduced in the game play.

Although the game play is really good, the real problem lies within the actual basis of the game itself. You feel lost in the world of this game because there is no personality or basis in the game. The lack of a timer or score keeping board just puts you off and you are left feeling hopeless. The only thing that keeps you intrigues is that what the next puzzle holds for you. But you’re not sure why you are playing the game and solving all the puzzles and where it will lead you eventually.

The only right thing in Q.U.B.E. is its brilliant puzzles. Apart from that there is very little scope of it being a great game. You can play this game if you love solving puzzles but do not expect anything more than that.

Year 2011 proved to be the best year in gaming category. It is hard for anyone to pick the best games of 2011 but we will discuss some of the most played games in that year.

Dead Space 2: In this horror game, the character named Isaac has to survive on a giant space station where every person has turned into monster. It has got various number of shooting options along with list of weapons and all such features added this game in the best game category for the year 2011. In Dead Space 2, you will see a lot of action, scare and tension. Player will be exploring a lot of new locations. There is an option for multiplayer gaming in Dead Space 2 that creates two teams, one of humans and another of monsters that makes this game even more hard to play.

Uncharted 3: This game was highly liked by the play station users. This version of Uncharted is completely different from its previous versions. Combat is simple and better. Everything, right from abandoned castle to sinking ship are awesome. Challenge increase with increase in level number. Every scene of this game gives gorgeous view of the locations. Above all search for the Iram of the Pillars is the best in Uncharted 3, if we compare that with its previous versions. Voice cast and dialogue delivery is superb that put this game in the best game category of 2011.

LA Noire: Most gamers love to play game that has human emotions, drama and has more number of people. Keeping this concept in mind, developers have worked hard in order to make this game full with characters that look like real breathing people. In LA Noire, you will play the role of detective that keep tracking down thieves, murderers and leads to uncovering an unsolved mystery that takes him to the top. All the features like voice acting, hard core script and visual efforts makes LA Noire the most immersive game of the year2011.

Portal 2: Portal 2 is a game of puzzle that has a bit of humour in built. It’s a single player story that has lots of puzzle to solve. You have to navigate at every place in order to find obstacles needed to complete the puzzle. If you are finding it hard to solve, you can invite any of your friends using its two player option. This game has a lot of thrill to offer. It has challenge mode levels along with Portal 2 chamber creation kit using which you can design new levels in this game. This game was released in the beginning of 2011 but its brilliant concept has put this game in this best game category in the year 2011.

Pokémon Black and White: If you are looking for a game that is easy to understand and that you can play for the rest of your life, Pokémon Black and White is the right option. It allows you to choose from 600 Pokémon along with so many different ways to train them. Best part is that you will not find any two Pokémon alike. Battle stages in this is are really challenging and you will be ranked based on the number of battles you have won. Sound feature is quite interesting along with gorgeous graphics.

You can try any of the above mentioned games depending upon your area of interest. There are so many best games in 2011 that you will definitely find your kind of game from the list.

No doubt, Farmville is a hit game that is played online by more than 60 million Facebook users and the number is growing. In this game, you have to raise the premises or more precisely a farmland by raising plants and animals in order to earn experience points and can trade farm stuffs in order to develop one’s own farm land.

People who love to play games online don’t really like complicated games rather they prefer games with simple rules and lots of fun. Recently when the developers of Farmville saw some kind of decline in Farmville users, they added some new features in it like Crop Mastery in order to make the game more exciting. One step ahead of Farmville is Frontier Ville that is too developed by Zynga.

With the release of Frontier Ville, Zynga promises new range of adventure in this farming game. This game is set in Wild West where you have to develop wild patch of land and raise your family, grow crops and make a community. No doubt Frontier Ville is more attractive to play as compared to Farm Ville. Unlike Farm Ville, where you have to simply grow crops, raise animals, Frontier Ville has some kind of new involvement in all these processes. Here you have to take help of your neighbours in growing the crops. Social Networking is very important in Frontier Ville that fulfils the aim of its developers. In this way you have lot of things to do rather than simply sell crops and create new properties.

Both games are similar in many features but Frontier Ville has a lot of additional tasks and features for its user. Here you have to build good relationship with your neighbours. You have to help them with their work and in return get rewarded in the form of points that will boost up your experience level. Frontier Ville allows you to hire neighbours for your work. You can hire them to work for you on your land. Here in Frontier Ville everything happens naturally. If you leave your land for long time, all the plants and trees will grow naturally. If you don’t want your land overloaded with crops, appoint your neighbours to look after your land, crops and trees.

Appearance wise you will find Frontier Ville more attractive than Farm Ville as Frontier Ville has 3D working environment. Rather than simply cultivating land and raising crops, in Frontier Ville there will be lots of work to be done. You have to take care of your land, family and community and each one of them has equal priority as you cannot leave any of them in general. You have to appoint your neighbours to take care of your land and crops.

With all such new features, it’s not a bad idea to switch to Frontier Ville from Farmville and raise the farming experience on Facebook.