Each week, Featured Freeware profiles a trio of freeware titles that we consider worth your while.

A new Browser’s Best, Xbox Live Indie Spotlight, Indie Sales and now this, it’s a Tax Day miracle. Happy Birthday, Merry Kwanza and all that. My words are mostly saved for the game’s below but let me preface the goodness by saying that all three of these are gems and should at least be given a spin, after all they’re free.

Action Fist (5.53 MB): A 2D action platformer with some style and plenty of tongue-in-cheek humor, this is a must play for anyone into the old arcade side-scrollers, with platform gameplay mixed with Metal Slug action. Lots of power-ups and bosses to use them against with frequent enough save spots never setting you back too far.

The game uses a color-coordinated weapon switching mechanic which is encouraged by better damage against your enemies with the correct blasts, it takes a bit of getting used to at first but as you progress you’ll figure it out pretty quick.

The title features both single player and co-op modes and can be played on Kitty, Easy, Normal or Hero mode.

Drone (10 MB): Wow, we’re only two-thirds in and this may be our best featured freeware yet, David W. Wilson’s Drone is a fantastically deep top-down tower defense game with real-time strategy, simulation and RPG elements thrown in as well. When you get into the game I suggest you hit the tutorial, if not all the options and available pull down menus may be a bit overwhelming at first, the tutorial is quick and breaks the basic functions down for you quite understandably.

900 hours have been sunk into the title (so far) and it shows. The amount of polish along with the sheer addictiveness of the game makes it a must play. Add onto that the several hours of gameplay you get from this initial release of the title and you wonder why the guy isn’t charging, more please.

Zombie Movie (6.9 MB): Yup, best FF ever (out of the now three count ‘em). As we finish our trio with a refreshing top-down zombie shooter that puts a couple of twists on the now over-crowded genre.

EDM Games has a caveat for your undead killing, you gotta stay on camera. A helicopter with a demanding director hovers above giving more points to the player who kills the totally real killer zombies near the shadow of the copter. Not only do you get less points if you stray too far away from the shadow, you’ll eventually get fired, if you do your job well enough you’ll probably get eaten, but you’re greeted with something pretty sweet upon your death: a ton of stats. Zombies killed, pickups grabbed even how many you got under the choppah.

At times your bastard director thinks you’re having too easy of a time with it and throws all sorts of different crap you’re way. Using the med packs wisely and not letting too many zombies crop up becomes critical as well as the constant worry of maximizing your points. I’m not sure if you can complete an entire film shoot, I never could, but if you do it’s certainly no small feat as the game throws the kitchen sink.

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