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1 - FANCY PANTS ADVENTURE

Fancy Pants Adventure is a shockingly lovely game that you'll have played for 10 minutes before you even bother looking at the instructions. Beautifully animated and executed, and possessing a genuinely fancy pair of pants, every element is dripping with detail. Essentially it's a platformer with generous helpings of Mario and Sonic thrown in, but nobody ever asked what the Mona Lisa's purpose was, because ultimately it was just so much fun to stare at. This is the same.

2 - BOMB BILLIARDS

Bomb Billiards is a pressure cooker of a game and certainly not one for anybody with anger-management issues. The task requires you to pot all your balls before the timer runs down and they explode. As the levels ramp up, the time slips away, obstacles are introduced and hair gets torn out. Usually frustrating, but always compelling.

3 - ZOMBIE WARS

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Zombie Wars does exactly what it says on the blood-smeared tin. You wander around a small landscape fending off hordes of zombies. The more you kill, the better weapons you get, until you're building bases with turrets and fighting off the devil himself. Expect destruction, gore and giggles. As a side note, the developer was once a designer with the late, great Bullfrog studios, creators of Syndicate and Theme Park among other landmarks. If that doesn't convince you to play this, nothing will.

4 - THE LAST STAND 2

Our second zombie offering, The Last Stand 2 gives you 40 days to cross a zombie-infested US and catch the last boat out. During the day you forage for new weapons, search out survivors and lay the traps that'll keep you from becoming zombie-food, but when the moon rises the dead walk and it's up to you to man the barricades and survive the night. It's a fantastically structured game, equally tense and action packed as the levels progress. Much like life at PC Pro actually.

5 - STUNT DIRT BIKE

The game that's caused the most swearing in the PC Pro office, Stunt Dirt Bike requires you to traverse an obstacle course with either a dirt bike or quad without sending your poor rider crashing headfirst into the floor. In the words of our esteemed laptop reviews editor, it's "devilishly tricky" and only gets trickier when your goal switches from completing the course to completing it with a good time. Definitely one for those who don't know where the brake-pedal on their car is.