They may have racked up millions in sales figures and added a whole new dimension to working on the move, but one area where netbooks are supposed to be deficient - and notoriously deficient at that - is playing games. Most pundits point out that as netbooks have got relatively weaker processors and generally no graphics cards, they are unable to handle most new games. Well, that may be true, but then who says only the latest games are any good? There are literally hundreds of titles out there that serve up an amazing gaming experience and joy of joys, many of them run just fine on netbooks. So what if they are a bit long on the digital tooth!
In fact, the folks at Cnet have come up with a list of 25 games that can be played on a netbook and there are some amazingly good titles in there, including the likes of Arcanum and Gabriel Knight and even a browser-only version of Quake. Yes, you might need an external optical drive (DVD or CD drive) to play some of them, but one thing you can be assured of is stacks of fun. Read the list here.
February 13th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
They forgot Rise of Nations, Age of Empires, Roadrash & Civilisation, all of which run beautifully on a Lenovo S10 netbook.
February 13th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Oh yes. In fact, most of the games released upto 2000-01 will run fine on most netbooks. It is only those that require graphics cards that stumble very badly, and those started coming in about 2001. Otherwise, the 1 GB RAM that most netbooks have and the 1.6 Ghz Atom processors are pretty dab at playing most games in the 1996-2001 era. And there were some awesome games at that time. Diablo!!!