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We take a look at the Windows Vista games that will be responsible for countless hours of wasted productivity through the end of the decade. The expensive games usually get all the attention at GameSpot, but we wanted to take a look at the Windows Vista games that will be responsible for countless hours of wasted productivity through the end of the decade.

Microsoft will update Windows's collection of casual games, which includes old standbys such as Minesweeper, FreeCell, and Solitaire, and Vista will also introduce completely new games including Chess Titans, Mahjong Titans, and Purble Place, which are designed to appeal to a large, global audience. Mouse over each image to see comparison shots. The updated Windows Vista games have XP comparison shots, and the new Vista games have alternate shots.

The Windows team decided that it was time to overhaul its game collection by updating the user interface and unifying the design style to make the games worthy of the new AeroGlass desktop theme.

Solitaire offers the same core gameplay mechanics that we're accustomed to in the current version, but it also has new graphics and supports Windows Vista's new Games Explorer display window, which features game box shots and vital stats such as publisher, developer, and ESRB rating. FreeCell also has a new look, but the game still retains the core gameplay first introduced to players in Windows One major change in the Vista version is a new "undo" command that lets you take back moves, which you can abuse to go all the way back to the start of the game if you want.

The undo function appears in several of the other card-based games, as well as Mahjong Titans and Chess Titans. Vista breaks out two 3D card decks for Spider Solitaire. Select your difficulty level and take advantage of the new "hint" option if you get stuck. Many of the games feature a hint option that will highlight open moves for you to take in case you get stuck.

Using hints in Spider Solitaire will make sure you've exhausted all of your options before dealing out another layer. Discuss: What's your favorite built-in Windows game? What games are you looking forward to the most in Vista? What's your best Minesweeper time at intermediate? Pass hearts to other players and avoid the queen of spades at all costs. Be careful when you attempt to shoot the moon gather all the hearts and the queen of spades --the undo menu option isn't available in this game.

Microsoft is working with casual-game developers to help them produce high-quality games that users will expect to see on the Vista platform. Hearts has a polished look and, like the other Vista games, offers robust saved-game options and advanced game statistics.

Minesweeper is largely the same, but the new animations add some excitement to the desktop classic. Now when you accidentally uncover a mine, the game reveals all the remaining bombs and detonates them sequentially starting with the closest mines.

The whole explosion sequence is much more dramatic than the simple unhappy face we get in Windows XP. The game's 3D display angles show off the beautifully rendered chess pieces. You can play against a human opponent, or the computer, which can be set to 10 different levels of difficulty. Mahjong Titans is based on the Mahjong solitaire tile-matching game, not the four-player gin-rummy-like game played in many Chinese and Jewish-American households.

The game offers six different game layouts, with tiles spread across the table several layers deep. The goal of the game is to remove all the tiles from the board.

Match two exposed tiles to remove them from play. Exposed tiles have empty space to the left or right and mostly lie along the edges of each layout. Looking for Windows Vista Games to play for free? Download unlimited full version games legally and play offline on your Windows desktop or laptop computer.

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