Good games of the nonce: Stealth Hunter 2 and Poacher

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• Stealth Hunter 2 is a Metal Gear Solid knockoff with late 1990s-style rendered graphics, good animations, and decently designed levels. For freeware, it's a very good example of the genre.
• Poacher is a Metroid-like platformer about a stereotypical Yorkshireman getting involved in a war between good and evil spirits trapped underground. Each area of the map presents new challenges, and gaining new abilities will modify the basic gameplay and open up new areas of the map. The game does a very good job of driving you in one direction while giving you the illusion of freedom. Be warned that it's a 90MB download.