GameDuell - Play games online (Other...)

Member Name: Charris2002

Product:	Other...
Date:	12/11/08 (123 review reads)
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Advantages: Very Few

Disadvantages: Many

Game Duell is an online games website only quite recently available to UK users. Like most other games websites, you can play for free or for real money. Let's take a look at the navigation first, starting with the home page.

Home Page

As you would imagine, this is where you can find all the offers; these include a Friends Bonus link - invite your friends to join and get a bonus (but I'm unable to tell you what this as this link doesn't appear to be working!!!! great start eh?), contact details for Help on any aspect of the site- but this is email only (and you are supposed to get a response within 3 working days but from experience, this 'target' is not always met!), a challenge link where you can challenge other players (never seen this in action) and a link to the fairly comprehensive FAQ section. You can find the Free Game Calendar here too - one free game a day where you can win 50 credits! Whoopee!

You also have, of course, links to all 23 games currently available on the site:

Action Games - 11 games and these are as follows:

Jetris - Basically a Tetris clone
Dragon Click - Clear the cubes to release letters to form a word
Combina - Move symbols to form lines of 3 or more to clear the screen/level
Mahjong Flowers - simple Majhong
Mahjong - normal online Mahjong - clear the tiles
Q-Bust - Moving blocks game
9 Ball Pool - As it says, plot the angles and pot the balls
DartKing - Yep, you've guessed it, Darts!
Magnoid - a version of Breakout - destroy the bricks with your balls
Captain Click - clear the blocks in groups of 3 or more to release the treasure chest
Pirate Ships - errmm, basically battleships

Card and Board Games - 9 Games

Backgammon - throw the dice, move the counters etc
Yahtzy - throw the 5 dice and get poker hands basically
Pyramid - card game, clear the pyramids
Solitaire Harmony - variation of the card game
Solitaire - as above
Solitaire Classic - as above
Freecell - Like the game you got free with Windows!
Spider
Spider Pro

Logic - 3 Games
Professor Mouse - Find the words Professor Mouse wants
Ghostsweeper - Errmmm, like minesweeper that you got with windows but with ghosts
Sudoku Domino - basically sudoku

So there's your games - not an exciting or particularly varied selection to choose from, is it?

For the privilege of playing for real money, you need to deposit some hard-earned cash - this can be done via Paypal, Credit Card (Mastercard/Visa only), Moneybookers or Click and Buy in either £10 or £20 payments. Again,not a wide range of options but wait until you hear about withdrawing your winnings....this can only be done direct into your bank account (not Paypal, not onto your credit card, not back to Moneybookers). This allegedly is for security reasons (bit confusing, because the faq's state withdrawals can only be made to the bank account that was used to fund the deposit.....hmmmm but I used Paypal not a bank account???) AND it will take up to six weeks AND their is a fee (approx £1) charged for each withdrawal...........

Anyway, assuming you have (been daft enough) decided to play for real, you can track your funds - deposits, withdrawals and account statement via the Your Gameduell screen, accessible via a tab menu at the top of the home page. Here you can also see if you have any messages or challenges from any other players, check on open duells and finished duells, and update your personal details - including picking an avatar.

There really isn't much more to say.....I would advise you to look around at other online games sites.

Summary: A very basic site with strange and conflicting rules regarding YOUR money