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Community Games Round-Up #2

30-Jan-2009 Featuring the funniest game you'll play this year...

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Hey ladies and gentleman, it's that time again!

No, not time to go home after a hard work and look forward to a microwave lasagne for one infront of the telly before spending all weekend in bed. It's the Community Games Round-Up! Yay!

So let's get stuck into another bunch of games to read about and then promptly ignore as you charge onto the Gears of War 2 servers to chainsaw MaStAaAcHeEf69 while he questions your mum's sexuality...

First up is Simply Hangman. It's... simply hangman. Which makes it hard to write about because hangman is hangman is hangman. It takes longer than Fable II to load up but that's not really interesting as much as it's just plain weird. The full version has 56,000 words apparently and one word which is 31 letters long. It might seem tempting to buy it so you can find out what that word is, because we hear girls are totally impressed by that kind of thing, but the game itself is still dull.

The best thing about Don't Fear The Sweeper is the title. Or the fact that you can play it for free on Windows but the developers probably don't want us to make a big deal out of that. So instead we'll just say that it does the usual thing Community Games seems to do. It's a decent replication of the game mentioned in the title with minimum flair, minimum competence and beardy techno-jazz that would make a Commodore 64 seem high tech.

Fields - Soldier Of Time is absolutely incredible. Absolutely incredible. The inevitable car crash when sky-high ambition crashes head first into oh-dear execution, the rag-doll physics, the stuttering animation, the literally 'jumpy' AI of your team-mates, the text-over-photographs plot, the purple puke explosion of the temporal field... if nothing else, you owe it to yourself to download the trial. It's accidentally one of the most entertaining Community Games you'll ever play. It's possibly the funniest thing we've played this year. Definitely worth trying out.

With the amount of goodwill towards Community Games starting to run dry by this point, the pad was passed to CVG for Rumble Massage. Bizarrely, a 'game' that's little more than a menu that makes the pad rumble quickly attracted a crowd of five people. "Can you plug in multiple pads?" shouted CVG, who wanted to have a pad race along the floor. It turned out the answer was no. "That's **** then" they say, walking back to their desks. Bam! Take that, Rumble Massage.

It's hard to say anything bad about The Perfect Match because it's hard to figure out what's actually going on. There are lots of anime chicks, lots of voiceovers, lots of questions you can ask the anime chicks and a point total that keeps going down. Apparently you're playing matchmaker and it seems a bottle of vodka and a bikeshed isn't enough to do the job. Shame it's so hard to figure out what is. Looks nice enough to warrant downloading a trial and giving it a shot yourself though.

BounceCrazy is last on the list and features severed hands throwing basketballs and footballs at goals. Which involves bouncing and is kinda crazy, hence the title. We haven't checked to see if MildlyDisappointingTableTopSportsThing was taken because if it was, we presume that would have been the title used.

So for this week... stick with last week's games. RC AirSim and Coloseum, if your virtual wallet is stuffed with Microsoft Points, are still the best bets for your money. But definitely, definitely, definitely give Fields - Soldier Of Time a try.

Ryan King