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QWERTY Warriors - Today's Time Waster
by Jordan Running Nov 7th 2006 at 11:00AM
I've never really thought that "keyboarding," "game," and "fun" went in the same sentence, but QWERTY Warriors--itself a snicker-inducing title--has proven me wrong. It's a fast-paced Flash typing game in which you must annihilate advancing enemies by typing the words that appear next to them. The game is played in a top-down view with you, a lone soldier, in the center. Typing the word that appears next to an enemy will make you turn and fire on it, usually destroying it. Mistype the word and you don't fire. If the enemy gets within firing range it will--what else--start firing, and you'd best dispatch it quickly. As you advance through the game the words you must type get longer and the enemies get more formidable, able to move faster and fire across longer distances. Fortunately, there are occasional power-ups that replenish your health and dispatch multiple enemies at once, but these must be activated with their own, longer words. QWERTY Warriors has four difficulty levels so you should have no trouble getting into it no matter your keyboarding skills, and if you play the game long enough you're all but guaranteed to improve your typing speed.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mike said 1:07PM on 11-07-2006
That looks pretty cool. Now how am I going to get my real work done?
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SW Dude said 4:34AM on 12-09-2006
It's sort of a rip-off of Crimsonland's typo-shooter game mode. This game mode isn't available right from the start, you need to earn it :).
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Robotic Sheeple said 3:20PM on 11-07-2006
Looks a lot like the download game "typogun"
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Prashanth said 10:13PM on 11-08-2006
Boy!! is it addictive!!!
There should be a waiver in there somewhere on tunnel carpal syndrome..
fun
got my name in ; the hard setting :)
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Eric Baker said 8:30AM on 11-12-2006
Total rip of PopCap's TyperShark.
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Jaykay said 8:38AM on 11-08-2006
I remember a game with a similar theme from a few years back. It was called 'Typing of the Dead' IIRC. Zombies came at you with letter combos on their chest. Type the letters and blast the head off a zombie! Probably not the spelling tutor of choice for the under-10's, but splatteringly good fun learning.
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Steven said 5:30PM on 11-08-2006
Bwahahaha
Little do they know I'm playing in Dvorak!
Fight the system!
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