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Bash the spheres in Sproing Reloaded - Time Waster
by Lee Mathews Feb 5th 2009 at 10:00AM
Quickly! We're under attack by circles! Grab your circle on a wire attached to to a dot, and smash them!
It may not sound like much, but Sproing Reloaded is good, casual fun. Hollow enemies need a good thumping, while solid ones need to be avoided. Bump into them while you're flailing around, and your health meter will suffer.
When you complete a wave, you're awarded upgrade points: use them to improve responsiveness, boost health, or add some oomph to your attacks. Having a few spare bombs is a good idea, as they're capable of destroying bothersome solid foes.
You might want to clear a little extra space around your mouse before you get started. As I - pardon the pun - got into the swing of things, I had a few close calls with my coffee cup. Time wasters are all fun and games until someone's laptop takes a bath in a beverage!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
