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Jam Legend is like free Guitar Hero in your browser - Time Waster
by Lee Mathews Feb 24th 2009 at 11:00AM
Your office might not be the ideal place to whip out a USB guitar and start wailing away at Guitar Hero. Jam Legend, however, is a bit more subtle and can be just as much fun.
You've got two options for controls - tap only or tap and strum. If you're into a more relaxed gaming experience, forgo the enter-key strumming. You can also choose wield your keyboard like an instrument and utilize keytar-like controls, which is either cooler or colossally more nerdy depending on your perspective.
If you want to show off your chops head-to-head, click over to Showdowns and test your skills against another Jam Legend player. Perform well, and your name could wind up on the Legends list.
I'd highly recommend not playing JamLegend on a netbook - the Atom processor had its share of trouble handling the Flash goodness, and my score (as you can see) took quite a nosedive from my earlier round on a Core2-powered notebook.
JamLegend is a ton of fun, and who knows - you might find some great new music to listen to while you're playing.
If you want to show off your chops head-to-head, click over to Showdowns and test your skills against another Jam Legend player. Perform well, and your name could wind up on the Legends list.
I'd highly recommend not playing JamLegend on a netbook - the Atom processor had its share of trouble handling the Flash goodness, and my score (as you can see) took quite a nosedive from my earlier round on a Core2-powered notebook.
JamLegend is a ton of fun, and who knows - you might find some great new music to listen to while you're playing.
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, ...
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corruptgun said 11:14AM on 2-24-2009
Nice game, been playing it for the past month. The songs catalog is quite limited, but none-the-less I like it.
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Ahmed said 1:56PM on 2-24-2009
I love it but my only complaint is that sometimes the browser freezes and that makes you lose, if it had a desktop client "maybe an Adobe Air app" that send the statistics and the score over to the main site, I would play it all the time.
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weltbewegend said 12:59PM on 2-24-2009
Oh nothing beats rocking with your keyboard in your arm with frets on fire ;)
http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/
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Ayle said 4:24PM on 2-24-2009
Doesn't work if you are using a laptop....
crazydan said 3:43AM on 2-25-2009
Hey, just a quick note. The game is awesome, I cant get myself to stop playing when I'm on it. It's still in beta so of course the catalog of songs is limited but watch this grow massively in the next few months..
Anyways, if you're having problems with the browser skipping sometimes then head over to apple and download the new Safari 4 beta for win or osx, whatever (i'm on win, my friends on osx).
Since using that the game goes as smooth as ever! do it! :)
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