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I Love Traffic - Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Jun 22nd 2009 at 11:00AM
I Love Traffic is a unique take on a flow-management game. In it, you play the part of traffic computer, turning lights green and red to control the flow of traffic. Some roads you have control over, while others are free-flowing. This means that to avoid accidents, you need to carefully manage which lights you turn green, and for how long.
The game view is top-down, and while the graphics are simple, crashes have satisfying skid marks and believable motion accompanied by a solid "crunch" sound. Sometimes it's actually not all that disappointing to fail a level when your mistake results in a multi-car pileup, with cars being bounced into other lanes of traffic. A failed level also results in a random fact being displayed, which is sort of fun until they start repeating and you realize you're having too much trouble with that level.
I Love Traffic is a short time waster, and it should take only about 15 minutes to complete the game. My biggest pile-up resulted in about 8 cars shooting off in different directions. Let us know how badly (or well) you do.
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jonathan said 12:52PM on 6-22-2009
cars in game: 2575
car collisions: 122
lights switched: 519
mouse traveled:126ft
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Peter said 3:00PM on 6-22-2009
Cars: 2054
Collisions: 149
Lights: 437
Mouse: 112 ft
That music really gets annoying after a while.
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Matt S. said 4:14PM on 6-22-2009
I accidently pressed the back button on my mouse on level 20 so I have no idea what my stats were. But, I believe lvl20 was the hardest.
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