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Onslaught - Today's Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Jun 13th 2007
If you got addicted to Desktop Tower Defense, you'd probably better not read the rest of this post. Onslaught is another in a long line of tower defense games, but a darn good one. Where Desktop Tower Defense feels a bit constrained, Onslaught has a bit of a more organic feel to it. The concept is the same - there are attacking "critters" that are trying to get past your defenses. Your job is to build defensive towers with varying abilities to stop the critters from advancing.
The graphics won't stun you, and many of the critters are hokey icons, for example the printer icon in the screenshot here. But if you can overlook that, the gameplay is strangely compelling. There are lots of ways to combine weapons and make something much more powerful, and the control mechanism is very easy to pick up.
Heed this warning: if you value your time, don't click through. If you do, you'll probably lose an hour or more before you know it.
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, ...
