Filed under: Fun, Games, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware, Time-Wasters
QWERTY Warriors - Today's Time Waster
by Jordan Running Nov 7th 2006
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.
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, ...
