Filed under: Games, Time-Wasters
Lose/Lose - a play-at-your-own-risk Time Waster
by Jay Hathaway Oct 5th 2009
Lose/lose is a space shooter that offers completely boring, uninspired gameplay ... until you realize you're risking your data to play it. The aliens you fight are generated by the game based on random files on your hard drive. When you blow one up, the file is deleted, too. If your ship is destroyed, lose/lose deletes itself. The thing is, the aliens don't actually shoot back at you, so it's unclear why you should shoot them at all. Lose/lose is meant to raise a lot of important questions, but the intended message is somewhat jumbled. Is this a game about how much we value our data, and what risks we're willing to take with it? Or is it about our unquestioned assumption that having weapons in a game means you need to use those weapons? Even if the relationship between these two big ideas is unclear, one thing's for sure: the only way to win at lose/lose is not to play.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
