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Grab your bow and go on a Medieval Rampage - Time Waster


Who hasn't had the occasional daydream about fending off waves of attackers using only your speed, cunning, and a trusty bow?

Ok, I haven't had any either. That might change now that I've played Medieval Rampage.

You control an archer, and you're on your own. Fight your way through the enemy hordes collecting money and upgrades as you go. Boost your speed, skill, armor, and health, purchase bigger and better bows and arrows. Certain arrows require certain bows, so be careful when making your selections at the shop.

Use WASD or the arrow keys to move your character and 1-5 to switch weapons. You'll also uncover cheat codes throughout the game which can be entered by pressing shift+R.

Hone your skills in campaign mode. Once you've bested all 25 rounds, try the survival mode out. After all that practice, you'll be the kind of archer that (wait for it...) makes enemies quiver.

Oh, come on. You all saw that coming. Now go shoot some medieval baddies.

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WarCraft clone for Pocket PC - Today's Time Waster

MedievalA Russian developer is working pretty rapidly on Medieval - a WarCraft III clone for Pocket PC devices. Just a few days ago I downloaded an alpha of this program and it was unplayable. Today I grabbed version 0.1, and it's perfectly playable, if a bit confusing. For example, by default the program opens in landscape mode, but if you use your PDA's directional pad to scroll across the screen, it scrolls as if it were in portrait mode. If you switch your Pocket PC to landscape mode before opening the game, you won't have this problem.

If you want a more full-feature WarCraft Clone, you can check out n0p's Wargus port. It uses the Strategus game engine and WarCraft II graphics to make a WarCraft-like experience on the PocketPC. But it requires a huge amount of memory. In order to play on my Dell Axim X50v, I need to have more than 40MB of RAM free. You also need to have a copy of WarCraft II in order to play, and the setup process is rather complicated.

Medieval, on the other hand, is less than 1MB at present. All you need to do to play is unzip the file and copy it to your PDA. Now if someone would just create a StarCraft port, and not get sued into oblivion in the process, (although I'm certain plenty of people would be willing to pay for a licensed copy of WarCraft or StarCraft for Windows Mobile).

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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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