Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters
When Penguins Attack - Tower Defense Time Waster
by Jay Hathaway Oct 2nd 2009
Gameplay-wise, Penguins is pretty standard TD fare. You've got your basic cheap towers, your flamethrowers, your anti-air towers, and your big, expensive guns. Your opposition, the penguin army has ... well, penguins. They come in regular and helmeted flavors, and they're backed up by planes, tanks and choppers. The penguin thing is a fun novelty at first, but let's be real: this is tower defense. Once the enemies start coming in quickly, you don't care what they look like, you just want to blow them up before they make it across the screen.
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, ...
