Forumwarz Game Review–A Game Possibly Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Played
Today marks one of those days that I’m really, really glad I’m a functioning video game reviewer–I’m going to review a game that I’m absolutely convinced you need to be told about. Chances are very good that you haven’t actually heard of it, which is why I get the opportunity to use my good offices to fill you in. It’s called Forumwarz, and it may easily be the most unique game I’ve ever played.
You’ll play as a young forum-goer, like so many other internet users out there, who’s just starting out in the world. You’re out to make a name for yourself in the world, and as such, you go out and attempt to “pwn” internet forums, a name for causing such disruption that you make a forum uninhabitable. Along the way, you’ll meet a series of other internet users with a series of different goals and interests who want to employ your skills to advance those goals and interests. You’ll run into everybody from conservative talk show hosts with bizarre proclivities to furries to indie rock figures and beyond. But what’s lying beyond all these disparate interests? Who are you really working for? You’ll find out in a tale of surprising depth and intrigue.
In fact, you start out so new that your opening rank is actually “Jimmy the Re-Re”. Please don’t bother with flames—that’s a quote. In fact, they’ve devoted such detail to this rank that your two attacks as Jimmy are “bash keyboard with helmet” and “drool on keyboard”. After a little time spent as Jimmy, you’ll be allowed to select a new class of character, each with different kinds of attacks and defenses—you can be a hacker, a troll, an emo kid, a camwhore or a permanoob. You can even play through the whole game as Jimmy if you’re so inclined, but this is discouraged for all but the most extreme player.
The gameplay itself is unusual, as you select an attack, resolve the result, let the forum get in ITS attack (they’ll try to flame you with varying degrees of success) and then the process repeats until either you or the forum is down in flames. The closest analogue is a collectible card game. Every day, you’re permitted four “forum visits” to wreak your havoc, and the number resets at a set time each day. This may sound somewhat restrictive, but I haven’t told you the best part yet—the game is free to play.
That’s right, the entire first chapter of Forumwarz is free to play. The second chapter, however, you’ll have to pay to play, and the cost is minimal at best—just ten dollars. You’d pay more for a Xbox Live title, and instead, you get a game that’s fantastically fun to play, and you can play for days in small installments. I like to start my day with a round of Forumwarz, and frankly, I think you will too.
Oh, sure…Forumwarz doesn’t have the action and the explosions of some first person shooters and suchlike, but what it does have is clever gameplay and plenty of laughs. . It’s almost nice to be able to play a game that I can only play for about a half-hour or so a day instead of taking a few hours at a crack, because the trade-off for that is that I can play it for weeks and still get a great experience with something new every day. Forumwarz is great fun, and in the end, that’s what counts most in a game.