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A recent comment in response to my posting that spoke about substandard games on Games2Win, requested me to go to Games2Win and play some more games - in hope of re-evaluating my views on the quality of the content. The commenter excitedly listed 3 games that he/she thought were of stellar quality. I took up the offer and decided to play 10 random games (and later included the 3 the commentor mentioned).

Here’s the result of my experience…

Game: Pizza Passion
(time in 10:53am - time out 10:55am)

This game is really pathetic. Whats the fun in clicking the mouse button once on the pizza each time? I have a whole keyboard at my disposal here - and i dont have a chance to use it? Perhaps this would do so-so if it was launched in 2000 on the mobile phone, when one-button games had some gameplay value. Overall Rating 1 / 5

Game: Carbon Auto Theft
(time in 10:58am - time out in just about a few 5 frustrated wasted minutes)

I like the way they’ve sadly tried to mimic the GTA title. I’ve not even started playing the game and already sense mediocre content coming up. I still cant figure out why they’ve put a one liner when i click on “Story”? The story is “You are the best car theif in the country, steal your way to becoming the best in the world”. Just how long did it take them to come up with that story? Couldn’t they, at the least come up with a more descriptive plot or story line, to at least create some fantasy in the players mind?

About the actual gameplay - one word … ”substandard”. The instructions are poor and the objectives are confusing. The learning curve versus difficulty is way off balance - as the first level (to a new player) is way too diffcult.  Overal Rating 1/5

Game: Bombay Taxi
(time in 11:15am - time out in about 10 somewhat frustrated minutes)

Good presentation and graphics. Gameplay is somewhat good. But the problem here is with the keys. Its hard to co-ordinate keys as their functions get sort of reveresed in forward-vs-backward movement. There is some addiction factor in the game, that comes out of the frustration of crashing while parking, but I dont see this game having much of a return-replay value. The few players who get hooked will probably play for 20 to 30 minutes or so - but it is my opinion that they probably wont bookmark this, to come back later. There is probably a little bit of “fun” in this game… but its just not enough. Overall Rating 2/5

Thats it, I cannot waste any more time on this website. My Parting shot - I noticed a flash banner on the website saying “run before you get molested by the living dead!” hmmm.. molestation is probably not the right word to use here. Although, it does also mean to “intefere” or “annoy” or “disturb”, apart from “sexual assault” - it is my guess that people are accustomed to associating it with sexual molestation, given the various incidences being reported in the media. Games2win, please change it, if you are reading this!

— Vishal Lamba    Filed under: Uncategorized