Forumwarz

4 Genuinely Funny
This addictive browser based game aims to parody internet culture and truly delivers. The humor, memes, and themes are spot on for anyone who spends any fair amount of time on the tubes.

In the game you choose one of 5 classes of internet sub-culture: Emo Kid, Camwhore, Troll, Hacker, or Eternal Noob. You begin down a dark world working for shady contacts asking you to take down forums for various reasons by using your ‘abilities’ as one of the above mentioned forum stereotypes. The plot is genuinely interesting as you do your forum-destroying work for multiple factions with pitted interests often against each other. The game is generally linear in it’s storyline, however an element of choosing ‘good’ or ‘evil’ can depend on your responses and action, though the effect on gameplay that I saw was minimal.

The game runs smoothly with a huge feeling of freedom while progressing the plot – you can visit community forums to pwn, find paying gigs, purchase a HUGE number of upgrades from a great selection of stores and websites – crawl the forums for random chunks of humorous files which can be extracted for better upgrades and abilities – buy, sell, and even auction items within the community.

Each character class has its own amusing special stats and attacks. Playing through the game as a Troll I was given the special Douchbaggery ability and could ‘attack forums’ with such things as annoying flashy text, racist comments, general insults, and posting links to offensive sites. A great feature is that once every 4 days you are allowed to completely start fresh with your stats and reassign them. Any mistakes in leveling up can quickly be remedied once you learn the system better.

I played for the first few days (you are limited in how much you can play per day to play competitively with others) but quickly threw down a few real-life dollars to upgrade my imaginary bandwidth in game to finish it in one sitting – which takes hours even with unlimited ‘bandwidth’.

The only cons are somewhat repetitive gameplay, even with ‘randomized’ messages and hilariously themed forums you find yourself quickly going through the motions of clicking attack and waiting repeatedly and rarely reading the text after the first few posts. The community seems well developed, but because of my upgrade I was not able to participate in challenges or rankings.

Be prepared for some crude themes – but if tubgirl, goatse, two girls one cup, lolcats, and rickrolling are part of your everyday vernacular – do not miss this hilarious take on today’s interwebs.