MercuryLime has really tapped into a potentially great game idea. While Playing Field 2 falls short of being the next great game, it’s still a very fun way to waste some time and avoid having to go outside if only for a few minutes.

The basic concept is, you are ‘God‘ and you have nothing better to do than smash, blast and fry the helpless stick-men and trippy characters that live in your world. The gameplay is real basic, you move your mouse around a 3d plane using some element of destruction to lay waste to the innocent. Actually… that sums up the entire game.

There is no story, no goal, no sense of purpose. Without that bit of direction the fun only lasts until you have unlocked all the weapons and levels, which takes a mere 5 minutes.

The music is generic techno, but not so bad as to kill the game. The sounds are pretty decent, if repetitive, but all the screaming has a certain satisfaction.

The art could be a lot better. The main targets are stick-men, the ultimate artistic cop-out, but the backgrounds and weapons aren’t all that bad, which makes me think this game could have looked a lot better with some extra effort.

I would really love to see what could be done with this series if it was given the time and attention to flush it out into a full game with an actual goal and some amped up art and sound.

If you have some tension against a minority group and you don’t want to have an outburst during your stand-up comedy act, I would suggest playing this for 10 minutes or so and let out your racial anger where it belongs… the Internet.

[ Play Playing Field 2 ]