In honor of the superbowl I decided it was time to review a sports game.  And what sport exemplifies the spirit of competition more than beer pong?

Frat Boy Beer Pong, by Mad Science Industries, puts you in a first-person showdown against a small variety of drunken misfits where the first person to pass out not only loses, but gets humiliated.

The art in the game is pretty well done, and you can’t help but smile as your opponents do things like fart and moon you to distract your shot.  Each level has a unique competitor with varying alcohol tolerance and a posse of statuesque buddies who like to use ESP to turn the lights off when you are trying to shoot.

The sound effects are pretty minimal, and I would have liked to hear some actual voice acting and verbal taunts, but the animations make up for some of that.  The music, on the other hand, is very repetitive and annoying after a few minutes, and is likely to drive you to drink for real (which in retrospect, isn’t such a bad thing).

The actual gameplay is enough to keep you playing this game till the end.  You simply use your mouse to aim above the cluster of beer cups and click to toss a ping ping ball.  If your aim is true, your opponent will have to drink the beer, and some of the cups have bonus items in them that cause more intoxication, temporary immunity to beer, sobering-up, and the very helpful ’shoot again’.

After your turn is up, the other player gets to aim for your cups and if he hits, you take a drink and gain some intoxication.  The drunker you get, the more your aim is thrown off and your mouse cursor jumps around on you.

When you finally get the other frat boy so drunk he passes out, you get a ‘FINISH HIM’ screen, in which you can draw all over his comatose body with marker, or in the last level, dress him up in embarrassing attire and take pictures of him for prosperity.  It would have been cool if you could go back and look at the pictures, or even post them to some kind of gallery for other people to enjoy.

The game is short (there’s only 3 people to compete against) but that makes it perfect for people who just need to kill a few minutes while they are waiting for the results of their pregnancy test because they forgot to take their pill on prom night.

If you are really bored (or need to get rid of said prom baby), you should drink along with the game for real.  It certainly makes it more fun.  Trust me…

[ Play Frat Boy Beer Pong ]