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 ]

Go., drawn/animated by Buzzwerd , coded by TrueDarkeness and sponsored by Armor Games is a purdy side scrolling snowboarding game with great game play and way to many high scores tables to try and get on.

The controls are fairly easy, with the right and left arrows to adjust speed, space to power up to jump and A S D to do tricks in the air. Takes a sec to get the jump timing down but besides that controls are well done.

The levels are well thought out and very much increase in difficulty. The added bonus of jumping off the snowmen is a nice touch too. I would’ve liked to see them exploding but you can’t have everything I guess.

Overall you SHOULD end up trying the harder difficulties, which with the above mentioned high scores makes this very re playable. Music and effects were non annoying and went well with it. STOP READING ME BABBLE AND PLAY!

[ Play Go. ]

Is it crazy? Damn me but if it isn’t! Crazy Pool 2 made by 2DPlay combines your basic pool game with CRAZY, that isn’t basic in the least bit, but yeah, CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY.

One of the best parts of the game is what they copied from PG’s Mini Putt games; having the whole dealio scroll while positioning your shot for more power. Another thing is the help tout. And I can and will not stress this enough, it seems, READ IT! As Flash based games get more advanced, the curve to learn them grows. Casual game or not, I hate seeing reviews for games based low cause someone can’t take a minute to read stuff.

Sorry, rant over. IT’S A GOOD HELP TOUT FFFFFFFFFFFING READ IT. Getting into and through the practice levels, I knew I’d be hooked. Just the amount of ways you can achieve the best score makes for awesome replay value. With smooth graphics and good sound and challenging levels, you’ll be playing this for awhile.

I guess the only thing I dislike about it is that it cuts into my time playing other games, haha.

[ Play Crazy Pool 2 ]

TFS Football, made by Andrew Martian is a SOCCER game with same great RTS strategy mixed in with some luck and a pinch of ball skills. Thankfully it comes with a great tout, so read it, although it’s fairly easy to pick up.

Being oldschool, I’ll always be a fan of the helicopter view, if done right, and this was done VERY right. While it can be a pain waiting around for the AI to get you the ball back it DOES feel like a real soccer game, 5,000 feet away from where the ball is, waiting to kick a ball through someones head.

The controls are great but don’t really remind me of head butting through someone to get to the goal, more so as when you DO get the ball, you’re fairly slow, but all the characters move at the same pace for the most part, so it’s understandable.

Anyways, with 17 nations and 2 difficulty levels to choose from, this SOCCER RTS not only has some good options and looks good but also plays well, if a bit slow. Alls it needs is some unclad Scots streaking the field.

[ Play TFS Football ]

If there is one thing we know about sports, it’s that they can be very dangerous, especially to us frail computer geeks. This includes the vigorous sport of foosball, a competitive game where players recklessly twist pole mounted soccer players at break-wrist speeds. Many professional foosballers have had short careers do to overextended wrists. Others have become visually handicapped after taking a rouge ball to the eye.

Thankfully, technology has given us what we need, a safe way to play this life-threatening sport.

Miniball’s simple controls and varying difficulty settings make this a great time waster for people of any skill level. The game is built in to the website so it shares the integrated streaming music that cycles through a mix of interesting tracks rather than looping the same song over and over, a refreshing change in web gaming.

While the simplicity of this game makes it easy to pick up, it does limit how long you can play the game before you start to get bored. This game is a great way to waste some time, and you can even drag a fellow unproductive co-worker to your desk for a few rounds while the boss is out getting a Brazilian bikini wax.