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M.A.D. - Today's Time Waster
If you enjoyed the arcade classic Missile Command, you will be happy to know that today's time waster is right up your alley. M.A.D., short for Mutually Assured Destruction, takes the classic Missile Command concept and builds on it with a variety of different upgrades, abilities, and enemy projectiles.
The goal of the game is to survive an onslaught of incoming missiles. You do this by shooting your own missiles at the incoming ones, which requires a little bit of reaction speed and dexterity as you have to aim yours on an intercepting path. However, although you will initially only be bombarded with plain go-in-a-straight-line missiles, you will soon have to face homing missiles and missiles with irregular flight patterns. Of course, to deal with these oddballs, you have an arsenal of support weapons to help make things easier, ranging from flak weaponry, emp discharges, and localized time distortion fields.
What all of this really means, is that if you have some time that needs disposing, M.A.D. is there to help - especially if you enjoy time wasters of the survival type.
The goal of the game is to survive an onslaught of incoming missiles. You do this by shooting your own missiles at the incoming ones, which requires a little bit of reaction speed and dexterity as you have to aim yours on an intercepting path. However, although you will initially only be bombarded with plain go-in-a-straight-line missiles, you will soon have to face homing missiles and missiles with irregular flight patterns. Of course, to deal with these oddballs, you have an arsenal of support weapons to help make things easier, ranging from flak weaponry, emp discharges, and localized time distortion fields.
What all of this really means, is that if you have some time that needs disposing, M.A.D. is there to help - especially if you enjoy time wasters of the survival type.
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Subscribe to commentsJamesFeb 28th 2008 12:06PM
That's odd -- there was a MAD game out 5 or 6 years ago (maybe longer?) that was a 3D PC game in a similar vein. I think this is it:
http://www.3dgamers.com/games/madgtw/
You picked territories all around the globe, like in Risk, then built stuff on them. You could make missile silos to launch nukes, or shuttle launch platforms, to build space stations. In the space stations, you did research to further your technology, and made anti-missile turrets that could fire automatically, or you could control them manually for better accuracy. It was really fun, though I guess not a TTW-candidate since it's not on the web.
Sorry, that was kind of random =-)
IanFeb 28th 2008 1:24PM
Thanks for nothin' DS; I will have absolutely zero productivity today because of this.
My boss would like to have a word with you in his office.
ManekiNekoFeb 29th 2008 4:21AM
Hee! That reminds me of the old 2600 game of the same name!