Keep Up The Pace in Keep Ups 2

I actually find myself biting my tongue in Keep Ups 2! Honest, I do! I'm trying to make sure the ball doesn't fall on the virtual ground and as a result, I'm biting away! Not only that, but goodness knows what I am doing to my computer keyboard in the process. I keep hitting harder and harder on the left or right cursors so that it doesn't fall. What I really liked initially about Keep Ups 2 was that, unlike a lot of the other free on line games I played, with Keep Ups 2 you can be really unskilled and still not get a score of 0. My first few Keep Ups 2 attempts I got 3 or 4 so that at least I didn't feel completely hopeless. Because usually in free online games, if I do end up feeling helpless, then I invariably want to quit. But considering I got some (albeit minimal) points in Keep Ups 2, I wanted to come back again and again, to improve on my score. And I didn't feel disheartened. In fact on just my third attempt at Keep Ups 2 I got a score of 15. The way you play Keep Ups 2 is mainly through the mouse. You want to keep the ball in the air for as long as possible. So click on the ball ? using the mouse ? to ensure it does not fall. If you want to move it even more though in one or the other direction, you use the left and right cursor key. The music played in Keep Ups 2 is pretty exciting too, making you feel like you are at a soccer match or something! I also thought it was pretty cool how you see your score in HUGE digits at the top of the screen, perhaps a bit like you would at a real live soccer game. So the main skill you have to develop in Keep Ups 2 is ball control ? which you get with greater mouse control. At times I did feel like the game was unfair, like I was sure that I was actually keeping the ball up in the air, but the game was knocking it out of me and hence I was losing. But that could just be the talk of a man losing his soccer game!

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Survive Bubble Rain In The Game Called Bob

I just thought this little panda was so cute. And since I agreed he really looked like a Dave, I figured I would give The Game Called Bob a test run. I was glad I did as I had a lot of fun with it. The aim of the game is for Dave to survive the bubble rain for as long as he can. Dave is a panda and you are the panda, so you have to control Dave. To do that, you use the left and right cursor keys (for moving Dave around) and the up key (for blowing bubbles). The longer you hold down on the up key, the bigger bubble Dave can blow and that is actually a great way of doing it because I find I am pretty much holding my breath when I hold down the up key, just like I would if I was a real panda, blowing up a real bubble! The game is actually a lot harder than it looks. At first I only got 20 points, because I didn't get that I was meant to be avoiding the red bubbles and making my own white bubbles. But by the next game I was already up to 360 points, as I was not only avoiding the red (bad) bubbles, but I was also creating my own white bubbles, in the space where the red ones were, to knock those out. So what you basically are trying to do in The Game Called Bob is twofold: avoid the red bubbles and create your own white bubbles to attack those bubbles and not get attacked by them. You don't have as much movement with Dave as I would actually like ? you can only move from side to side ? and I think that is one of the restrictions of the game, but it is fun when you get to detonate a bubble or speed up (look out for those specific icons in the game ? you will see what they look like before you start playing).

So if you're looking for a cute game, then I think The Game Called Bob fits the bill. It's cute, can be challenging and you definitely see yourself improving in each game so it's not as frustrating as a lot of the other games out there.

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Go on then, Park My Car!

Since I'd always viewed myself as a pretty good driver who had a lack of understanding of special awareness and thus got somewhat stuck when it came to parking, I was quite intrigued when I found the Internet game Park My Car on my favorite addicting games website. In all the driving lessons I had taken when I was younger and the tutorials my boyfriend tried to give me, my problems in the area of parking had never lessened. So the time was ripe for me to - in the comfort of my own home behind a virtual wheel - beef up my parking skills.

It looked easy enough and pretty much like driving, with the cursors acting as the wheel in a way. Cursor up was accelerate; down, reverse; right turns the front wheels to the right and left makes the front wheels go left. If anyone gets in your way or irritates you, you just press on the spacebar to honk your horn. Sounded easy enough.

Except it wasn't! I was playing the game for all of about 3 seconds when I crashed in to the curb! I had reversed instead of gone forward and I knew exactly what my boyfriend would have to say about that! A screen shouting out LEVEL FAILED! Try again? was beaming me for an answer so I felt I had to have another go. But then this time it was about 20 seconds before the same thing happened and I heard that awful crash! This time I had gone the right way but crashed into the other end! I had to drive a little and park and it was taking me a while to get the hang of it.

Well, 3rd time lucky they say so I was up for another go of Park My Car. This time I managed to get into the space, but because I was facing the wrong way and was having trouble maneuvering the back of the car, I crashed in to another car! I had a few more goes and things did get a bit better but I can see I still have a long way to go before I win any parking awards and I do feel that Park My Car has taught me to be a bit more cautious on the roads now too.

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