A wacky experience
Whacked
Microsoft Games Studios
http://www.microsoft.com/games

Whacked is a strange game to categorise – party game would probably be best. As a single-player game it is just amazingly weird and a rather unfulfilling gaming experience.

However, throw a couple of mates on spare controllers and enter the world of multi-player mayhem and this game for some weird reason shines.

Perhaps it is the whacko characters – a green duck, a voluptuous babe whose clothes keep falling off, a crazy, evil bunny and even a tribe of blood-thirsty chickens. Weapons are as varied as staple guns and rockets through to just clouting people over the head with your character’s fists, wings or whatever other appendage they have.

Coupled with the cheesy gameshow basis of the game complete with big-haired, white-teethed and over-bearing host, Whacked becomes a game drowned by raucous laughing.

It does have a M15+ rating and can get a bit rude so it’s not for young kids – more a stress relief game after a few beers.