I Now Pretend To Be Educated

Alright then. After a little more play time with ForumWarz I think I've got a rough feel for what's going on. As such, I'll attempt to give some semblance of a review.

ForumWarz is a free to play browser game that essentially simulates the internet. Yes, I'm serious. It's a game on the internet about playing the internet. You get a choice between three classes: the Camwhore (think MySpace girl or forum drama queen), the Emo Kid (think average WoW forum poster), and the Troll (think average WoW forum poster). Each class gets their version of health and mana that they use in the "pwning of forums".

What I mean by pwning forums is that you get missions to go to ridiculously themed forums and troll them with various attacks (pop culture spoilers, ASCII art, internet memes, etc.). After dealing sufficient damage to all the forum's threads you have successfully pwned the forum. There are various other missions you do such as having to cyber an aging old man pretending to be a 16 year old schoolgirl for a fetish picture or attacking forums with malicious code (just like the internet).

All in all it's a fairly good parody of the internet if you can understand the references. The scripted IRC chats and online stores are a nice touch. I would not recommend it to those easily offended however. You'll need a bit of thick skin to enjoy the game. For me personally I think it's certainly a good game to try out at least once. On the other hand I do prefer the humor and culture references in Kingdom of Loathing a bit more than this game. Man I love those stick figures.