The focus of this article is on the fun new mouse avoider game Mirrored Maze 2. Its a mouse avoider with a twist, namely that you control two mouse pointers, one at the top half of the screen and one at the bottom. The mouse pointer at the bottom half of your screen follows your mouse, while the one at the top half goes in the opposite direction. You cannot touch any of the walls or the game is over. This makes for an interesting game and an especially interesting start.

The natural reaction of someone after hitting the “start” button on a game is to move the mouse pointer away from that position into the center of the screen or off the screen. You cannot do this in this game. You have to keep the mouse right where it is because if you move it, you will run into a wall. You must carefully watch both the top and bottom screens at all times as you must avoid all contact with everything at all times on both. This made the game fun and also extremely challenging for me. As a person who is bad at thinking about a task and thinking about it in reverse at the same time, it was tough to coordinate the top and bottom parts of this game and it took a while to get the hang of it. However, there are many check points and secrets in this game that you can unlock and you can cheat in this game if you have to, so if you get frustrated, you can always “cheat” to beat it.

I advise you to slowly work your way through the levels though as it is a very good test of hand and eye coordination. And besides, what fun is a game that has no challenge?

Overall, this game is a great game for casual play if you don’t mind a little frustration and squinting your eyes a little.

How to unlock stuff:
checkpoint 1 - get to level 6
checkpoint 2 - get to level 8
checkpoint 3 - get to level 11
bonus 2 - unlock checkpoint 1
bonus 3 - unlock checkpoint 2
level editor type 2 - unlock bonus 2

How to Cheat:
1. right click and press ‘forward’
2. right click and then click finish
3. press tab then enter

Enjoy!

Other games to play:

The Rise of a King — You have just been knighted but found that an evil lord has the Kingdom under his spell. You must defeat him!

Star Trash — Cool new type of defense game. Defend your 4 cities from invaders!

This article’s Focus is on the new action/blow-everything-in-site up game Momentum Missile Mayhem 3. In this game you are a missile/weapons launcher and your goal is to prevent tanks from advancing across the map by destroying them with one of 4 weapons. The weapons are the regular artillery, the singularity cannon, the MGM Sphere, and the Gravity Disc. Of these, the regular artillery and the singularity cannon are the easiest to pick up and use while the MGM sphere and the gravity disc may take a while to get used to.

The artillery works like a regular artillery. Pick the size of shell you want to use and click on the area you want to target. Target in front of the thing you want to hit as the artillery takes a while to get there. The singularity cannon is a weapon where you hold down to mouse to charge up and use the mouse to aim. It does not hurt tanks and vehicles by itself but uses the singularity’s force to draw them towards it and crash into a fiery explosion. This weapon is very effective and fun to use.

The MGM sphere is an energy sphere weapon that you guide directly with your mouse. You target by hovering the mouse near or over the intended target and then press your left mouse button to accelerate the disk towards the target.

The last weapon is the gravity disc. Hover your mouse near the disc to target it. It will shoot out in the direction that its arrow is pointing. It kills anything it comes in contact with but if your near the sides, it can get tricky to get as it propels the opposite direction from the way you are aiming the mouse. In other words, the propulsion system is at the back.

My personal favorite was the singularity cannon as you can aim it at large groups and cause massive explosions.

This game was a lot of fun and I encourage everyone to start off on “easy” to get used to the feel of the game before moving on to the harder difficulties.

The one problem with this game is the resource requirements are pretty high and when there are lots of tanks on the screen, the game lags. It was hard for me to even get a consistent 10fps on my duel-core processor with 2GB RAM, so it will be somewhat unplayable for older systems. This is mostly due to the particle effects and lighting effects in the game which take up a massive amount of CPU power to handle. Even the loading mechanism has a special effect in it.

If this game had been made with slightly less special effects but more playable on lower and middle-end PC’s, it would have been near perfect. As of right now, I can only recommend this game for people who have powerful machines.