The recent “new category” of flash games is multitasking games where you have to play two separate games by yourself to test how good you are at splitting your brain between two tasks. Aqua bots is the latest in this line of games. I’m not writing about this game because its super-awesome because frankly, while its not bad, it isn’t a great game. It is a well-polished game in terms of graphics, interface, and controls, but lacks some in game-play and fun.

In this game you control two submarines on the top and bottom of the screen. and you must keep both from being destroyed. Controls are the usual arrows for one half and A,S,D,F for the other half. Space fires for both submarines. You must be vary of the terrain as the border between the two halves does change and enemies are constantly appearing. You must be alert all the time and pay attention to both halves of the screen. They are approximately equal in difficulty.

What this game has in polish, however, it lacks in game-play. The game was fun for the first minute or so but soon the game-play got old and controlling two submarines that do the exact same thing just isn’t that fun. The game is also pretty slow-paced so its not as action-packed as I would like it to be. What this game could have done to make it better is to add more elements to the game, make the action faster(but not impossibly fast), and add a little more variety and style to the levels. In the final analysis of this game, I’d give it a 3 out of five stars and commend it on its well done graphics and interface but cannot give a thumbs up on game-play and replay value.

If you ever consider making a multi-tasking game yourself, you should always put the fun factor first over graphics and interface as I enjoyed a couple of multi-tasking games involving only dots and lines more than this game, even though graphically, this was far superior.