Save Everyone!

August 25, 2008 4:07 PM

Last Guy - input a website, any website, and save the survivors.

love, /v/.

posted by knowles (12 comments total)

Pretty fun, although the website you choose drastically affects the challenge- graphics become "buildings" you cannot enter, while text is just background you can walk over. Metafilter, being graphics-deprived, is large but simple; Google, being small and minimal, is even easier. Try a site with a mix of large and small graphics- Yahoo wasn't too bad, any other suggestions?

Controls: The Last Guy follows your cursor. If you hold down the left mouse button, he runs (depleting stamina). Z and X (or the mouse wheel) zoom, C gathers all the people you have into a ball (good if your conga line's gotten out of hand). Most importantly, Space shows you where people are, but hides zombies- use judiciously!

The power-ups give you Energy (half your stamina back) and High Energy (all your stamina back). If you have more than 100 people in your line, your max stamina increases; it does so again if you have more than 200 people.

The game is also a downloadable on the Playstation Network; it uses Google Maps and features major cities/different zombies/other stuff I don't know because I only played the demo.
posted by Maxson at 4:29 PM on August 25, 2008 [4 favorites]

Ooh, thanks for the instructions Maxson. I had no idea what the fuck was going on.
posted by turgid dahlia at 4:32 PM on August 25, 2008

This game has suddenly become even more fun.
posted by knowles at 4:35 PM on August 25, 2008

Damn near impossible: my.yahoo.com
posted by davejay at 4:57 PM on August 25, 2008

Avoid using barackobama.com. Not only is it fiendishly difficult, it's really surreal.
posted by Bromius at 5:00 PM on August 25, 2008

Do not get.
posted by iamkimiam at 5:10 PM on August 25, 2008

The unattainable is unknown at Zombocom.
posted by carsonb at 5:23 PM on August 25, 2008 [1 favorite]

Ha. I used Wikipedia and the big orb in the center of the screen reminded me of the Death Star, partially complete. Only the Imperial Army was fleeing it in terror, to follow me around. Fun times.
posted by IvoShandor at 6:53 PM on August 25, 2008 [1 favorite]

I'm confused. Does the game ever end? I bailed 300 people from Google and now there's nothing left to do except commit suicide.
posted by spamguy at 7:04 AM on August 26, 2008

Cute.
posted by saxamo at 8:20 AM on August 26, 2008

Heh!

Earlier this month, a friend sent me a link to the Japanese language version, which was very mystifying. (I can't see it at all at work, as we don't have the sooper-dooper version of Flash it requires.)

As my husband said, "I did something, then something happened, then there was a scream and it said 'game over'" -- he'll be glad to see there's a version in English.
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 12:59 PM on August 26, 2008

Sadly it mirrors real life: I found I couldn't beat Metatalk, the coporate website was damned-near unplayable and Kottke was so simple as to be not worth playing. That being said, at least I got a better score than Jason.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 5:14 PM on August 26, 2008