Typer Shark Deluxe

Before Popcap games became famous for making great games like Peggle and Plants vs Zombies, they also made a bunch of crappier games. One of those is Typer Shark.

In Typer Shark you play as a deep sea diver that for some reason is just...so goddamn delicious that

whenever you gets in the water you're immediately swarmed by sharks. They swim across the screen towards you, and you have to type the words that appear on each shark to kill it.

So, basically, it's a typing game. There's a bit of variance, since there are different kinds of sharks that behave differently. Toxic sharks have their letter rearranged after a few seconds, Hammerhead sharks need you to spell two words to kill them, etc. Also there are bosses that fire missiles and cannonballs at you. You don't get much time to spell the words on those missiles. So it's not just testing your typing skill, it's testing your typing under pressure.

But yeah, that's about it. The graphics make this look like some of those cheap edutainment games you might see in the bargain bin at Harvey Norman for five bucks. Co-incidentally this game is five bucks on steam...Okay, yeah, I guess this really is one of those edutainment games. But I like typing games! It's a good way to improve my skill.

Oh, also, one problem with this game is that it doesn't close properly after you exit it, and you have to go into Task Manager to make the game end properly. So that's a pain.

Okay, so I give this game a 2.5/5 stars. It's pretty lame, but the gameplay is solid enough. If you're into typing games, well, I'd probably still recommend other games first. But if you want a typing game and you only have five bucks, this'll get the job done.