WTF: Work Time Fun

Rating ESRB: Mature Genre action Publisher D3 Publisher of America External Links Official D3 Website

OMG! LOL! WTF?

Work Time Fun, that's what!

WTF: Work Time Fun sees you as an employee of a temp agency, where you are sent on jobs (cleverly disguised as mini-games) to earn your day's wages. You may then spend your earnings in the company's vending machines to earn trinkets, new jobs or a number of "useful" tools for you to use on your PSP. You even get e-mail from your new, fake friends!

The problems begin as soon as you start your first job. The mini-games are so basic and so mind-numbing that it is almost impossible to play one of them for more than a few minutes without getting bored. Jobs such as capping ink pens or counting people will net you the most cash, but are just so dull that it's not even worth trying.

Other jobs such as wood chopping or baseball catching are mildly entertaining but are so simple that you can do them while driving (trust me, I did it). There are more jobs include a Frogger-like game of street crossing, dividing baby chicks into the categories of boy, girl or dead (I'm not making this stuff up) and pollinating flowers - each as dull as the one before it. The trend of simplicity continues with the visuals, as many of the games look like they were created for the Commodore 64.

The one thing that drew me to continue playing WTF was the promise of those amazing tools. The wide-ranging selection includes a restaurant bill splitter, a flashlight, and a clock! It even includes a "Ramen Timer" that features half-naked men and women jiggling about as you wait for your dinner to heat up. I played, earned my tools, and quickly realized that they also weren't all they were cracked up to be.

WTF has a nifty sharing mode, which allows you to trade your extra trinkets with your friends and compete with them at the jobs. But let's be realistic - none of your friends have bought this game, and rightly so. The game's title contains both of my closing thoughts. First - WTF? Second - any game with the word "fun" in the title should be, well, fun. This one isn't.