“Watch stickmen get nasty on your desktop”

I love playing those stickmen games where you blast your skinny enemy to pieces using a variety of beastly weapons. So, this screensaver looked like it was right up my street. I was pretty pleased with it too. As you might expect, the graphics aren't amazing but it's incredibly fun to watch the little fellas do battle on screen. You can choose how many men you want fighting each other, from a one-on-one to a full-on Armaggedon with hundreds of fighters.

As with the games the scenes can get pretty brutal, with blood spilled everywhere and holes burned onto your desktop from bullets, grenades and rocket launchers. As a nice touch, the developer has also included a kid-friendly mode where the fights are conducted with water pistols and slingshots so as to keep gore to a minimum. The animation can be a little jerky on a slow machine, but nevertheless it's a fun way to enjoy the time when you're not using your PC.

Languages:

English

Limitations:

7 day Trial Period

OS requirements for StickMen War Screensaver:

OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP

Pros

Choose the size of your battle
Fights leave damage to your desktop while the screensaver is active
Kid-friendly mode

Cons

Below-par graphics and animation

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From the publisher of StickMen War Screensaver

Little Stick men fight it out on your screen with a variety of weapons. Unlike other screensavers, StickMen War unleashes the tiny little men on your current screen allowing them to wage war inside open documents and to destroy icons in their path. Weapons include guns, bombs, rockets, and flamethrowers.