Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to be negative about Worldwinner, just critical of the service. After all, if you’re considering sinking cash into something you certainly want all of the information that you can get on it right?

To play the games you have to install their launcher plugin. One would imagine that they would have been able to make all games work in their own launcher regardless of browser but I guess not.

So I played Plants vs. Zombies because that was the whole reason for me checking out the site. There’s no real change to the gameplay of the game just that you get a score which gets sent to their servers for tracking. Of course, if you are like me and don’t deposit any cash, you just get to play a ’training game’ where the score doesn’t even get matched up against anyone else’s.

Honestly, for being time-limited games, the amount of lag in them is simply unacceptable. I could probably count up to 5% of the game’s time in Bejeweled 2 that I was waiting for the frozen game to unlock while it updated the board. That’s just poor form if you ask me. I can’t say that it’s unfair if it’s affecting everyone the same way, but it seems like network lag which is then a variable that does adversely affect a player’s performance by robbing them of valuable time during which they should be scoring points and are not. Plus, each time a game finishes the client closes and you have to go through the hassle of re-opening it again to play another.

However, if you just want to play for fun I suppose you could do that. But most of the games that are available at Worldwinner are also available at other sites where you don’t need to install anything in order to play. So if you’re really just looking for casual gaming I’d suggest you go elsewhere. If you want to turn your casual gaming into some monetary success then you might check this place out.

The site ties into Facebook so that you can share your scores on your profile there. Oddly, you have to type in your scores manually as pressing the Share on Facebook button just publishes the following (making the button totally useless):

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Overall, I’m unimpressed with the site. The lag in the games makes for some minor level of frustration that I just don’t want to deal with when casually gaming and would never tolerate when playing for real money. Why they needed to create a client instead of managing it all in the main browser window is beyond me. Also, their inability to get all of their games working in their client regardless of the browser tells me that they’re not quite as mature technology and service-wise as they would like to be.

If you’re really in the market for a place to play and win prizes then I might also suggest:

www.pogo.com - Owned by EA
www.pogo.comwww.pogo.com - Yahoo! has some games that offer prizes from time to time. (run by king.com I guess)

If you’re looking for more hardcore gaming for cash then you might look into places like:

Bringit.com