Nerds, hate’em or love’em, one thing is very clear; it's incredibly fun to slap one with a fly swatter.  Although, this may seem like the unrelated ramblings of a sleep deprived writer whose high on Cheetos and Cherry Dr. Pepper, that's exactly the premise of this week's Ioo Web game of the week: Homerun in Berzerk Land.

You start out by choosing your avatar, which has three different stats and they are all capped at various levels making you choose the stats that are most important to you. Strength is the distance you can slap your nerd.  Accuracy is how easy it is to click when the slider reaches the apex for maximum power.  Control allows you to maneuver your nerd easier, as well as adding additional bouncing time for hitting critters.

Once you have chosen your character, you find yourself on the edge of a cliff in front of a nerd that you are about to smack.  You have to click once for the horizontal sliding bar when the arrow is as close to the middle as possible.  Then again on the vertical bar is close to the top as possible.

If you are successful, your nerd should be flying through the air at amazing speeds.

The game continues repeating the same gameplay with the object of increasing your distance.  In addition, items can be purchased from the item shop with the money earned from smacking your nerd around.

Each item adds and subtracts various stats, which makes choosing which item you purchase increasingly important.  You have the ability to switch between the items you purchase at any time. However, only one item can be worn at any given time.

You also gain experience the farther your tubby nerd lands away from the cliff.  As you level up, your strength, accuracy, and control can be increased by using your stat points.  The object is to max out your skills to get enough skill to launch nerd guy over 1,000,000 feet.

Accessibility

Technically, this is not a one-switch game since you can use your keyboard to control the arc of your nerd. However, I was able to complete game with only the left click of my mouse.  If you wanted to play the game without purchasing items, after you select your character you could play the entire game with only one-switch.

For Motor impaired gamers this title will be relatively accessible.  As I said, you can play the game with only the mouse and beat the game.  Unfortunately, the keyboard does not activate the sliders.

For Deaf gamers, you aren't missing much.  Everything important is in text but listening to the nerd mumble at you is definitely a plus.  However, it will not affect your gameplay at all.

Colorblind gamers only need to be able to see the difference between red and white; if that does not affect you then you're good to go.  All of the text is relatively easy to read fonts on medium resolution screens.

Overall, a fairly accessible web game.  The concept is not new but it's definitely a good twist on an old favorite. The most humorous part of the game is watching the nerd make fun of you and the game itself. Eventually, it does get old but any title that wastes 30 minutes of my life before I realize it gets my vote for game of the week.

Get out some nerd rage now in Homerun in Berzerk Land.