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Six Great Games for Lazy People

• By Patrick Shaw
• June 23, 2009 12:27 PM PST
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#3: Dead Space

For:Xbox 360, PS3
Physical Effort Required: Medium
Mental Energy Required: Little... if you press R3
Okay, hear me out before you scoff at this entry. While it is possible to play EA's Resident Evil-slaying horror masterpiece Dead Space without using the game's built-in "never get lost option," for some gamers like myself it's just too hard to resist abusing this GPS. Besides, I don't care who you are, wasting a lot of time struggling to figure out what you're supposed to do in game is never fun on any level.

To activate Dead Space's objective finder, you click in the right analog stick (R3) and a glowing blue line will appear that shows you exactly where you need to go. The point of the feature is to have a little help during those times where you're really stumped and are becoming increasingly more frustrated. Of course, if you're like me and love linear games, you can just hit this every two seconds to radically transform Dead Space from a fairly difficult survival horror game into a non-stop Necromorph slaughter fest.

#2: Let's Tap

For: Nintendo Wii
Physical Effort Required: Virtually None
Mental Energy Required: Minimal
What's lazier than a video game where you don't even have to pick up the damn controller? In order to get your little translucent jelly man to run around a track, knock blocks off of a tower, or engage in any of Let's Tap's other mini-games, all you do is set the Wii Remote down on a surface such as an empty pizza box on your granny's coffin and tap near the controller, which then senses your vibrations--that's it!

You could be half dead, lying down on the couch with your face turned towards the television screen and you should still be able to muster up the strength to lift your index finger up and down. People slam Wii games for being too simplistic, but sometimes a game that allows you to play it with zero effort like Let's Tap is what you're in the mood for.

#1: New Super Mario Bros. Wii (With Demo Play Activated)

For: Nintendo Wii
Physical Effort Required: ZERO!
Mental Energy Required: Fall asleep, take your cat for a walk, or make a sandwich, you don't have to be thinking about the game at all with Demo Play.
On one hand, a game that literally plays itself sounds pretty progressive. On the other hand, it more or less eliminates all the challenge. What's the point of even spending fifty dollars on a game if you're just going to hit a button that does everything for you? GamePro's Sean Mirkovich made a remark the other day that 'it's sort of like paying someone to eat your icecream for you.'

New Super Mario Bros. Wii is no Splinter Cell in terms of how focused you need to be in order advance in the game, but it still involves a certain amount of skill (jumping over chasms, avoiding hazards, etc.). But now that Nintendo has spilled the beans on their new "Demo Mode" feature, you can just have the game's AI think for you. If only real life had a Demo Mode for times where you just want to turn off your brain.

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