Any teenager with too many post-midnight hours to kill can hone their gaming skills to the point that the most righteous level of difficulty becomes a candyland and the only challenge lies in ever-faster, ever-more assured domination. With their primo computer rig and overclocked processor boiling away in a vacuum sealed bath of liquid nitrogen, the only thing slowing them down is the speed of their caffeine-fuelled reactions.
Where's the challenge in that?
Do you want to step up to the plate and really test yourself? Do you want to push yourself beyond mere reaction time and explore the realm of subconscious zen gaming? Underclocking is for you.
During the holidays I was stuck in a house with an old PC and some spare time. Logging on to Steam I dug through my library and tried to find something that would run on this ancient box. Sure, some of the indie games are low spec, but I had a bunch of impulse buys from the sales and they called out to me. You never did play Assassin's Creed II, they said. You bought it cos you knew you should, but you never did. YOU NEVER DID! So on an optimistic impulse I loaded it up.
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