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I tried immune attack.  When I initially installed this game, there was something wrong saying that it can’t find the directory (which look like a registrar number).  So I chose a random directory for it to be installed at.

I am using Windows Vista, and I met all the requirements to play the game smoothly.  However when I started the game, it lagged my laptop (I haven’t experience it for quite a while since I bought this laptop).

The graphics are amazing, and there are nice little explanation that tells you what is what.  There is no instruction page in the game itself telling you the controls.  The top left corner showed your current nanobot speed, your bot health and also the marker of the drone.  Nanobot is the one you see in the screenshot above, whereas drone allows you to see smaller stuff (but you can’t summon it out anytime you want).  The bottom left showed you the map and where the location of the target.  In the screenshot above, the hula-hoop like objects tell you whether you are heading the right direction or not.  If you are on the right direction, they will show green colour (like the ones in the screenshot).

I quit the game after managing to get monocytes through the blood vessels.  The game made me feel dizzy.  It jammed a while when I was trying to exit.  I guess they can increase the speed of the nanobot and drones.  They are just too slow.

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) released an immunology game named Immune Attack™.  This game allowed students to learn the basic concept of human immunology.

I am downloading the game.  The file size is 506.6 MB (and bye-bye to my hundreds of youtube videos).  In this game, you will control a nanobot and drone.  Following are the controls:

There are seven stages in this game, which are:

1. Monocyte to Macrophage (Transmigration)
2. Following the Chemical Trail (of C3a)
3. Recognize the Enemy (Activate LPS Receptors)
4. Eat the Pseudomonas!
5. Call the Neutrophil to the Site of Infection (Activate CXCL8)
6. Transfer Abilities to Neutrophils
7. Eat the Staphyloccocus.

From the overview of the games, there are neither natural killer cells nor adaptive immune system lymphocytes.  If you’re immunologist students and you are bored of studying for the finals, you can play this game to refresh your innate immune system memory.

I shall play and review it tonight despite I have a practical exam this Wednesday.