AT&T Releases New Customer Service Game

For anyone with time to kill I stumbled upon a challenging puzzle game today. It's called the AT&T Customer Service Website Game. The object of the game is to try to find out what the service plan options are and to achieve the greatest cost savings. You get extra points if you figure out how to contact AT&T by e-mail and succeed in asking them a question.

Though the storyline is clearly not of Lara Croft standards, all that really matters in a game such as this one is that the action move quickly and the stunts be sufficiently enterprising to engage the audience. Credibility is the last prerequisite in a telecommunications adventure, as evidenced by the fact that if the gamer is not moving in futile loops within the Tomb o' Customers or into the Crypt for Email Us, one can get distracted into the misleadingly named U-verse Self-help section. Ah well, it's all in good fun, I suppose, and the customer not only kills valuable time searching for customer service, but can have a fine time playing along with the joke.