Mobile Games Reviews

Need for Speed NFS Pro Street. Mobile Version

Thrilling, high-RPM racing! The groundbreaking franchise explodes out of the underground and goes legit. Hit the track at sanctioned events, strap yourself into 16 licensed cars for edge-of-your-seat action. Race 12 courses, burn rubber with nitrous boost while drifting around tricked-out cars. Smoke the competition as you go full throttle against 9 other racers on intense road courses. Earn cash for style and wins, then visit the Tuner Shop to buy tires, upgrade suspension - or get a new ride!

Features may vary by handset
• Designed for Your Phone: Dedicated mobile design delivers an authentic Need for Speed experience while an innovative control system puts you firmly in the driver’s seat.
• Race and Fine Tune the Ultimate Car: Earn and apply multiple upgrades with unique benefits to tune your car for each race, as you progress unlock up to 16 of the worlds fastest, desirable cars.
• Adrenaline-Fuelled Racing: Feel the tension and experience powerful collisions as you fight for the lead.
• Drift Mode: Rather than choose the racing line all the time, drift round corners to build boost and cash. Boost will help when the pressures on to cross the line first and the cash helps earn you upgrades for your car.
• Dominate on a Variety of Courses: Outrace the competition whatever the distance, conditions or environment, experience the adrenaline of racing at numerous tracks and multiple environments. Read the rest of this entry »

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Swine Dining v1.0.2

This exciting game follows the adventures of Rolf the Wolf as he carries out his devilish plan of capturing a pig to eat for dinner. First he breaks down the fence to get into the farm, and then he must quietly make his way through the barnyard without waking the other animals. Next he distracts the pig by throwing slop into his eyes, and lastly with the pig on his head he races home to prepare for an evening of SWINE DINING!

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MicroPool 2007 v5.02

MicroPool, available for some time on the smaller-screened S60 2nd Edition devices, has been well and truly overhauled for this, a 240 by 320 pixel version for a number of S60 3rd Edition devices - I tried it on the N95 and N93. See the download page above for the developer’s quoted compatibility.
I’m a bit of computer pool freak, I’ll admit, spending dozens of hours a month on Virtual Pool Mobile last year, so hopefully I can spot any strengths or weaknesses in a particular implementation. First impressions of MicroPool 2007 are very good, with a slick setup screen, giving choices between ‘9 ball’ (where balls have to be potted in a particular order), ‘US 8 ball’ (where you have to stick to spots or stripes - similar to usual UK rules), ‘Speed’ (as it sounds, a solitaire mode to test your skill and speed) and ‘Killer’ (where you and the computer each get five misses allowed, after which your opponent wins). Each game can be played with a ‘Light’ or ‘Full’ ball set, depending on how full you want the table to be.

‘Settings’ includes the choice of three coloured tables, sound effect volume and, most importantly, ‘Computer strength’. This last is critical because most pool games tend to have an opponent who’s simply not good enough, so that when you make a mistake you’re not punished hard enough. Making the overall game too easy. With ‘Computer strength’ set to maximum, MicroPool 2007 is just about right, luckily, but you do have to make sure you adjust this setting before starting.
Unlike the ultra-impressive 3D tour de force that is Virtual Pool Mobile, MicroPool 2007 is a steadfastly top-down game. Not a huge problem for pool, though, as shots are fairly easy to line up from above and you always get a feel for where every ball is. There’s an arty lighting effect that adds atmosphere but also reduces display contrast for balls near the corner pockets.
On to gameplay itself. MicroPool 2007 excels here, with a near perfect interface, using just the d-pad for aiming and shot taking, with *, 0 and # as ’shift’ keys to apply left/back/top and right spin respectively. The aiming line accelerates nicely when you’ve got to spin right round for the next shot, and pop-up reminders in one corner remind you of the next ball to be hit (it’s easy to lose track in pool, I find!). When hit, the balls react very accurately indeed, with correct physics and table roll, although I found the animation to be at roughly half the speed of a real table, perhaps a limitation of the smartphone processor (I doubt the N93 and N95’s 3D graphics co-processor is used here) and the physics engine in the game. Sound effects are first class, and I loved the way the balls disappear into the pocket and then are seen sliding towards the centre of the table’s ‘mechanism’.
Unlike Virtual Pool Mobile, there’s a healthy degree of ‘real world’ randomness built into the break off shot, stopping every frame from starting like the last one, which is good. Unlike VPM, there’s no career mode or progression though, each frame is totally standalone. So you get the fun of playing but no real sense of getting anywhere in the long term.
Perhaps the only flaw in the actual gameplay is that the aiming line defaults to the last direction played in, rather than snapping to the centre of a valid object ball. This slows down the aiming process quite a lot and is my only frustration with MicroPool 2007. I’ve told the developer this and it’s under consideration for a future version, apparently.

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Company of Heroes

It’s a good thing this game is set during World War 2. There’s so much red tape you have to go through these days, you’d never be able to set up a limited liability company called the Company of Heroes today. Nope, you’d be lucky to get as far as registering the name with the various government agencies.

Instead, we’d be playing Bunch of Blokes with Guns, which has a far less dramatic air to it. See how lucky we are? We’re also blessed that Company of Heroes, whatever its name might have been, offers an excellent line in turn-based strategy gaming.

Beginning with the aftermath of the Normandy landings, it’s up to you to pull on your greens and don a helmet as you take control of Able Company, a collection of hardened troops tasked with the liberation of France.

From selecting the units that you’ll take with you into the fray to calling in airstrikes, it’s up to you to meet the objectives handed down from HQ.
These range from capturing various strategic buildings and positions and defending against enemy counter-attacks to carrying out ambushes on unsuspecting German columns. It’s gritty stuff and, thanks to the way that the game plays, it’s gripping, too.
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Inlogic: BlackJack Master
Do you like hazard, casinos, cards? Play Blackjack, one of the most popular casino games, in the game “Blackjack Master”. Your task is to win casino chips (the more, the better). The dealer will try make it more difficult. You can play Blackjack at one of two tables. It depends just on you and your taste what table you will choose.

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Gameloft: La Legende De Beowulf
Discover the official Beowulf mobile game, based on the Paramount Pictures and Shangri-La feature movie by acclaimed director Robert Zemeckis. Play the powerful warrior Beowulf in a dangerous fantasy world, full of massive sea serpents, giant monsters and dragons.
To protect your people, you must face off against the demon Grendel and endure the fury of his menacing mother, a fiendish woman/serpent hybrid who will seduce you in an attempt to give her a son. Survive your quest, resist temptations, protect what’s yours and triumph over absolute evil to become a legendary king.

Features:
• The official mobile game of the feature movie directed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, etc.).
• Storyline true to the movie: relive the events of the movie. Read the rest of this entry »

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Company of Heroes

It’s a good thing this game is set during World War 2. There’s so much red tape you have to go through these days, you’d never be able to set up a limited liability company called the Company of Heroes today. Nope, you’d be lucky to get as far as registering the name with the various government agencies.

Instead, we’d be playing Bunch of Blokes with Guns, which has a far less dramatic air to it. See how lucky we are? We’re also blessed that Company of Heroes, whatever its name might have been, offers an excellent line in turn-based strategy gaming.

Beginning with the aftermath of the Normandy landings, it’s up to you to pull on your greens and don a helmet as you take control of Able Company, a collection of hardened troops tasked with the liberation of France.

From selecting the units that you’ll take with you into the fray to calling in airstrikes, it’s up to you to meet the objectives handed down from HQ.
These range from capturing various strategic buildings and positions and defending against enemy counter-attacks to carrying out ambushes on unsuspecting German columns. It’s gritty stuff and, thanks to the way that the game plays, it’s gripping, too.
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Fishlabs Deep review
Deep, the new game from 3D games developers Fishlabs, could – arguably, should – be spoken of in pocket gaming circles and wider in the same manner.

To get straight to the point, we’ve never encountered a game that’s this grand in scale, so expansive in play, boasting such polished production values and brought them all to a bog-standard mobile phone.

We’ll deal with the visuals first, and quickly: they’re as detailed and eye-wateringly pretty as ever from this developer.
We’ve come to expect that sort of thing from Fishlabs by now. What makes Deep such an important game is the way that the visuals are merely a warm-up act to a game that’s so grown-up, and indicative of a mobile phone game market that’s finally come of age.

In Deep, you play a Lone Ranger-esque type on a far-flung planet of the future that’s flooded, reducing the planet to a water-covered orb floating through space. Ever resourceful, mankind has dived beneath the waves to live in submerged docking stations that drift in the murk as if it were space.

Making a living as a fisherman, you begin by hunting the local fauna in your one-man submarine, using a harpoon to drag the giant shrimp, nautilus and nameless aquatic creatures back to base.

There’s not much of a living in fish (probably the fault of Spanish trawlers) so you branch out into mercenary work, killing pirates, escorting freight convoys and clearing mines, where there’s real money to be made.
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Ukrainian alternate-reality game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl will come to mobile phones through Qplaze, a Ukraine game developer, to be published by NOMOC Publishing Company.

The mobile version of first-person shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. will boast 3D gameplay, stealth and mini-quests. The plot will be like the PC version of the same game, with known characters, heroes, objects and locations, but will not replicate it. A unique 3D engine will be used, allowing the game to work even on weak phone models. Read the rest of this entry »

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