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February 21, 2005
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow
As one of the first BREW 3D games available on Verizon with the VCAST service, Pandora Tomorrow shows off just what can be done on the BREW platform with a workhorse like the LG-VX8000.
Not only are the 3D graphics about the best you'll find on a mobile phone, but this also has a lot of other attributes of a great mobile game: it can easily be played in short chunks, it saves your progress automatically, and it's just the right level of difficulty to keep you interested and trying "just one more time."
Posted by Steve at 10:48 PM | Comments (0)
February 01, 2005
SSX: Out of Bounds (Revised)
Updated: The more I play this game, the more I like it. The thing that pushed this from "ho-hum" to "great game" was really understanding the course markings. I now can't stop playing this. first impressions below...
I had high hopes for "SSX: Out of Bounds" for the Nokia N-Gage, and perhaps it's because i was so addicted to the PS2 versions, but this one just falls a little bit flat.
This seems like pretty much a straight port of the GBA version, which i think suffered from some of the same ho-hum lack of speed, and occaisonal slowdowns.
There were plenty of times i couldn't really tell when I was on and off the course because of the contrast - and in general, I didn't get that feeling of actually being in the game like on the PS2 version.
Nevertheless, SSX: OoB can still provide some hours of fun, i have no doubt, especially with Bluetooth head to head play. Of course, first you have to find someone else with an N-Gage, which is no easy task.
Posted by Steve at 10:02 PM | Comments (0)
2004 Gameloft Real Soccer
Gameloft Real Soccer is an impressive J2ME soccer implementation, tuned especially for Nokia Series 60 phones such as the Nokia 6620 on Cingular Blue (AT&T Wireless).
The gameplay itself is about as good as you will find on a phone outside the N-Gage, with all sorts of exibition and tournament modes. There are definitely occaisonal slowdowns when tested on my Nokia 6630, which to be fair is somewhat memory limited.
The graphics are pretty impressive and this is generally a good looking J2ME application.
Posted by Steve at 08:11 AM | Comments (0)