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Showing posts with label Quickie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quickie. Show all posts

Thursday, May 15, 2008

WWE: SmackDown vs. Raw 2008- The best wrestling game on a mobile?

preview What is it: The title pretty much sums it up. Two championships, twelve wrestlers (plus one custom), normal and hardcore matches. It is also the series debut in 3d on a mobile phone.

What looks good: Customization options, Graphics(if you happen to prefer angular and jagged 3d over jagged and pixelized 2d)

What looks bad: Short, some moves are not animated well, repeatable gameplay, hardcore matches suck

Will I review if I can: I'd like to, but I probably won't.

Comments: It is  the best mobile wrestling game so far, but sometimes the best is not enough. The customization options and the possibility to create your own wrestler with specific moves are great, but the list of moves is pretty short and the gameplay boils down to the following scenario:
Hit him times times, grab him for a couple of knees in the gut, bulldog, stomp 'im on the ground (power meter is probably full by now if not repeat until full), wait for him to stand up and execute finisher (not really necessary), pin him down.This works every time even on highest difficulty so the game isn't much of a challenge. Then again if you're a real wrestling fan you're probably spend a lot more time with this game than the 20 or so minutes you need to complete it for the first time.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Opera mini 4.1- the best mobile browser has a new version

This will have to classify as a Quickie:

Name: Opera mini 4.1

What is it: The newest version of the best Internet browser on a mobile phone

What looks good: Faster, easier to use, capabilities to match some desktop browsers

What looks bad: Nothing.Browsing on a small sized screen still sucks  but the browser does the best job possible under these conditions.

Will I review if I can: I already did when it was still in beta version. Check it here

Comments: You can pick the appropriate version and download it to your phone or PC from this page

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Saturday, May 10, 2008

ASPHALT 3: STREET RULES- the next Gameloft attempt at Need for speed's crown

1 Name: Asphalt3:Street rules (aka Asphalt3- N-Gage)

What is it: Urban, arcade style racer, heavily influenced by the Need for speed series. Remake of Asphalt 3: Street Rules 3D with better visuals and some minor extras

What looks good: Visuals

What looks bad: Unoriginal

Will I review if I can: No

Comments: It is a great game if you like the Asphalt series and/or the NFS series on PC and it is probably the best game available for the N-Gage2 platform at the moment. I wouldn't play it myself though-I hate playing games I've worked on, even if  it was for the brief period of two weeks or so.

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Friday, May 9, 2008

Orcs & Elves II - for your daily RPG fix

Ok, this is the first "quickie"...

title Name:Orcs & Elves II

What is it: FPRPG (First person RPG)

What looks good:Gameplay, fun story, some graphical elements

What looks bad: The rest of he graphics, movement system

Will I review if I can: No

Comments: It could've been a great mobile RPG, but the sluggish movement system and ugly enemy movement/animation, seriously damage the fun factor

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